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4 Luxury Properties Using Control4 Smart Home Technology

4 Luxury Properties Using Control4 Smart Home Technology

Control4 is the smart home technology system that has dominated the market since its inception. Coveted for its ability to integrate into all areas of the connected home, this technology is here to stay and is being used in luxury residential and commercial properties...

Get Fast Wi-Fi for the Holidays

Get Fast Wi-Fi for the Holidays

Give yourself the gift of amazing WiFi this holiday season! As your guests arrive and begin to overload your network with their phones, tablets, laptops and other gadgets, you need to be prepared. Here's a quick guide to making sure your network is in tip-top shape...

Control4 and Amazon Alexa Integration for Smart Home Voice Control

Control4 and Amazon Alexa Integration for Smart Home Voice Control

Anyone who’s tried the Amazon Echo and its voice service Alexa knows how simple and responsive its voice controls are. Uttering simple voice commands lets you handle all sorts of tasks, from playing music from your Pandora station to getting recipes read to you as you...

Apple TV: The hot holiday gift for 2015

Apple TV: The hot holiday gift for 2015

When many hear Apple TV, they imagine a sleek TV with a state-of-art operating system. Honest mistake. Actually, Apple TV is a small black box – weighing less than a pound – that uses a high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) to connect to your television and WiFi...

Boost your buyer IQ before shopping for a new TV

Boost your buyer IQ before shopping for a new TV

Remember when the biggest decision when buying a TV was plasma or LCD? If you haven’t been flat-screen shopping recently, you’re in for a shock, since neither is offered anyplace except eBay! Today, Lifetronic Systems offers this handy TV primer to make TV buying a...

Why you need Enterprise-Grade WiFi for Home Network Systems

Why you need Enterprise-Grade WiFi for Home Network Systems

In today’s world, home network systems must be robust, efficient and strong. To live a happy digital life you simply have to open your house to enterprise-grade networks that provide state-of-the-art performance, speed and coverage. In addition, they reliably support...

Home Automation and New Construction

Home Automation and New Construction

The smart way to build today The age of the smart home has arrived, with projected sales of U.S. home automation equipment expected to top $5.6 million next year. The trend has been embraced by Fairfield County’s builders and architects, who recognize and use smart...

Smart Gifts for Everyone on Your Holiday List

Smart Gifts for Everyone on Your Holiday List

Searching for that perfect holiday gift? Today, we offer 10 smart solutions for everyone on your gift list. 1. Smart TV! Let’s start with a gift guaranteed to appeal to all ages – Samsung’s Smart HU8550 Ultra HD TV – that we give two thumbs up! The Ultra High...

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5 Mistakes to Avoid When Designing Your Outdoor Sound System

5 Mistakes to Avoid When Designing Your Outdoor Sound System

Setting up an outdoor sound system might seem like a straightforward enough task; however, unless you're planning a very simple configuration, there are several mistakes you might make without realizing it. Let's take a look at some of the most common issues...

How to Maximize the Performance of Your Home Audio System

How to Maximize the Performance of Your Home Audio System

Home audio systems have come a long way since the days of the stacked hifi or even five-disc CD changers. Today, home audio systems can be operated from mobile phones and tablets, speakers are tucked unobtrusively out of sight, and we can get sound quality we could...