Basement Home Cinema Installation — Baker Street, London
Summary
- One of Our Earliest Home Cinema Case Studies
- 50″ Panasonic Plasma
- Denon AVR
- Bowers & Wilkins CM9 Speaker System
- Crestron Lighting & Room Control
Full Crestron Digital Media Equipped Basement Home Cinema
As part of a whole-house audio video system we installed in London, we also designed and installed this basement home cinema room. The client has access to a full range of centralised sources — Sky HD, Kaleidescape DVD server, ArabSat, Apple TV and radio — all displayed on a Panasonic 50″ HD Plasma with a Bowers & Wilkins CM9 boxed speaker system providing the audio. This room reportedly has the most daily use of any cinema we have ever installed: when the family is in residence, the children use it every day, and after bedtime the clients use it for films as a couple.
The System
Although closer in design to our living room cinema systems, this dedicated basement room genuinely performs. Its compact scale allows the speaker system to create an immersive experience that a larger room with the same equipment would not produce. The Bowers & Wilkins CM9 speakers — front left, centre and right — are bookshelf-format but deliver a full, rich sound stage well suited to both film and music. The Kaleidescape server stores the client’s DVD and CD collection for instant access, and the Denon AVR decodes and distributes all sources cleanly.
Our Home Cinema Services
Installation
Design
Calibration
Treatments
Seating
Crestron Control
A Crestron 6″ radio touchpanel controls all audio video sources alongside full heating and lighting control. One button press switches all equipment on and routes the correct source automatically. The system has been mastered easily by non-English-speaking family and staff — a measure of how well-designed the Crestron interface is when programmed correctly.
Where It Started
This Baker Street installation is one of Custom Controls’ earliest documented cinema case studies — from the company’s first decade. The Crestron system installed in this basement in the early 2000s was built on exactly the same philosophy as the Crestron systems we install today: one interface for everything, programmed bespoke for how the client actually uses the room. For clients who want evidence that Custom Controls has been delivering consistent-quality Crestron installations for longer than most of our competitors have been in business, this basement cinema is one of the earliest available reference points.
Project Details
- Location: Baker Street, London
- Display: 50″ Panasonic HD Plasma
- Audio: Bowers & Wilkins CM9 — Denon AVR
- Sources: Sky HD, Kaleidescape, ArabSat, Apple TV
- Control: Crestron 6″ radio touchpanel
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