Installers Rank Top Brands

Custom Electronics installers polled by CE Pro magazine rate their favorite brands in categories including plasmas, speakers, media servers and more.

Aug. 05, 2008 — by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) 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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