Rotel has always been a company that has flown a bit under the radar. Audio enthusiasts worldwide know of its excellent products, yet many others who delve in audio sometimes overlook this hi-fi company.

The name Rotel would not give away that this is a Japanese company, still family-run. The company got its origins in 1961 and has since acquired a reputation as a high-quality audio electronics maker with classic design and robust build quality. For many years, it was part of the Bowers & Wilkins group and was sold almost exclusively by B&W dealers like GHT Group. Today the company is independent again, not straying far from its mission to build beautiful, long-lasting AV electronic components. 

One of those components is the RA-1592 integrated amplifier. Integrated amps are an excellent way to get into high-end audio for your Marietta, GA listening room without complexity but sacrificing nothing in performance. If you love music, the Rotel 1592 makes the perfect complement to drive hi-fi speakers available from GHT Group such as MartinLogan, B&W, Paradigm, Monitor Audio, and Klipsch Heritage. 

Keep reading to see why the Rotel 1592 makes an excellent centerpiece for your two-channel audio setup. 

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Spring is finally here, and our thoughts are turning to warmer weather and outside activities. The cold temperatures of winter are over. And soon, it will be warm – and humid – again.

Since we are blessed with a relatively mild climate in the Metro Atlanta area, we get to use our outdoor patios, yards, and pools much more than our neighbors to the north. And because of that, we can plan more activities outdoors. But sometimes, our indoor entertainment beckons to us to stay inside – a great movie, the latest Netflix show, or screaming at the TV in an attempt to will the Hawks into the NBA playoffs. It doesn't have to be that way.

We have no solution for the Hawks at the moment, but we do have an answer for taking your entertainment outside. Why not outfit your Buckhead-area patio with an outdoor TV installation? You can watch the NBA playoffs this spring on your patio this spring, with or without the Hawks. You can cheer on the Braves toward another National League East title on balmy summer evenings. And of course, you can do fun summer movie nights with family and friends.

We’re not talking about just any outdoor TV installation here. We’re talking about the next level in complete outdoor audio-visual entertainment – the Stealth Acoustics Patio Theater.

What is the Stealth Acoustics Patio Theater? Just keep reading to learn more.

GHT Group is a big proponent of LED lighting, and we’ve espoused the reasons before many times. LED technology is tunable, hyper-efficient, and allows for new lighting fixture styles that are not possible with older lighting.  

If you're building a new home in Dunwoody, GA, we would heartily advise you to go with LED light fixtures. And if you’re not, the compact nature of LED designs makes them excellent, efficient, and aesthetically pleasing replacements for lighting in your existing home. 

GHT Group works with great lighting brands like Lutron and DMF. Recently we have added another one to the fold, Element by Tech Lighting. Keep reading to learn what Element lighting can do for your home.

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New technologies sometimes transform entire industries - or bury some and create new ones. LED technology has transformed many industries. It replaced bulky CRT based monitors for computers, led to brilliant, efficient, and lighter laptops, is steadily replacing analog instruments and all types of lights in automobiles, and has revolutionized TV screens. 

In home lighting, LED technology may not create a total revolution, as your house will still look like a house. But LED light fixtures in homes lend new flexibility in lighting design, last much longer than other lights, and of course, are far more efficient for your Atlanta home.  

Let's take a look at a few ways you can use LED lighting to rethink the light in your home.

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Chances are you already have some outdoor lighting on your property. It may light the driveway, a pathway, and perhaps some of your landscape. On these pages, we have written extensively about how lighting can create a whole new look for your home, inside and out. With landscape lighting, you can totally change the character of your property after dark.

Outdoor lighting design is part art and part science. The art is hiring an expert outdoor lighting company that knows all the proper techniques and tricks of the trade that add panache to your property after sunset. The science comes in using the right lighting systems that provide the tools to make it happen. GHT Group is excited to work with FX Luminaire Luxor, an advanced outdoor lighting system that offers simple installation and fantastic flexibility to design dramatic nightscapes for your Cumming, GA property. Read on to learn more about the Luxor system!

SEE ALSO: 4 Landscape Lighting Design Ideas to Make Your Home Pop

Thanks to LED technology, lighting has undergone a significant transformation in the past ten years. Incandescent lighting was fixed and inflexible, and the compact fluorescent technology that followed, while more energy efficient, was also limiting in various ways. LED technology has ushered in a new era in lighting with tremendous benefits. 

By now, you might know the basic benefits of LED technology. It's incredibly efficient, long-lasting, and can be molded into different lighting bulbs and fixtures not feasible with incandescent and fluorescent technology. But there's more. LED technology makes lighting dynamic, capable of varying the color of white light and displaying a rainbow of color. When you couple these capabilities with smart lighting control, you get a whole new way of illuminating your home. That’s what Lutron’s Ketra is all about. Available only from professional interior lighting design companies like GHT Group, Ketra dynamic lighting is a gamechanger in residential lighting. Keep reading below to learn more!

Lighting is all about form and function. It's an essential part of any home, as where would we be without light? But beyond the crucial function of illumination, there is the aesthetic component, just as important in making a house feel like a home.

We’ve discussed the three essential elements of residential lighting design in the past: ambient, task, and accent. This post will cover the basics of ambient lighting and what to think about for your Dunwoody, GA home. Ambient lighting is essential, but there are many options to consider. Please follow with us below.

There’s an old adage that says good lighting can make any room look good, and bad lighting can make even the most beautiful space look seriously deficient. OK, we’ll admit we just made that one up. 

However, adage or not, there is truth in our words. Our eyes see everything as reflections of light off objects. And any picture you see is also the capture of light into an image. Light is a critical factor in how you view just about everything. 

When it comes to residential lighting design, perhaps there is nothing more annoying than a poorly lit bathroom. Bathrooms serve multiple purposes. They are functional spaces, but they also increasingly serve as retreats for relaxation with luxurious tubs, showers and other amenities. How do you illuminate bathrooms in Brookhaven, GA, to serve these different needs? We're glad you asked. Keep reading for some of the latest lighting trends for today's bathrooms.

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Summer is in full swing, and with the warm weather, it's sometimes hard to think about football season. However, both the college football and NFL seasons get underway in late August - only a few weeks away! 

Late August is still summer everywhere in the U.S., and even more so here in Atlanta, the capital of the South. Whether you’re a diehard Bulldogs, Yellowjackets, or Falcons fan - or all three - we have a proposition for you. Don’t retreat indoors to watch your favorite football teams; invest instead in an outdoor TV installation for your Atlanta patio, terrace, yard, porch, pool, spa, or any outside space you enjoy at home. 

So start thinking about what your outdoor space will be like with outdoor TV. The possibilities are endless for audio and video entertainment. Ready for a few ideas? Keep reading below.

March Madness may be over, but there are still plenty of reasons to get a new TV. If you don't have a great excuse to upgrade one of yours, how about adding an outdoor TV? Samsung’s Terrace TV is perfect for entertaining in your backyard, by your pool, or on your patio. Let's take a closer look at what makes the Samsung Terrace TV a great choice for outdoor entertainment in your Atlanta, GA, home. 

Once upon a time, the hearth (or fireplace) was the place where families gathered. In the 1950s, a new device became popular for doing the same, but it was far more entertaining than a fire – the TV. Some might lament the simplicity of days gone by, but there's no denying how important a communication and entertainment medium TV has become. 

We have some good news for gathering your family around the new hearth. Today’s outdoor TVs, like the Samsung Terrace TV, are an excellent way to spend time with family and friends and enjoy fresh air too. Samsung’s Terrace is particularly good at being a do-it-all entertainment hub for the outdoors. Keep reading below to see what the Samsung Terrace can bring to your Sandy Springs, GA home. 

As the leading smart home technology integrator in the Atlanta area, Georgia Home Theater works with the top brands in home automation. We’ve written extensively on these pages about Crestron and Control4, two systems we work with that are the leaders in the field. Both are excellent and offer a myriad of options for controlling and managing smart homes.

We’re very excited to bring a new dimension to our Marietta showroom, just a short hop from Sandy Springs - the Crestron Experience. We’ll be showing a variety of home systems that can fall under the expert automation of a Crestron control system, including motorized shades, hidden technology, and discreet architectural audio speakers.

Are you as excited as we are? Keep reading to learn more.

Last month, we were excited to tell you about the latest Control4 smart home system, OS 3. Control4 did its homework in designing this new software: listening to both existing customers and integrators like Georgia Home Theater, then taking the best features from today’s mobile apps to make this an extremely easy system for daily use.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Judging by the popularity of YouTube, you could say that saying holds ever so true today. Along that line, we'd like to cover some of our favorite features in Control4 OS 3 that really shine - with a tidy how-to video compilation that will give you an excellent feel for how comfortable it is to use.

After you read and watch the tutorials below, you may just want to upgrade your current Control4 system in your Atlanta home. If you don’t have a Control4 smart home, then you’re still in the right place - Georgia Home Theater can customize one for you.

If you're selling your home in Alpharetta, you might be faced with some expenses for either bringing deferred maintenance up to date or needing to update some items to make your property look fresh. It might be refinishing wood flooring, replacing carpeting, painting inside or out, or renewing bathroom and kitchen faucets. Depending on the age of the house and the competition, it might even be more extensive than that.

Most recent surveys show that prospective homebuyers are increasingly looking for smart home features in homes. And in new construction, builders have increasingly responded by prewiring homes for smart lighting, whole-home audio and other popular features.

If the prospect of modernizing your home with smart technology seems daunting, GHT Group can make it easy. In business serving the metro Atlanta area for over 30 years, we are your go-to smart home company for home technology. Keep reading below for three ways to freshen your home with smart tech and add the wow factor to bring in offers fast!

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We’re in November, and the holiday season is in the air. It’s time to break out favorite recipes, decorate for Thanksgiving, visit with family and friends, and enjoy much needed time off from work and school.

Thanksgiving is a favorite holiday for many people as it offers a relaxed way to spend time and reconnect with family and friends. And that will happen in many ways, with cooking, dining, and entertaining on the agenda, whether you do it with an intimate group or extended family. 

Regardless of how you celebrate the holidays, lighting is a way to set the right ambiance for any and all parts of it. Keep reading below to see how Lutron lighting control helps you set the scene for your Thanksgiving and holiday season in Alpharetta, GA.

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