It’s time to close out 2022 and blast forward into 2023. See my thoughts on this annual transition and the year that Strata-gee enjoyed.
Happy New Year 2023!
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Top Stories of 2022 on Strata-gee
Well it’s the time of Auld Lang Syne as we say farewell to 2022 and look forward with anxious anticipation for 2023. It was a consequential year of stories for our industry in 2022, and we’ll go over the top stories on Strata-gee this year.
See Strata-gee’s top stories of 2022
[Read more…] about Top Stories of 2022 on Strata-geeDraper Factory Tour: 400k sq. ft. of Innovation, Customization & Variety
See How Shades, Projection Screens & Custom Structures for LED Panels are Made
Hop on I-70 and head East out of Indianapolis for around forty-five minutes or so and you’ll arrive in Spiceland, a quiet, rural village of under 1,000 people that with its brick church, quaint bandstand in the park, and a picturesque running stream, feels as country-style homey as you could imagine. What brought me to Spiceland? I came to visit the town’s largest employer and Henry County’s (named for patriot Patrick Henry) second-largest employer – Draper, a manufacturer of leading projection screens and roller shades.
See more on my visit to the Draper HQ & factory in Spiceland…
[Read more…] about Draper Factory Tour: 400k sq. ft. of Innovation, Customization & VarietyHappy Holidays 2022
The holidays are here and it’s time to take a much-needed break from the day-to-day pressures of business. It’s been quite a year!
See my thoughts on the Holidays
[Read more…] about Happy Holidays 2022Court Orders OSD Audio to Cease ‘Literally False’ Advertising Claim
In a decision announced last week, U.S. District Court Judge James V. Selna has granted a motion for reconsideration by Outlaw Audio that included a restraining order preventing OSD Audio “from falsely representing” a certain feature of one of its products. This decision is a result of legal action taking place between direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands Santos Elecs. Inc. dba OSD Audio and Outlaw Audio LLC.
Learn more about this action between OSD Audio and Outlaw Audio
[Read more…] about Court Orders OSD Audio to Cease ‘Literally False’ Advertising ClaimSingle-Family Starts in Nov Hit 2-1/2 Year Low
Residential construction of new homes – known as housing starts – continues to register monthly declines as a combination of still-high home prices along with rapidly rising mortgage rates results in collapsing home affordability. While economists continue to debate if and when the U.S. economy enters a recession – it’s clear that housing overall, and the home building segment specifically – is already there.
See the latest data on single-family starts…
[Read more…] about Single-Family Starts in Nov Hit 2-1/2 Year LowDraper Turns Up the Heat on Residential, Launches Resi-Focused Sales Team
Draper, Inc., a leading manufacturer of shades and projection screens, announced this week that it is continuing to turn up the heat on the residential channel by appointing a sales team focused solely on the residential market. This new team will zero in on resi with the company’s extensive line of shading, projection screens, and other AV-related gear.
Learn more about Draper’s resi sales team and solutions
[Read more…] about Draper Turns Up the Heat on Residential, Launches Resi-Focused Sales TeamMajor Transition Hits Specialty Stalwart Parasound as Founder Retires
Parasound is a unique company. A long-time specialty segment stalwart, the company has been delighting audio enthusiasts for more than forty years! That is no small achievement when you consider the twists and turns of the specialty segment over that time frame.
And the credit for that success is largely due to the commitment to quality – and, frankly, just the bulldog temerity – of founder and CEO Richard Schram. So it is a development worthy of note that, yesterday, Schram announced his retirement from the company and its sale to a new owner.
Learn more about Schram’s retirement and Parasound’s transition to new ownership
[Read more…] about Major Transition Hits Specialty Stalwart Parasound as Founder RetiresSavant Tests a 2nd NYC Experience Center, The Savant SOHO Smart Home Gallery
In a dramatic move that represents a tremendous investment in consumer marketing, Savant Systems, Inc. (Savant) is piloting a second New York City showroom concept in Manhattan’s trendy SOHO district called, appropriately enough, Savant SOHO Smart Home Gallery. This new space joins the company’s long-running Flagship Experience Center, which is also in SOHO.
Why a second experience center in the same part of New York City? Read on…
[Read more…] about Savant Tests a 2nd NYC Experience Center, The Savant SOHO Smart Home GalleryMasimo, Sound United Parent, to Expand Denon’s HEOS System
Company Finally Gives a Glimpse of Its Sound United Strategy
In what may turn out to be the best test yet of Masimo’s long-term plans for Sound United, the company announced today that it is launching an expansion of HEOS, the wireless home system initially developed by the company’s Denon division as part of a whole-home wireless music system. When Masimo acquired Sound United back in February of this year, Denon’s “cloud-connected home ecosystem” was one of the items it specifically mentioned as what attracted them to make the acquisition.
With today’s announcement, the company says that the launch of this “…expansion of the HEOS platform [will] provide a robust and always-on connection to the Masimo Health secure cloud.”
