If you’re familiar with smart home technology at all, you’ve likely heard of Savant Systems. Savant is one of the leading companies when it comes to home control and home automation products. Many of our customers ask for their products by name, since Savant is such a recognized and respected brand in the industry. Here at Good Sounds, we’ve been installing Savant products in Orange County smart homes for many years, and have found them to be of exceptional quality, as well as very reliable. [Read more…]
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Incorporating AV Technology into the Design of Your Orange County Home
When we first got started installing high-end audio video equipment in Orange County homes more than 30 years ago, the trend was for homeowners to want to “show off” their systems. Large speaker systems were out in the open. Huge televisions were the focal points of rooms. There was no (or very little) attempt to integrate technology into the overall design of the home, at least for those homeowners for whom the best audio video equipment was a top priority. In addition, back in the ‘80s and ‘90s, high-end audio and video equipment wasn’t exactly discreet. Speakers were huge and bulky, as were the big-screen TVs of that time. [Read more…]
Let Our Orange County Smart Home Experts Trick Out Your Home Office
In years past, working from home required you to give up certain advantages that are typically found in office buildings. Up until recently, things like video conferencing systems and office assistants weren’t readily available to those who worked from a home office. However, with advances in smart home technology, and more options when it comes to high-tech office equipment, even those who work from their Orange County home office can enjoy all of the technology benefits of a traditional office setting. [Read more…]
Customized Home Control from Your Apple Watch for Orange County Homeowners
If you weren’t already convinced, the future that we imagined back in the 1980s is officially here. Although we don’t have the type of hover boards featured in Back to the Future II, we can use our watches to control things, like in the popular 1980s television show Knight Rider. [Read more…]
Savant’s TrueImage Lighting Software Makes Home Control Easy for Orange County Smart Home Residents
Controlling your home’s lighting has never been easier or more fun! Late last year Savant released the newest generation of their lighting software, which they call TrueImage. It takes all of the complexity out of lighting control and makes it intuitive by allowing users to change their lighting using virtual lights on their mobile device. Users can easily dim their lights, turn them on or off, or even change the color of their lights with the touch of a button. As the user makes changes to the image on their phone or tablet, the actual lighting in the room changes accordingly, in real time. [Read more…]