07/02/2010 Dramatic price reductions on Crestron Adagio Home Theatre.

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[Adagio AMS1]

If you have any interest in Home Automation you would know the name Creston. This brand is the market leader in this field. However you may not be aware that they also manufacture some of the world’s finest Home Theatre electronics under the name of Adagio.
Crestron have one huge advantage over most of its competitors when it comes to Home Theatre. Because they are first and foremost an automation company they have approached the Home Theatre offering in a round-about fashion, by adding a stunning and versatile A/V receiver to their existing multi-room package. If you are looking for two things in your entertainment system:
1) a very high quality theatre, and
2) a very high quality multi-room audio, it is difficult to dismiss the Crestron Adagio offering.
The other advantage of being a Home Automation manufacturer is that Crestron, by necessity, are accustomed to manufacturing product which is bulletproof. Their Home Theatre systems are beautifully engineered.
Like any product considered as being one of the best in its field Crestron is not inexpensive. However there is now another reason to consider Crestron Adagio, they have just reduced the price on their two packages by almost 40%.

The main features of the Adagio Home Theatre systems include:
· 7.1 surround sound processing. Rated at 100 watts per channel x 7. These are genuine watts, measured with all channels driven at the same time (I have just looked at a site where the Dynamic Power of a well known A/V receiver was rated at 400watts. In small print it is revealed that this is one channel driven only, and at 3 Ohms!! Don’t be fooled by specifications.)
· Audyssey MultEQ® XT surround sound equalization. This will adjust the system acoustics to be at an optimum for a number of seating positions in your room – most A/V receivers adjust acoustics only for the primary seating position (yours?)
· High-definition analog and HDMI/DVI digital video switching
· Professional video scaling and de-interlacing.
· Audio distribution for 4 to 6 rooms, expandable up to 24. Listeners in each room can enjoy their own choice of radio, CD’s, MP3’s or even a stereo downmix of the surround sound output. Each room has control over volume plus bass & treble. The multi-room amplifiers are rated at 45watts each. Control in these rooms can be by a 12 button wall mounted key-pad, a wall mounted LCD controller or a hand-help touch screen controller. These control options are at an additional cost.
· Accepts up to 3 dual tuner cards for AM/FM. This allows household members to listen to different radio stations in the home simultaneously.
· Plug-and-play connectivity with Apple® iPod® via CEN-IDOC
· Powerful Crestron control system.

The new prices on the Adagio systems are:
· AMS1 $7,999 (initially $12,700)
· AMS1-AIP (the same as the model above but with advanced image processing) $9,999 (initially $16,100)

There is no doubt that the Adagio system is one of the best sounding and most versatile Home Theatre receivers on the market. Crestron are also universally recognised as the manufacturers of the finest multi-room audio systems available. Put them together, at these prices and you have a bargain.

If you would like to learn more on this product you can access their brochure at http://www.crestron.com/downloads/pdf/product_brochures/adagio.pdf

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