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A lockdown-inspired surge in the value of garden spaces offers new opportunities for your skills, and we have the tools to help, says product manager Giovanni Scatola.

According to a recent ONS survey, the pandemic has changed our relationship with the great outdoors forever. Locked out of airless trains and airconditioned offices, millions of new homeworkers have discovered the ‘wellness’ of wide-open spaces, with 76% of them nipping outside for a jog or a little Tai chi compared with 52% of those still hogtied to HQ. Last year a survey by Natural England confirmed the trend, reporting that 46% of respondents wanted to spend more time alfresco, and a whopping 90% agreeing that green spaces are good for mental health and wellbeing. No surprise then that nearly half of the two thousand people surveyed recently by garden tool maker Stihl said that their garden had become more important to them during lockdown. And there’s plenty to suggest that this new love affair with green space is here to stay.

NEW GROUNDS FOR OPTIMISM

When 17% of businesses are advocating homeworking as a permanent feature, according to a Business Insights and Conditions Survey from late last year, the UK economy is unlikely to return to its pre-pandemic shape. And the change could be baked-in by Bank of England predictions of the strongest economic growth since 1941. Wherever you look, new market dynamics are targeting the home as the pivot for a profound shift in the work/life balance. Factor in the fastest growth in house prices for seven years and enormous pent-up consumer demand fuelled by furlough cash, business loans and unrequited foreign holiday spending, and it’s clear where all the new post-Covid energy is pointing. In today’s home-centred reality, greater love for outdoor living galvanised by a rejuvenated spending splurge is recasting garden spaces as multifaceted playgrounds of social wellbeing. This means that the opportunities for your outdoor AV skills have never looked quite so rosy.

WINNING THE NEW SPACE RACE

Amid rocketing demand for expensive mancaves, garden offices, outdoor kitchens and gazebos, we’ll be ready to supply the AV that completes the new living landscape. Maximise your outdoor video design with Samsung’s ‘The Terrace’ TVs, which offer the latest Samsung 4K QLED smart technology for exceptional clarity and brightness, turning everyday viewing into an epic entertainment experience, even on the sunniest of days. Available from Habitech in 55, 65 and 75-in sizes, The Terrace partners beautifully with the other brand leader in our outdoor line-up. Sonance gives you unrivalled all-weather performance for every project - bar none. No other brand will meet your design objectives as perfectly with the widest and most accomplished range of discreet audio options in its 40-year history.

COVER THE GROUND WITH SOUND

For consistent audio coverage in any residential space, the pioneering Sonance sat-sub format delivers peerless install practicality, versatility and sound quality directed inward towards the listening area rather than over neighbouring gardens. What’s more, Sonance’s superior audio resolution means that detail and dynamics are reproduced at lower volume levels for a noticeable quality premium.

Latest product additions include a sat-sub range dubbed the Patio Series, and the Omni6T: an all-weather omni-directional speaker. Add these innovations to the choice of Sonance Landscape Series (SLS) for high quality audio on the largest estates down; Sonance Garden Series (SGS), scalable to 16.2 for all but the biggest projects; the impregnable Extreme 810G-certified in-walls, Mariner Series on-walls and the timeless Rocks range, and it’s selfevident that whatever the challenge, you’ll love the answer from the world’s original and most successful CI speaker brand.

SONANCE LANDSCAPE SERIES (SLS): ULTIMATE SAT/SUB

For an audiophile-quality sound field with minimal hot spots and dead zones in any landscape at extremely high sound pressure levels, choose the Sonance Landscape Series (SLS). A single 4-inch 2-way satellite and a high power 6-inch 2-way satellite combine with 12inch in-ground and on-ground subwoofers and a high power 15-inch in-ground subwoofer in beautifully scalable 70V or 8ohm deployments.

SLS: high quality SPLs for the largest estates down. 70V/8ohm

SONANCE GARDEN SERIES (SGS)

With a perfect balance of performance, versatility and simplicity, the Sonance Garden Series (SGS) systems are scalable to 16.2 configurations and feature a pivoting knuckle spike for precise audio directivity. The 2-way 3.5-inch sat and 10-inch dual voice coil sub go louder with more detail and bandwidth, and make a perfect team with Sonance DSP amplifiers.

SGS: scalable up to 16.2 for excellent sound quality and versatility

PATIO SERIES

Replacing the trailblazing SonArray system, the Patio Series boosts the brand’s much copied sat/sub form factor with a system of four staked 3.5-inch satellite speakers and one 8-inch inground subwoofer finished in a robust textured brown finish. Designed for convenient modular system expansion, the Patio system can be doubled-up to eight sats and two subs when using a Sonance SR 2-125 DSP amplifier. Perfect versatility and quality for smaller spaces.

Patio Series: brings award-winning Sonance quality to smaller projects.

GREAT SOUND IN THE ROUND: OMNI-6T

The Omni-6T is an omni-directional 70V/100V/8 ohm full-range speaker designed to deliver 360-degree coverage in applications such as resort gardens, hotel pool areas, theme parks and outdoor shopping malls. It uses four 32mm wide-band drivers mounted above a single 165mm high excursion woofer in a textured brown enclosure built to withstand the extremes of temperature and moisture, and capable of burial up to 203mm (8”) deep, leaving just 152mm (6”) above the surface.

Omni-6T: an omni-directional speaker for hotel pool areas, theme parks and resorts

ALL-WEATHER IN-WALL: EXTREME

The Visual Performance Extreme line of inwall speakers is engineered to withstand temperatures from -34°C to +79°C and, unlike self-certified IPX-rated speakers, conforms to Military Standard 810G standards for humidity and UV. The line is IP-66 rated for high quality audio around hot tubs and poolside patios. The four-model range in 6.5 and 8-inch SKUs includes the VPXT6R SST single stereo design.

Extreme VPXT6R in-wall

ALL-WEATHER ON-WALL: MARINER

The Mariner line combines better sound with more installation options than ever before. Featuring completely redesigned acoustic systems, an exclusive Fastmount® bracket system and innovative front-mounted terminals, the seven models across three sizes and three performance levels use tough IP66-rated paintable sealed polypropylene enclosures in black or white, as well as aluminium grilles to boost their class-leading all-weather resistance.

Mariner 64 on-wall

ROCKS

The natural rock-like design of the super-durable Sonance Rock satellites will disappear into almost any outdoor landscape for the perfect blend of sound and surroundings. Choose from 6-inch and 8-inch satellites in brown and granite finishes and a 10-inch sub in brown.

ULTIMATE OUTDOOR

Today, as a new enthusiasm for outdoor living drives the desire to transplant home comforts outside, our peerless end-to-end design and product services will help you to deliver the quality of discreet high performance your clients will love, and profit from the biggest green buying signal in history. Get in touch. Together, we’ll have it covered.

To arrange a demo at your customer’s property, please contact the team: 01256 638500, sales@habitech.co.uk

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