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Join the Crew: Katye McGregor Bennett, Corey Moss and Justin Watts as they welcome their guests: Vin Bruno – CEO at CEDIA Tim Sinnaeve –  Director, Barco Residential Barry Sheldrick – Director of Sales at Meridian Audio Alison Maxson – Press and PR Specialist, Americas at Barco Yes, big news – Katye McGregor Bennett is back! Even bigger – […]

It’s episode six of the Floating Point! Co-host Chris Tatton (@Chris_Tatton) returns from his undisclosed location to join host Hope Roth (@beerandpie) and this month’s guest, Jay Basen, (@[error-twitter-account-not-found]) to discuss templates, scaleability, and awkward interactions. Jay is wrapping up a long, and illustrious career (seriously, we’re all in awe of his accomplishments), and has […]

We broke all of our own records this year covering the CEDIA show in Dallas, TX last week. The annual HomeAV residential systems integration show set some records of its own – hear about our coverage and their record in today’s podcast!

Sometimes in AV we think we know what the client wants until we submit a proposal and they tell us otherwise.  Don’t get frustrated! Follow these three steps to optimize the chances of partnering with the client to get the proposal right.

Adrien Da Maia, GM of the US devision of DEVIALET, speaks with me about their ultra hi end wireless speakers, The Phantom. We cover their amplifiers, and talk about how these amps were incorporated into the phantom as well.

Chris Boross, product management at Eero, speaks with me about wireless issues, and how Eero solves them.

Matthew LaBruzzo, Director of Engineering, Artison USA, speaks with me about custom soundbars, and the last new backpack. Think AVR minus the tuner and the phono, in a slim 1″ chassis.

Colin Clark, VP of Product development speaks with me about new 70V solutions from Russsound.

Stephen Mejias, VP of communications at Audioquest, speaks with me about higher cables, DACS, headphones, Low-z AC line conditioners, and everything In between for the HiFi personal audio, and CE side of audio.

Simon Tchedikian, CEO & co-founder of Sevenhugs, speaks with me about his two smart products, the huge one sleep monitoring and health device, and the newly to be launched smart remote, which controls all your smart connected devices so you don’t have to use all their apps.

Cassie Metzger, Director of marketing communications of QMotion (a Legrand company), speaks with me about integration of their shades will all types of control systems. 

Alex Capecelatro, CEO of Josh.ai speaks with me about the all voice control/AI automation company. (first time attendee at CEDIA). 

Mark Moody, Product manager at a Vantage Controls speaks with me about Adorne keypads via Vantage Controls, and adaptive dimming modules and universal dimmer/keypads.

James Banfield, President of Terra Speakers, speaks with me about custom, custom, custom everything at Terra. 

Make sure you listen to Part 1: Connecting Video, Collaboration and the Good Enough Proposition  The Crew returns for this Part 2 with their guests: Paul Zielie – Manager, Enterprise Solutions at Harman Jeremy Elsesser – COO/CIO Level 3 Audio Visual Vic Bhagat – Head of Technical Marketing at Logitech After listening to Part 1, […]

Join the Crew: Corey Moss, Justin Watts, Deron Pinchback and Sandy Ciarlo as they welcome their guests: Paul Zielie – Manager, Enterprise Solutions at Harman Jeremy Elsesser – COO/CIO Level 3 Audio Visual Vic Bhagat – Head of Technical Marketing at Logitech In this Part 1 we focus mainly on the discussion of video conferencing and collaboration as this discussion continues to expand […]

I grabbed CEDIA CEO, Vin Bruno today for a quick pre-show podcast before the show opens on Thursday – live from Dallas, TX. I asked him to cite 3-reasons why you need to make the last-minute decision to attend CEDIA. And, his answer is all about education – so if you’re already attending, listen as […]

Jeff Curtis, CEO of Legrand’s LUXUL, speaks with me about the newly acquired company, his startup life background/experience, how this translates to where we can expect LUXUL to advance to, and so much more. Luxul has everything you need to stay connected in today’s world, and we got it all on this episode of AV […]

Victoria Barela, 23 and Jeremy Jones, 26 both young entrepreneurs in the AV industry plan to educate their peers within this rapid expanding field and those who are eager to learn about this growing industry.  Throughout this podcast both individuals plan to combine like minds of newcomers and professionals within the AV world to help […]

Sometimes as AV salespeople and AV businesses we get hung up on what we want to sell our clients.  Many times however, that may not align with what the client wants to buy.  Listen to this week’s selling AV to hear the difference.

Join the Crew: Corey Moss, Justin Watts and Deron Pinchback as they welcome their guests: Eric Larsen – Director of Marketing at TEAC/TASCAM Keith Charley – Sr. Software Manager at Sony Interactive Entertainment The Crew opens The Sound Bar (after business hours) to talk with their guests, first to find out all about Keith Charley, from the very beginning when […]

Have you ever struggled to convince a client that “Yes, acoustics in this meeting room actually DO impact outcomes of meetings?” Well, this month our guest, consultant and expert, Andrea Sullivan of BrainStrength Systems, lends us some scientific brain data to support that argument! From optimizing AV for best learning environments to understanding that designing […]

The Rosewater Energy Hub is the brainchild of it’s founder and CEO, Joe Piccirilli, and it’s made a lot of integrators a lot of money since it started shipping in April – and it’s given the homeowner peace of mind. The RoseWater Energy Hub is the first all-in-one residential and light commercial power solution integrating […]

Join the Crew: Host Katye McGregor Bennett (yes, you read that right!), Corey Moss and Justin Watts as they welcome their guests: Vincent Bruno – CEO at CEDIA Joey Kolchinsky – Founder, Managing Director at OneVision Resources Yes, for the first time in 2016, the host mic has been turned over to our CEDIA Crew member Katye McGregor Bennett to host this […]

Gary was joined on today’s podcast, via video, with Barco Residential’s Director, Tim Sinnaeve. Barco had what was rated as one of the best all-time theaters at CEDIA 2015 and Tim promises, with his partners Steinway Lyngdorf and Stewart Filmscreen, he will blow people away this year. Using their flagship 6P laser projection system, Barco […]

Vin Bruno, CEO of CEDIA, now almost one year in to his role with the custom electronic design installation association, and a similar time frame since he and I last chatted on AV Insider (Episode 56), takes some time out of his extremely busy day/night to speak with me about all the major accomplishments he […]

If you are interested in AV over IP and don’t know AptoVision you need to. Their technology could become the “Intel inside” equivalent of AVoIP and if it does, will the Crestron and Extron switching business go the way of Blockbuster video? We talk about all this and more so tune in to listen!

Gary had a videocast today with KanexPro’s Director of Product Marketing, Kash Khetia, today where he debuted their all-new 4K capable modular matrix – available in 8 x 8 or 16 x 16 configurations. The switcher is capable of switching up to 18Gbps and can handle HDMI 1080p, HDMI 2.0 4K@60Hz (chroma sample rate 4:2:0), […]

Would you like to know what video Gary shot at the Integrate show in Australia that has already garnered nearly 4000 views in under two days? Or, would you like to see all 400+ of the new product launch videos we shot in Sydney, Australia, at the region’s largest ProAV and HomeAV trade show? I’ll […]

Want to know what LG did and their booth to blow everyone away? Listen to Gary’s podcast and he’ll tell you exactly what impressed him the most!

There have been acquisitions lately specifically related to digital signage market. Are you up-to-date on what’s going on in that market and where the money is? If not or if you’re interested, listen to Gary’s podcast today.

In today’s podcast, Gary talks about chasm theory but, more specifically, he talks about a new blog on our website that matters if you’re an integrator!