MERIDIAN & SAVANT
Meridian appears in this home both in the main plant room, where its rack-mounted 200 Series Digital Theatre Controller and Eight Channel Amplifier (pictured below) are situated, and throughout the home in sound-critical areas where Meridian’s digital active speakers (right) are used.
These allow high-resolution digital audio signals to be maintained right up to the speaker, simplifying audio distribution by minimising long analogue cable runs.
The entire home runs under Savant home automation, bringing together everything from lighting and entertainment to security cameras and climate control. Savant also has switching and system devices which allow 4K video and high-res audio distribution. Such overarching ‘umbrella’ control of multiple systems allows the programming of ‘scenes’ which can combine multiple system changes under a single command — activating certain lights, playing music in certain areas, and far more besides. These scenes can then be automated to occur at certain times without user interaction, or can be triggered from dedicated panel switches, or selected using the Savant Pro app (pictured right), which can run on pretty much any mobile or tablet devices. It’ll even run in Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Russian or Swedish!