Finding Smart Products…
During Energy Management Month, all of us at Magnolia like to focus on the energy smart products we offer. Perhaps you’d be surprised that there are quite a few. It’s by using these products, in combination with some of the tips mentioned in part one, that really help you to save energy, the environment and money.
I’ll start with what’s probably the most obvious solution Magnolia offers, and one most people probably don’t realize we even have. Solar panels. Offered at our Magnolia Design Center locations on the West Coast, Magnolia provides complete solar solutions for your home. Yep, those panels that sit on your roof and turn the suns rays into power. It’s a relatively new venture for Magnolia, but one we’re proud to provide for those looking for the ultimate in energy savings.
Start with What You Have…
April is Energy Management Month at Magnolia. It’s the time of year we like to celebrate our Energy Star® qualified products. Now you might be saying, some of the gear you sell sucks energy faster than Ferrari sucks gasoline. Well, it’s true, when you want to go 180 miles-per-hour you need the fuel behind it to make the car go – just like when you want to blast the latest beats from a formula 1 audio system, you’ll need a lot of energy. But at Magnolia, we’re doing what we can, with what we can, to make it easier for customers to control that energy when it’s not in use, and to actively seek out products that focus on energy management when appropriate.
It all starts with a seed, a little kernel of knowledge that spreads from a simple switch to the rest of your house. It’s like the weeds in my lawn – there are only a few in Spring, but by Autumn they’ve taken over. It’s a good way to look at home energy management, in my opinion. Start small and then work your way up.
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It’s fourth down, goal to go. Three seconds left on the clock and your favorite team calls its final timeout. A win means you’re in the playoffs, a loss and the season is over. As the team heads toward the sidelines for some final instructions from the coach, you quickly go online to see what the chances are of them scoring if they run versus if they pass. You also see how your fantasy team is doing to see if you’re going to make the fantasy football playoffs as well.
Quickly clicking back to the game you watch as the ball is snapped and a miraculous catch is made in the corner of the endzone! You explode in excitement as you Skype your best friend who was cheering for the other team. When you’re done rubbing the victory in their face, you go back online to watch the final catch five or ten more times then look to see when and where your first playoff game will be.
The crazy part about all of this? You did it all on your TV, no computer required.
When you purchase the latest flat-panel TV or a pair of room-shaking speakers, you know that years of painstaking innovation, engineering and design went into making these products the incredible audio and video masterpieces that they are. But did you know that what you place them on, in or around may be equally as incredible in their aesthetic and functionality.
Have you heard of OPPO? Unless you’re a true audio and/or videophile, chances are you haven’t. Because OPPO doesn’t spend their time on advertising and marketing, they spend their time on producing, designing and engineering the finest Blu-ray players on the market today. You see, OPPO doesn’t even have dedicated Marketing and Sales. Instead, they rely on word-of-mouth, allowing their products to speak for themselves.
And boy do these products speak loud and clear. OPPO solely produces some of the best Blu-ray Disc Players that you’ll find on the market today. Why you may ask? It’s the audio. OPPO offers some of the finest quality sound you’ll find, even when compared to premium high fidelity CD players. All this is made possible by the high quality electronics that go into every OPPO product, designed and built to deliver style, performance and innovation. Like the SABRE 32-bit Reference DAC, balanced XLR and Toroidal transformer and the DTS-HD Master Audio that gives the OPPO BDP95 its mind blowing sound quality. It’s this attention to core product performance and OPPO’s strong customer focus that distinguishes them from traditional consumer-electronics brands and makes OPPO the product of choice for many audio and videophiles.
Simply ask anyone who has owned an OPPO product and you’re sure to hear the same things, they’re the best. In elite product terms, they’re the Rolls Royce of cars or the Rolex of watches. The best, of the best, of the best. And like the aforementioned brands, you won’t find OPPO just anywhere, in fact, the only place you can go and try out an OPPO product is Magnolia. And being the exclusive retailer of OPPO – Magnolia once again shows its ability to bring great products to exclusive customers who know a great product when they see it, hear it and feel it.
Part 2: Connecting with Technology
It wasn’t long ago when your home electronics just did one thing. A TV was just for watching broadcast programs, a phone was just for calling friends and home automation didn’t even exist. Today, everything does just about everything, and if it doesn’t, it will probably connect to something else that does. And thus you have, the connected world.
The world is becoming more and more connected: from how individuals connect with friends and family (Part 1), to how technology works together like never before (Part 2). It’s amazing how these connections have changed our lives and are quickly changing how we live everyday.
Part 1: Connecting with Friends and Family:
Communication, it’s a wonderful thing. No matter if our friends, families or business associates are thousands of miles away, or just across town, we can connect with them in mere seconds. With Smartphones, laptops, tablets or even your TV, today you can connect like never before. You can call, e-mail, text, facebook, Skype, twitter or any number of iterations of these to connect with anyone, nearly anywhere, at anytime.
You gotta see this… it’s an expression we hear often, but rarely does it live up to its billing. Well, the MartinLogan CLX is a speaker you’ve not only “gotta see”, you’ve gotta hear as well. Rarely does the opportunity come along to listen to a legendary speaker of this magnitude. Because the CLX isn’t just a speaker, it represents the culmination of everything MartinLogan has learned about electrostatic technology. Purity of sound permeates the entire room and satisfies even the most critical ear. The industry benchmark for resolving detail, CLX utilizes dual electrostatic transducers to render the most complex musical passages as faithfully as a crystal prism disperses the full color spectrum. This is the limitless spectrum of the CLX – the absolute truth in musical reproduction, and we’re taking it on tour. Listen to a demo, speak with experts from MartinLogan, than try to not want a pair for yourself.
One Day Only from 4 p.m. – 9 P.M. in the Following Locations:
Santa Monica | 2800 Wilshire Blvd Friday, August 19
Mission Valley | 5151 Mission Center Rd (inside Best Buy) Sunday, August 21 (closes at 8 p.m.)
Bellevue | 14404 NE 20th Street Friday, August 26
Santana Row | 3090 Stevens Creek Blvd (inside Best Buy) Saturday, August 27
San Ramon | 110 Sunset Drive Sunday, August 28
Perimeter | 201 Hammond Drive (inside Best Buy) Thursday, September 15
Bucktown | 2100 N. Elston Ave (inside Best Buy) Saturday, September 17
As Magnolia introduces the Bowers & Wilkins brand to its audience of audio lovers nationwide, Magnolia and B&W have a powerful partner in introducing and selling this brand to an audience of luxury enthusiasts – and that partner is Jaguar.
Last year Jaguar solicited B&W to create an audio system in their new XJ series. And while car audio offered new challenges to the speaker maker, the result was nothing short of amazing. To see the Jaguar XJ is one thing, but to sit in the cockpit and hear a car hi-fi system that packs 20 B&W speakers and 1200 watts of power is an otherworldly experience. A system of this quality would cost upwards of $13,000 if you were to put it in your home – so those who invest in the new Jaguar XJ are also investing in one hell of an audio system – making them more than just casual enthusiasts of the brand, but all out devotees.
It’s relationships like this, along with their relationship with music studios, movies studios and audiophiles worldwide, that makes Bowers & Wilkins such a powerful brand. A brand we are proud to partner with and bring to a whole new world of dedicated audiophiles who are looking for nothing but the best.
Almost everyone has that one thing they’re really passionate about. Whether it’s following a sport or a sports team, playing an instrument, admiring great art, or eating the finest foods. Whatever that passion may be, it often defines who they are, and shapes what they do and how they do it.
At Magnolia, audio is that passion. It’s at the heart of nearly everything we do. Oh sure, a 60-inch 3D HDTV looks amazing and makes for the perfect focal point in any room, but it’s the speakers and components that truly allow you to experience your home theater system like never before. It’s audio that takes you from just watching the game, to feeling the game wrap around you. Or turns listening to a CD into a truly magical experience, as the walls melt away and you find yourself right on stage with your favorite band. Whether it’s music or movies, sports or gaming, it’s great audio that transforms the action of watching and listening, to one of being totally absorbed in the experience.
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