MEET THE PIONEERS OF DESIGN & INNOVATION

Discover the esteemed partners who set the benchmark in technology and performance. Their cutting-edge solutions shape our product standards with unmatched excellence.

Founded in 1972, NAD emerged from a collective of passionate European audio importers determined to challenge the status quo. Their mission was to prove that high-quality sound and great value could coexist, a goal they achieved by delivering exceptional audio products that stood out from both high-end, expensive brands and subpar, budget options. NAD’s dedication to quality and affordability carved out a distinctive niche in the audio industry, setting a standard for excellence.

AudioQuest is renowned for its high-performance speaker and HDMI cables that enhance your home audio-video experience. Utilizing decades of expertise, AudioQuest designs its cables through a rigorous scientific process to ensure the highest quality. Unlike many lower-end alternatives, AudioQuest cables minimize signal degradation and interference, delivering clear, accurate sound reproduction and protecting your equipment from potential damage. Their commitment to quality bridges the gap between your audio sources and speakers, ensuring a superior listening experience.

Bowers & Wilkins, a name synonymous with premium sound quality, has been a leader in the high-fidelity world for over 50 years. Their handcrafted speakers and innovative use of materials like Kevlar and Diamond have set them apart. Known for their flagship loudspeakers, Bowers & Wilkins also extends their expertise to headphones, subwoofers, and wireless speakers. Their commitment to delivering expansive depth and clarity in sound makes them a top choice for both luxury and performance in audio solutions.

Marantz design is timelessly elegant. Expressing the musical soundscapes which the products create. Effortless control, immediate and accurate power, warmth of sound, material, touch and haptic feel.

Our philosophy of balance and symmetry is evident in our sound, and our designs. Authentic ingredients are interpreted and combined for each new piece of Hi-Fi and AV equipment.

To create our latest products, we went back to the origin of the brand, to create a future based on heroes of the past. Marantz design combines aspects of heritage, performance and contemporary luxury through finish and detailing.

Echoes of the hero products that established Marantz as a force in the world of sound – the Models 7,8,9,10 and more – can be seen throughout our lineup.

Based in Salt Lake City, Control4 offers advanced home automation solutions that connect virtually any device, creating a unified system controlled by customized remotes and smart devices. Whether at home or away, Control4 enables comprehensive management of your estate or business, delivering convenience, security, and efficiency. Their solutions bring a new level of comfort and control, integrating various technologies into a single, streamlined platform.

Epson’s projectors are a testament to their long history of innovation, offering unparalleled image quality for both commercial and home cinema applications. Their wide range of projectors delivers stunning visuals with up to 300” display sizes and advanced color processing. Whether you need high brightness for rooms with ambient light or compact, high-performance models for smaller spaces, Epson’s projectors provide dynamic, immersive viewing experiences tailored to your needs.

Leica’s Cine 1 projector upholds the company’s storied legacy in imaging technology, offering a cinematic experience with a unique Leica touch. The Cine 1 brings the iconic Leica look to home cinema, projecting images up to 120” with stunning clarity. This innovation builds on Leica’s history of excellence in film and photography, making it possible to experience high-quality visuals right in your living room.

Samsung’s range of televisions is at the forefront of technological innovation, featuring their proprietary Quantum Processor for superior image quality. With QLED 4K and 8K TVs, Samsung offers unprecedented detail, contrast, and realism. Their displays not only enhance your viewing experience but also add aesthetic value to your space, transforming into framed artwork or blending into your décor when not in use.

Dana Innovations, the parent company of Sonance, iPort, and TRUFIG, specializes in high-quality audio solutions that seamlessly integrate into luxury environments. Sonance’s discreet speaker systems and James Loudspeaker’s custom audio solutions offer immersive sound experiences with minimal visual impact. Dana Innovations’ commitment to blending technology with aesthetics ensures that their products meet the highest standards of performance and design.

Screen Innovations transforms the viewing experience with their innovative screen solutions, including ambient light rejecting and zero-edge models. Their screens are designed for both indoor and outdoor use, providing exceptional performance and style. With options like portable screens and motorized shades, Screen Innovations offers versatile solutions for enhancing any viewing environment, whether at home or in a business setting.

Dynaudio brings recording-studio quality to home audio with their meticulously engineered speakers. Known for their precise sound reproduction and calibration, Dynaudio’s products cater to audiophiles and music lovers alike. Their extensive range includes home theater speakers, architectural solutions, and outdoor options, all designed to deliver natural, high-fidelity sound in various settings.

VIABLUE™ stands out for its high-quality audio cables and components, crafted with precision and innovative technology. Their products, including silvered cables and patented connectors, offer exceptional performance and durability. VIABLUE™’s dedication to quality and design ensures that their cables enhance the listening experience and meet the highest standards of functionality.

In 1972, a new kind of audio company was born. NAD took form when a large group of audio-industry importers in Europe, all music lovers, set out to develop products that cut through the industry hype. The goal of NAD was to prove that excellent sound quality and excellent value could exist together. It was a formidable goal – some of the most reputable electronics brands of the time were unaffordable to most, while the affordable spectrum of the market was dominated by poor quality imports from global electronics giants. NAD’s founders remained undeterred and their original vision led to an inspiring story of how a group of specialty audio mavericks took on the Goliaths of the audio industry to carve out a unique place of their own.

Enhance your home audio-video quality with AudioQuest’s line of speaker and HDMI cables. Drawing on decades of experience, AudioQuest cables deliver unprecedented value and performance for all applications. Audiophiles often like to gauge quality based on ear tests, but at AudioQuest, all cables are developed and judged using a scientific process. Every piece of your home entertainment system matters, but cables often get left out of the equation. Opting for low-end cables will result in damage to your components and dull or irritating sound. AudioQuest is dedicated to bridging the space between your sources and speakers with little to no effect on the signal. AudioQuest cables reduce signal deterioration and coloration for a result true to the original without losing any important details along the way.

Universally loved by audiophiles and recording professionals, Bowers & Wilkins is believed by many to offer the best loudspeakers in the world. They are so synonymous with luxury sound that they’re the official audio solution for all Jaguar car models. For more than 50 years, they have been the standard bearers in the hi-fi world through handcrafted speakers, superior grade materials and industry-leading audio engineering. They introduced the use of Kevlar and Diamond for the ultimate in pure, striking sound reproduction, and their audio engineering delivers expansive depth and clarity. Despite being best known for their flagship loudspeakers, B&W now offers the same exacting audio standard to their line of headphones, subwoofers, architectural speakers and even their stylish wireless speakers.

Passion, artistry, technology

For Denon, audio-video reproduction is not just a business. The creation of products that can deliver total quality enjoyment to others is a fundamental driving passion and the reason we exist. What’s more, our constant quest to create the perfect entertainment component is the key to transforming creative ideas into leading innovation, and to anticipating consumer needs. In recent evolution, this has included the development of mobile technologies, so that customers can enjoy the best possible quality reproduction in any format. Bringing purity of sound and joy to customers’ lives is what Denon is all about.

More than words

For everyone at Denon, Passion, Artistry, and Technology are more than buzzwords – they are part of the quintessential philosophy behind everything we do. These three elements and decades of innovation and engineering excellence have shaped our entire culture. Every detail of a Denon product is crafted around these elements with a single goal in mind: to maximise the entertainment experience.

The future

Denon’s Legacy of Firsts and our 100-year history of delivering powerful audio and visual experiences mark the company’s path into the future. We will treasure our legacy and use it to inspire and fuel our constant quest for perfection. We will also continue to celebrate the core strength of our products to deliver power, precision and performance. In addition, Denon is looking forward, evolving and constantly seeking to transform ideas into leading innovations. Whatever the evolution, Denon will be there – adding to our already prestigious Legacy of Firsts.

Experience personalized control for your unique lifestyle with the power of Salt Lake City-based Control4. Connect virtually any device in your home or business to work together, and command them all with customized one-touch controls and scenes from your system remote or smart device of choice. Whether you’re home or away, Control4 gives you the power to command and monitor your estate or business in one platform. The transformative benefits of a smart connected home and business with Control4 delivers convenience, peace of mind and an efficient environment that’s comfortable and safe.

Leverage Epson’s long history of electronic innovation with their line of commercial and home cinema projectors, which deliver striking, dynamic quality for projection made perfect. Their wide range of projectors is ideal for home theater enthusiasts who enjoy watching sports, TV shows or movies. With images up to 300”, you can relish the big-screen experience in the comfort of home. Meanwhile, 4K video resolution and advanced color processing offer unprecedented detail ideal for both residential and commercial settings. With ultra-bright models available, you can enjoy dynamic images, even with ambient lighting in the room. Dealing with a small space in your home or office? Explore Epson’s high-performance, short-throw projectors that can sit just a few feet from the screen.

The Leica Cine 1 continues the Leica legacy: Moving people through imagery. The invention of the 35 mm standard by Leitz chief developer Oskar Barnack in 1914 proves just how closely Leica is linked to cinema: Barnack’s idea was to use 35 mm cinema film for his 35 mm camera. To do this, he doubled the cinema single-frame format from 18×24 mmm to 24×36 mm. On the other hand, the legendary Leica Pradovit projectors were produced for decades; and today the successful Leitz high-end cine lenses are manufactured in Wetzlar, Germany – designed to accompany cinematographers in the masterful creation of their visons around the world. Now, with the Leica Cine 1, for the first time the unique Leica look can be experienced in a moving image up to 120”, right in your living room.

Inventors of the solid-state dimmer in 1959 and now holders of 2,700 worldwide patents, Lutron has expanded their product offering to more than 15,000 products. Lutron lighting and shading control makes it possible to craft the perfect atmosphere at home or in the workplace to complement your day-to-night activities for enhanced comfort and productivity. Recall your favorite settings from a master keypad or remote to easily transform your environment with just a tap or set your lights and shades to adjust on their own so you can focus on the activity at hand. That’s the power of Lutron lighting control. Work with a Lutron dealer like Smart Home Design in the Gold Coast area to bring home sophisticated solutions for custom lighting and shading that operate seamlessly at your command.

Elevate your expectations of home entertainment with Samsung’s most innovative and advanced range of televisions that offer an impeccable visual and auditory experience for film and gaming enthusiasts alike. Samsung’s proprietary Quantum Processor is the mastermind behind their unrivaled QLED 4K and 8K TVs that display a depth of detail, contrast and realism never seen before. Even when not in use, Samsung displays add beauty to your home by transforming into framed artwork or blending into the decorative pattern on your wall, elevating your space while turned on and off.

Established in the early 1980’s, Southern California-based Dana Innovations is the parent company of Sonance, iPort and TRUFIG. Sonance specializes in designing high-quality audio systems for luxury homes and businesses that work in virtually any environment, from in-wall and in-ceiling to expansive outdoor landscapes and more. Enjoy sightless surround sound that immerses you into your favorite blockbuster film or musical soundtrack with discreet speaker solutions that complement any indoor décor or hide evenly throughout your gardens and foliage. With Sonance, delight in immaculate sound with minimal visual impact thanks to the beautiful blending of technology and aesthetics. Further expanding on its commitment to luxury sound, Sonance acquired James Loudspeaker in 2019. The acquisition allows Sonance to leverage James Loudspeaker’s innovations in the areas of custom and architectural audio to create high-performance, bespoke solutions for its clients.

Unleash the full potential of your home theater system with Screen Innovation’s masterful indoor and outdoor screen models. Revolutionize your viewing experience with ambient light rejecting screens so you can enjoy your favorite films even during the day. Embrace the big-screen experience in a stylish environment with their sleek, zero edge models that fit seamlessly in any space. Now you can even take your screen on the go with the Solo line model featuring a portable cassette and a two-year battery life. Tiles and rear projection screens, meanwhile, allow unique and engaging digital signage solutions for businesses. Recently, Screen Innovations has also released motorized shades for indoor and outdoor use in a wide range of models and colors.

How can you enjoy recording-studio sound quality in your home? Every Dynaudio speaker has the same build quality, testing and calibration, whether it’s used for professional audio, home audio or car audio applications. Listen to your favorite recordings with equipment on par with that used in recording studios by artists like U2, Celine Dion and Jay-Z. Since it was founded in 1983, the Danish company has focused on creating audio solutions by music lovers for music lovers. Relying on personal calibration and individual testing, each speaker offers the most natural sound possible. Dynaudio provides a wide range of audio solutions, including home theater speakers, architectural speakers, high-end loudspeakers, wireless speakers, outdoor speakers and subwoofers. Renowned throughout the hi-fi industry, Dynaudio has won Product and Speaker of the Year awards from The Golden Ear, What Hi-Fi and SoundStage!

For more than 20 years, VIABLUE™ stands for a first-class listening experience made in Germany. We guarantee maximum precision by using innovative technologies, state-of-the-art production methods and exclusive materials.

Since 2001, we excite with high-quality standards and outstanding functionality. Our handmade cables with silvered strands, patented full metal connector housings, the VIABLUE™ AIR technology and Ultragrip coating find praises worldwide.

It is the passion of our customers that drives us to constantly push limits and meet highest standards in functionality and design.

A big thank you to all of you. Thank you for your loyalty, your feedback and ideas regarding VIABLUE™ products. For your photos, videos and social media posts. We are looking much forward to the years to come.

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FAQS

Why Is It Important to Choose the Right Brands for Smart Home Devices?

Choosing the right brands for your smart home devices is crucial because it ensures reliability, compatibility, and long-term support. Reputable brands invest in research and development to create high-quality products that work seamlessly together, providing a cohesive smart home experience. They also offer better customer support and software updates, ensuring that your devices remain functional and secure over time. When you choose trusted brands, you can be confident that your smart home system will perform as expected, reducing the likelihood of technical issues or compatibility problems.

How Do I Know Which Smart Home Brands Are Best for My Needs?

The best smart home brands for your needs will depend on the specific devices and features you’re looking for. Start by identifying your primary goals, such as home security, energy management, or entertainment. Research brands that specialize in these areas and read customer reviews to gauge their performance and reliability. It’s also important to consider how well the brand’s products integrate with other smart home systems you may already have. Consulting with a smart home professional can provide valuable insights and recommendations tailored to your needs, helping you make an informed decision.

What Are Some of the Top Brands for Smart Home Automation?

Several brands are recognized as leaders in the smart home automation industry, known for their innovation, reliability, and user-friendly products. Some of the top brands include:

Google Nest: Known for their smart thermostats, cameras, and speakers that integrate seamlessly with Google Assistant.
Amazon Echo: A popular choice for voice-controlled smart home systems, with a wide range of compatible devices.
Philips Hue: A leader in smart lighting, offering customizable and energy-efficient solutions.
Ring: Specializes in smart security products like video doorbells and security cameras.
Sonos: Renowned for their high-quality wireless audio systems that integrate well with other smart home devices.

Can I Mix and Match Devices from Different Brands in My Smart Home?

Yes, you can mix and match devices from different brands in your smart home, but it’s important to ensure they are compatible with each other. Many smart home devices use common communication protocols like Wi-Fi, Zigbee, or Z-Wave, which allow them to work together, even if they are from different manufacturers. However, it’s advisable to stick with brands that have a reputation for broad compatibility. Using a central hub or a smart home platform like Apple HomeKit, Google Home, or Amazon Alexa can also help integrate devices from various brands, ensuring smooth operation and unified control.

How Do I Keep My Smart Home Devices Secure?

Keeping your smart home devices secure starts with choosing reputable brands that prioritize security in their products. Ensure all devices are updated with the latest firmware and software to protect against vulnerabilities. Use strong, unique passwords for your smart home accounts and enable two-factor authentication whenever possible. It’s also important to secure your home Wi-Fi network by using a strong password and regularly checking for unauthorized devices. If you have multiple smart devices, consider setting up a dedicated network for them to isolate them from your main internet connection, further enhancing security.