Creating or Updating Your Home Theater? Here’s Why You Should Call Us.

So, whether you want to create an entirely new home theater or update some of your AV equipment, Acadian promises a solution that will ensure exceptional service and complementary design that backs up our hard-earned industry reputation. Keep reading to see some top advantages of an Acadian home theater installation for your New Orleans, LA, home.

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We’re Control4 Diamond Partners

In addition to the CE Pro recognition, Acadian Home Theater & Automation is also recognized as the only Diamond Control 4 Dealer within the state of Louisiana. This award honors those who exemplify excellence and dedication to the custom installation channel by Control4, a reputable leader in residential and commercial automation systems.

We Create A Plan With You And For You

Then, we build a proven, practical solution that meets our client’s every need using a robust, easy-to-operate system that home theater users will love. We don’t stop there though! After we’ve laid the installation framework, we show you how to use each one of the systems and provide continuous support over time: We check in with you regularly to make sure that your systems are still performing as expected and answer any questions you have.

We Work With The Details

We don’t think your home theater is complete without the extra features that enhance your comfort, such as the plush, comfy furniture, the snack bar, popcorn machine, beanbag chairs, video gaming accessories -- anything to create the desired effect.

Hear Music Anywhere In Your Mandeville Home

Modern technology is built on the idea of creating maximum convenience for the end user. We can access entire libraries of information by pushing a few buttons on the tiny computers in our pockets. We carry music around with us at all times, listening to it on wireless headphones and speakers that can fit inside of a small bag. Homes have refrigerators that monitor the amounts of regularly used items and let you replenish your stock from a touchscreen in the door.

The convenience factor of smart home technology is a big reason why it’s grown in popularity so much over the past decade, and multi-room audio is consistently one of the most in-demand services from our Mandeville clients. Keep reading to learn how a whole home sound system expands the range of your media, provides simple control, and blends in seamlessly with your décor.

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Hear High-Performance Audio Anywhere In Your Home

The main convenience of multi-room audio is right there in the name: you’ll be able to listen to your music anywhere in your home, inside or outside, thanks to a network of speakers united by a smart home control system. The holidays are right around the corner, and a multi-room audio system makes entertaining easier by giving you control of the music all around your house from your smart device.

Our brand partner, Control4, offers an exceptional multi-room audio system. It runs a variety of streaming platforms, including Deezer, iHeartRadio, Pandora, Napster, Spotify, TIDAL, and Tunein.

Safeguard Your Mandeville Property with Smart Home Control

 It’s 3 AM and you just heard a window break downstairs. You get out of bed and call the police, but how do you make sure your family is safe from an intruder while waiting for the authorities to arrive?

A home security system can keep you from having to deal with this nightmare situation, and Control4 automation offers a suite of services to safeguard your property.

From smart lighting to locks and sensors to security cameras, Control4 technology helps you protect your family with an easy-to-use centralized control system. Read on to learn about the features that make Control4 a vital addition to your Mandeville home.

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Arm Locks and Sensors

Concerned about all your doors being locked when you go to bed at night? Use your Control4 app to check their status from bed and remotely lock any that haven’t been secured.

Upgrade Your Mandeville, LA Restaurant with Commercial Audio Visual

Visiting a restaurant is as much about the ambiance as the food, and custom commercial audio-visual systems allow businesses to create a unique, engaging dining experience for their customers. There’s a wide variety of opportunities available to make restaurants in Mandeville, LA more inviting and memorable, and here are four ways to use custom AV to create a space that will have guests eager to return.

SEE ALSO: How Commercial Audio and Visual Can Enhance Your Conference Room

Deliver Dynamic Visuals with Flat-Panel Displays

Flat-panel displays are capable of more than showing a baseball game or the latest episode of Westworld. They can be used to create active tableaus that set the atmosphere for patrons, putting moving artwork on the walls that adds a new element of sensory stimulation. This distributed video is customizable to fit the aesthetic of your specific restaurant, which is especially handy for those that seasonally change their menu and décor.

Turn Wait time Into Play Time with Interactive Touch Screens

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Increase Efficiency with Intuitive Control Systems

The staff of your restaurant can quickly alter volume or change channels with a centralized control system on a smartphone or tablet. Control4 is an industry leader when it comes to integrated AV, providing a wide variety of options for seamless handling of electronic networks. Does a table want to hear a specific song? Jump onto Tidal and put the track on the restaurant playlist in seconds. Is the audio too loud in one area? Hone in on the speakers in that room and adjust the volume for a more pleasurable visit.

Transport Patrons with Global Radio Services

Discover All the Incredible Features of Control4 Smart Home AutomationWhen you hear the phrase “smart home” you may think of refrigerators that tell you you’re out of milk, computers that announce your arrival when you come home, or other smart gadgets that make you feel like you’re living in luxury. However, smart home automation goes beyond just “connected living”. The Internet of Things simply means that your dishwasher can connect to the internet, but that doesn’t exactly equate to living in a smart home – at least by our definition.

Acadian Home Theater and Automation would love to explain and show you what it means to live in a smart home in your hometown of New Orleans, Louisiana. Keep reading to find out for those of you who are new to living an electronic lifestyle.

SEE ALSO: Reasons Why You Should Hire a Professional Smart Home InstallerExactly what is a smart home?Predictions over what a smart home would look like have ranged greatly. Take a look at The Jetsons or Back to the Future Part 2 and you’ll get an idea of it. But smart home automation is simply about connecting all of your electronics together so that you can start and turn off multiple things at once. It also means that your shades, lighting, security system and more can automatically turn on and off at varying time throughout the day based upon your specifications. Tell your smart home to turn off all the lights at 10 p.m. every night and it will do it for you. All you have to do is hit a button on your phone, tablet, or wall switch (some electronics allow you to use voice activation as well). Living in a smart home also means that you’ll have wireless access to every function. You can connect all of your electronics to your phone so you can control them from anywhere. So even though your smart home may have a fancy refrigerator that can tell you the weather or if you need to buy more milk, smart home automation encapsulates much more.Customizable ControlsControl4 is one of our top smart home partners. They have developed an easy-to-use system that anyone in the family can access – from 9 year olds to your 99-year-old grandmother. With Control4 smart home installation, you can automate your lighting, shading, security and surveillance system, smart locks, home theater, speakers, and the thermostat. Every room can come to life by creating “scenes”. Scenes are saved settings that create specific environments based on your personal needs and desires. For example, create a “Wake-up scene” by using the Control4 app and choosing the motorized drapes to draw and your favorite music playlist to turn on at 7 a.m. The sunlight and music will help you wake up and start the day. Have a pool party coming up? Create a music playlist and save it for the special day, choose a lighting level for your backyard, and a temperature for the pool and hot tub. Every space can be customized to your everyday life.

We hope this blog has been informative and started you on your journey towards smart living. We have much more to share! Send us your questions, comments or orders through the contact form on the website or just give us a call at 225-906-2589.

Would you like some expert advice on finding the perfect gift for the music or movie lover in your life? Here are four surefire options that are available now from Acadian Home Theater:

1 - Sonos music bundle - Play:3 or Play:5 with "Bridge" - $299 / $399

The Sonos Play:5 resembles an ordinary table radio, but is much more because it is part of the world-famous Sonos multi-room music system. The Play:3 is its even smaller sibling. Simply put, the Sonos music system streams not only your current digital music library (iTunes, etc.), it has streaming access to many popular music services such as Pandora, Rhapsody, Spotify, MOG, Sirius/XM, and many more. As of just a few weeks ago you can now "push" the music on your iPhone or iPad wirelessly to the Sonos system...very cool!

You can add more rooms wirelessly, too. Simply add more Play:5's, the smaller Play:3, or if using your own speakers, you can add Sonos Connect and Connect:Amp units. If you want multiple rooms of music, you can opt to have them all play the same music source or independent music streams. It doesn't get easier or more convenient than that! Control is from a free app that is available for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, or Android devices. There is also free computer software for control from a PC or Mac. The price above includes the Sonos Bridge, which connects to your broadband Internet connection and establishes its own wireless connection with your Sonos components. The free Bridge offer is valid until January 3, 2013 and is only for new Sonos customers.

2 - Control4 one-room remote control system with 3 lighting dimmers = $1700 including installation (plus tax)

3 - Sonance Landscape Series Outdoor Speaker System = $6,700 + installation

4 - PRIMA Cinema First-Run Movie Machine = $35,000 + installation

by Bryan Naquin.  Follow Bryan on Twitter @ACIexperts.  And you can always contact him at 225.906.2589 or by email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Bryan Naquin is president of Acadian Home Theater and Automation based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  CEPro Magazine has ranked Acadian in the top 100 consumer electronic companies in the U.S. for the third year in a row.

If you're like me, you already have used your smart phone or iPad around your house to stream music, control your DirecTV DVR or remotely control some device you have at home.

Of course, in my business, we create lots of home automation and control systems from manufacturers such as Crestron, Savant and Control4.  Invariably, everyone wants their smart phone or iPad to be programmed as a control device for whichever one of these systems we install.  And honestly, those phones and pads will work VERY well for that purpose.  Now as soon as I say that, let me be quick to add that those will not operate as seamlessly for that purpose as the manufacturer's own branded mobile device.

Still, for ease of use, each of those manufacturers has created apps for those commonly owned media devices for the simple reason that the consumer is already familiar with it and generally keeps them handy.  Those apps work as well as the control system manufacturer can possibly program those phones and tablets to perform that way.  But know that there will always be some kinda glitch--some incompatibility--that the consumer will experience when using their phone or wi-fi pad to control their home automation system.

Here's a good example of what I'm talking about.  Back in the day, you either owned a PC or a Mac.  If you created a document or spreadsheet in one type of platform and emailed it to s0meone who owned the other type of platform, they couldn't even open the thing let alone read it.  One day, the industry smartened up and started creating programs so the two could talk to each other.  Now the two could interface and everyone was happy.  But anyone will tell you that the two don't work together perfectly and your sometimes encounter formatting problems in documents or linkage problems in spreadsheets.

That's the way it is marrying the popular smart technologies with automated systems.  They WILL work and will be quite enjoyable when they do.  But for best results, use the mobile device designed for the product.