WHY AMBLESIDE?
PERSONAL SERVICE
We know our customers, they know us. You'll find continuity of support - the designer, project manager, technicians and programmers remain available for your project rather than being passed around the company from department to department. Our relationship with our customers together with our regional focus allows us to proactively service - upgrades are accomplished during vacation periods, service issues with Comcast or AT&T are visible across multiple customers - we stay in touch and worry about the systems so our customers don't have to.
FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS
For many owners (and integration firms) it seems like 90% of the fun is picking the products. We work with an extremely narrow range of products for a particular type of customer. Instead of spending time engineering how to make your system work at all, we spend more time on speaker + display position, training and documentation and on-time/on-budget delivery.
INFRASTRUCTURE
We think a lot about infrastructure. The electronics will be replaced in time but the infrastructure of the home is forever. Many customers come to us because of our sophisticated approach to infrastructure decisions. Read more about it here:
DESIGN PATTERNS
We see a lot of inconsistency in system design - some of it comes from owners heads, others from competing firms. System designs, at their core, are NOT to be optomized room by room. That doesn't mean that each room has the same display, speakers, sources or that each room must have the same sources. But the method of operation and infrastructure behind the scenes should be consistent.
CENTRAL IS BETTER
Many problems in system reliability come from inadequate cooling. Figuring out where gear should go is hard. We advocate fully-centralized systems as an entry level multi-room approach - not just a high-end luxury item. With no furniture, cooling, power or any other requirements, multi-room video systems can be built today without any gear. Gaming is still local but increasingly movie watching is becoming less dependent on DVD's.