Multi-room entertainment: the ability to watch or listen to whatever you want in any room of the house. While some computer-based systems can stream data wirelessly to other computers around the house, they can be complicated and fiddly for day to day family use. The proper way to do it is a non-intrusive system, literally built in to the fabric of your home in much the same way as central heating or lighting. All that you would see typically are discreet flush mounted ceiling speakers and elegant in-wall keypads, but hidden away is a sophisticated, high quality, reliable distribution system that will be easy to use for the whole family. You can use one higher quality music system rather than having a separate system in each room.

However, todays touchscreen LCD panels can do much more than select your music;

• select and dim the light

• open or close curtains

• call up the playlist from you ipod or harddisk server and select by artist, genre, etc

• do all of the all of the above from your LCD remote control handset

If yours is a new-build or major restructuring we meet on site with your architect and electrician to plan multi-room and automation into the building schedule. Adding multi-room to an existing home might involve us visiting you to discuss your requirements and suggest what can be done within your budget. It's also possible to extend your system outside the house - weatherproof speakers are now very popular.

If you are tempted by the idea of home automation/multi-room, call one of us at English Audio and we'll come and discuss possibilities. A comment sometimes made by our multi-room customers is that having lived with the system, they cannot imagine how they lived without it.