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Hello and welcome to lightspeed consulting. 

A small Family Style and super fun orientated company located in the Queen City of Charlotte NC where you can find information about the latest in everything audio and video technology. 

See some of our high-quality installation practices. Get advice before you make new purchases and generally talk about anything that might be possible.

Having done some truly amazing systems over the years its easy to learn the sky is the limit. Limited only by your imagination.

So let me tell you a little about lightspeed consulting.

Lightspeed Consulting was started in an effort to continue to interact with all of the fun consumer electronics I had grown to love and to support the clients who had made these purchases. This happened after the company I had worked for since early 2000 sadly went bankrupt during the christmas of 2008 .

I had worked for an $800,000,000.00 company, The Tweeter home entertainment group for many years.

In the beginning, I was employed as a lead installation technician and that progressed into a management position running a very large install dept Working out of one of the top ten stores in the entire country. In later years that had progressed into a small region covering 4 stores across two states, North and South Carolina. I had the privilege of working with some phenomenal installers, salespeople and store managers over the years. Some of them have gone on to other things and some of them help out when needed. Having been in and around the audio-video industry since 1992 where a Pioneer laserdisc player hooked to a big heavy CRT tube TV was considered cutting edge!

I can still remember my first stereo VHS player, A Toshiba top loader with giant piano keys. But at the time it didn't seem like it would ever get better than this. The stereo output hooked into my 2 channel amp hooked to a pair or speakers that had paper cones and a horn tweeter.

It has been an interesting time seeing the flat panel TV come into its own. With The advent of Hi-definition , Bluray DVD movies and HD television broadcasts, and all the wonderful streaming services we have now,with all the Incredible sound formats, Dolby digital AC3 becoming Dolby digital 5.1 and then 7.1, DTS, Dolby TrueHD and not forgetting Mr. Lucas and his THX sound format. More recently adding DTS Master audio 7.1 for amazingly clear crisp well-defined sound.

In a world where everything lives on the internet we can do voice activated music , incredible lighting controls both for inside your home and your yard thanks to reliable LED light sources. Make you home safe as you never walk into a dark environment ever again , landscape lights that turn on at dusk and off at dawn. 

Being a passionate movie lover and collector it has been a wonderful time over the last 25 years to see all this new technology come to fruition and grow into an incredible industry that now allows us to have the cinematic experience in the comfort of our own homes .To be able to install and play with some incredible high end super reliable equipment producing the best in picture and sound. To at times be truly surrounded by sound and immersed into the most amazing movie and TV environment.

Lightspeed consulting also surrounds itself with a host of highly talented business partners so if I don't know the answer chances are I know someone who does.

thanks for stopping on by.

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Barrie J Clark

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