Opus is an innovative, yet wonderfully easy-to-use, 'whole house' entertainment system. You can enjoy up to six hi-fi or video sources, independently, or simultaneously, anywhere in your home. In every room where the system is installed, Opus' keypads and sleek remote handsets can give total control of your entire CD and DVD collection and access to a choice of radio stations.Interestingly the Opus keypad actually displays the radio station frequency as well as offering individual tone control settings for each room, as such it is unique in a sub-Crestron level product.

I'm sorry Dave. Fear not puny human, your worst 2001 nightmares have not come to pass. This HAL is a rather smart home distribution system, taking you audio out of the lounge and around your home. The HAL range encompasses products that a number of products that allow you to distribute audio and video signals to every room in the home. The cost effective CA-1006 gives you up to six zones of operation, or the unique CC-1040 gives you virtually limitless outputs across you home. To arrange a quote for your home, please call or email to book a time to have a chat with one of our consultants.

During a quarter-century of creativity and innovation, Niles has played a major role in the transformation of custom-installed whole-house audio systems and Home Theater from a hobbyist pastime into a thriving, highly professional industry. Niles grew by refining existing product types and inventing new ones, always delivering value to its dealers, installers, and end-users through quality engineering and materials, ease of installation and operation, and the best possible sound for the money.

For more than 30 years, Crestron has been the world's leading manufacturer of advanced control and automation systems. They offer total solutions for integration and control of audio, video, computer, the Internet and more.

Carlton Audio Visual has a very strong internal competency base of programming skills for all levels of remote control devices.

Carlton Audio Visual have been members of CEDIA since the 1995. The "Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association" is an international organisation of experienced companies involved in the design and installation of electronic sytems for your home or any other environment that you may choose.

Add convenience and style to your theatre experience with a custom lighting controller. The Lutron Graphik eye is a flexible, simpe to user lighting controller, allowing you to call up lighting scenes to match your activities. Dim the lights as the movie starts or havea scene to highlight the artwork in the room, its all down to your imagination.

When the beautiful but HiFi zero partner of one of our associates walked into the shop, picked up the Sonos control and said " So this is where the music comes from" - we knew that there was a new note of control harmony being established in our product range. Within seconds she was streaming a music selection of her particular yearning off Rhapsody. She had never seen the Controller before.Or bothered picking any thing up in our shop...

We are very pleased to have formed alliances with certain Melbourne companies that are specialists in custom manufacture and design of furniture and automation products. In particular the engineering company Ultralift Australia and the cabinet makers Mortice & Tenon. With widely divergent styles but a common exactness of design and production these companies can make anything in metal and wood.

This is one of the coolest of all the on wall keypad audio systems short of Crestron ... but without that price tag. The Mode keypad from Speakercraft has an illuminated rotary control which combined with a scroll key and an LCD display makes it fab for accessing music collections and radio stations. The system has one of the best iPod integration systems and ... coming soon ... will offer an iPhone wireless integration.

Herewith a link to "Trends" Magazine for a theatre we designed in conjunction with Nicholas Murray Architects for a very fortunate client. The houses these chaps build are Australia's finest...not necessarily overbearingly opulent but full of liveable and fascinating spaces.

This house was a significant design integration of original Victorian features with ultra modern liveability by Nicholas Murray Architects. The client is an industry professional who would only take the best in performance price ratio kit and we were able to snugly fit a Marantz video projector and Denon Electronics into his underground funky dungeon theatre. Follow the link to the magazine article on this project:

This is possibly Melbourne's finest penthouse apartment developed by Nicholas Murray architects for a client with an incredible collection of Australian Art that we were commissioned to fit out with a home control system and Audio Visual equipment.

Remote Technologies Inc offers one of my favourite and most durable and versatile hand helds being the T3 remote. This combines the minimum number of keys with the right amount of screen to make one of the most natural and intuitive operational interfaces available when properly programmed.

Control4 is a suite of products designed to make using the technology in your home simpler. From controlling your home theatre to integrating your lights to adjusting the temperature, Control4 has scaleable solutions to suit your lifestyle. Here are some examples:

The Olive is an affordable, high quality server and DAC combination. This is firstly a CD player. It is also a CD burner. Most importantly it has a hard disc drive (from 500GB to 2TB depending on the model) where one can record up to 6,000 CD’s in FLAC. The unit will also sit on your network and stream Internet Radio. While it doesn’t have is the darling intuitive interface of the Sonos and the large touch-screen controller, the 4.3" high-resolution colour screen is more than adequate and navigation is both intuitive and simple. There is also a free app called Maestro for the iTouch/ iPhone/ iPad enabling them as bluetooth touchscreen controllers for the Olive.The HD version also has a HDMI output which will allow you to display what is on the built-in screen on a much larger monitor or your TV.

When we undertake a design and installation for a theatre system we like to consider the following checklist courtesy of THX in the design and set up. It's a typical range of parameters for a dedicated HT room:

As a potential customer you should consider the following when choosing a supplier for your Custom installation and theatre system ( the questions are appropriately foisted from a quality competitors website )

So you want music in 4 different rooms? With seperate keypad control for each room, including multiple sources and different volumes at the same time? Well now you can, thanks to Californian company Nuvo. Introducing the Simplese. So simple, you just add speakers.