All Articles Tagged Fred Harding

Fred Harding | 02/08 06:46 AM, 6 Comments

Russound has been making whole-house audio equipment for many years. Over the past several years, they have been producing equipment in their “C” series, offering well made, reasonably priced equipment with lots of features. They recently introduced their DMS3.1, also known as the Streamer, to complement their systems. The Streamer is a rack-mountable (1U) device with four separate outputs on it. One of the outputs is a traditional AM/FM tuner that supports RDS (Radio Data Service) metadata. The remaining three outputs are for cloud-based sources, including SiriusXM and other Internet… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 03/25 05:29 AM, 0 Comments

Toshiba and Panasonic Professional have improved their warranty programs, according to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) of national distributor Capitol Sales. In his March newsletter to dealer customers, Harding writes: Toshiba has announced that their entire line of LCD and LED televisions will carry the same warranty, regardless of whether the product is installed in a commercial or a residential application. That’s one of those things that can make a huge difference in larger jobs: “Gee, Mr. Barowner, did you know that the brand my competition is specifying doesn’t have a warranty… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 01/27 09:42 AM, 1 Comment

I am on the mailing list of several dealers and distributors who share with me their correspondence with customers (thank you for that). Fred Harding of national distributor Capitol Sales does one of the best jobs serving his dealer customers. You know that if you follow his helpful advice at RemoteCentral.com and in the pages of CE Pro. Recently, Fred sent out this newsletter to dealers. It provides some excellent, no-nonsense information about new products, new technologies, model transitions and price changes, as well as great little tips such as… View this story

Fred Harding | 11/10 09:55 AM, 4 Comments

Automating components and commands is one of the fun things we do in this business. I'm referring to a situation where you turn on device A, and other things happen without any additional actions required by the user. One automation scenario that many are familiar with involves HDMI. One of the characteristics of this interconnect is a communications protocol that switches a display on and selects an input based on powering up a source such as a Blu-ray player. Customers who have a very simple system may enjoy this feature,… View this story