Music that follows you through the house, speakers you never see, and outdoor sound that covers the patio and the pool without reaching the neighbors. We design and install multi room audio for everything from a kitchen and a deck to an estate with twenty zones.
We work with everyone, small or big. The scope changes with the project. The standard of the work does not.
Good in wall and in ceiling speakers have become excellent, and the difference between a room that sounds thin and one that sounds full is almost always placement and sizing rather than brand. We choose the speaker for the room, place it for the listening position rather than for symmetry on the ceiling, and finish it so it reads as part of the architecture.
Where performance matters more than invisibility, a living room or a listening room, we specify freestanding speakers and amplification to match. We are happy to do both in the same house.
Outdoor audio fails in two ways. Either it is a pair of speakers on the wall that blast the people nearest and reach nobody else, or it is loud enough to cover the yard and annoys the whole street. Landscape audio systems with multiple small speakers and buried subwoofers distribute sound evenly at a lower level, which is both a better experience and a better relationship with the neighbors.
Everything outdoors is specified for the weather it will see. Ratings, terminations and mounting all matter more than the logo on the grille, and we install on that basis.
Every zone gets the streaming services you use, your own library, and the option of a turntable or a television as a source. Keypads in the room, an app on the phone, and voice if you want it. We integrate audio with Control4 and Josh.ai so the music is part of the house rather than a separate gadget.
Amplification and sources live in a rack with proper ventilation and power protection. The result is a system that is quiet when idle, instant when you want it, and still working in ten years.
Speaker wire during construction is close to free and makes every later decision easier, so if you are building, get us in before the drywall. In a finished house we can usually reach the ceilings of a single story and the first floor of a two story through the basement and attic, and we tell you honestly which rooms are practical and which would cost more than they are worth.
Wireless speakers have their place and we will say so when a room is better served by one than by opening a ceiling.
Usually, yes. Ceilings below an attic and above a basement are reachable, and there are nearly always more routes than a fast installer will bother to find. Where there genuinely is no path we say so and offer a wireless option.
A zone is any area you want to control separately. Kitchen and living room together is one zone. Patio is another. Most homes land between four and eight, larger properties well beyond that. We design the zones around how the house is used, not around the maximum the equipment supports.
Not if the system is designed for distribution rather than volume. Several small speakers around the perimeter at a modest level cover the space evenly and fall off quickly past the property line. That is the opposite of two big speakers on the house wall.
Yes. The systems we install support all the mainstream services, your own music library, and AirPlay and similar protocols, so the family can play what they already have.