All Articles Tagged Sonance

CE Pro Editors | 02/27 01:02 PM, 1 Comment

Dana Innovations, parent company of Sonance, iPort, and TRUFIG, will start selling Sonance products at Magnolia Design Center locations beginning in April 2012. Consumers can experience Sonance in a series of demo rooms and static displays inside the 17 Magnolia locations. Magnolia will provide design, project management and installation services. "Magnolia Design Centers offer us an opportunity to expose the Sonance brand and our design solutions to a whole new audience of high-end consumers who were previously unaware of the offerings of the custom installation industry,” says Ari Supran, CEO… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 10/14 09:27 AM, 0 Comments

The Home Technology Specialists of America named its top vendors for 2011 during the buying group's 15th annual fall meeting. Absent the former executive director Richard Glikes, board members Brian Hudkins of Gramophone (Timonium, Md.) and Jon Robbins of HiFi House (Broomall, Pa.) took the mic to announce the winners. They are: Custom Vendor of Year: Sonance (Pictured: HTSA's Jon Robbins -- standing on chair -- and Sonance's Jason Sloan) Vendor of Year: Sony (Pictured: Sony's Jeff Elden, John Lin) Man of the Year: Jeff Zemanek, Lutron (Pictured: HTSA's Brian… View this story

CE Pro Editors | 08/26 01:54 PM, 0 Comments

Morris Tait Associates, a manufacturer’s representative firm serving Southern California, Las Vegas and Arizona, announces the addition of two seasoned and respected industry sales representatives. John MacDonald and Scott Wallis have joined the rep firm to serve Southern California and Arizona respectively. The expansion enables the firm to have local representation in both Arizona and California at all times. Bill Grover, president of Morris Tait Associates, says the expansion is designed to help integrators "embrace new categories" of products. At the same time, the company has implemented several outreach initiatives… View this story

CE Pro Editors | 07/28 01:21 PM, 0 Comments

Editor's Note: Over the next few weeks, we will post the complete lists of brands used by CE Pro 100 installers for the 41 product categories in the CE Pro 100 Brand Analysis. CE Pro has unveiled its Brand Analysis Report, which each year takes a look at the brands CE Pro 100 installers use most in a variety of product categories. CE Pro examined 41 product categories in 2011, including outdoor A/V. For the second straight year, SunBriteTV leads the outdoor A/V category being used by 33 percent of… View this story

Jason Knott | 05/16 09:50 AM, 3 Comments

Since first opening in 2008, the Smart Home exhibit in Chicago’s Museum of Science & Industry has hosted more than 250,000 guests. But it wasn’t’ all that foot traffic that precipitated a makeover, it was new technology. The exhibit, dubbed “Chicago’s Greenest Home,” is now outfitted with even more green technologies. The tech portion of the project was an example of some of the best levels of industry cooperation ever witnessed. Here’s a quick list of the tech participants. Doherty Design Group: Led by former CEDIA president Tom Doherty, the… View this story

CE Pro Editors | 01/28 08:08 AM,

Sonance’s new 70V Sonance Landscape Series system consists of two-way satellite speakers and in-ground subwoofer. It has been designed with a long life UV stable material to withstand extreme weather. The new two-way satellite speakers, the LS67SAT (MSRP $720) and LS47SAT (MSRP $380), feature 0.75-inch integrated tweeters and power handling up to 25 watts at 70V. The LS67SAT incorporates a 6-inch woofer and the LS47SAT a 3.5-inch woofer. A variety of accessories featuring ¾-inch NEC threading are available for outdoor mounting schemes – tree mounts, 19-inch and 9-inch ground stakes,… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 09/08 11:52 AM, 13 Comments

These days, when you see big a mushroom-looking thing in the garden, and music is coming out of it, you might be thinking AmbiSonic. Think again. It's Sonance now. Sonance is now the sole distributor of the outdoor speakers and subwoofers formerly known as AmbiSonic. As part of the deal, the products will be re-badged Sonance, and AmbiSonic will cease to market the solutions under its own brand. "No, they [Sonance] have not purchased the company," a Sonance spokesperson tells CE Pro. "It is purely a worldwide distribution agreement." As… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 07/09 08:02 AM, 18 Comments

iPort announced recently that it is now shipping the Control Mount Series (CMS) of in-wall docks for the iPod and iPad (CM100 and CM200, respectively). The products feature a mounting bracket and magnetic faceplate with a “home” button at the bottom and “power” button at the top. The home button is easy – it lies directly on top of the corresponding button on the iPad/iPod. The power button, however, is another story. On the iPad/iPod, the button lies flush on the top of the bezel. So how do you press… View this story

Robert Archer | 06/17 04:11 AM,

San Clemente, Calif.-based Sonance has one of the largest custom installation product lines in the entire specialty A/V industry. Expanding its line of products, the company has just introduced its new 12-inch SUB12-500 and 10-inch SUB10-250 architectural subwoofers. The new subwoofers, which fit in a standard 2x4 stud bay, are part of the company's Cinema Series of products and they incorporate the company's micro-trim grille technology, 1-inch and 1/2-inch thick MDF (medium density fiberboard) enclosures, aluminum bracing and long-strand fiberglass internal dampening material. The SUB12-500 employs a 12-inch woofer and… View this story

Jason Knott | 05/14 06:57 AM, 1 Comment

There are only a few brand names in the technology field that have become so ingrained in our lexicon that they transitioned from a brand name to a verb. “Googled” and “TiVo’ed” come to mind. “TRUFIG’ed” might soon join that short list, according to a handful of integrators who are gushing about the product. TRUFIG, a spinoff company from Sonance and part of Dana Innovations based in San Clemente, Calif., has created a sleek array of product designs that has does something that most integrators would have thought impossible… it… View this story