Are high-end and whole-house audio incompatible?
I don’t believe for a second that the whole house can’t be high-end, but I think the industry is in a transition. We’ve gone from 15 years ago, when we realized we can cut into walls and put speakers there, to whole-house audio becoming mainstream. And now we’re gradually drifting more toward bigger, broader possibilities. The entire custom-installation business is burgeoning in so many interesting, creative ways — and one of those ways is quality. That doesn’t mean there have to be beautiful $10,000 speakers in every room. People now consider having a library, for example, with a high-quality small music system in it or have a plasma in the bedroom with really great speakers attached, and it’s not an afterthought. Whole-house audio is even moving outdoors now. The whole outdoor world has just exploded in the last 18 months. Look, high-end is a mindset — it’s a lifestyle. So, if you’ve got a pair of Sonus Faber speakers making beautiful sound in your main system, why not have something
