{"id":166544,"date":"2025-11-06T19:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/166544\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T19:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:11:10","slug":"cedia-expo-cix-2025-podcast-van-evolution-of-audio-design-outdoor-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/166544\/","title":{"rendered":"CEDIA Expo\/CIX 2025 Podcast Van: Evolution of Audio Design & Outdoor Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

At\u00a0CEDIA Expo\/CIX 2025<\/a>, amid the noise and energy of the show floor,\u00a0Harman\u00a0Luxury Audio Group\u2019s Jim Garrett joined\u00a0Convo by Design host Josh Cooperman inside the Volkswagen ID. Buzz \u201cPodcast Van\u201d for a conversation about the state of the audio industry, design integration and how technology continues to reshape the indoor and outdoor spaces.<\/p>\n

Garrett, senior director of product strategy and planning for\u00a0Harman Luxury Audio<\/a>, oversees the direction of high-end brands such as Arcam, JBL, JBL Synthesis, Revel and Mark Levinson. This year, he notes, was particularly unique for Harman as the company co-exhibited with its parent, Samsung, resulting in one of the largest booths at the show. The collaboration reflected a broader industry trend toward unified ecosystems.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ll tell you exactly what\u2019s on their mind,\u201d Garrett says. \u201cThey\u2019ll tell you how much they love it \u2014 and how you can improve it.\u201d He emphasizes that open feedback from integrators helps Harman refine designs and address real-world installation challenges. \u201cThis is a team effort,\u201d he explained. \u201cThey don\u2019t win without us, and we don\u2019t win without them.\u201d<\/p>\n

That feedback also underscores one of Garrett\u2019s biggest priorities: reconciling performance with aesthetics. \u201cTechnology should be there, but it should be invisible behind the scenes,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n


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Garrett describes the industry\u2019s ongoing effort to minimize what he called \u201cwall acne\u201d \u2014 visible control panels and speaker grilles that interrupt carefully designed interiors. Harman\u2019s development of thinner, hidden and even invisible loudspeakers mirrors how lighting design evolved from bulky fixtures to discreet, minimalist accents.<\/p>\n

Entertainment Spaces Are Now Gathering Hubs<\/p>\n

The conversation also turned outdoors, where Garrett says entertainment has increasingly migrated. Harman is partnering with Samsung\u2019s\u00a0weather-rated Terrace displays and\u00a0JBL Professional landscape speakers to deliver audio and video that blend into outdoor gardens and patios. Whether indoors or outside, Garrett observes, entertainment spaces have become gathering hubs rather than isolated theaters \u2014 spurred in part by lifestyle changes from the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people don\u2019t really know what good is because they\u2019ve never heard it,\u201d Garrett remarks. \u201cCEDIA is about awareness \u2014 showing what\u2019s possible in performance, design and simplicity.\u201d<\/p>\n

For both Cooperman and Garrett, the takeaway was clear: technology in modern times isn\u2019t just about sound and vision \u2014 it\u2019s about experience, invisibility and connection.<\/p>\n

Watch the whole conversation between Jim Garrett and Josh Cooperman below!<\/p>\n

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Editor\u2019s note: This article originally appeared on our sister site, CEPRO.com<\/a>, and has since been updated for the commercial AV audience.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At\u00a0CEDIA Expo\/CIX 2025, amid the noise and energy of the show floor,\u00a0Harman\u00a0Luxury Audio Group\u2019s Jim Garrett joined\u00a0Convo by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[95812,95813,18,19,17,95814,25569,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-166544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-audio-design","9":"tag-cedia-expo-cix-2025","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-outdoor-av","14":"tag-podcast","15":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}