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How ATTYWON Wins Over Elite
Clientele with Invisible Speakers
Longtime Stealth Acoustics dealer preserves ornate aesthetics and hides audio
in walls and ceilings for distributed music and Samsung's The Frame TV.
G
reat Neck, N.Y.-based ATTYWON
provides and installs
equipment, programs control systems,
provides ongoing support and
more from the beginning and through
the life of its systems, says principal
Eyal Akler. CE Pro 100 dealer ATTYWON
does about 70% residential,
30% commercial jobs in an affl uent
part of the country. " We're on Long
Island, so I like to say from Manhattan
to Montauk, tip to tip, " he notes
of the territory.
Because of that range, ATTYWON
is in luxury apartments and
residences in the city, and homes that
average 7,000-12,000 square feet out
on the island, with some very specifi c
design requirements for demanding clientele. CE Pro asked Akler
about how Stealth Acoustics helps on projects, especially with Samsung
Frame installs.
COURTESY ATTYWON
Installing Stealth Acoustics' invisible loudspeakers for in-wall applications enabled ATTYWON to meet aesthetic demands in these
challenging room environments. They're also a wow-factor complement to Samsung Frame TVs.
We'll put two, maybe four Stealth speakers in the wall, someHow
long have you been a Stealth Acoustics dealer and
what attracted you to their products?
We've been a Stealth dealer for probably close to a decade now. We
needed a solution for an invisible speaker, because a lot of the homes
we work on are ornate or have special wallpaper, special stuff going
on in the ceiling where oftentimes it doesn't lend itself to have a gray
speaker grille, whether it's round or square either in the wall or in
the ceiling - it just disturbs the aesthetic of the room. Some people
just simply don't want to see speakers, so we needed something that's
pretty fairly priced.
I would say Stealth's price to performance is very balanced, they
sound great, they don't break the bank. Th ey're not an inexpensive
product by any means, but for what you're getting for the need,
they're quite aff ordable. Especially when it comes to apartments in
the city - a lot of owners and designers are very particular about
the look of a room, if they have paintings in a room or a Samsung
Frame TV, which we've installed a lot of.
How have you become a specialist in mating Stealth
speakers with Samsung's stealthy TV?
We're a Platinum Samsung dealer and Th e Frame TVs are very popular,
and we've hung them in all kinds of situations from eat-in kitchens
to fancy living rooms. If you have a TV that's designed to mimic a
piece of art on the wall, having it on the wall with a couple of in-wall
speakers on either side really doesn't lend itself to the aesthetic.
times we've done surround-sound installations with invisible speakers
- it really exceeds people's expectations, they're really not expecting
it to work as well as it does. When you couple it with subwoofers
and are driving it with enough power, it's quite surprising when you
have a fancy-looking living room space with a 65- or 75-inch 'painting'
on the wall and suddenly you turn it on and you're watching
a movie and the whole room produces sound ... you talk about an
instant transformation.
If you're showing this to your guests, they're looking around
going, 'Where's the sound coming from? I don't see fl oorstanding
towers, I don't see anything in the ceilings or walls.' So it's a very
cool eff ect. We'll take them up to the wall, tell them to put your
hand here and start feeling around and they can feel the vibrations.
What are other typical Stealth Acoustics invisible
speaker applications ATTYWON deploys?
More often than surround-sound speakers we use them for distributed
audio throughout the house - in hallways, bedrooms, living
rooms, dining rooms - where sound just emanates from the walls.
When you install these invisible speakers in the ceiling especially,
and the sound is not projecting outwards but is projecting down it
tends to fi ll the room a lot better.
Th e range of your hearing can't quite tell where the sound is
coming from exactly, and it tricks you because you can't put your
fi nger on it but sound is coming from everywhere. So you can have
a nice, even sound throughout an apartment or a home and you
get that museum look and feel where you don't see speakers. We use
that more often than anything else.
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