Our Demo Rooms
At Grahams we have four demonstration rooms that allow us to show and demonstrate a wide range of performance options for our customers. Our basement home cinema room was built in 2000 and was designed as a millennium statement to mark the changes in our business over the last fifteen years. During the latter part of 2011, we have revamped the room with some exciting new products, which you need to see and hear to believe.
Whilst the quality of our entry level video projection is at an all time high we have recently added a new projector to our range manufactured by Digital Projection International (DPI) based in Manchester. DPI manufactures and distributes ultra high-performance DLP® reference standard projection systems for demanding commercial digital cinemas and is perfect for high-end home cinema. The images are projected on to a DNP screen which uniquely hangs on two thin wires making it look like a large plasma screen. The screen retracts into the ceiling when not in use. Whist the picture is of critical importance in any home cinema, the sound is equally important too.
“Walls of sound” is a new concept in pushing custom in wall speaker solutions to the limit. Whilst we carry an exceptional range of in wall speakers predominantly from B&W, Walls of Sound is a different bespoke solution. Walls of Sound not only uses individual, high-end drive units for each sound frequency but also uses the cavities of the wall to perform the function that a ‘box’ would do as part of a traditional loudspeaker design. The other fundamental difference is the crossover which is individually engineered (following acoustic room measuring) to match the exact requirements of your room and your listening preferences. So if you want the performance of a large high quality floor standing speaker, but need it to be unobtrusive, we may have the solution for you.
Please call us to arrange a demonstration.
The system in our demo room is set up for either stereo two channel use, or full cinema surround sound and uses the Meridian 861 Reference surround processor for both purposes. Finally, our demo room also includes Lutron lighting control and some of the latest examples of our Crestron control solutions using an iPad as the interface.
The room also allows us to demonstrate the Naimnet and Netstreams multi-room system, B&W in-wall speakers and our range of music and video servers. We have used a lot of different lighting in the room in order to show off the capabilities of a Lutron lighting system. Lighting control is a really desirable and useful function, particularly within a home cinema room. For a bit of fun, one of the things that we've done is to use the Lutron system to bathe the ceiling in differing colours.
These pictures show two of the different colour changes possible at the press of a button.
The whole room is controlled by a Creston system. The flexibility of a touch screen system like Crestron, makes using a system like this a simple and intuitive task. Imagine this: you press the (virtual) button that says 'Watch a movie'. Then a projector screen begins its descent from a hidden cavity in the ceiling, the lights dim a little bit, the projector turns on, a DVD moves to its options page, a moderate volume level is selected, the lights dim a bit more, the Crestron controller changes to a specific control DVD page, the film starts, the volume goes up a bit and the lights go off. It's close to magic.
On the ground floor we have three more demonstration rooms, one of which is primarily used for AV systems, one dedicated to LOEWE TV and one for hi-fi demonstrations.
The new Loewe Demo room(pictured right) includes the full line up of these stunning TV sets.
Because we carry such a wide range of equipment on demonstration, we generally set these rooms up for each specific customer demonstration and for this reason we usually operate by appointment so we can give you the personal attention that you require when you visit us.
Please contact us if you wish to arrange a demonstration.
.jpg){kind=link}
