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• Tours
• The gripping 'Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues' confronts the artist's complexities
• About The Landmark
• Visiting Louis Armstrong’s ‘Wonderful World’
• Louis Armstrong House Museum Opens New Cultural Center at 34-40 107th Street in Corona, Queens
• YIMBY’s 2023 Q1 Report Tallies 9,138 Residential and Hotel Units Filed From January Through March in New York City

“In Here to Stay, we amplify Louis Armstrong’s ability to connect with communities locally and globally. His star shines bright worldwide, but especially here at his home in Corona, Queens. I consider this one of the ‘wonders’ of the world, meaning, we have Lucille and Louis’ magnificent home, and now a museum dedicated to his life and archive,” said Moran. The Center and the historic house will be open to the public Thursdays through Saturdays. Advance purchase is highly recommended as tours of the Center and the historic house have limited capacity.

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“Louis Armstrong is the greatest of all American virtuosos,” states Wynton Marsalis, President of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation and Managing and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. “With his trumpet and voice, Armstrong redefined what it meant to be modern by testifying to the range and depth of humanity from the vantage point of the bottom social strata in post-Reconstruction America. He was able to evoke deep blues and spiritual feeling, to dance notes with extreme rhythmic sophistication, and to improvise meaningful melodies on the spot with absolute harmonic accuracy. “There are airplanes in the background sometimes, and Louis commenting about being on the flight path.

The gripping 'Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues' confronts the artist's complexities

Accompanied by the Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble (ALJE), Arturo leads an octet of jazz virtuosos, paying homage to Latin jazz pioneers while pushing the boundaries of the genre with contemporary compositions. Their electrifying performances have garnered international acclaim, from prestigious festivals to iconic venues worldwide. Faith Logue is a current junior at SUNY Oneonta, and majors in media studies. Her passion is all things music, and at age 15 she joined her first magazine. The Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens announced it is celebrating its 80th anniversary and officially opening its new state-of-the-art building on July 6.

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About The Landmark

The museum, a version of the house preserved much as it was when Lucille and Louis were alive, is administered by Queens College. The Center is the permanent home for the 60,000-piece archive of Louis and Lucille Armstrong, and it houses a 75-seat venue offering performances, lectures, films, and educational experiences. The Armstrong Center (which includes the welcome desk, museum store, exhibit area, restroom, and performance space) and the Garden of the Museum are wheelchair-accessible.

Visiting Louis Armstrong’s ‘Wonderful World’

In 1983, his widow Lucille willed the building and its contents to New York City for the creation of a museum and study center devoted to Armstrong’s career and the history of jazz. Louis Armstrong was one of the most recognizable entertainers in the world when he chose the working-class neighborhood of Corona, Queens to be his home in 1943. We preserve Louis and Lucille’s home, now a historic site and world-class museum. We also provide access to Mr. Armstrong’s extensive archives, develop programs for the public that educate and inspire and host performances with multi-disciplinary artists from around the world. Also included at the Center is the new exhibition curated by Jason Moran, Here To Stay will look at Louis Armstrong’s five-decade career as an innovative musician, rigorous archivist, consummate collaborator, and community builder.

Louis Armstrong House Museum Opens New Cultural Center at 34-40 107th Street in Corona, Queens

To have these things for an African American musician of such stature is rare and will be celebrated forever." The jazz musician’s impeccably maintained home in a modest New York City neighborhood is a testament to his — and midcentury design’s — legacy. Before Lucille Armstrong died in 1983, she deeded the property to the city of New York with the intent of creating a lasting legacy for her husband.

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The Louis Armstrong Archive, the world's largest for any single jazz musician, was established at Queens College in 1991. A dozen years later, the brick-faced home, already a registered landmark, opened to the public as the Louis Armstrong House Museum — a lovingly tended time capsule, and a humble but hallowed site of pilgrimage for fans from around the world. The Center, 25 years in development, includes exhibition, research and education areas, and, for events, a 75-seat performance space whose blond wood and intimacy recall Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, the Jazz at Lincoln Center venue. The new building also houses a 75-seat venue that will host performances, lectures, films, and educational experiences.

The 20th century produced no shortage of legendary instrumentalists and vocalists but Louis Armstrong is the only figure who completely changed the way people played music on their instruments and he completely changed the way people sang. Perfecting the concept of the improvised solo, popularizing the use of scat singing, defining the concept of swing–those are just some of the ways Louis Armstrong changed jazz, and American popular music–during his lifetime. Please arrive 15 minutes early to secure your seat, as admission is on a first-come, first-served basis.

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His wife, Lucille, continued to live in their home on 107th Street in Corona, Queens, working to ensure that it became a National and New York Historic Landmark. Lucille expressed the desire for the home and archives to become a museum honoring her husband. They established the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation (LAEF) which helped to facilitate this process and continues to work today as a force for jazz education. After Lucille’s passing in 1983, she willed the home and its contents to the city of New York which designated the City University of New York, Queens College to shepherd the process. It took decades, but the archives became accessible in the 90’s, and the historic house opened for public tours in 2003. The Louis Armstrong House Museum (LAHM) became its own entity, with its expanded programs and official 501c3 non-profit status in 2008.

Moran titled the exhibition "Here to Stay," borrowing a lyric from one of the George and Ira Gershwin songs that Armstrong redrew with his interpretation. The phrase is plain-spoken but powerful, like Armstrong's music — and on his block in Corona in 2023, it carries a ring of truth. Regina Bain, executive director of the Louis Armstrong House Museum, leads a ribbon-cutting for the brand-new Louis Armstrong Center on June 29 in Queens, New York. We strongly advise visitors take mass transit or rideshare to visit the Museum. Be sure to select “other dates” and “other times” on the tickets link to find an available date.

Today, the house serves as a historic museum that presents concerts and educational programs. An archive of writings, recordings and memorabilia is also available to the public for research, bringing the history of jazz to life. Armstrong was both down-home and revolutionary and this building reflects that breadth. Caples Jefferson kept the building at the scale of the modest neighborhood that he loved, while creating an urban precinct for his music that welcomes in all visitors. One of the world’s most renowned jazz musicians and entertainers; Louis Armstrong lived in this modest Queens home from 1943 until his death in 1971.

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The longtime residence of the famed jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader, it is a midcentury interior design treasure hidden behind a modest brick exterior. Some modifications were functional, like the “stair chair,” a wheelchair lift installed after Louis suffered a third heart attack at the Waldorf Astoria; some were pure fancy, like the silver-walled walk-in closet where a Pucci dress owned by Lucille still hangs. Mostly, though, it was a regular-folks respite for the internationally revered performer. The Louis Armstrong Center was a brainchild of Michael Cogswell, the founding Executive Director of the House Museum, who died in 2020.

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• Tour Capacity
• New York City, block by block
• About The Landmark
• Music News
• The gripping 'Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues' confronts the artist's complexities
• Dr. John Collection ‘Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya: Singles 1968–1974’ Out Now
• Louis Armstrong House Museum Celebrates 80 Years With New Building Opening in July

Standing on the shoulders of the jazz and community greats who have come before us, the new Louis Armstrong Center invites today’s musicians, neighbors, and global fans to discover Louis and Lucille Armstrong’s story from a new perspective. We will bring the Armstrongs’ unique archives alive through new interactive events. And we will ensure that music once again rings out on 107th Street through groundbreaking programs in collaboration with emerging artists and contemporary icons. Working with the museum’s Grammy-winning Director of Research Collections Ricky Riccardi and Executive Director Regina Bain, C&G Partners (MoMA, 9/11 Memorial & Museum, Smithsonian, NASA) designed the exhibition with Art Guild(Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Martin Guitar Museum). The 60,000 photos, recordings, manuscripts, letters & mementos in the Louis Armstrong Archive will be returning home to the block where the Armstrongs lived and built the collection. Caples Jefferson Architects designed the 14,000-square-foot building to expand the capacity of the historic house museum and to allow many more people to appreciate the legacy of Louis Armstrong, the man and his music.

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Caples Jefferson Architects designed the 14,000-square-foot building, staying mindful of the Armstrongs’ love for their community and their neighbors on the block. Explore more of the life and career of Louis Armstrong from anywhere, anytime with the Louis Armstrong House Museum digital guide on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app. The historic Armstrong home is open for tours by advance registration, Thursdays through Saturdays.

New York City, block by block

Their new suburban block was home to African-American, German, and Italian working-class families, and Armstrong was delighted. Raised in one of the poorest neighborhoods in New Orleans, he felt instantly at home in Corona. Following Louis Armstrong’s death in 1971, Lucille spent 12 years as a widow in the same house. When she passed away in 1983, she left everything to the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, Inc. and the house to the City of New York.

About The Landmark

Headed by the same architecture firm who built the Louis Armstrong house in 1910, the project broke ground this summer and will include a state-of-the-art exhibition gallery and a 68-seat jazz club when completed. Today, the internationally renowned Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona, Queens, announced the official opening date of its new state-of-the-art building, preserving and expanding the legacy and ideals of America’s first Black popular music icon. Armstrong’s values of Artistic Excellence, Education and Community will be fostered in Here to Stay, the new Center’s exhibition, curated by award-winning pianist, composer and Kennedy Center Artistic Director for Jazz, Jason Moran. One wouldn’t know from the sidewalk that the interior of the house is a more or less perfect reflection of the Armstrongs’ life circa 1969, when Lucille made her final round of renovations during her husband’s lifetime with the help of her interior decorator, Morris Grossberg. Armstrong’s half-empty bottle of Lanvin cologne still sits on the dresser in the master bedroom; their old Electrolux vacuum cleaner is still stashed in a hallway closet.

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Among its steadfast champions was the museum's former Board chair, philanthropist Jerome Chazen, who died last year. That their dream finally came to fruition, after more than two decades of hopeful planning, is a testament to the strength of that vision — and the efforts of those who carried it forward. "We're thankful for the community that raised us up," says Regina Bain, Executive Director of the House Museum. "It's all in the spirit of Louis and Lucille — because they made such an impact on this community, and on this block, that people wanted to fight for this space." Perhaps most touching is Armstrong’s pure and undying affinity for his neighborhood. While Corona may seem like an unlikely place to house a museum, no other location would be appropriate to honor Armstrong’s legacy.

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This was Louis’s “man cave,” a room where he could write letters, make reel-to-reel tapes and entertain friends and guests, including Queens neighbors Dizzy Gillespie and Clark Terry. Even more valuable is the treasure trove of information that we didn’t expect to come away with. We learned, for instance, that Lucille had a knack for decorating (evidenced by the house’s reflective wall paper, its laminated wooden cabinets and the funky blue hue of the kitchen), and that Louis Armstrong swore by Swiss Kriss laxatives, which he used daily.

Louis died in 1971, days after celebrating his 71st birthday at a party in the garden lot adjacent to their home. After Lucille’s death in 1983, the last true original-original died in 2011. Selma Heraldo had lived all her 88 years next door to what would become the Armstrongs’ home and was the neighborhood’s last human link to them both.

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For those eager to delve deeper into LAHM’s cultural offerings, guided tours are available starting at 1pm, with the last tour departing at 5pm. This National Historic Landmark museum welcomes its new addition across the street during Black Music Month and the 80th anniversary of Louis and Lucille Armstrong moving to the legendary jazz trumpeter & singer’s restored home. Visitors have included Wynton Marsalis, Quincy Jones, Tony Bennett, Charlie Watts, Ken Burns, Jon Batiste, Ron Howard, Bette Midler and many more.

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Louis Armstrong is a definitive arbiter of Jazz and America’s first Black popular music icon, entertaining millions from heads of state and royalty to the kids on his stoop in the working-class neighborhood of Corona, Queens. The Louis Armstrong House Museum preserves his legacy by offering guided tours of the historic home and preserving Armstrong’s 60,000-piece archives. The brand-new Louis Armstrong Center, located across the street from the historic home, will further help celebrate his legacy by offering year-round exhibitions, performances, readings, lectures, and screenings through an array of public programs for all ages. It now includes the home itself that reflects the personal values of Louis Armstrong and the garden that serves as a place for gatherings and a place for live performances. The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation donated the Armstrong archives in the 1980s and provided the funds to purchase the lot on which the new Center sits. CUNY and Queens College officials, working with state and city legislators and executive offices, led the advocacy for the funding of the $26 million building across the street from the original Armstrong home.

In 1977, it was designated a National Historic Landmark and a New York City landmark. In 1991, recently retired director Michael Cogswell and archivists carried out 72 shipping cartons of Armstrong’s manuscripts, artifacts, and other memorabilia, currently housed in Flushing at the Kupferberg Center for the Arts. In 2017, the Louis Armstrong Education Center broke ground across the street from the house museum. The 14,000-square-foot, $23 million building is being designed by New York City-based Caples Jefferson Architects. When complete, it will include an exhibition gallery, a 68-seat jazz club, and, on the second floor, an archive for those artifacts.

Those are the times I feel closest to him, like he’s right there on the block,” Riccardi said. “You can hear street noise, birds outside the window, hear kids playing in the street.” It started to sound like the verse of a very familiar song. The day before the block party, workers halted construction on the forthcoming Louis Armstrong House Museum Research Collections to place a hard hat atop the head of Wynton Marsalis, who was filming a segment for ESPN. Recently Tony Bennett, who in 1970 painted the remarkable portrait of Armstrong displayed in his second-floor study—signed Benedetto—came by to borrow the painting for an exhibit.

A longtime neighbor suffered a heart attack over the weekend—Tomas Tavarez, an older Dominican-American man whom I’d noticed watching the music from his porch just a week earlier. The house is a gem frozen in time, as if the Armstrongs have just stepped out. The museum offers daily guided tours to visitors from around the world and features a variety of programs, including concerts, lectures, and seminars. Recently, we were invited to take part in a house tour, which took us through the Armstrongs’ living room, bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and den (deemed Louis’ “man cave”). From the moment we stepped inside, it was evident that Armstrong’s essence completely saturates the house. Strolling through each room slowly, we were given the unique opportunity to see how he lived and where his genius was fostered.

No one has resided in the building since then and its furnishings remain very much as they were. Today, the Museum is administered by Queens College, which also holds the research collections of the museum. Funds were awarded by the Office of the Governor, the New York State Senate, New York State Assembly, Office of the New York City Mayor, Office of the Queens Borough President, and the New York City Council. The Dormitory Authority of the State of New York (DASNY) led the construction project. The staff and board of the museum for the past 15 years, including former Director, Michael Cogswell, worked tirelessly to ensure the new building’s success. And yet for decades, the Louis Armstrong House Museum has been a well-kept secret on a quiet street in Corona.

Authors, researchers and other scholars can visit the Armstrong archives by advance appointment. The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation was the baseline grantor of the Louis Armstrong House Museum and we have been in full support throughout the growth of this historic site. This great achievement is a physical representation of the down-home soulful world of Pops. LAHM is in the midst of a dramatic physical and programmatic transformation marked by the opening of the new Louis Armstrong Center, including a 75-seat performance space, a state of the art multimedia exhibition, and the Armstrong Archival Collections. The Center will allow us to live the Armstrong values of Artistic Excellence, Education and Community through programs such as Armstrong Now! After our tour concluded, we also learned about the forthcoming Louis Armstrong House Museum Education Center, which will sit on the site located across the street from the house museum.

The historic house tour requires the ability to climb two sets of steep stairs and stand for 45 minutes. New jazz and exhibition spaces, and an inaugural show curated by Jason Moran, feature the trumpeter’s history, collaged onto the walls. Shortly after marrying Louis, Lucille Wilson Armstrong was tipped off by a friend in her former Corona neighborhood that a house on the block was for sale, so inexpensive she could buy it with the money she’d saved as a Cotton Club dancer in Harlem. Still, Lucille waited eight months to tell her husband, who generally toured 300 days of the year.

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It sounds like our top pick, with more (sometimes a little too much) bass. The Three Plus has the same clear midrange and treble we loved in the One Plus, but it can play louder overall (5 dB louder, to be exact) and has a lot more bass. If you like a more bass-heavy sonic presentation, or you want to connect a turntable to your speaker, we recommend Klipsch’s The Three Plus.

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While some tabletop Bluetooth speakers do include mobile apps for control, none of them require you to load additional apps onto your phone the way Sonos, Alexa, and other Wi-Fi–based speakers do. This speaker has fewer features and connection options than our other picks. The only physical input is a 3.5 mm analog audio jack, and there’s no optional app with EQ controls to fine-tune the sound. Alongside sound quality, multi-room speaker systems are also tested for their various features, ease of set-up and use, including using voice assistants where included.

Step 4 — Run wire and install speaker brackets and volume controls before drywall goes up

They deliver a huge amount of power when called for, while serving up a delicate beauty in the quieter passages. The multi-room feature set, while not perfect (we would prefer a single app to handle every function), is more than made up for by the superb audio performance. Bowers & Wilkins may have been late to the multi-room party, but boy it arrived with a bang – more fashionably late than annoyingly so. And thanks to its wi-fi ability, it can still be included in your wider Sonos multi-room system as the smallest speaker in the range. Sound quality is seriously full-bodied, but it's fair to say other Bluetooth speakers offer a slightly more dynamic performance.

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It also gives you freedom to tweak or increase the number of speakers in a system. In a wired system, you can make the main speakers wired, then connect wireless speakers as well. While the wired and wireless multiroom audio are self-explanatory, the hybrid system will consist of a wireless component such as Sonos amp connecting ceiling speakers. You can use an in-wall multiroom controller if you want to use wired speakers. If you don’t want to trip over wires all over your house, a wireless multiroom audio system is the best way to go.

Hip-hop, classic rock, soundtracks, it’s all covered with ease. We've chosen all of the below based on numerous factors like ease of use, compatibility and design, but sound quality always comes top of our list. All of the below have scored very well in our reviews, so you know they're great-sounding first, while also being superb for multi-room use. The BluOS app supports a good number of streaming services, although not as many as Sonos does. We found the app to be much more intuitive to navigate and operate, and even the initial setup is easier, surprisingly. But the ecosystem currently lacks Sonos’s global search functionality.

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Sonically, it's a real improvement on the original, especially in the bass notes – they hit with a greater degree of precision than the first HomePod's. It's better elsewhere too, with a more organised presentation in terms of both soundscape and rhythms, more solidity and greater tightness. A truly five-star performer, and one of the best multi-room speakers we’ve tested in a good while. Throw whatever you like at the Era 300, chances are it has it covered, filling our testing rooms with cohesive, spacious sound without a hint of a struggle. Big choral numbers feel broad and immersive when playing spatial audio with Dolby Atmos tracks, but the Era 300 excels with all genres.

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It offers bright, deep, rich sound through the woofer and all five speakers. It also features a 5-band EQ so you can tune the sound specifically to your needs and enjoy your music and movies to the fullest. The bass is fantastic, and you can connect everything to the receiver wirelessly.

It comes with everything you need to start streaming your favorite music or watching ultra-high-definition videos right in your living room. It has sound-sync wireless technology, so you can connect your device to the receiver via Wifi and Bluetooth. It also comes with two USB ports, allowing you to connect multiple devices at the same time. An included CD player will allow you to listen to some of your favorite high-school burnt CDs as well.

In equal power mode, you'll hear these differences in loudness as they naturally occur between speakers. SpeakerCompare tailors your listening experience to the exact headphones you have, so that what you hear is comparable to auditioning speakers side-by-side in person. Knowing which model headphones you’re using lets us remove any sonic coloring from your experience. In our article on how to use Sonos with wired outdoor speakers we discuss a few scenarios. You can also check out our outdoor speaker planning guide and buying guide for more info on putting together an outdoor system.

The whole-house audio system we’re showing in this article uses a technology called A-BUS. A-BUS technology uses a standard Cat-5e cable (four-pair communication wire) to carry all the signals from a central source. The wires carry audio signals to each room, where they’re amplified to speaker-level audio by the keypads. In addition to amplifying the sound signals, the keypads transmit infrared remote control signals back to the audio equipment source. Anything you can do with your source equipment’s remote control, you can also do from any room that has a keypad.

You can control the speaker volume by pressing the keypad or by using a remote control. In a well-designed home, form and function are on the same team. Furnishings and appliances smoothly serve your family and guests. But first you need a plan, and that’s where your Crutchfield A/V design specialist comes in. You’ll receive a detailed system plan and a link to a pre-filled shopping cart. If your hifi speakers and your stereo systems come with compatible apps, it will add to your level of convenience during setup and navigation.

The Sonos Era 100 succeeds the Sonos One below – the new model sounds better and adds USB-C and Bluetooth connections, but is more expensive. Still, it's a lot cheaper than the Era 300 (which it launched alongside). On the plus side, it's more recognisable as a speaker than the Era 300. You might have your eye on a complete multi-room system, but you don't have to buy it all at once. You can start with one or two speakers and expand from room to room, spreading the cost over months or even years. You don't even have stick to one brand of speaker, but if you do mix and match, check that the speakers have the same streaming tech built in (AirPlay 2 or Google's Chromecast, for example).

Wall-mounted speakers will sound better if you plug the stud space above and below the speaker with fiberglass batts. For this system, you’ll need to run one Cat- 5e cable from the distribution hub (Photo 10) to each keypad location. You’ll also need to run one Cat-5e cable from the distribution hub to a Cat-5e modular jack located near your audio equipment. And finally you’ll run speaker cables from the keypad location to the speakers in the same room. Keypads are most convenient if they’re mounted near the light switch at the entry to the room where you’re locating the speakers.

You can listen to thousands of radio stations and channels using the Tunein app. Also, for all the old schoolers who want to hear Big Shiny Tunes 5, there's also a CD player where you can listen to disks, and you can tune into the AM/FM stations. Why We Liked It - Logitech, being a highly reputable brand in the audio market, offers a good stereo system with the Z623. It's pretty affordable and compatible with virtually every device imaginable.

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An electrician’s fish tape ($12 to $15) is handy for pulling wires through the walls (Photo 4). Installing a universal input module before the keypad in any room allows you to use the keypad and speakers as a single-room stereo system. Just plug your iPod, MP3 player, portable radio or computer into the RCA jacks on the module and it’ll play through the speakers. Install the universal input module in a convenient location, near the computer for example.

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"We wanted volume controls in case the internet ever went out," he said. Mark chose a single 12-channel AudioSource amp that could direct power to all six of his in-ceiling and outdoor speaker locations. For the back patio and out front by the garage, they chose two pairs of Polk Atrium6 outdoor speakers. "I like them because they have big woofers for more punch," Mark said of his outdoor speakers, adding that it's great to have tunes pumping by the basketball court and out back. You probably already own some equipment, such as stereo speakers and a quality home theater receiver. The next step is to plan what your multi-room system will look like before expanding and harnessing features to cover additional areas.

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Put your faith in professional audio equipment from audiophiles like the team at Cerwin-Vega. We design and build the type of high-quality equipment that we want to listen to. And our customers have nothing but appreciation, which is why they keep coming back. But if you’re hoping that things will improve for American retirees in the near future, the accession of Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) to the post of House speaker should give you pause.

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It's excellent for listening to music, watching movies or sports at home. If you want finely tuned high-powered sound at home for a great price point, this may be the system for you. Whether you're looking for a music system to stream your favorite bands or you want a theater-grade sound quality for your movies and shows, there are plenty of options for you to choose from.

Special speakers from the kit are controlled with the keypad or remote. Once the wire runs were complete and the brackets and volume control boxes were in place, the drywall went up. Mark also has MusicCast equipped Yamaha receivers in his home theater and basement surround sound setups, so he can use the MusicCast app to control everything at once. They decided on one pair of Polk MC60 in-ceiling speakers in the basement, one pair on the front porch, and one on the screened back porch. And for the master bathroom, they chose a stereo input speaker — a space-saving way to get two-channel sound from a single speaker. After finalizing the blueprints for his house, Mark and his wife Brittany began planning their system.

There are lots of scenarios in which you may be using your speakers. From simply listening to music and gaming to watching movies and hosting parties, what are you looking to get out of your home audio system? It doesn't take up a lot of space, with the pair of speakers and tower to go along with it. The remote control allows you to toggle through all your settings and CDs quickly.

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It is one of the brands that push the envelope in innovation and design while offering listeners impeccable sound quality. The Bose Wave SoundTouch Music System is not a budget purchase, and it delivers the level of impressive quality that luxury seekers will love. Smaller 5.1 speaker systems are still great for smaller rooms but larger 5.1 systems like the Rockville HTS56 Home Theater System are probably best for bigger rooms with plenty of space. Today you can buy a wireless multiroom speaker system with great performance and unprecedented flexibility—and no wires to snake—for surprisingly little money. Even better, you can set up the whole thing yourself in a matter of minutes, right from your smartphone. If you would like to choose for yourself, here's the list of all our reviews for speakers, including the best Bluetooth speakers to use at home.

Fish Cat-5e to the keypads and speaker wires to the speakers

"We wanted to agree on where we wanted sound, how we wanted to control it, and then wire everything accordingly," Mark said. These control systems can send either line-level signals to an amplifier(s) located in select room(s), or they can feature built-in amplifiers that send speaker-level signals to the selected rooms(s). No matter which type, these control systems allow you to listen to different sources simultaneously in different zones. They are available in many configurations, often ranging from four to as many as eight or more zones.

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If the device has volume knob for each zone, it will be easier for you to control them. When you want to use Bluetooth in more than one room at home, one of the best is Sonos One. As an option, you can buy multiple Sonos speaker and place them in different rooms. Then, with the Sonos app, you can link all of them together so that they play music through your whole house.

Many of these speaker systems use WiFi and/or Bluetooth – some can feature additional wired connections – and often come with mobile apps designed for convenient control through smartphones and tablets. It ends up being fairly simple to add and configure additional speakers. So unlike wired speakers that are brand/type agnostic, you can't simply mix and match wireless speakers and achieve the same seamless results.

The clerk then appoints lawmakers from each party as tellers to tally the votes. Lawmakers call out the name of their choice for speaker from the floor, a rare and time-consuming roll call that heightens the drama. Members often liven up the proceedings by shouting or standing when casting their vote. The chamber cannot organize until it has a speaker since that person effectively serves as the House’s presiding officer and the institution’s administrative head.

Bluesound offers a similar choice of multi-room speakers and components. They use the BluOS operating system, which also comes built into a range of hi-fi integrated amps and receivers. Delaware Public Media and other news outlets reported that the bill was debated for hours, and Democrats later used a House rule to shut off what was termed a filibuster by those opposed to it. One House Democrat whose district includes Kent General Bayhealth hospital was upset that he did not get time to speak. It also includes legislation that would ban the video app TikTok if it’s China-based owner, ByteDance, does not sell it.

Another factor to consider is the size of the home stereo system you want. If you want a system that you can take from room to room, then keep in mind that larger systems also tend to be a lot heavier. Likewise, if you have a space that doesn't have a ton of room for an extra couple of speakers and a subwoofer, then you'll want to downsize just a little bit. You can pick up a mini stereo that still packs a punch, no problem. No matter which way you slice it, sound quality is endlessly crucial for a home stereo system.

Run the Cat-5e cable from the panel distribution module to the universal input module first. Then run a Cat-5e cable from the universal input module to the keypad. The distribution hub divides the signal from the audio source module into outputs, in this case for four rooms. Run a Cat-5e cable from an output to the amplified keypad in each room. A transformer plugs into the distribution hub and provides low-voltage power through the Cat-5e cable to the keypad amplifiers. There's a lot to consider when shopping for whole-home audio gear.

With the receiver set to the input source of the adapter (typically RCA, 3.5 mm audio cable, TOSLINK, or even HDMI), you can stream audio to any room(s) that have speakers wired up to the receiver. While it's possible to use multiple music adapters to send separate audio signals to different sets of speakers (i.e. for multi-zone and multi-source), it can end up more complicated than it's worth. Although these digital media adapters work well and are highly affordable, they're often not as robust in terms of features and connectivity like with control systems. If you don’t have a pre-wired home and if retrofit wiring is too much to consider, then you might want to go wireless. Wireless technology continues to make steady improvements, offering users a comprehensive experience that can also be reasonably easy to set up.

The simplest way to create a two-zone stereo system is likely right at your fingertips. Many home theater receivers feature a Speaker A/B switch that allows a connection to a second set of speakers. Place the additional speakers in another room and install speaker wires leading to the receiver's Speaker B terminals. By toggling the A/B switch, you can choose when music plays in either or both areas. It is also possible to connect even more speakers to the receiver by using a speaker switcher, which acts as a hub.

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He should provide you with at least 3 glowing references of recently completed projects that are similar to yours. Building a new home typically requires the help of a General Contractor (GC). He oversees the entire project from start to finish, hires and pays all the necessary subcontractors, pulls permits, and buys building materials on your behalf. The average cost of most new construction homes is around $275,000 to $340,000.

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First, in the left column, there are main parameters specified and empty boxes given, where you have to enter your measurements data or information of prices. Building a new home is very exciting, but does come with quite a few challenges as well. Estimate the location of holes in a circular pattern using the bolt circle calculator. This angle of depression calculator will help you solve the angle by which a line of sight deviates from the horizontal in a downward direction.

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Others make you pay for them - check out our free construction cost estimator below. Our free cost-to-build estimator allows to calculate your home construction cost per SF. The cost of materials varies widely, so the products you select will add or subtract tens of thousands of dollars off the total building cost. Apply custom colors, patterns and materials to furniture, walls and floors to fit your interior design style.

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Home-Cost provides you the tools needed to successfully align your budget, design scope & quality expectations. This personalized estimate will be generated from the inputs you provide. We will include estimated cost ranges for land in the areas you seek along with a high-level budget for the build. Build costs are determined by the design and approach, so there’s potential for a budget above or below what’s provided. If you would prefer to discuss this during a meeting, simply schedule a time from our contact page.

The hole volume calculator finds the volume of a circular or rectangular hole. It also calculates the volume of concrete needed for concrete holes, considering the loss in the concreting process. This tonnage calculator can determine the weight in tons of certain aggregate materials depending on their unit weights and the volume they occupy. Use this Sonotube calculator to estimate the amount and cost of the concrete you will need when building round columns using Sonotube formworks. Use this sealant calculator to determine how much sealant (silicone, polyurethane, or any other sealant materials) you will need for your filling or sealing project.

New home construction for a 2,000-square-foot home costs $201,000 to $310,000. Home Construction Cost Calculator by BricknBolt will help you to calculate approximate home construction cost on the basis of your Plot size and other details. Our custom home cost calculator is a free tool for users to help get an idea of how much a custom home might cost. Questions are centered around the style of the home, the amount of acreage and square footage desired, location, and more. A free estimate is sent to you after completing the short home build cost questionnaire.

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We also offer completely free and confidential consultations with our team. Building Cost Calculator provides accurate construction costs for a new house. You can select different options for trim, quality of materials and other amenities, such as a garage and deck. New home construction costs with a developer can be approximately 15% less than with a custom home builder. Developers plan subdivisions and offer a range of floorplans to select from. Developers build many houses at once, so houses typically cost less each than a custom home, and they’re likely to be completed faster too.

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Our epoxy calculator will help you find the right amount of epoxy resin required to coat your desired surface. The clearance hole calculator helps you to quickly calculate the diameter of a hole through an object or substrate for a bolt or a screw using its thread and head diameters. Use this arch calculator to help you determine the focus points of an ellipse. With these, you'll be able to easily draw the perimeter of the rounded part of an elliptical arch. With the air changes per hour calculator (ACH) you can determine how often your air device exchanges the air in a room.

Custom home builders can develop anything you want once you have all the design features in the blueprint. However, your home will cost more purely because they are giving your home their exclusive focus, ordering materials, and hiring workers for one house. This calculator applies historical pricing from the US Census Bureau New Residential Construction Survey and is updated quarterly to reflect real world prices paid for new construction housing. We then analyze this microdata to extract percentiles paid per square foot of conditioned area. Equipped with precise cost estimates, you can make informed decisions for your project about what to prioritize and how to allocate your resources effectively.

Brick & Bolt’s House Construction Cost Calculator is here to simplify the process for you. It will help you to stay within budget and complete your project successfully. New home construction costs $100 to $155 per square foot on average with most homeowners paying $155,000 to $416,250, in addition to the cost of your land. Costs vary considerably based on location and all your choices in design and interior and exterior finishes. Click "Activate Estimator" on your order receipt and the estimator will launch. Enter your zip code, some basic characteristics of your chosen plan and select the construction quality to see estimates.

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Simple Terra offers a 1-bedroom container home with 320 square feet of interior space and a 160-square-foot outdoor covered deck for $38,000. The average tiny house costs $25,000 to $35,000, but you can build one for less. One couple built a 24-foot-long, 8-foot-wide, and 13-foot-tall tiny home for $8,000 by using cheap or free lumber, along with sourcing items for free on Craigslist and Habitat for Humanity Restore locations. For the base structure of the home, they built the house on a trailer frame. You can also finish out a shipping container for about $60,000 to $90,000. A large home built from shipping containers can cost $150,000 to $175,000, which is generally about half the price of a traditional home of the same size.

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Gain control and explore “What-If” options in design, materials or quality levels and instantly see the cost impacts of those decisions. Custom homes range in price from $150 -1,000+ per square foot, depending on the size, architectural complexity, materials, etc. Such a house will also take significantly longer to construct than a prefabricated structure. Use our tools to help plan your next concrete, landscaping, fence, flooring, siding, roofing, deck & patio, or carpentry project.

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Find out how much gravel, how many pipes, and optional filter fabric you need for any French drain project using this French drain calculator. Check out this cubic yard calculator to work out the yardage of different shapes of volume. If you're wondering how to design a ramp, here we come with an amazing ramp calculator. The roof pitch calculator finds the length of the rafter and the roof slope (in degrees and in percent).

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Reproductions of the illustrations or working drawings by any means is strictly prohibited. No part of this electronic publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form by any means without prior written permission of The House Designers®, LLC. In a 2021 Home-Cost survey of custom home projects ranging from $280,000 to $1,800,000, 94% of the projects were initially over budget by 30% - 40%. Home-Cost was then used to bring the projects under financial control by adjusting the design's scope and quality to meet budget.

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Our wall square footage calculator is a simple tool that allows you to calculate the area of yours walls and the amount of wallcovering needed to cover them. Use this concrete block calculator to estimate the number of blocks needed to build a wall with specific dimensions, as well as to calculate the costs. The cost to build a pole barn house can run as high as $120,000+ depending on many factors. A basic unfinished 2,400-square-foot pole barn shell costs $20,000 to $40,000. A log cabin shell—the exterior—will cost $2,800 to $7,075 per 100 square feet. If you’d rather live a sustainable life off-grid, you can build a solid stone shell with stones and mortar for about $10 per square foot.

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Free estimate websites may give you the impression they can budget your house, but none will guarantee their results. Relying on faulty free estimates can cost you thousands later on in the construction process. This means that when your Total square footage is LESS than 1,500, the cost / foot gradually increases to account for additional expenses incurred by the builder, with fewer “billable” square feet.

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The Calculator is free to use as a service to consumers across the country. The average cost to pour a concrete foundation is $26,800 for a 2,776-square-foot house, including excavation, foundation, concrete, retaining walls, and backfill. Our home construction cost calculator utilizes up-to-date pricing data to give you accurate cost estimates for each segregation. So, say no to uncertain estimations and welcome accurate numbers that you can trust. When developing a project, it seems reasonably critical to take into account some peculiarities like the constructional features of a building, engineering aspects, climate conditions, soil type, and so on.

If you already own the land, the total cost of building your own home will compare better to buying a home. Small houses of around 600 square feet cost $50,000 to $70,000 to build. If a tiny house is too small for your family, you could build something that qualifies as a small house to save money. For potential homeowners looking to save money, building your own home costs about $70 per square foot and will save an average of 25%.

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If you add on costly additionals or unusual features it may be hard to recoup your costs if you need to resell in a few years. Understand your time line It usually takes many months to build a new home. Many things will need to be coordinated during the home construction process. If you own a home already you will need to sell it and you will also have to make arrangements for your new mortgage. If unexpected changes do develop, stay flexible and keep your new home construction project on track. Are you planning to build your dream home and need to know your home construction cost estimate?

By comparison, the cost of a prefabricated home is at least 25-35% less than a custom one. When undertaking such a massive project, its not worth it to try to save a few bucks on the cost of labor. Let us describe how you can use the present free construction calculators in online mode. The intuitive and user-focused interface provides an easy design process without any tutorials or instructions. Carefully choose your location It is important to build your new home in a good location. Location will be very important if you decide to sell your new home down the road, so in addition to making sure it is an area that you want to live in keep resale value in mind as well.

Use this thinset calculator to find how much thinset you need for any tiling project. Concrete calculator - tube evaluates the amount of concrete and cement needed for a tube block. Concrete calculator – evaluate the amount of concrete and cement needed for a slab block. Find the average diameter of rocks to use for your embankment with this rip rap calculator.

According to the National Association of Home Builders, a general contractor's expenses are $85 per square foot for new home construction. Add overhead, profit, and finishing, and the average cost per square foot to build a house is $100 to $155 depending on the region. Residential construction cost estimating is an imperfect science, since costs can vary significantly by location and seasonality. That's why we show you real costs paid by builders so you can get an idea of what people are actually paying to build new homes right now. Our home building cost calculator streamlines the process, allowing you to focus on what matters most to complete your project. Please note that using rough rule-of-thumb estimators such as average construction cost per SF will always exclude design scope and will never reflect design cost for your specific zip code.

Also ask for references from past customers to be sure that they were satisfied with the work they received.Carefully choose your location It is important to build your new home in a good location. Research the community, property values, and any other factors that are important to you. Make sure that good schools, shopping and transportation are conveniently located. However, keep in mind that there could be unexpected costs and budget for that.

High-end new construction homes start at $500,000+ and go up to as much as your budget allows. Framing in construction is a building style that involves creating the shell of a building. This shell functions as the basic structure of the entire building, with elements such as beams, studs, and joists all being part of it. The simple division allows us to count only the studs in the middle of the frame and a single end stud. We need to add another one to make sure that our wall has both of its ends considered. Our framing cost calculator has a preset wastage value of 15%, which is the most typical amount.

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From the way House treats women, one might expect that his relationship with his mother was troubled. However, House's mother loves him unconditionally, and the reverse is true as well. It was probably this unconditional love that led House to pursue his dreams. However, House realizes that he's a disappointment to his mother because the thing that his mother wants the most is for him to be happy, and he seems incapable of being anything other than miserable. His wish to avoid his father has the unfortunate fallout of taking him away from his mother as well. House's father was a strict disciplinarian, but although his punishments were severe, they were never arbitrary or fuelled by anger.

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At the beginning of season seven, Thirteen ostensibly goes away to Rome (it's later revealed that this was actually a lie), leaving a vacancy on House's team. House proposes then, giving a chance to the rest of his team, to hire a new member. After some unsuccessful tries, Cuddy hires Martha M. Masters (Amber Tamblyn), a medical student in the episode "Office Politics".

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Meat Loaf also had a cameo in 2009, and Brandy appeared early on, making an appearance in season 1. How else do you explain doctors' tendency to rely too much on high-tech testing? Just as patients feel better when they're getting scans and blood tests and all these things, I think the doctor has the same response. When you see that a patient is doing badly, a kind of low-level fear comes over a doctor, an anxiety that they're going to miss something. The most important quality in these doctors is that they just know so much.

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House is very reluctant to talk about the incident which damaged his leg and can be easily offended when it is brought up. On one occasion where he told a group of students about the leg injury, (but disguised his identity), he becomes furious when they, like his original doctors, couldn't figure out what was wrong. It's known, however, that during this time he did indeed live in Princeton. About ten years before the series started, House participated in a paintball game pitting doctors against lawyers. One of the lawyers, Stacy Warner, shot House and put him out of the game. He asked her out and, despite her acceptance, the couple's first date was a disaster.

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However, to keep House from going to jail, Wilson refuses to testify and Cuddy perjures herself in court to have the charges against House dismissed. House also "hides" from patients and refuses to meet them; claiming to his staff it helps not to get attached to the patient. However, when he does meet a patient who refuses treatment because of prior misdiagnosis, House is able to empathise with her and reveals the damage to his leg was also caused by misdiagnosis.

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In 2012, after a year since House crashed his car into Cuddy's home, he serves his time behind bars at the East New Jersey Correctional Facility under the close watch of the prison warden. However, he seems to have been sentenced unnecessarily hard for a first offense. House states he is going to research dark matter, citing galactic rotation and detection, if he leaves medicine.

The second was Berton Roueché, who wrote feature pieces on unusual medical cases during his 50 years as a staff writer for The New Yorker. To bring it full circle, Sanders ended up as a technical advisor on the series. Ran Laurie was a British physician, rowing champion, and Olympic gold medallist.

We have to figure out ways to make up for the fact that patients buzz through the hospital, mostly staying three days or less, and residents spend less than 80 hours a week in the hospital. Eighty hours a week sounds like a lot, but while the hours have shrunk, the workload hasn't. House's willingness to take risks and experiment with his patients extends to his own health.

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As of June 16, 2009, the show has been aired in more than 60 countries, with 86 million viewers worldwide.[13] In the following list, the number in the first column refers to the episode's number within the entire series. "US viewers in millions" refers to the number of Americans in millions who watched the episode live while it was broadcast or by a few hours later with a digital video recorder. "Ultimately, it’s House making a sacrifice — and yet not making a sacrifice," creator David Shore told Entertainment Weekly at the time. During this season, Cameron starts getting romantically interested in House, but House appears disinterested. Matters are complicated when PPTH gets a new chairman, Edward Vogler, a billionaire holding the hospital a virtual hostage with a donation of $100 million. He takes a dislike to the "hardly working" House and after a series of clashes that result in Cameron resigning, seeks to have him fired.

Laurie was in Namibia at the time filming Flight of the Phoenix when he sent in a self-made and totally improvised audition tape. To add to the authenticity, he filmed the tape in his hotel bathroom because, he said, “It was the only place with enough light.” Talk about dedication. House's ex-girlfriend and possibly the only woman House has ever shown outward emotion for. Although their relationship broke up over House's anger about his disability, it's clear that they are physically, emotionally, and intellectually attracted to each other. Unlike most people, Stacy can see right through House's defensiveness and can often see through his attempts to manipulate her. Most of House's fear of relationships can probably be tracked back to the pain he felt when Stacy walked out of his life.

House is a total maverick and has stated that he frequents prostitutes. In one episode, his best friend Dr. Wilson states that House could have Asperger's Syndrome, but later tells House that he only wishes he had Asperger's so he could get away with more in life. Wilson has also told House that his obsession with solving cases has nothing to do with saving lives but that while "some doctors have a Messianic complex, House has a Rubik's complex", that is to say, he's more concerned with figuring out what is wrong with his patients than he is with saving their lives. This is shown when he sometimes tries to diagnose patients after they're dead, such as in the episode "97 Seconds".

A week later, however, she moved in with him and the two stayed together for the next five years. He witnessed the respect given to a buraku doctor who solved the case no other doctor could.[16] He also spent some time in the Philippines, where he had dental surgery. The series' executive producers included Shore, Attanasio, Attanasio's business partner Katie Jacobs, and film director Bryan Singer.

He is a Board Certified Diagnostician with a double specialty of Infectious Disease and Nephrology. House has also been known to act as a mooch at times, frequently stealing food from Wilson. In "You Don't Want to Know", while House is searching for the cause of Thirteen's twitching, he claims to have stolen money from her wallet.[61] In the same episode, Wilson later observes that House's blood type is AB, the universal recipient, reflecting his desire to take whatever he can.

Dr. James Wilson is a direct parallel to Holmes’ partner Dr. John Watson. Rebecca Adler, a patient in the pilot, is named after the main antagonist in the Sherlock Holmes novels. And at the end of season 2, House is shot by a man named Jack Moriarty. In the Holmes books, the detective’s arch-nemesis is criminal mastermind James Moriarty.

Wilson has noted that this has led to a co-dependent relationship, with Wilson acting as an enabler. For example, Wilson has kept House well-supplied with Vicodin and often makes excuses for his behavior to get House out of trouble. For those who know both of them, they realize that Wilson will drop everything when House needs him. When Stacy (House's ex-girlfriend) eventually left House, it was Wilson who kept him going. However, Wilson is no pushover; he often challenges House over his behavior and is not above tricking him to show House that although he might be right about almost everything, that skill doesn't apply to his own behavior.