Louis Armstrong, the King of Queens The New York Times

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• Louis Armstrong House Museum Opens New Cultural Center at 34-40 107th Street in Corona, Queens
• Louis Armstrong Center
• The Armstrong Center
• Finalists for the National Medal for Museum and Library Service!
• The National Medal for Museum and Library Service
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Since 2003, this National Historic Landmark has been open to the public weekly for individual and group tours with support provided by the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Queens College/CUNY, and other lead donors and partners. Louis Armstrong was already a worldwide star — a seasoned headliner with a Hollywood profile — when his wife, Lucille, surprised him with the purchase of a modest house in Corona, Queens, in 1943. He got his first glimpse of the place fresh off tour, rolling up in a taxicab. (He invited the cab driver to come in and check it out with him.) "The more Lucille showed me around the house the more thrill'd I got," Armstrong later wrote. Discover the city’s most unique and surprising places and events for the curious mind.

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

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 theNew York City Council. The Dormitory Authority of the State of New York(DASNY) led the construction project. The Museum is announcing the upcoming season of its groundbreaking Armstrong Now, which will feature the creation and debut of new works by Esperanza Spalding, Amyra León and Antonio Brown. Writer Rebecca Bengal and photographer Chris Mottalini are exploring New York City’s boroughs through its blocks, one each in the Bronx, Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island. They previously visited City Island’s Hunter Avenue and Manhattan’s Washington Square Village and Silver Towers.

Louis Armstrong Center

The museum is also announcing the upcoming season of its Armstrong Now performance series, which will feature the creation and debut of new works by Esperanza Spalding, Amyra León, and Antonio Brown. A week after the museum’s block party, the stretch of 107th Street appeared more like a church Sunday than the Friday before Labor Day. Junior Armstead stopped me to say hello; he’d changed out of his work clothes into a navy blue dress shirt and several of his signature custom-made rings.

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The Armstrong Center

LAHM administers the historic house under a long-term license agreement with the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and Queens College. The house where jazz legend Louis Armstrong lived and died is now a tribute to his life and legacy. The Louis Armstrong House Museum, still furnished as it was when Louis and his wife Lucille lived there, lets viewers peek into the intimate life of the couple, while its collection pays tribute to his public accomplishments and contributions to the world of jazz. The world`s most famous jazz musician could have lived anywhere, but in 1943, he settled in a modest house in Corona, Queens where he and his wife lived for the remainder of their lives. Bessie “Baby Ruth” Williams, Lucille’s housekeeper since 1973, continued to clean and preserve the house, eventually serving as the museum’s first caretaker and manager.

Designed by Caples Jefferson Architects, the two-story building comprises 14,000 square feet and sits between two single-family homes. The massing of the structure resembles a giant piano and features an undulating glass façade with black ornamental fins, a large metal canopy above a second-floor terrace, and a green roof with modest landscaping. Ticketing and information about all of the Louis Armstong Museum’s events and programs can be found here. On a late summer night in Corona, Queens, approaching 107th Street between 34th and 37th avenues, a Chinese-American woman in purple scrubs dances her way around the corner, a little sideways strut, making an entrance into the Louis Armstrong House Museum’s annual block party. On a sidewalk stage, when Roland Guerrero, leader of an eponymous quartet, proudly references his Honduran Garifuna heritage (which includes African, Caribbean, Central American, and European roots), the crowd applauds.

The National Medal for Museum and Library Service

The Armstrong Corona campus is a Queens-based hub for inspiration and learning, economic development and tourism. For local neighbors, city, national, and international visitors, the new campus will permanently establish Armstrong’s legacy as one of the most influential figures in American and Global History. Advance ticket purchase required to visit the new Center and the historic house. Tickets are non-refundable, but can be re-scheduled if guests have contacted the museum before the start time of their tour. The opening of the 14,000 square foot Center has spurred the creation of new programming.

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.

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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.

Historic House Tour + Here to Stay

Heraldo’s home is a time capsule too, currently serving as office space for museum staff, and, during the summer jazz concerts and block party, a green room for the band. Louis called her “Little Dynamite” even though, at 5 feet 6 inches, he was not much taller than she; the museum programmers relied on her for public speaking and impromptu recollections. Open to the public since fall 2003, the Louis Armstrong House Museum is an exuberantly decorated time capsule, a window into the down-to-earth life of an artist, a pivotal period of music history. It is also both a portal to a neighborhood’s past and a link to its future. The Museum also recently launched an outreach program to local schools, providing trumpet lessons, made possible by a donation of musical instruments from Ken Karnofsky, a descendant of the same family who helped Armstrong buy his first instrument. Ticketing and information about all of the museum’s events and programs can be found at here.

No two rooms are alike — “I guess ‘Rococo’ is the word I could use without losing my job,” Harris said of the overall aesthetic — though many are surprisingly modest, especially given Armstrong’s larger-than-life presence. He is the only person ever to have hit records in the ’20s, ’30s, ’40s, ’50s and ’60s. He played behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War and in the Democratic Republic of Congo during decolonization in 1960, during which both sides of a civil war called a truce to watch him perform, then picked up fighting again once his plane took off. The gold sconces offer a glimmer of opulence, but the walls themselves are covered in a subdued, cream-colored wallpaper — the same wallpaper that covered them at least 50 years ago. It matches the upright piano standing against one wall, and the two twill couches. There’s also a small TV — one of the first on the block — that sits low to the floor, so that the neighborhood children whom Armstrong would invite over (he never had kids of his own) could sit comfortably on the floor to watch Westerns.

In addition the interior of the house was renovated to their taste.[7] Ornate bathrooms, and the kitchen was not originally part of the house. Paintings and souvenirs were given to Louis Armstrong on tour from Asia, Europe to Africa. These gifts[8] have found a home of their own on dressers, night stands, shelves and walls.

The Museum is announcing the upcoming season of its groundbreaking Armstrong Now, which will feature the creation and debut of new works by Esperanza Spalding, Amyra León, and Antonio Brown. Armstrong Now will provide established and emerging artists with a platform to create new work inspired by Armstrong’s legacy, as well as the vast collection of artifacts and documents in the Armstrong archives. “His star shines bright worldwide, but especially here at his home in Corona, Queens,” Moran says. “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.

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• Visiting Louis Armstrong’s ‘Wonderful World’
• Jazz history comes to life in Corona
• Community
• Tour Capacity
• Louis Armstrong Center
• Historic House Tour + Here to Stay

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.

Visiting Louis Armstrong’s ‘Wonderful World’

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.

Jazz history comes to life in Corona

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.

Community

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.

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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.

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.

Louis Armstrong Center

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.

Here to Stay Exhibition Only

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.

Historic House Tour + Here to Stay

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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This is best because you won’t have messy wires running from one room to another. In that case it won’t be a DIY multi-room speaker system and you will need professional help. To find the best suitable method for building a multi-room system, you need to figure out your requirements. This includes number of zones, type of content for other zone, control option and many more.

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You can easily connect multi-room ceiling speaker system, or any other type of speaker like bookshelf or floorstanding. The rear side has analog audio in, speaker terminals, sub out, HDMI ARC, etc. This receiver allows playing video and audio in Zone 2 and 3 via line-level output, speaker-level output, or composite or component video. You can play TV in Zone 2 while connecting a pair of speakers in Zone 3. Separate amplifiers can be used on Zone 2 and 3, then connect it to the receiver in main zone.

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This all-in-one system from Sony provides a classic contemporary design for home music listeners in a compact casing. It's a simple setup that is as visually appealing as it is sonically affluent. It's the perfect system for a kitchen, office space, or bedroom that's calling for high-quality audio sound. It has 400 watts of peak power, which will be more than enough to suck you into your favorite movies or music. Also, using the satellite speakers, you can move them anywhere and set up the sound to broadcast the way that you want.

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Still, it remains one of the best multi-room speakers around, especially at the money – it's currently available for around half its £500 / $500 launch price. Like all Sonos products, it's quality through and through, with a sturdy yet elegant design, fantastic app and plenty of streaming options. Especially when you experience its real-time, surroundings-based sound optimisation – move it to another room, and you can hear it adjusting its output to match the new layout.

Is a DIY multiroom audio system possible?

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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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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.

If bass is the main thing on your mind, consider a bass reflex system. There are a ton of factors that will determine what will be a good home stereo system for you. Based on price, power, sound quality, connectivity, intended use, functionality, compatibility, and many other things, you will want to find the exact system that is right for your home audio needs. Remember that even the greatest stereo system in the world might not be right for you - it all depends on your preferences. It comes with a ton of connectivity options for RCA, AUX, Headphones, Bluetooth, and more. Instead of using your phone as the remote, it has a remote control, which is a little outdated, considering the app level integration used by many current audio suppliers.

Plug the IR emitters into the source distribution module (Photo 12). Run a Cat-5e cable from the distribution hub to a low-voltage remodeling box located in the wall behind your audio source. Strip the sheathing and punch the wires down into the terminals of a Cat-5e module jack. Snap the jack into a cover plate and screw the plate to the box.

Wireless speakers can also be more expensive than the wired kind. But most of the time I use AirPlay 2 — built in to BluOS — to select which systems I want to play music on and control playback and volume. That’s mostly because it’s so easy — all three systems show up as speakers from within my streaming music service’s app. I use Qobuz, but it works the same way with Spotify, Tidal, Pandora, and many others. Here are tons of approaches you could take to getting your music to play throughout your house.

Johnson is a long-term advocate of cutting Social Security and Medicare benefits through changes such as raising the retirement and eligibility ages for the programs. The outgoing speaker will usually join the successor at the speaker’s chair, where they will pass the gavel as a nod to the peaceful transition of power from one party leader to another. This time around, that will be Pelosi, the California Democrat who held the gavel for the last four years. Many are skeptical that McCarthy will reach a majority to become speaker on the first ballot.

For example, I’ve got three different hi-fi stereo systems in my home, and use the BluOS ecosystem — two Nodes and an NAD C700 integrated amp — to connect them together. One Node is powered by my vintage Harman Kardon Stereo Recital II receiver, the other by my Mission LX Connect wireless powered speaker system. If you love listening to music in high fidelity like I do, you don’t have to stick with a single brand to have multi-room audio in your house. Wired solutions are more complicated to install, but you’ll have a more stable connection to your speakers, and if the internet drops out, your music still plays. Check out Crutchfield writer Deia’s article on powering speakers in multiple rooms. Broad-platform ecosystems like Chromecast and Apple AirPlay2 come built into a large and growing number of components.

Crutchfield content manager Tara's treehouse is like another room when the weather's nice; she keeps the music flowing with a pair of these Sonos outdoor speakers powered by a Sonos Amp. The JBL 4305P Studio Monitors wireless powered speakers deliver reference-quality audio and feature Chromecast built-in, AirPlay 2, and other multi-room options. Denon’s wireless multi-room speakers use the HEOS operating system, which also comes built into a lot of their components.

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You can adjust volume of each speaker in different room individually. The volume knob on the amp/receiver act as a master volume for all speakers. It has a frequency response of 20-20kHz +/-1.2 dB and total attenuation of 54dB. You can easily place them with your TV or simply use them to listen to music for medium-sized rooms. You can connect subwoofer and SVS makes some of the best subwoofers. If a component has remote control capability, you can control it from the keypads.

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Bringing music into every room isn’t the complex, high-cost project it was several years ago. Now, thanks to simplified systems, you can easily install speakers and remote control access throughout your house for a modest cost. We’ll tell you what to buy and show you how to run the wires and mount the speakers and controls. Run wire and install speakers and distribution modules so that you can control music by remote control throughout the house.

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It supports the widest variety of streaming services, features a diverse array of great-sounding speakers, and is easier to set up and use than most multiroom systems. If you're hooked on the idea of wireless audio, but don't want to replace your perfectly capable wired speakers with the wireless kind, a digital media adapter may be the way to go. These adapters bridge a computer or mobile device to a home theater receiver either by WiFi or Bluetooth wireless.

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But first you have to stick a flasher in front of the components’ infrared (IR) receiver. You may have to experiment a bit with the placement of the flashers, since it’s not always easy to spot the exact location of the IR receiver on the equipment. Position an infrared (IR) emitter over the IR receiver of each audio source component you wish to control from the amplified keypads.

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If you prefer Marshall’s styling or you like having tone controls on the speaker, rather than nested inside an app, you might prefer the Acton III. I’ve been reviewing audio gear professionally since 1990, having worked as an editor or writer for SoundStage, Sound & Vision, Home Theater Review, Home Theater Magazine, and numerous other publications. In that time, I’ve conducted and published more brand-concealed tests of audio products than any other journalist in the world. Take a look at our professional audio equipment, or reach out with questions.

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No wires are always a plus, and it keeps your room neat and clean looking. This hi-fi system is a little less potent than some of the other products on our list, but that's perfectly fine. As long as you're not trying to power a rave or shake the walls, the 50-watts of power will be enough to fill a living room. It's pretty affordable and would be a suitable option for anyone who wants to add excellent sound to any room in your house. The classic design is also quite pleasing and doesn't beg for attention. The speakers, receiver, and subwoofer are all connected via Bluetooth, so everything in your theatre room will be discreet and tidy.

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Like everything we rate, from printers to pickup trucks, CR buys speakers anonymously through regular retail channels. Our trained testers put each model through a battery of lab tests for ease of use, versatility, and especially sound quality, which earns extra weight in our ratings. Note that the ratings system is slightly different for wireless speakers and smart speakers, so you can’t directly compare the scores. However, to hear that degradation, you’d probably need a good set of stereo speakers or headphones, and even then you might not notice it.

Whether you’re building your dream home and wiring it for sound or looking to get into the wonderful world of wireless streaming, you’ve never had so many solid choices for whole-house audio. However, you will often see consumers seeking a wired whole house audio system. This is because they believe a wired music system will deliver precise and accurate audio.

Objectively comparing sound quality was a little tougher, as level-matching the different speakers was difficult. But I got them as close as I could, after which I had my wife stream identical tracks to different speakers and different systems while I either sat or walked around the room. If you care only about playing music in one room, a single Wi-Fi–based smart speaker or Bluetooth speaker will suffice. I have been reviewing headphones, speakers, AV receivers, home-automation systems, home theater gear, and high-end audio gear for nearly two decades.

Its midrange isn’t as neutral, so voices don’t sound quite as natural. The Sonos system supports the most services and has a wide selection of excellent-sounding speakers, comprehensive search features, and a well-organized app that runs on almost all major mobile platforms. The platform benefits from hardware and software upgrades quite regularly. Our expertise ranges from professional car audio to home theater equipment to audio accessories. We recommend going with a multizone receiver to create wired whole home audio system.

We also cover Sonos’s portable speakers in our guide to the best portable Bluetooth speakers. Overall, our biggest complaint is that we wish Bluesound offered more speakers that look and feel as upscale as the Pulse M. The Bluesound streaming platform also gives Sonos a serious run for its money in easy setup and bests Sonos in intuitive navigation and day-to-day ease of use.

Those fortunate enough to own a home with network wiring already installed throughout can enjoy a significant advantage. The same type of cables (CAT-5e) used to connect a computer network system can also distribute audio signals to multiple zones. You just need to place speakers and connect to the nearest compatible port. Although this type of wiring is capable of distributing audio signals, it cannot be used simultaneously for a computer network. However, you can use your computer to distribute audio over your wired home network in the form of digital audio files, internet radio, or online streaming services. This is a low-cost solution, especially if you already have a computer network installed.

Not when you factor in the Roam's nomadic abilities, AirPlay 2 support and robust build quality. It streams hi-res music up to 32-bit and offers direct streaming from Spotify Connect and Tidal. Throw in Apple AirPlay 2 and Google Chromecast, and you have access to yet more internet radio stations, plus Deezer, Qobuz and Google Play Music. Belying its box-like dimensions to deliver a truly satisfying experience, the Mu-so Qb 2nd Generation scooped up a What Hi-Fi? Award for the best home wireless speaker over £500 – for the second year running – and was our overall Product of the Year in 2022. This is peak Naim, so the sound is exactly as rich and pleasing as you'd expect.

Using YPAO technology, your system will calibrate itself correctly to the room you set it in. Every room is different, and having the proper acoustic configuration is vital for high-quality audio features. 5.1 surround sound will immerse you in the music or the movies that you're watching, and it will come through with great amplification and pleasing clarity. The YHT-493OUBL 5.1 system from Yamaha is a home theatre system in a box.

Check for a Speaker B in your receiver, like the Sony STR-DH750   or other brands. You can play speaker B only or play it simultaneously with speaker A. Since you can’t control the speaker B volume independently, the options are pretty limited.

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Shipping container houses take about 30% less time to build than traditional homes. Here are the average costs to build a single-family home by square footage. Home-Cost Instant Cost-to-Build Estimator offers fast, easy and approximate estimates to find out the construction costs to build your new home. View or download your reports, which have 70 to 350 lines of detailed cost summary (based on product selected). Adjust size of the home & quality level of design and material options to understand how changes will impact cost.

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Use our DIY shed cost calculator to estimate the cost of building a DIY shed. It'll help you decide on its size, roof type, and overhang length, and find the span of the roof rafter required. 2x4 stands for a system using 2-inch-by-4-inch studs made out of wood or steel. It's a light type of construction, while a heavy-type uses bricks and concrete. Houses built this way are way lighter than traditional ones; their building process takes less time and is much easier.

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Elevation grade calculator determines the grade or slope of a specific earthen area, given its "rise" and "run". This beam deflection calculator will help you determine the maximum beam deflection of simply-supported or cantilever beams subjected to simple load configurations. The board foot calculator determines the volume of lumber in board footage. When it comes to designing your home, a critical decision is the general home’s shape. The most cost-effective home to build is in the shape of either a square or a rectangle.

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Use this aluminum weight calculator to estimate the weight of your aluminum materials, no matter the shape or alloy. A pole barn house completely finished out costs $30 to $45 per square foot which makes it the cheapest house to build with quality in mind. Depending on where you live, your building permit costs will range from $400 to $4,000, and inspections will cost an average of $5,000. Your contractor can accurately schedule the inspections that will need to be carried out during construction. Another option in this arena is to purchase a new prefabricated tiny home.

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While we strive to provide a wide range of offers, Bankrate does not include information about every financial or credit product or service. One of the most important aspects of controlling the budget is to determine where money is going. By entering income and monthly expenditures, view how much money is left to save and how much money is being spent. In addition, click the "view report" button to compare the budget breakdown to our targets, which can help identify areas for improvement.

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You will also need to run utility lines back to your property, and possibly factor in the cost of grading the land and laying a driveway. Most developer-planned subdivisions will also have a playground, picnic tables, a BBQ area, and even a pool. On the downside, it could mean there is construction around your home for some time, and it won't be custom designed. Determining your cost to build is a process that narrows down the cost range with each subsequent step. Fill in all the above details in the home construction estimator’s respective options and click on the estimate cost option. All house plans and images on The House Designers® websites are protected under Federal and International Copyright Law.

The labor cost for an average 2,776-square-foot home will run about $68,000. Use the cost breakdown below to check bids provided by construction companies. These costs are based on a 2,000-square-foot home built at an average cost of $125 per square foot. The cost of materials and labor to build a house will average 75% of your home's final price.

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New Home Construction Tips Building a new home is very exciting, but does come with quite a few challenges as well. Here are some new home construction tips to help make the process easier for you. Get pre-qualified for your mortgage ahead of time When it comes to financing, building a home is very similar to buying a house that is already constructed. You will need to pre-qualify for mortgage in order to have the funds to finance your new home construction. Contact several lenders and provide them with the information they need such as your income, assets and debts to find out what size of mortgage you will qualify for. Before home construction begins be sure to get your final mortgage pre-approved.

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One of the biggest factors that will lower or increase your construction costs is whether you want a custom designed house or a prefabricated one. If your budget for constructing a new house is only 100,000K you may run into some trouble if you want to build a custom designed home. In most areas, the average cost to build a new 2,000 house is $275,000 – 310,000. When planning your budget for a custom built home, figuring out the quality of materials and finishes you want to use will make a huge difference in the total remodeling budget. Remember that in addition to the cost of building a home, you need to budget for the price of the land, as well as the cost of clearing and finishing the lot, landscaping, etc. You can customize flooring options, number of bathrooms, roofing and siding materials, type of windows, add a garage or a deck, etc.

Even if you do not know all construction aspects, do not remember algebraic formulas or have no skills in their application, you always can go for the construction estimating software. It can be used to do necessary calculations for purposes of a house construction, estimation of liquid volume, a roof area, estimation of construction materials amount needed. You only have to take a measurement tape and ensure accurate and precise measurements. At least once in a life, every one of us has had thoughts, plans or dreams about the construction of a dwelling house, ancillary building, garden walls or another structure. In some separate cases, a man can make choice in favor of various DIY solutions. Therefore, there is no need to highlight the importance of the project preparation process, correct drawings, and necessary estimation of the construction materials amount needed to realize the project.

This plate weight calculator will help you determine the weight of a plate-shaped material of any area, thickness, and density. The fence calculator determines how much materials you will need to buy to build a fence on your own. Your covered outdoor area could be a simple, open but covered space or an elaborate screened-in 3-season room. The next question after this one will allow you to specify the finish level of your covered outdoor area. The Dream Home Calculator will adjust the cost of your home based on your locale.

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• Find Out How Much Your Home Will Cost To Build
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Buying an existing home – The National Association of Realtors’ says the median cost of buying an existing single-family house is about $260,000. The seller's real estate agent and appraiser will determine the sales price when buying a home. For example, homes in the Northeast are about 55% more expensive than homes in the South. According to Craftsman’s National Estimator, the cost to frame a house ranges from $13 per square foot for lumber and labor costs for a single-story home to $22 per square foot for a two-story home. The average labor cost to build a home is roughly 39% of the total build cost and works out to about $34 per square foot.

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Find the required fire flow with our fire flow calculator to easily estimate the amount of water needed to suppress fires effectively. Use our road base calculator to calculate the amount of gravel required to construct a road base. The roof truss calculator is a handy tool that will help you estimate both the rafter length and the number of trusses needed for your roof.

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A home’s shape is one of the single largest factors in the structural cost. The more basic & simple the shape, the more economical the home is to build. And, you guessed it, the more involved & complicated the shape, the more expensive the home is to build. The following steps will help you navigate the home-building process with confidence.

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The average cost to build a modular prefab home is $80 to $160 per square foot. Of the three types of fabricated building structure options, modular homes are the most expensive, with a 2,500-square-foot home costing $200,000 to $365,000. The cost of house plans is $500 to $2,500, while an architect will cost an average hourly rate of $60 to $130 per hour, or $2 to $5 per square foot, for the design work. Our database of over 40,000 zip codes and 4,000 design and material options has you covered.

This board-on-board fence calculator determines how many pickets, posts, sections, and rails your fence needs. Use this wood beam span calculator to check a wood beam of a particular size and length to see if it can support a given uniform linear load by comparing its allowable and required bending and shear stress. Use our K-factor calculator to determine the position of the neutral axis in the sheet of metal you are planning to bend. This asphalt calculator determines the amount of asphalt needed for any asphalt pavement project and explains the basics of asphalt pavement installation. The roofing calculator lets you estimate the area and cost of your roof. This wainscoting calculator will help you calculate the measurements and dimensions concerning your DIY wainscoting or board and batten project.

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Find out the water flow rate of your shower with this gallons per minute calculator (GPM). The crushed stone calculator helps find the right amount of crushed stone or gravel to fill in the required area. Use this birdsmouth cut calculator to find the different essential dimensions and measurements on a rafter when creating a birdsmouth cut. Wallpaper calculator finds the number of wallpaper rolls you need to buy for your room.

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View this demo to get a look at the functions and options available to you. When finished, you can export a free PDF report of your dream home specifications. Prices can vary greatly depending on where you are building, and our Calculator takes that into account. It is important to keep in mind that modifications, depending on what you are looking to change or add, will drive up the initial price by as much as 30%.

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Input your zip code, square footage, number of bathrooms, and other data. Select quality level of materials and design characteristics of your home. One of the first questions anyone looking to build a custom home asks is, “How much will it cost? ” The Buildable Land/Build Calculator aims to give you a high-level description of what to expect. In the estimate process and the follow-up email, we will include a link to schedule a time with our team to discuss this in depth - if you want. You will need to contact a lender and figure out what kind of mortgage you will qualify for.

Use this pitch diameter calculator to find the basic, maximum, and minimum pitch diameter of ISO metric screw threads. Find the rate at which material is being removed when turning, milling, and drilling using the material removal rate calculator. Use this bending stress calculator to help you find the bending stress on a beam of any typical cross-section and dimensions, given the bending moment it experiences. This beam load calculator will help you determine the support reactions acting on a simply supported beam.

So, take advantage of our construction cost estimate Tool today and confidently embark on your project. If you have house building in mind simply use our apps to get costs estimation. The only you have to do is just to enter the price data in the corresponding boxes where they are. Thus, beside the drawings and basic data, you obtain the information about the approximate cost of construction materials and works. It comes useful while planning the future project budget and figuring the existing financial means. Moreover, the information you get will come in handy if you are going to supervise or monitor the work of the workers hired.

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• Here's how Thirteen got her name.
• Production team
• how and why House faked his death in the series finale
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A total of 177 episodes of House were broadcast over eight seasons, with the series finale airing on May 21, 2012. Most of House's series finale takes place inside a burning building, where Dr. House wakes up next to a dead patient (James LeGros) after partaking in some heroin (quite a step up from the main character's usual bottle full of Vicodin pills). For eight years the show brought in people from around the globe, bringing intrigue and mystery in the form of unusual medical cases in a vein reminiscent of the mysteries solved by Sherlock Holmes. Furthermore, these cases were the catalyst for the discussion of philosophical and ethical issues and decisions, a lot of which were not left with a clear victor, but all of which revealed more and more of the character of each of the different doctors that comprised the team each year. In the end, while the team didn't completely understand (or appreciate) House's methods fully, the show gives a final hurrah as each of the members walks away with something they realize was the right thing to do after all.

Here's how Thirteen got her name.

One of the doctors that I go to when I'm stumped has a screen saver on his computer that says, "Have you kept up with the literature today?" These are people who are constantly learning and adding to an already sizable knowledge base. That's very important, because a disease on the page is so different from the disease in a person. "House was an ass," he proclaims after trying to go through the motions of a regular speech. House prefers to be addressed as "House" by everyone and is rarely addressed as "Greg". The only people he doesn't object to addressing him as "Greg" are Stacy Warner and his parents. He usually takes being addressed as "Greg" as a sign that the individual is being overly familiar and he often goes out of his way to hint that it takes more than calling him by his first name to strike up a friendship with him.

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In the episode "Last Temptation", Masters takes the final choice to leave House's team. After being incarcerated following the events of "Moving On", House is released on probation thanks to Foreman, who has taken Cuddy's place as the Dean of Medicine. House is initially assigned a single team member, Dr. Chi Park (Charlyne Yi). After securing funding for his department in the season eight episode "Risky Business", House brings on former prison doctor Jessica Adams (Odette Annable) and rehires Chase and Taub.

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As Lisa Edelstein left the show before season eight, after this incident Cuddy leaves the hospital and House never sees her again. Each season introduces a recurring guest star, who appears in a multi-episode story arc.[5] The fourth season was the only exception to this pattern. It introduced seven new characters who compete for the coveted positions on House's team, replacing Cameron, Chase and Foreman.[4] House eventually selects Dr. Chris Taub (Peter Jacobson), Dr. Lawrence Kutner (Kal Penn) and Dr. Remy "Thirteen" Hadley (Olivia Wilde) as his new team; Foreman rejoins soon after. Following Kutner's death in season five, through a series of plot twists, House reacquires Chase, one of the original team members.[6]When House resigns early in season six, Foreman takes his place, but he soon fires Thirteen, and Taub quits because he was there only to work with House.

House confronted John with this information, and as a result they stopped speaking to one another for an entire summer, communicating only through hand-written notes. Their relationship, however, returned to normal following this brief spat (although there is sufficient evidence presented throughout the series that points towards John's abuse of a young House). John treated House coldly, likely due to a lack of understanding between the two. It could be said that John did not resent House, but was a believer in tough love.

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For years at PPTH, they seemed to deny this attraction, and each appeared to take active steps to discourage it - House pressing Cuddy's failure to keep active as a doctor and her strict adherence to medical protocol, and Cuddy emphasizing House's lack of work ethic and reliability. However, in the Season 6 Finale "Help Me", Cuddy tells House that she loves him while standing in his bathroom. Thinking it is another hallucination, House checks to make sure that he did not take the Vicodin. He had not, and it was true that Cuddy had ended her engagement because of her feelings for House.

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Another theory is that, considering his punishments were so harsh, John more than likely abused House as a way of exercising his frustration at Blythe's infidelity. This fact did not stop Blythe from supporting her husband, which made House all the more resentful towards his father. In One Day, One Room House confides in Eve that his father repeatedly abused him throughout his childhood, making him take ice water baths and sleep outside in the cold as a way of administering discipline. House strongly hints at this being the source of the fragility in he and his father's relationship.

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The younger Laurie once said he felt guilty "being paid more to become a fake version of my own father." "He was a very gentle soul and, I think, a very good doctor,” the actor told USA Today in 2004. Among the show’s many guest stars, Dave Matthews appeared on the “Half-Wit” episode of season 3. On two separate occasions, Dave Matthews songs were used in the series. "Some Devil" plays at the end of season 1’s “Love Hurts” episode and "You Might Die Trying" plays in season 5’s "Not Cancer." Fellow musician Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy later guest starred in season 8’s episode 17.

Cuddy once remarked that she hired him because she knew of his extraordinary skill as a diagnostician, although at a lower wage than would be acceptable for a doctor of House's expertise. To placate House and keep him from having to interact with the rest of the hospital staff on a regular basis, Cuddy created a whole new department just for him; the Department of Diagnostic Medicine, the only one of its kind in the entire country, enabling House to pick and choose any cases he desired, whenever he desired. House spent the next several years as Department Head doing as little as possible to keep his job, although he was assigned a star diagnostic team that he regularly abused and belittled.

He has contempt for most societal institutions, including feminism and religion. Despite his cynicism, he does seem to care about his colleagues to a certain extent and while considering them "idiots" is able to sometimes put aside his pride and apologize when he has offended them in a particularly sardonic fashion. House uses his flippancy to conceal his affection toward his colleagues, and denies it to the extent that he himself sometimes forgets it.

House agrees to be voluntarily admitted to Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital. As a result of the pain, House became addicted to the narcotic pain killer, Vicodin. It should be noted, however, that even before his disability, House admitted to recreational drug use. Although House realizes he is dependent, he believes the Vicodin is the only thing that will allow him to overcome the pain and allow him to function. His dependence on the drug has gotten him into trouble on several occasions, and his colleagues are unsure whether House's antisocial personality traits are the result of his addiction, his pain, or actual personality. At the age of 12, realizing that his father had been away during his conception, House deduced that John was not his biological father.

House finally settles on Foreman, Chris Taub, Lawrence Kutner, and Remy Hadley. It's at this time that former fellowship candidate, Amber Volakis, begins a relationship with Wilson. House believes this new relationship threatens his friendship with Wilson. At first untrusting of Amber's motives for involvement with Wilson, he tests and questions her and her responses appear to satisfy him as to her genuine interest in Wilson, if not with the eventual outcome of the relationship itself.