A well-lit living room and kitchen area with varying light fixtures and picture windows.

Bring Out Your Home’s Best Features with Architectural Lighting

Kendall Clark Architectural Lighting Fixtures, Architectural Lighting Fixtures Phoenix, AZ

The Power of Lighting Design from Conception to Completion

A home’s lighting provides much more than a way to see in the dark. It impacts our moods and energy levels and creates a place of refuge, an oasis that rejuvenates and inspires. It highlights the architectural details and can transform a room into the excellence that was waiting for the perfect light to bring it to life. 

With today’s new advancements, the possibilities are nearly limitless as we combine design and technology in ways once unimaginable. Our award-winning lighting designer, Kevin Flower, can help you take advantage of the latest possibilities, whether you’re a homeowner looking to upgrade or install a lighting system or a builder starting a new project. 

Let’s explore the design process in Phoenix, AZ, and the use of architectural lighting fixtures to deliver powerful benefits while enhancing a home’s design.

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A home theater with a Sony projector and a large movie screen displaying snow-capped mountains.

The Top 3 Reasons Why Your Home Theater Needs a Projector

Kendall Clark Home Theater Projectors, Home Theater Projectors Phoenix, AZ

Home Theater Projectors Offer the Immersive Cinematic Experience

Are you considering creating an entertainment space where friends and family enjoy the latest movies, TV series, concerts, and major sporting events? For many, this translates to a home theater, a room that offers all the visual and audio splendor of the local movie theater. 

You may be surprised that due to the latest advancements in today’s home audio-video technology, it’s possible to experience an immersive cinematic experience surpassing commercial theaters. When you add the luxurious custom seating, LED lighting that resembles stars, the surround-sound technology that immerses the viewer in a 3D sound field, and the breakout of high-quality content on video streaming platforms, it’s hard to imagine why anyone would venture further than their own designated home theater.

But what about the picture quality? Can you experience the brilliant images that fill a movie screen with crystal-clear, lifelike pictures that transport you into every scene? Thanks to Sony’s latest home theater projectors, the answer to that is a resounding yes.

Read on to learn the three reasons you need a home theater projector in your home theater setup and why Acoustic Designs Group teamed up with Sony to deliver the best picture possible for your home theater in Phoenix, AZ. 

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Bring Daylight Indoors with Ketra’s Natural Lighting

Kendall Clark Ketra Lighting, Ketra Lighting Scottsdale, AZ

Experience Ketra’s Remarkable Lighting Technology at Our Scottsdale, AZ, Showroom

At Acoustic Designs Group, our award-winning, certified lighting designer, Kevin Flower, understands the power of light. Kevin is known for using state-of-the-art technology to create beautiful and functional lighting spaces. He realizes that, more than ever, people are seeking homes that provide a sanctuary—an oasis to relax and revel in the beauty and ease of living with the right combination of lighting design and technology. 

Great lighting not only provides a way to see in the dark, but it can also affect our moods, wellness, and productivity. Ketra, acquired by Lutron in 2018, designed an advanced lighting system boasting dozens of patented innovations that changed the way we illuminate our homes and how we experience the indoors. 

In addition to dynamic, full-spectrum lighting that gives designers and homeowners an infinite number of colors of light to choose from, they also created an innovative natural Ketra lighting solution that provides comfort, well-being, and beauty. Let’s see how it’s done and how it’s transforming homes in Scottsdale, AZ.

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Acoustic Designs Group showroom featuring a sitting area with LED lighting and a flat-screen TV.

Experience the Power of Luxury Lighting Design

Kendall Clark Luxury Lighting Design, Luxury Lighting Design Phoenix, AZ

Turn Your Home into an Oasis with the Help of a Certified Lighting Designer

As an architectural lighting design and automation firm serving Phoenix, AZ, for 17 years, we’ve watched homeowners’ visions transform. Lighting has gone from a practical way to see in the dark to an expertly designed palette. Homeowners want beautiful, retreat-like spaces where lighting takes center stage in varying colors, hues, and intensities. Soft and bright white lights have transcended to amethyst, indigo, and azure. 

There is a reason why photographers and cinematographers spend so much time perfecting the lighting—it enhances the subject’s features and creates the desired atmosphere and mood in a way that no other element can. In a home, professional luxury lighting design does the same, challenging spaces to reveal their best selves while setting the desired mood and tone. Keep reading below for more.

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Work with a Home Theater Designer to Deliver Custom Cinemas to Your Clients

Kendall Clark Home Theater Designer, Home Theater Designer Scottsdale, AZ

Bring Stunning Audiovisuals & Immersion to Your Projects

Over the years, luxury home theaters have become increasingly popular among homeowners. With private theaters in their own homes, it eliminates the hassle of getting out to the local cinema and, instead, staying in and enjoying a customized, immersive viewing experience.

You can create this cinematic atmosphere for your Scottsdale, AZ clients when you work with a professional home theater designer like Acoustic Designs Group. Our trusted home theater design services and solutions will help you provide a high-end, custom cinema setup for your clients.

Want to learn more about our installation process and how it can work for your home-builds? Keep reading below to learn what components we prioritize with every project.

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One of the audio displays at Acoustic Designs Group 7,500 square-foot showroom.

How Do You Define High-Fidelity Audio?

Acoustic Designs Group HiFi Audio Phoenix, AZ, Blog, HiFi Audio

Enjoy Every Bit of Detail in Your Favorite Songs with Our HiFi Audio Solutions

High-fidelity (hi-fi) audio refers to the pure and accurate reproduction of sound. The original recording is faithfully reproduced, which means you’re listening to music as the artist and studio producers intended. 

A hi-fi audio system offers the cleanest, least distorted listening experience. It takes you to center stage, immersing you in the sound field where every note is crisp and clear. You lose yourself in every guitar riff, vocal, and drum beat, experiencing it as if at a live recording or sitting in the studio. 

How do you know when you’re listening to hi-fi quality music? When you listen to your favorite recording, the on you’ve heard a hundred times before, it will be as if you’re hearing it for the first time. 

Are you ready to enjoy high-performance audio throughout your home in Phoenix, AZ? Keep reading down below to learn more about the ultimate listening experience!

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Acoustic Designs Open House

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Acoustic Designs Open House | Acoustic Designs Group

With the 2020 season of events kicking off in North Scottsdale Acoustic Designs opens it’s Showroom as a gathering place.  Barrett-Jackson sold over 1900 vehicles this year for nearly $130 Million.  Over 700,000 golf fans hit the links to watch Webb Simpson take home $7.3 Million with top honors.  Acoustic Designs provided refreshments, reserved parking and a shuttle service to and from the TPC of Scottsdale to help our friends and clients enjoy the experience.  To top that off, ADG threw a Super Bowl Extravaganza that was well attended with fun had by all!

Remember to stay in touch, with all the upcoming events such as the Arabian Horse Show, Celebration of Fine Art, the 67th annual Parada Del Sol rodeo and Scottsdale Western Week to mention just a few, Acoustic Designs Showroom makes for a great destination to explore premium listening experiences, lighting and shade designs, seamless automation and spectacular video.

Our Showroom can be found at 16074 N 78th St, #B104 Scottsdale, AZ 85260 – We look forward to seeing you!

Acoustic Designs Open House | Acoustic Designs Group

Merry-Go-Round

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Merry-Go-Round | Acoustic Designs Group

Ever hear the adage “What was old, is new again”?  So true in the 2-Channel world with vinyl’s, turntables, speakers, headphones, amplifiers and the like.  In the ’80s and ’90s, culture was going from the big boom box to getting tunes on your watch.  The mad rush to be as small as possible left a lot to be desired as technology strained to keep up with the quality of the original piece.  Fast forward as an entire generation learned that newer is not always better after listening to the same song on vinyl versus a digital download.  Luckily, sound engineers and technology have advanced to provide a balanced solution.  But, let’s be real nothing compares to a real cool turn table in your music room that also delivers the whole package.  

Visit Acoustic Designs Showroom to enjoy a demo in our dedicated listening rooms.

~EjZ Audio Lifestyler  

 

Peek-A-Boo

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Peek-A-Boo | Acoustic Designs Group

Now you see it, now you don’t.  Now you hear it, and now you really hear it.  While flat-panel televisions are the norm in most homes and commercial buildings; it is now not uncommon to guess where it might be in the room.  No longer, “Where is Waldo?” or artwork covering the family jewels.  In today’s modern home the design possibilities are endless due to the flat panel display and the high tech quality of sound and picture. 

I am mesmerized by the flat panel televisions that literally disappear in a room along with the Planar video walls which must be active 24/7.  It has been said women tend to prefer the disappearing tv but let’s be authentic as it is 2019 and many of the cosmopolitan men who enter our showroom love the discreetness just the same.  If you have 16 games to watch at the same time Planar would be the best choice for you or if you want a crystal clear fishbowl as if you were the fish – nothing compares.  And, if you do not want anyone to know where this beauty is … you dream it, we design it.

Visit Acoustic Designs Showroom to enjoy a demo in our dedicated listening rooms.

~EjZ Audio Lifestyler 

Got Amp

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Got Amp | Acoustic Designs Group

Okay, we know….you “I” gens (Internet generation) have understood technology since the day you were born but for the rest of us let’s talk Amps.  The previous blog, “Feeling Hi-Res” summarized how music from the Internet is compressed or squeezed down to make the files compatible with our devices such as phones, computers, and the like.   The quality of headphones is a significant factor but one must also consider the amplifier to fully engaged in the original masterpiece.    The degree to which it is heard will depend on the device selected.  Each offers a different satisfaction; Chord Mojo, Audioquest Dragonfly, and countless others.

Visit Acoustic Designs Showroom to enjoy a demo in our dedicated listening rooms.

 ~EjZ Audio Lifestyler