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Along with our larger custom jobs we do, we also do a lot of basic home theater systems. These are the systems that are prewired and usually are on a budget. Customers wanting the Full Home Theater experience and want help designing and installing a system that they can afford.

Dealing with many brands we have a vast array of product to choose from, and have the experience to know what to use in what applications.

This next system is one we do a lot of. It offers GREAT performance and integrates nicely into anyroom.

Here is what this Home Theater in Frisco Texas consisted of.

Mitsubishi HC4900 1080P Home Theater Projector
5.1 Jamo Architectual Surround Sound
Martin Logan Dynamo Subwoofer
110″ Elite Screen
Pioneer VSX91 Home Theater Receiver
Sony Blu Ray Player
Directv HD DVR
Bello Media Seating

This was a really nice room that featured a bar area above the main floor. This was going to be the primary view area and the systems was going to be used mainly for sporting events with friends and family.

Here is a photo from the main bar area. This room is extremely dark so I took the best photo I could with the ligihting conditions.

Here is the Mitsubishi HC4900 Projector which is a great media room projector. If you are looking for a good unit with a GREAT price look into this piece.

Here is another nice picture from the bar. Showing off some of the nice lighting and movie posters.

Here are some pictures of the Bello media seating.

Here is a picture of the rear of the room.

Overall this system turned out very nicely. We can get everything installed and calibrated in about a day and have you watching a movie that night. For more information about Home Theater Systems in Frisco, Plano, Mckinney, and Dallas Texas Click Here

So what 4 year is old complete without his very own home theater system. We built a completely custom system to give the appearance and performance he was looking for.

This room was completly gutted and everything was redone. Cabinets were built, Block painting was done, and most importantly the Home Theater system was installed.

Here is what we used.

Mitsubishi LT46148
Denon AVR888
Jamo Architectual In Ceiling Speakers
Sony Blu Ray Player
Directv HD DVR

Once again being a older home, nothing was prewired. We came in before the cabinets were built and routed our video cables and our speaker wiring.

Here is the wiring for the Plasma TV, including the AC outlet.

Once we were able to get everything wired, we started doing the final trim out.

Here are some shots of the finished product.

Media Closet with the Doors Closed.

When it was all said and done this turned out to be a really awesome room. The cabinet work was really nice and the block painting was something we havent seen much of. All I can say is where was my personal home theater when I was 4!

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Last weeknd we were in Mckinney Texas installing a Sharp LCD and a 7.1 Surround Sound system. It really amazes me how someone can build a 400,000 dollar house and not wire ANYTHING. We had to wire the entire system which was very very time consuming. The house is a two story without a room over the living room so it has high ceilings with a crawlspace. The crawlspace consisted of about 2 feet of working room along the roof line which slanted down. Lets just say we did not have much space to work. Not to mention it was around 96 degrees outside, so you can just imagine inside a attic.

Here is what this system consited of
Sharp 52″ LCD
Pioneer Elite Receiver
1 Jamo Kevlar 626k4 - Center
2 Jamo Kevlar 631K4 - Fronts set to bipole
4 Jamo Kevlar 10.5k4 - Rears
Sony 400 Disc Dvd Changer
HD Dish Box
Nintendo Wii

As you can see we take our time and make sure you entire room is covered. We were going to be cutting speakers into the walls and ceiling so we make sure to take the extra time to get everything covered so cleanup is minimal.

Once we got everything covered and into place we measured off the wall and started to install the speakers. Up above you can see brad measuring and placing the template on the wall for the center channel.

Here is a picture after we cut the holes for all the speaker and hung the TV bracket. Now the system is ready for wiring.

Here is a picture of one of the jamo front speakers that is being installed into the system. For a inwall the speaker is amazing. It features a nice 6.5″ driver along wtih 2 4″ Midranges and 2 1″ tweeters.

The front speakers are now wired up and the tv is being test fit on the wall. Now all we need to do is wire up the surrounds and cut the holes for them.

This is where the fun began. We thought everythign was going smoothly until we got into the crawlspace. Normally we run into a double head in the attic which is easy to drill threw. In this house we only had a single header which was very easy to get threw. Being the house had high ceilings the gararge on the other side of the wall had a different ceiling height so we had to drill threw it which was about 4′ lower than the attic header. We had to use a flex bit which is normally easy to use, but when your working in a attic that you can only crawl in it makes hard to control. We were able to get threw the second header and then we ran into the firebreak which we could only drill threw from downstairs. We were able to drill the the firebreak with ease and the real task was now fishing the glow wands down the INSULATED WALL and threw the little 1″ holes we had to drill. After alot of trial and error and alot of luck we finally got wires fished and to the attic.

If your building a house PLEASE PREWIRE!

Here is the 4 10″ Jamo Kevlars in place. Over the past month we have installed a few pairs of these speakers and every time I do I am amazed by them. They are unlike anything I have heard before which is the reason we continue to do them. They have a 10″ woofer, a 3″ midrange and 2 1″ tweeters. The first movie we tested with them was mission impossible 2 and one of the opening scenes has a airplane that flies from the rear to the front. On a normal surround you can hear the plane fly from the rear to front when it gets to the front the sub kicks in and you can feel the engines. With these Jamos you can REALLY FEEL the engine behind you all the way to the front with a nice transition to the sub. It is quite awesome actually. I do not know why but a lot of people in the industry feel that you can do nice speakers up front and cheaper ones in the rear. I would like everyone to experience a nice set of these and I guarantee you, you wont want to switch back to smaller 6.5″ in ceilings.

Here is brad wiring up the receiver and satellite box.

Here we are going threw and setting the system up. After we calibrate the system we like to go threw with a few different movies that we know and make sure everything is properly setup and in phase. If any adjustments need to be made we then make them and retest.

All complete. Overall this system rocked and left allowed our client to keep a clean looking living room.

So over the past few days the office has been rather slow. That is because we actually have taken a few days off. We started back up today by prewiring 10 condo’s today in Las Colinas Texas. We particularly don’t like to prewire but we have a exclusive contract with the builder so it should be profitable which is nice. This weekend should be a exciting one. We have 2 full 7.1 Surround sound systems to install and with plasmas to mount. This should make for some nice pictures.

At Elite AV we try to take our time during the prewire process. Making sure all wires are bundled nicely and everything is labeled. We notice a lot of companies trying to finish as fast as possible and not taking the appropriate time. This leads to cables being forgot. Wires going to the wrong locations and speakers in incorrect locations. The prewire is more important than the finish out so when building your next house make sure your builder will let you use the company of your choice to complete the work.

Here are a few pictures from today while we were wiring for a surround sound and a plasma. Notice the wire management even where you cannot see the wires.

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Several times a year we tend to bite off more than we can chew. We had a couple in Plano, Texas call us and told us they had a system that was not working and that they needed help making it operational. They also wanted to add a wii.

Ends up the customer was forced into using a specific contractor that went out of business during the installation. They never finished the system and the customers could not get their money back. This was not a simple system to just come in and fix. It is a full video and audio distribution system with keypads and LCDs in every room that run back to a home location.

It is not that we cannot handle fixing this system. Our schedule right now is making it very difficult. We walked into the house ready to take on this project and saw this.

That is not what you want to see when you expected a basic reciever reinstallation and a very busy week planned. To say the least we were able to reschedule one job and get the system working perfectally.

It consisted of a

BNK Component Video Switcher
BNK Multizone Amplfiier
HK 347 Home Theater Reciever
Escient DVDM100 Fireball
Sony 400 Disc Cd Player
3 Direct TV HD boxes

The customer was also trying to use 3 pronto txu3000’s which was the first thing to go.

Since it was a married couple with no kids we were able to condense the system down to a mx980 for the main room and a mx850 for the other 2 rooms. Everything is being controlled over RF and we have it all addressed to use one RF receiver and to control the correct component at the right time.

The first thing we decieded to do was pull everything out fo the closet. We were not sure how the previous installers installed everything and did not have the time to try to figure it out. We pulled all the cables out. Re tested all the wires and started hooking everything up piece by piece.

We then had to re program all 4 of the BNK keypads to operate with the new programming we did on the main video switcher.

Overall we were able to clean this system up nicely and make sure it would operate for years to come. It took about 2 days to pull everything out, reinstall it, and reprogram it all to work which really surpirsed us.

I was really surprised with the BNK video switcher. It operated very nicely and allowed for the customers to only have TV’s in each room and not have to worry about dvd, or cable boxes.

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For those of you that know us and are reading this I am sorry we have not been in contact. To our customers who are waiting on our schedule we are coming soon. These past 2 weeks have been very hetic. We have literally never been this busy and working 14-15 hour days to try to fit everyone in. Brad and myself actually talked about taking a day off next week. We will see what happens but I would venture to say it wont happen.

Today was actually a rewarding day because we had the chance to play with some really nice speakers and equipment. We were down in Addison TX today installing a Plasma Tv and a 5.1 surround sound. Here is what the system consisted of

Jamo C809 Tower Speakers
Jamo C80CEN Center Channel
Jamo 10″ Kevlar in ceiling rears
Pioneer Elite VSX94
Pioneer Elite 50″ Kuro 1080P Plasma
Panasonic Blu Ray Player

For those of you that are not familar with the Jamo speaker line the C809’s are their top of the line Home Theater Speaker. They were a real treat to work with. The ones we installed today were black wood with a piano glossy finish on the top and front. It is a very beautiful speaker and sounds even better.

The Thing that really surprised us today was the Jamo 10″ Kevlar In Ceiling speakers. Never before have I heard something so powerful yet so natural come from a in wall or in ceiling speaker. These things extended very low into the subwoofer range and yet do not muddy the upper midrange or higher frequencies at all.

Here are some pictures of one of the 10″ Jamos in place.

After we installed the rear speakers we started to work on the plasma. We used a Sanus Dual Swing arm to allow the plasma to move around freely and to provide the floating look inside the room.

Here are a few shots of the entire system installed. I keep saying we are going to get a new camera, hopefully we can take the time to actually make this happen.

Here soon I am going to go back and take some professional photos of this system/room. When it was all setup this system provided a amazing experience.

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On Tuesday April 15, 2008 Elite A/V took on a customer’s whole house audio system in Plano, Texas. The client had a particular place that they wanted to put the gear and wanted a great sound system without breaking the bank. Elite A/V was up to the job. The client’s home was pre-wired by another company, so we were required to move all the cables to the correct location, requested by the customer. As you can see from the picture below, the cables were not inside the cabinet where the customer could keep the aesthetics of their home.

Elite A/V takes the time, to put down blankets to protect the floors and to prevent dirt and dust from going everywhere. This is an added step that we think separates us from our competition. By putting all of the equipment and tools on these blankets it prevents scratches to floors or stains on carpets. Below is a picture of the procedure that we use before we start.

After the setup process Elite A/V decided that we needed to move the cables from the location above the cabinet to the enclosed area below. This kept the integrity of the room. We moved the cables down and put a downspout over the hole (pictured below) because it (downspout cover) makes the attractiveness of the installation much greater.

We installed a plate over the previous hole in the cabinet (made by the company that pre-wired the home). This helped the appearance of the hole disappear.

There was also another problem that we ran into in this Plano, TX home. The under cabinet area had no a/c power plug. Luckily for Elite A/V we have Justin. Justin is a licensed electrician and was able to add an additional outlet down below (shown below). This whole house audio system was starting to take shape now.

Now we had the all the wires and power needed to make this dream system a reality. We installed a Denon receiver, Russound 6 zone speaker selector, Parasound 2×125 amplifier, and a nice Denon CD/DVD player. We ran a cable from the cable box in the living room into the receiver as well, which will allow the family to listen to the television sound.

To be a true custom shop you need to be able to offer things other companies cannot. At Elite AV we take audio to another level. We understand that speakers should not only sound good but they also should be appealing. No one wants to look at a eye sore for several years and we can help. Over the years we have been building custom subwoofer enclosures and late last year we launched a second company called now home theater.

This company allows us to custom match speaker and subwoofer enclosure to match your lifestyle. Whether it be a single color or a faux finish we can match it. This process is actually very simple. First we discuss what our customer is looking for. First we discuss the amount of bass you may be looking for and the price range, Second we determine the size and the amount of woofers wanting to be used in the system, Third we custom build the enclosure and match the cabinet to whatever finish you like.

We have three options available.

First is a Single 12″ Woofer that uses a ported enclosure and a very powerful 500 watt plate amp. This cabinet is ported at 20 hz, and has the output capable of 2 Velodyne DD12″ Subwoofers.

Second is a High Powered 10″ in a sealed enclosure. This System is very compact and sounds amazing. The bass from this woofer is very tight and articulate. This woofer uses a 10″ Woofer and a high powered 1200 watt amplifier.

Third is what we like to call the Mother Of God. A massive 15″ driver with a 1200 watt amplifier in a enclosure of 7 CF. This woofer has enough power to bring down the entire house if you want it to. Everyone that has auditioned this agrees it is by far the most bass they have ever heard from a subwoofer. One of these woofers has the output capability of 3 Velodyne DD15’s which retail at 5000 dollars each.

We encourage you to audition one of these woofers. We can personally bring one out to your house and let you take a test drive in your home theater. Use it for 15 days and we can guarantee you will not want to give it back.

Below are a few of the recent projects we have completed.

Here is a picture of the HP10 with a fresh coat of paint. One more coat of paint to go then we apply the faux finish.

Here is the HP 10 finished and ready to be loaded with the amplifier and subwoofer.

Here is a picture of our 15″ woofer all finished and in place in this home theater

Here is a picture of the 10″ Now home theater driver.

Here is one of our favorite finishes. High gloss black with a red glaze. This woofer turned out beautiful.

Here is another one of the 15″ Woofers color matched to the wall.

This is what we call the mother of god. I am sorry I do not have a picture of it painted. This one was a test build for a customer.

As you can see we can fully install and customize your home theater. Try one of these woofers today and see what a lot of people are raving about.

We will have more pictures coming soon of fully painted projects.

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What makes us different? Why should you choose Elite AV for your home theater installation? Simple we have the tools, experience, and knowledge to complete any job in a professional manner. We listen to our customers wants and needs and design systems to look amazing and sound great.

Earlier in the month we did a installation in Plano TX where our customer wanted to build a custom home theater. Keeping a budget in mind we went into the design process and came up with a solution that would Perform at a high level and Remain inside his budget.

Here is our equipment used in this home theater installation.

JVC HDLA RS1 1080P Projector
Pioneer Elite VSX 94 Home Theater Receiver
Triad Gold Series In wall Speakers
Elemental Designs 12″ Subwoofers
1200 Watt Keiga Plate Amplifier
Panasonic DMPBD1 Blu Ray Player
Dish Network HD Box
Etheral HDMI Cables
1000 FT 14-2 Speaker Wiring
Sanus Projector Bracket

Lets just start out by saying we do upwards of 50 Full blown home theater installs a year and this one was one of our most challenging. Our customer resided in Plano TX and we needed to complete this room on the second story.

For some crazy reason the previous owner of this house did not choose to have it prewired when the house was built which made it rather difficult. The front wall where the Screen and front speakers were installed was a exterior load baring wall. Same with the side wall where the equipment was being place. On top of that our only attic space had enough clearance to crawl threw and was half coverd by a Air Condition Unit. Because of this the wiring process was a MAJOR chore.

This picture shows the wiring being completed and the speakers in place. It also shows the carpet ripped out and the room pretty much gutted.

This was my first time dealing with the Triad speaker. Let me say I am very happy I picked the line up. They feature very high end drivers and a back box which mimics a very high end tower speaker. I could not of been happier with the sound of these speakers for their price.

Another thing that separates us is our ability to design and build custom home theater subwoofers. Last year we launched our business Now Home Theater which specializes in building Very High end subwoofer solutions. Because of this we had the ability to custom design a subwoofer setup that would hide in the room under the riser we were building.

For those wondering how they sound. They are amazing, they have more output then dual Velodyne DD 15’s while maintaining great Sound Quality.

Next came the build process of the riser. We constructed a riser for the 2nd row of seating to sit on and the subwoofers to sit under. Here you see a picture of it being built before the carpet was laid on top of it.

Almost complete. We have the walls painted, Sconces up, Chairs in place and the Screen on the wall. All that is left is wiring up the equipment in the closet.

All complete. Here are the final pictures of everything in place. As you can see from the pictures the riser is covered and the subwoofers are in place.

Because of the difficulty of this project it made for one of our most rewarding builds. The triad speakers sounded great and Dual woofers under the seats made for a incredible listening experience. It really pulls you into the movie because you feel EVERY THING!

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Things are starting to get really busy around the shop. Either the advertising I have been doing is finally paying off or it is just that time of the year. We have picked up from doing 4 to 5 installs a week to about 8 or 9. There really isnt enough time in the day to get everything that needs to be done accomplished.

Today we were in Coppell Texas installing a Sony 52″ XBR4 and a Polk Audio surround sound.

This mini home theater consisted of

52″ Sony XBR4 LCD TV
Pioneer Elite VSX 94 Receiver
5 Polk Audio TC Speakers

The customer originally had a 35″ Tube TV inside the cabinet next to the tv which we pulled out and put upstairs in a game room for the kids. In its place a 52″ TV was going to be hung over the fireplace. Overall the system turned out great. The Polk in walls sounded fantastic and the Sony LCDs always amaze me with their picture quality.

In the future I will be doing a install log in my blogs. From start to finish I will start showing the steps and the process we take to install these different home theater systes, TV, and speakers. So make sure you check back often.

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