If you’re working with a team of well-informed and creative professionals to pull your system together, there’s no need to dive too deep into the specifics of any of the individual pieces. But it’s always a good idea to know the basics so you have a good sense of your options and of what will work best with your lifestyle. Here’s our guide to the essential building blocks, presented without jargon or tech.
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Cineluxe Basics
A simple, straightforward but comprehensive guide to the key pieces of any luxury entertainment system
by the Cineluxe staff
updated May 30, 2023
The aim here is to give you just enough information to convey the basic requirements for an uncompromising home entertainment system with exceptional fit & finish and unparalleled ease of use, while also giving you a baseline to judge one product against another. We’ll also highlight recent advancements in home entertainment, in case you haven’t looked into any of this in a while. read more
Source components are all the little black boxes you plug into your system to provide audio and video entertainment, such as a satellite or cable receiver; a disc player—whether it spins CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, or 4K UltraHD discs; a game console like a PlayStation or Xbox; and even a turntable. But if you’re building a modern system in a reasonably well-connected locale, you’ll definitely want to add a good media streamer. read more
A simple, straightforward but comprehensive guide to the key pieces of any luxury entertainment system
by the Cineluxe staff
updated May 30, 2023
If you’re working with a team of well-informed and creative professionals to pull your system together, there’s no need to dive too deep into the specifics of any of the individual pieces. But it’s always a good idea to know the basics so you have a good sense of your options and of what will work best with your lifestyle. Here’s our guide to the essential building blocks, presented without jargon or tech.
You should first decide what type of screen you want or need for your room. Your main choices are between a TV or a projection system with separate projector and screen (but there is a third option emerging, which I’ll touch on in a bit). If you’re building a dedicated home theater, or if for whatever reason you simply want or need a screen larger than 100 inches, a projection system may be your best bet. read more
While it’s obvious what a TV, streaming box, and speakers do, a preamplifier can be a mystery to the uninitiated; but it’s just as important to a premium entertainment system as any of those other components. The preamp functions as a sort of air-traffic control for the various sources in your system, routing the video to your display and decoding the digital audio streams and sending them to your amplifiers and speakers. read more
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Here we’ll guide you through some of the speaker options as well as discuss the most important things you need to think about when selecting an audio system. Unlike electronics, which can quickly become outdated due to the rise of new audio/video standards, the core technology for speakers has remained essentially unchanged for decades. So if you like the way a speaker looks and sounds when you purchase it, it will likely continue to please and be usable for many years to come. read more
One of the top priorities with a premium system is that it just work, and work well. Nobody wants to have to fumble through a coffee table full of remote controls or have to pull out their phone to make a simple volume adjustment. It’s worth it to invest in a professionally installed and programmed control and automation system—not only to provide you with a more reliable and elegant control experience but also to integrate all of your home’s electronics, lighting, shading, security, and comfort control into a single system that works well together. read more
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