Smart Home Design for Music Listening

01/09/2016 | Share:

Designing Interiors for Optimal Music Listening Experiences

When designing living spaces, crafting your interior based on your needs and activities is crucial. Listening to music is certainly one of these design considerations. Considering the influence of music in our lives to improve our moods, creating the right design for optimal musical ambience can make a huge difference.

Living room area with large speakers.

Here are a few tips to help you create an audio system that blends perfectly with your interior design:

THE SMART MUSIC SYSTEM

The benefit of a smart system is that it can give you complete control over the music you are listening to, how loud it is, and other smart home systems such as the lights in the room. The right system should also be easy to use, taking the guesswork out of the setup and ensuring that you can hear your music when and where you want it.

SEE THE MUSIC WITH SMART LIGHTING

Smart lighting solutions now integrate perfectly with your smart home system and interior design. Thanks to LED lighting technologies, it is possible to implement different lighting scenes with a wide range of colour options. What’s better is that you can use this function to complement your music with dynamic lighting scenes that adapt to the music playing in the room.

Lighting control systems such as Lutron can help you achieve a high-fidelity audio experience augmented by lighting.

LET THE FURNITURE ENHANCE YOUR MUSIC

Even though we all love listening to music, everyone has their own way of enjoying the tunes. If you are one of those people who loves putting on some music to relax and unwind (be it something from your vinyl collection or via streaming services) make sure your key furniture such as a sofa or armchair is a comfortable spot for you to sit back and enjoy the music.

You can also look at furniture pieces that are specially designed for sound performance, such as chairs with built-in subwoofers to enhance your audio experience.

Moreover, the design of the furniture can have a great influence on the room’s acoustics, ultimately impacting the audio quality. Consult with your interior designer on the selection of different furniture options to maximise your listening experience.

Room with a sofa, an arm chair and a reclining chair with a piano and music inspired art on the walls.

CHOOSE YOUR SPEAKERS CAREFULLY

When it comes to deciding on the type of speakers to use in your interior design, you have many options. Depending on your interior design language, you have various speaker installation options that will maximise the impact of design without sacrificing the audio quality.

Thanks to the revolutionary innovations in speaker design, your speaker preference can be standalone, on the wall/ceiling, or even in the wall/ceiling giving fantastic sound quality.

In Wall Speakers

In-wall speakers have the extraordinary advantage of completely blending with your decor, flushed inside your wall and virtually invisible to the eye. If you want your audio system to be discreet, the selection of in-wall flush speakers has the benefit of an unobtrusive interior, where you don’t want the clutter of speakers hanging around.

Stand-alone Speakers

If you prefer displaying your large standalone speakers with pride, you’re in luck! Beautifully designed standalone speakers from leading companies such asBowers & Wilkins, Bang & Olufsen and KEF have a wide range of speaker options that can essentially become a part of your interior design while giving you the pleasure of high-fidelity audio.

SPEAKER PLACEMENT CAN MAKE OR BREAK YOUR EXPERIENCE

Just like with any aspect of interior design, when it comes to your surround sound design, no two rooms are alike. Perfectly calibrating your listening experience by fine-tuning your set-up can make your experience more enjoyable.

Regardless of whether your surround sound is 5.1, 7.1, 9.1 or 3D audio where you install speakers will affect what you hear. Make considerations on creating a clear path between you and the speakers, acoustically improving your audio performance with the right selection of furniture and wall treatment, or even just experimenting with different placement options.

MULTI-ROOM AUDIO SYSTEM

Multi-room audio systems let you enjoy music in any of the rooms in the house (and even outdoors with the addition of some weatherproof speakers) while managing everything through a single controller system. This makes it easier than ever to create a seamless listening experience throughout your home.

A whole home audio system can control your listening experience, switching from indoor speakers to outdoor speakers, adjusting the volume, switching from radio to music server, or allowing you to listen to podcasts, audiobooks etc. all through an app on your touch screen devices or phone. The benefits of smart home audio systems are that they give you the technology to play music in any room, or outdoor space, and tailor a great sound to your specific needs.

Talk to us about the benefits of a beautifully designed audio room or multi-room audio system and how to use the technology for maximum enjoyment of your audio system.