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Why You Should Install Outdoor Speakers this Summer

Warm weather is here at last after a long, cold Minnesota winter. As the trees begin to bloom and the grass turns greener, it’s time to start thinking about backyard parties and summer cookouts on your lawn. There are plenty of ways to make the most of your backyard this summer, from adding a chiminea to stepping up your smoker game. But one thing that can really kick your summer fun into high gear is the sound of summer tunes piped in over the speakers.

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Advantages of a Smart Home

If your home isn’t yet connected to the network, you may not realize what you’re missing. At SevenAV, we are experts in bringing your Twin Cities home into the Digital Age. If you’re wondering how greater connectivity could improve your life, we’ve put together this handy guide to a few of the many advantages of a smart home.

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Why Smart Home Upgrades are the Smart Homeowner's Choice

A few decades ago, the idea of an automated home was little more than science fiction. The idea of controlling the temperature or lighting in your home with a simple voice command seemed as space-age as booking a weekend trip to the moon. In fact, versions of smart homes and smart tech were dreamed up by the likes of science fiction author Ray Bradbury and Gene Roddenberry in the iconic Star Trek series. Like many ideas found in science fiction, it was only a matter of time before we found a way to make smart homes a reality.

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Arranging Your Home Theater System

Just a couple of decades ago, a family movie night meant renting a movie and watching it on your living room tube TV. But these days, home theaters defy the imagination, and more homeowners than ever are upgrading their home viewing thanks to technology. If you’ve been spending more time lately catching up on your Netflix queue, maybe it’s time to think about making a few changes to your home theater.

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Creating the Ultimate Home Theater

Few things have the power to bring together friends and family like a great story. There’s nothing quite like sitting down for a movie marathon, the smell of warm popcorn in the air and your favorite people gathered together on the sofa. But if you’re watching on a small television or with poor surround sound, it can detract from the show. Whether you’re finally sitting down to watch the entire Marvel series or you’re binging Netflix, having a great home theater system can elevate your viewing to the next level.

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What to Do When You Have Too Many Remotes

Does this sound familiar? It’s Friday night, and you’re ready to wind down after a long and chaotic week at work. You’ve got your bowl of freshly popped movie theater butter popcorn and you plop down on the sofa to turn on the TV. But before you have a chance to pull up Netflix or the game you recorded, you realize someone changed something on your settings. You frantically grab the four remote controls in your bowl of remotes on the coffee table, but you can’t remember how to switch your TV back to the right setting.

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How You Can Use Voice Control in Your Home

It’s hard to believe that not that long ago, the idea of being able to use voice control to order dinner or play a song seemed like science fiction. In many ways, we’re living in the most exciting age yet.

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Smart Remotes: Why People Love Them

Let's face it; we're always looking for ways to make our lives easier. Thankfully, smart remotes are the product that has been making waves in the remote market since their introduction. Since there are several different capabilities available at your disposal when it comes to smart remotes, we're going to give you a glimpse into why people continue to purchase smart remotes for their home from us at Seven’s Home Theater.

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How Outdoor Speakers Enhance your Summer

 

With spring and summer upon us, many people are taking their entertainment outdoors. Backyard barbecues, picnics with the kids, friends and family visiting on your deck – these are all staples of summer enjoyment everywhere. Our outdoor environments are often meticulously groomed, exquisitely decorated and furnished with all of the accoutrements of outdoor fun. So what’s missing? Music!  We love our music and we love the outdoors – why not put them together?

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Professional Home Theater Installation

“Home Theater” is a home entertainment set-up that seeks to reproduce a movie theater experience in a private home. Typically it involves a display of some type, an audio/video receiver at the heart of the system, and a complement of speakers which can be free-standing, in-ceiling, in-wall or a combination of several depending on the space in which they are being installed.  

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