Welcome to the first issue of The Audio File for 2004
In this edition we get closer to Home Automation and how The Listening Post makes it easy. We look at the incredible difference Tactile Transducers can make to your home theatre experience and showcase some of our great new products and latest brands. Happy reading!
-The Listening Post team.
 Get closer to the perfect home with Home Automation.
Imagine a home which responds to your needs, simplifies your life & maximizes your enjoyment. A home which keeps you & your family comfortable, informed & secure.
With technology racing ahead, an integrated home entertainment & automation system in no longer the exclusive premise of the "rich & famous." Most people are very pleasantly surprised by just how affordable & enjoyable a well designed custom installed entertainment & automation system can be.
If you're building or renovating, taking an integrated approach to your new homes electronic systems has huge benefits including:
- Lower overall building costs
- Greater resale value. Homes pre wired for entertainment or automation typically sell for 3% to 5% more than equivalent homes that haven't been pre wired.
- Less stress with only one point of contact for all your home systems.
- Less work with all the details taken care of by us. We will ensure every system in your house complements each so you don't have to.
- Complete accountability. No passing of the buck with individual contractors blaming each other for delays, cost over runs, or problems. We will deliver what we promise, when we promise, and are responsible for the entire job.
- A better end result, with every system in your house working together to give you the safest, most comfortable, most enjoyable home possible.
The Listening Post offers a complete turn key solution to all your home electronics needs including integration of
- HiFi
- Home theatre
- Multi room Audio & Video
- Security
- Lighting & Temperature control
- Irrigation
- Automation
- Data
Interested to talk about what we can offer you? Then contact us on 0800 80 44 34 or email
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Be our guest.
If you're considering building or renovating, make sure you join us at 7.30 on Wednesday the 27th October. We will be show casing some of the amazing technology that can make your home a much better place to live. You will be pleasantly surprised by just how inexpensive some of this technology is. You will also walk away with a comprehensive "Building Technology Checklist" to ensure that you don't miss anything at the pre wire stage.
All too often we see clients who have missed small but vital details in the planning stage, which require time consuming, inelegant, and expensive "fixes" later down the track. If you're building or renovating this is an absolute must see.
Places are limited so RSVP now by Calling us on 0800 80 44 34 or email
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If you can't make it to this invaluable information night, call Shane on 0800 80 44 34 for an information pack or FREE personal consultation.
 What's new in store
As part of our commitment to offer the very best products at the best possible value, we are continually reviewing new products. The result is some exciting new brands for you to enjoy.
Sonus Faber are legendary for their wonderful speakers and beautiful craftsmanship, and we're very proud to add them to our range of high end brands.
Anyone who's picked up a Hi Fi magazine in the last few months will be familiar with the amazing reviews that PSB have been getting. Well, they're every bit as good as the reviews suggest so you'll now find them in store.
Yamaha is back in force with some stunning new receivers. We also have some great prices on run out models. Call us now for details.
If you'd like to know more about any of these brands, or anything to do with Hi-Fi, Home Theatre or Home Automation, just pop in to our Victoria Street store or call us on 0800 80 44 34.
Hard drive is here!
The new Pioneer DVR520H would have to be the most exciting piece of new technology we've seen in a long time. It combines an 80GB Hard drive with a DVD recorder. The Hard drive offers a whopping 102 hours of recording time, while the DVD recorder will let you make your own DVDs. No more washed out low quality home movies, and your favourite TV programs will look as good in ten years time as they do now.
Hard drive also offers a level of flexibility & convenience unheard of from video tape.
Imagine you're watching your favourite program. The phone rings, you hit record on the hard drive. Five minutes later you're off the phone. With a normal VCR you'd have to wait till the end of the program and rewind the tape before you could enjoy the rest of your program. With Hard drive you simply resume watching from where you left off while the hard drive is still recording the end of the program for you!
You can even simultaneously record one program while watching another
Special introductory offer
Purchase the Pioneer DVR520H at $1599 and receive 10 DVD recordable disks worth $100 absolutely FREE.
Also available is the DVR320H. This is essentially the same as the DVR520H but without the Hard Drive. $799
Get closer to the action.
Remember the scene in the original Jurassic Park, when all the Land Rovers sputtered and stalled during the park tour? The rain was drumming hard on the roofs of the vehicles and the tension began to rise. Slowly, the camera zoomed onto the surface of a still glass of water, and the surface began to ripple.
Here, Spielberg was trying to give the sense of something big about to happen. Because he was unable to shake the theatre floor, he used the next best thing: a visual effect of water rippling.
However, suppose he could shake the entire theatre floor, and shake it the way a nearby 20-ton stomping T-Rex would. That would raise a few goose bumps, would it not? Well, maybe the local theatre can't do it, but you can at home with a set of Tactile Transducers.
Tactile transducers allow you to "feel" sound as well as hear it.
Most people don't realize that our ears are only one of the ways we "hear"? There are in fact five mechanisms that combine to give us our perception of sound:
- Hearing Via Air Transmission
The primary way we perceive acoustic energy is through our ears. Vibrating air molecules enter the ear canal and push against the eardrum.
- Feeling Via Deep Tissue Movement
This sense is called "kinesthetic." These kinesthetic sensations are the gut feelings that occur when ground near us is excited.
- Feeling Via Skeletal Joint Movement
Vibration in the ground or objects near us also stimulates nerve endings in our skeletal joints and deep tissues. This sense is called "haptic."
- Feeling Via Tactile Stimulation
Vibrations in the ground beneath us or any surface we are in contact with also stimulates nerve endings just under the outer layer of your skin. This is our sense of touch.
- Feeling Via Bone Conduction
Where sound waves reach the inner ear directly through the bone mass itself.
 All of these stimuli combine to give us our perception of a live acoustic event. However most speaker systems will only stimulate the first of these mechanisms. This is why hearing a gun shot, a double bass, or a rock concert live is so different from hearing one reproduced on a conventional sound system.
Introducing Clark Synthesis Tactile Transducers.
By complementing a conventional speaker system which can only reproduce the first hearing stimulii, with a tactile transducer which can reproduce the other four "tactile" stimulii a dramatic improvement in impact, realism, and involvement can be made. Clark Synthesis is the only company in the world to produce a full range tactile sound transducer.
With prices ranging from $399 to $1999 Clark Synthesis Tactile Transducers are by far the best value and most dramatic improvement you can make to any good home theatre system.
Call us now to experience home theatre like you never have before.
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