Hot off the press! This extraordinary home theater just won CEDIA's 2013 Electronic Lifestyles Award for Best Overall Home Theater ($1m & up) and a Gold Technical Award for design and engineering excellence. Congratulations to our partners Audio Images, TK Theaters, and SH Acoustics! This home cinema project is part of a drop-dead gorgeous entertainment wing of an extravagant estate in Irvine, California, which also includes a pizzeria, nightclub, and vintage arcade. The objectives with “Cinema Paradiso” were to create best-in-the-world audio and video performance along with motion-activated speakers, complete sound isolation, and simplicity of use. PMI worked with integrator Mark Ontiveros and his company Audio Images , designer Theo Kalomirakis of TK Theaters . And we engineered the project in collaboration with Steve Haas at SH Acoustics . The architecture of the wing was modeled after one of the homeowner’s favorite places: the center piazza in Sienna, Italy...