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Above: Tonax is Ideal Standard International’s latest showering solution,
which incorporates chromotherapy and an MP3 player inlet for relaxing
colours and personalised music as you wash. Tonax offers multiple wellness
features including a Turkish bath (steam) feature, a comfortable seat,
powerful body massage jets and a gentle rain showering system
Above: Binova has joined forces with Bose to Currently Cat 5 is the cabling of choice for the entire infrastructure needs to be Cat
create a shelf system with integral Bose speakers
the domestic market. It has a bandwidth 6 compatible, which can result in a large
plus MP3 docking, CD player, radio and internet
connection - all part of its new UNIT range
of around 200mb a second, which, since investment. Also Cat 6 is harder to install
broadband speeds are 8mb max in the UK, is than Cat 5 – it’s not good at going round
Below: The Squeezebox Duet from Logitech is
a network music system which allows you to
considered more than adequate. tight corners and it needs to be fully
play music from your laptop or PC through any However, because cabling is such a supported by cable trays.
speakers in your home, via a digital controller. The
diffi cult thing to upgrade once installed – An alternative option that’s already
wireless controller acts as a remote control, giving
you instant access to your favourite music even if
and the pressure on bandwidth is likely to proving popular in the States is fi bre optics,
the computer is switched off increase as more audio-visual sources are which offers unbeatable bandwidth. It’s still
Right: SieMatic’s S1 kitchen has an integrated
streamed from the Internet rather than rather expensive for the domestic market
sound/light/television system called the uploaded onto a hard-drive or played direct to swallow but with the price of copper on
SmartBoard, which includes iPod and speakers
at source - it’s wise to think ahead. the increase, fi bre optics seems to be the
accessible at the touch of a button
“CAT 6 cable has a much higher direction in which we are heading over here
bandwidth for performance than Cat 5 too.
and it’s also more reliable than wireless
streaming because it won’t cut out. We FUTURE-PROOFING SOUND
always recommend CAT 6 cable now,” says It is widely believed that in
Lee William from home support technology the future the source
service Geek Squad. and storage of music
Do be aware that to achieve full speed, will be Internet-based,
plus on-demand TV
(Apple TV is already
making inroads) and
video streaming from
the web, may soon
make bigger bandwidth ➔
SOUND ADVICE
Audio experts reveal their personal choice of music system for the kitchen and bathroom:
“Depending on budget I would use either “If money was unlimited I would use the
a Nuvo or Crestron system and install Sonos system with a ReadyNAS Network
it throughout the house including the Storage device. The higher end Sonos
bathroom and kitchen. Both allow two-way systems come with an amp and speakers and
control, i.e. sources such as an iPod can can be easily integrated into the kitchen
be located in a central cupboard, however and bathroom.”
within each room you can then select tunes
LEE WILLIAM, AGENT, GEEK SQUAD
by genre, artist, album, etc, just as you
would on the actual iPod. It makes life a
lot easier as it keeps all black boxes out of
sight yet controllable from each room.”
DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, SALES DIRECTOR,
HOMETECH
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