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Custom Electronics installers polled by CE Pro magazine rate their favorite brands in categories including plasmas, speakers, media servers and more.
August 05, 2008 | by Arlen Schweiger
Who’s in your installation project? If you’re getting in-wall speakers, there’s a good chance they’re from SpeakerCraft. Serving some media? Kaleidescape may be filling the bill. Projection screen? You might be gazing at 120 inches of Stewart Filmscreen.

CE Pro magazine, a custom electronics industry follower and sister publication to Electronic House, polled 100 professional installation firms about the brands they use most frequently, in 37 product categories ranging from in-wall speakers and A/V receivers to control products and computers.

Here’s how the top five stacked up in the major categories:

A/V Recievers   Floorstanding Speakers In-wall/In-ceiling Speakers:
46% Integra
36% Denon
31% Marantz
19% Pioneer
17% Sony

  27% B&W
23% Klipsch
13% Triad
13% Paradigm
9% Canton
48% SpeakerCraft
25% Sonance
23% Triad
22% B&W
16% Klipsch
Media Servers   LCDs Plasmas
50% Kaleidescape
39% Escient
23% ReQuest
10% Crestron
7% Elan

  50% Sharp
48% Sony
37% LG
25% Samsung
20% Runco
  56% Pioneer
39% Runco
28% LG
25% Pioneer Elite
22% Samsung
Projectors   Screens   Whole-home Control
42% Runco
38% Sony
14% JVC
14% Marantz
13% Digital Projection

  76% Stewart Filmscreen
38% Da-Lite
12% Draper
11% Vutec
6% Screen Research
  70% Crestron
20% AMX
16% Control4
14% Elan
8% Niles
Lighting Control        
72% Lutron
46% Crestron
10% Control4
9% Vantage/Legrand
4% HAI and LiteTouch

       
View all 37 categories, ranging from in-wall speakers and A/V receivers to control products and computers, at CEPro.com


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