A private lounge entrance framed by a full-height glass sliding door, set into warm honey-toned oak trim, needed a speaker that would announce the room's sound before a guest even stepped through — without interrupting the glass itself or the book-matched marble feature wall visible beyond it. Cane was mounted directly onto the oak door jamb, blending with the trim's own colour.
Case Study at a Glance
- Space: private lounge glass-door entrance
- Product: Cane (23mm slim-array)
- Mounting surface: honey-toned oak door jamb
- Finish: champagne aluminium, matched to oak
- Goal: announce the lounge's sound before a guest steps through the door
Threshold audio as an extension, not a separate zone
An entrance speaker positioned at a threshold like this is usually wired into the same zone as the room beyond it, rather than treated as an independent zone with its own control — the intent is continuity, so a guest doesn't experience a volume or tonal drop-off crossing from the entrance into the lounge itself. That continuity is a wiring and zoning decision made at design stage, not something correctable after installation.
Blending into oak trim
Cane's champagne finish was chosen specifically to sit close to the warm-gold tone of the oak jamb, rather than the darker or cooler finish options — from a few feet away, the speaker reads as part of the door hardware rather than a separate fixture.
A threshold, not a room
An entrance or threshold zone like this doesn't need to deliver full-room coverage on its own — it's there to extend the sound of the lounge beyond the door itself. Cane's 92dB sensitivity gives it enough headroom to do that at modest power draw, without needing to be driven hard.
The system
An Air Amp drives the lounge's Cane speakers, with an Acacia 10 Powered subwoofer providing low-end fill for the main lounge space beyond the entrance.
