DSE Wood Cottage - UK

Wood you believe it?!

Using a bespoke furniture design or media wall to disguise AV kit and cables is a great way to avoid unsightly clutter in an otherwise magnificent room. This still leaves the challenge of what to do with the speakers?

Amina Invisible Loudspeakers are known to many as the speakers that can be installed into walls or ceilings then made invisible by covering with a final skim of plaster ahead of decoration. What is less well known is their use behind other materials allowing the creation of stunning aesthetics within a room. The answer to interior designers prayers!

This room in Castle Dean boasts a bespoke piece of furniture which creates a surround for a 50-inch plasma tv screen. In the surround are push panels that disguise the AV kit and Playstation 3 console. The Amina speakers were hidden behind a 3mm veneer of timber, replacing the normal plaster skim, allowing the sound to radiate into the room efficiently. With the speakers invisible, all that was left was to hide the sub and the installation was complete.

For installations behind wood, wood veneer or even acrylic stone, Amina can supply speakers with a special adhesive already in place. This results in a strong, permanent bond between the front panel of the speaker and the material. As long as the mass in front of the speaker is similar to that created by a 2mm skim of plaster and the speaker is firmly adhered across its surface, excellent results are easily achieved.

The installer commented: “As technology is moving at a very fast pace, it is always nice to have a simple solution which hides the equipment and speakers. It has always been hard to disguise the speakers especially the one within the 5: 1 system which is not in a dedicated cinema room. This is where the Amina speakers fit the job perfectly; on top of that, they sound great.”