{"id":25,"date":"2009-12-05T13:23:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T19:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cis-nc.com\/wordpress\/?p=25"},"modified":"2010-02-04T13:00:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T19:00:41","slug":"inside-speakercraft%e2%80%99s-booth-at-cedia-expo-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cis-nc.com\/wordpress\/cisncuser\/audio-systems\/inside-speakercraft%e2%80%99s-booth-at-cedia-expo-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside SpeakerCraft\u2019s Booth at CEDIA Expo 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-68\" title=\"speakercraftbooth_300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cis-nc.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/speakercraftbooth_300.jpg\" alt=\"speakercraftbooth_300\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cis-nc.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/speakercraftbooth_300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cis-nc.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/speakercraftbooth_300-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>SpeakerCraft\u2019s <a title=\"CEDIA Expo 2009\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ce-pro.com\/cedianews\">CEDIA Expo 2009<\/a> booth couldn\u2019t be more different than its 2008 Expo booth.<\/p>\n<p>Last year the company de-emphasized products and played up business \u2014 albeit in the context of watching <a title=\"scantily clad dancers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ce-pro.com\/article\/speakercraft_at_cedia_2008_awesome_or_annoying\/\">scantily clad dancers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re displaying almost all of our products [this year],\u201d says Dave Donald, VP of marketing. The shift in focus is \u201csort of a yin and yang thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did our business message last year. And we took it out on the road all year. This year, we\u2019re back to products.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among the products <a title=\"SpeakerCraft\" href=\"http:\/\/www.speakercraft.com\/\">SpeakerCraft<\/a> is showing in booth 2418 are its <a title=\"Nirv multiroom audio system\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cepro.com\/article\/speakercraft_nirv_ip_based_audio_1080p_video_intercom_data_control_over_one\/\">Nirv multiroom audio system<\/a>, which president Jeremy Burkhardt teased as \u201c<a title=\"the largest product introduction ever\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cepro.com\/article\/norteks_debt_issues_wont_affect_linear_subsidiaries\/\">the largest product introduction ever<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SpeakerCraft also is showing its <a title=\"first-ever receivers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cepro.com\/article\/speakercraft_enters_receiver_market_with_scr710_scr910\/\">first-ever receivers<\/a> that are part of the new Vital line.<\/p>\n<p>SpeakerCraft\u2019s booth, of course, isn\u2019t without its flare. The large \u201cBurning Man\u201d-esque tents seem to attract installers \u2014 hence the relatively big crowds.<\/p>\n<p>We were wondering if SpeakerCraft\u2019s always-interesting booth would emphasis \u201c<a title=\"Nirv or Nudity\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.ce-pro.com\/article\/speakercraft_at_cedia_expo_2009_nirv_or_nudity\/\">Nirv or Nudity<\/a>.\u201d The answer is Nirv.<\/p>\n<p>By Tom LeBlanc<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cepro.com\/article\/inside_speakercrafts_booth_at_cedia_expo_2009\/K32\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.cepro.com\/article\/inside_speakercrafts_booth_at_cedia_expo_2009\/K32<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cis-nc.com\/\">Custom Installation Services, LLC <\/a>&#8211; Home Entertainment Audio and Video services in North Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpeakerCraft\u2019s CEDIA Expo 2009 booth couldn\u2019t be more different than its 2008 Expo booth. Last year the company de-emphasized products and played up business \u2014 albeit in the context of watching scantily clad dancers. \u201cWe\u2019re displaying almost all of our products [this year],\u201d says Dave Donald, VP of marketing. The shift in focus is \u201csort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[64,53,69,55,56,66,63,70,58,59,68,60,54,65,57,61,71,67,62,17],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cis-nc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cis-nc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cis-nc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cis-nc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cis-nc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cis-nc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.cis-nc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cis-nc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cis-nc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cis-nc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}