As well as our work on the inside of properties, Prestige Audio is also at the cutting edge of transforming our customers’ exterior spaces into futuristic and beautiful entertainment and relaxation spaces, with our cutting-edge outdoor AV solutions. Developers, builders and the design community should know just how transformational these technologies can be for their projects and customers.
Our team designs and creates based on solid technologies and products that we know will deliver a fantastic result. However, we also ensure our offerings are current with architectural and home use trends.
An undoubted trend in the design of new homes and those undergoing renovation is the desire to ‘bring the outside in’. This means blurring the space between the grounds of a property and the interior by using rooms that extend into the exterior space and employ features such as super wide bifold doors. This allows owners to feel closer to the exterior space and encourages them to use it more often and effectively.
Naturally, products and concepts have developed to be placed in the immediate exterior space or even further afield so families can enjoy some of the experiences they have inside on the outside. High-performance outside kitchen areas have become a real feature as customers enjoy cooking and eating alfresco. Other systems that will be familiar are high-performance spa products or hot tubs offering customers a way to relax and enjoy their exterior spaces all year round.
Joining these concepts is a growing and exciting collection of high-performance exterior audio-visual systems that can be used all year to turn spending time outside into a new experience.
These outdoor AV systems have been around for a while, with companies originally developing exterior speaker systems aimed at areas with a reliably warm climate for most of the year. It was (wrongly) assumed that in the UK and Northern Europe, people would not be spending enough time outside for this to be a worthwhile market to target. Connecting the architectural trend of blending the exterior with the interior and the stoic nature of the UK/European customer, we have a burgeoning market for high-performance exterior audio-visual systems using some of the most advanced technology available inside or outside a home.
Just one example here is a brand our team has access to called C Seed Entertainment Systems. This is a unique company created in 2009 that blends minimalistic design with immaculate craftsmanship to create leading-edge luxury electronics and deliver new entertainment experiences.
C Seed boasts products such as the N1 Outdoor TV system that comes in impressive 165in and 137in versions. Hugely inspiring even before the system springs to life, the N1 lives underground in a specially created storage cassette. When activated it rises up and unfolds to its full height of three metres in just 60 seconds for whichever screen size is chosen.
The product is truly beautiful, a sculptural masterpiece, and is a marvel in new technologies for outdoor AV, however, it is also a very high-performance screen offering its advanced speaker system, 16-bit colour processing, 4,000 nits of brightness, a refresh rate of 3,840 Hz, 7,000:1 contrast, and 1.9- or 1.6-pixel resolution with an IP65 rating. All this means the viewer enjoys fantastic imaging from a product that just oozes futuristic luxury.
Audio has not been forgotten as C Seed offers the HYDE 125 Outdoor Speaker, developed in partnership with world-renowned audio company L-Acoustics. Also stored out of sight if required, another striking-looking product rises from its underground layer to deliver high-performance audio wherever it is needed, by the pool or delivering music into a favourite spot tucked away in the grounds. These fully weatherproof speakers can go anywhere.
Developers, designers and those concerned with making sure their customers enjoy every inch of their home would do well to make sure they are aware of just how exciting and transformational working with an expert like Prestige Audio can be on the home’s exterior with our outdoor AV solutions.