MetraAV™ Partners with Evolution for Distribution in Canada

MetraAV™ is proud to announce a new partnership with Evolution Home Entertainment Corporation as its master distributor in Canada. This new relationship will bring products from MetraAV and its family of brands into the hands of more than 500 of Evolution’s dealers and retailers across Canada.

Metra Home Theater Group (MHTG) is updating its company name to MetraAV ™ as part of a brand overhaul to accommodate its expansion into commercial integration products. Known as “The Installer’s Choice”® , MetraAV’s new tagline will be “The Integrator’s Choice”™. “We’re known as a manufacturer that specializes in premium home theater and residential surveillance products. Since a great number of our products are designed and engineered at a pro-level, it also makes them versatile and suitable for the requirements of commercial environments,” says Jessy Crabb, General Manager. “Many of our customers have expanded into light commercial projects over the past year and the industry itself is shifting, blurring the lines between home and business environments. Restaurants, small offices, and places of worship are just a few of the places that integrators are utilizing our AV products. We released a commercial catalog last year that showcased these versatile solutions and look forward to launching more commercial-based integration products in 2021.”

The MetraAV commercial catalog consists of HDMI ® electronics, including repair tools, extenders, splitters and switches, along with converters, IR kits, HDMI cables, audio cables, patch cables, RCA cables, power cables, bulk wire, and structured wiring accessories. Adapters and other installation accessories like banana plugs, connectors and terminations, keystone inserts, and fiber tools are also shown in the commercial catalog, with plans for further expansion this year. MetraAV also manufactures a wide range of TV mounts, used for both residential and commercial installations.

What is the Difference Between Cat6 and Cat6A Cable?

Wondering which cable to use in your system? Here is a quick overview of category cable from an integrator’s perspective, as written by our tech team. We’ve also provided a short history of networking cables to offer a better understanding of how category cable has evolved over the past 40 years to meet the increasing performance requirements in AV networks.

10GBASE-T Certification is a whole new ballgame, even for those who have extensive network installation experience. The 10GBASE-T Certification will affect the choice of bulk cable, the selection of terminations (Punch Down, Key Stone or RJ45), quality and type of tools used, and the skill and precision of the installer. The purpose of this article is to describe how to install Cat6A cable to achieve a 10GBASE-T Certification. Below are Metra’s guidelines for getting the highest performance and greatest reliability out of the 10GBASE-T installation.

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