Home Control

We’ve got it all under control – home theatre, whole house sound and lighting.

If music sounds great in one room, you’ll enjoy it even more in in several. Inbuilt systems are one of our specialities. From simple systems with just a second set of speakers, to full audio and visual distribution and control. Automation helps you and your family enjoy your home more, saves you time and money.

The new Sonos multi room wireless music system gives you all the music you want. All over your house. All from the palm of your hand. Sonos can be really simple and affordable, it's by far the easiest system to install and use and sounds just great Being wireless, it's perfect for existing homes and a great addition to new homes.

Lutron is the gold standard in lighting control – there is no sleeker or sophisticated product. It's our choice for our own home and we're sure that once you have learnt more about it, you'll want it in your own.

Want it all? You’ll discover that Control 4 is a completely new approach to home automation – more powerful, more flexible and more cost effective than anything that has come before. Yet it is amazingly simple to use and understand. There is virtually nothing that Control4 can't do.

everything you need to know about built-in speakers

If you are building a new home or altering an existing one, you should consider building speakers in or at least allowing for them in the future. There are few greater improvements you can make to your lifestyle. Especially for the relativley low cost when compared to other parts of the building process. Well chosen built-in speakers can sound just great - often better than conventional speakers because you can optimise position and all the money in a build in speaker is in the components - not the cabinet and associated freighting costs.

We deal with 3 leading companies - each has it's own area of expertise:

Speakercraft wrote the book on built-in speaker innovation and design. Often imitated but never equaled when it comes to straight material value for money and performance, Speakercraft are the best option for extensive whole home systems and killer home cinemas. SpeakerCraft have a huge range of models to deal with every possible architectural and practical challenge. And provide several layers of quality options allowing you to tailor any system to your own personal requirements.

Monitor Audio are a leading specialist loudspeaker company from England best known for the high quality sound and finish of their domestic speakers. They have transfered this expertise to deliver a range of built in options that are musically superior but still represent great value for money. We’ve selected the best models in their range for musicallly enthusiastic listeners.

Triad occupy the high ground in the world of architectural audio - their speaker systems are unargueably the best, being built without compromise. The sound Triad deliver is equal to the best free standing cabinet speakers - for example Sonus faber - and are priced accordingly. That said, we’ve seen many homes where the taps cost more than the speakers - Triad rectify this imbalance and provide a real investment in long term sound quality in an architecturally designed home.

Why buy your inbuilt speakers from Totally Wired?

If you are building speakers in, one thing is for certain and that is that you want to get it right first time because it’s not going to be a simple job to change things once they are in and the house or room is finished. So now is the time to plan and make sure you get the right speakers. We’ve been putting speakers in walls and ceilings for the sharp end of 20 years and have had some fantastic results.

So we won’t compromise with products that we put in. This doesn’t have to translate into spending more - what it means is making more sensible choices, maybe having a couple less rooms (a Tivoli Radio is often a better solution anyway) concentrating on quality rather than quantity. If you tell us how good a sound you want, we’ll select the most appropriate brand, type and model to deliver just that. It’s about having a conversation together and going over all the practical issues, considering the system on the other end, the type of music you enjoy and the logistics of putting it all together. This is what we do!

Cabling & architecture.

With any built in speakers there are two critical cabling descisons to make - first being the quality of cable and then funnily enough, the length. Quality x metres = cost. Smart systems like Sonos enable you to have amplifiers in the same room (or close to) speakers - this can greatly reduce the amount of cable required. Shorter cables sound better and save you money. There isn’t a huge price difference between the very cheapest low performance cables and something special like Kimber Kwik - at around just $10 a metre you get high quality copper, dual twisted pair construction and robust sheathing. It is far better at rejecting interference - just think about sitting listening to the hum of multiple halogen transformers breaking through into a cheaper cable. Kimber sounds better - the longer the run, the more obvious this becomes. So you can see the logic - talk to us about the complete design and we’ll save you money and give you better sound.

Not sure where to start? Try our myhome home control guide.

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John Ransley and Sharon Guytonbeck are the principals behind Totally Wired. It’s our own business and we take pride in building something worthwhile.