Amplified Lifestyles recently attended CEDIA Expo 2024. The Colorado Convention Center in Denver, CO, hosted the three-day event in September, during which attendees experienced cutting-edge innovation. The team explored new products from hundreds of technology brands. One of their favorites was Samsung’s latest additions to its MICRO LED portfolio of video walls. With a bold minimalist design in 89-inch, 101-inch, or 114-inch 4K pictures, it showcases intense contrast, full-spectrum color, and nuanced textures. The MICRO LED’s nearly invisible bezel allows it to blend seamlessly into its environment, making it ideal for architects and designers.
Are you looking for the perfect soundbar where floor standers interfere with the room’s aesthetics? The team recommends the Steinway & Sons Model S Soundbar. Assembled and finished by hand in Denmark, the elegant wall or furniture-mounted soundbar comes in matte or high-gloss black, gold accents and a whimsical musical string motif on the side panels. Audiophiles appreciate the Model S Soundbar’s extraordinary clarity, outstanding musicality, and mighty bass. Steinway Lyngdorf’s unique RoomPerfect™ technology adapts the soundbar to the room regardless of shape, size, and acoustic properties achieving the best possible sound performance.
Another manufacturer that seamlessly blends aesthetics with technology is Bluesound, a wireless high-res multi-room system. The Canadian company’s motto is “Living HiFi,” it makes wireless stereo components, speakers, and home theater products. Its designers, engineers, and individuals are audiophiles from the music industry, not the tech sector and its founders helped pioneer HiFi in the 1970s. Today, the Bluesound ecosystem delivers cutting-edge musical detail, texture, and volume, reflecting music true to the artist and genre. The digital platform can connect up to 64 players through the BluOS Controller App.
Another architectural winner was the newly engineered Sonance SA4-66 speaker, which the company debuted at CEDIA Expo 2024 to complement its James Small Aperture® Series. The cabinet contains a subwoofer and tweeter with a small 4″ opening that installs discreetly into the ceiling for incredible sound. Sonance offers square or round grills recessed or beveled to match the ceiling lights. The SA4-66 works for drywall and solid ceiling applications and fluidly integrates into any design style.
With people having multiple homes and needing to provide controlled access for family, friends, and service people, stylish smart locks are a necessity. The Amplified team found Level Lock +. Not only does it provide different aesthetic choices, but it also factors in different tech preferences. You access it with your voice, phone, keypad, a key card, or, for the Luddites, a manual key! In our new hybrid work world, you can track everyone’s comings and goings from the app, which is excellent when homeowners co-exist with the people who help keep their homes running.
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Forbes & Lomax, also known as the ‘invisible lightswitch,’ is the modern answer to the lost elegance of early 1900’s switching. From brass plating that stands on its own to seamless acrylic that extends wallpaper and disappears entirely, F&L is art in a light switch.
Amplified loves this product for the obvious: sheer elegance and leveling up of an area in the home that has long been plastic, overlooked, and uninspiring. Its clear differentiation from all other light switching options is what makes F&L an Amplified team favorite!
Unlike any other television to date, Samsung’s The Frame finally makes the TV a focal point in the room for all the right reasons. As a counterpoint to its predecessors, black, angular, ominous, and a constant eyesore, The Frame is TV when it’s on, and art when it’s off!
Amplified cannot get enough of this incredible technology that finally makes it possible to put a TV in the room without ruining the design aesthetic. It offers the ability to enhance your environment based on anything; your favorite artist, your mood, or something you think will amuse your guests.
The little black dress of the shade world? Poetry in motion? Lutron does it again with the PALLADIOM Shading System, which brilliantly flaunts technology instead of hiding it.
A circular bracket visually extends the structural tube outward and into the wall. The shade appears to float in midair while being whisper-quiet. Each unibody aluminum bracket is hand-finished and available in various finishes that blend into any architectural style seamlessly. The Amplified team loves these shades for everything from San Francisco penthouses to Belvedere Lagoon getaways.
The integrated look is not so much your thing when it comes to music and home technology? Not to worry~ Amplified recommends Bowers & Wilkins for the audiophile who wants their speakers’ artistry to stand out just as much as their music.
These speakers “speak” for themselves and could be a focal point of art in any room, a bold statement that stands apart. Is it sculpture or extraterrestrial? There’s nothing quite like a B&W Wedge or Formation Bar, don’t believe us? Just wait until you see the Nautilus!
What can we say? The Wall is on everyone’s dream list at Amplified this year. TV on steroids doesn’t even begin to describe the greatness of this latest Samsung genius.
Art in motion like never before, color that vibrates, blacks that become 3D; we’re pretty sure that if you had The Wall, you’d never leave your home. For these reasons and so much more, we can’t recommend this micro-LED technology enough!
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