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02 / AUDIO

Multi-room audio you hear in every room and see in none

Architectural speakers, amplifiers hidden and one app that everybody in the house can use. Designed and installed for homes and venues across Lancashire, Manchester and the North West.

FIG. 01 / WHOLE-HOUSE AUDIO
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01 The proposition

The same quality of sound, wherever you stand.

Multi-room audio is mostly a cabling and placement problem dressed up as an equipment one. Speakers go where the room wants them, amplification lives in one rack, and nothing is packaged.

  • Architectural speakers where the ceiling allows, in-wall where it does not.
  • Weatherproof units outside, on a zone of their own.
  • A proper stereo pair where somebody actually sits and listens.
  • Every zone set up so breakfast in the kitchen and eight in the evening in the garden both sound right.
A compact white speaker bracketed neatly under a ceiling edge
FIG. 02 / SURFACE-MOUNT SPEAKER
02 What's included

What whole-house audio includes.

Eight parts of the job, from the survey through to the app on your phone.

01

Multi-room zones

Each room its own zone, its own volume and its own source. Play the same thing everywhere or something different in every room, with no lag between them.

02

Architectural and invisible speakers

Flush ceiling and in-wall speakers, or plaster-over units that leave nothing to see at all. Chosen for the room size rather than the catalogue.

03

Outdoor and garden audio

Weatherproof speakers and buried subwoofers placed for even coverage, so the terrace works at conversation volume rather than pointing at one seat.

04

Streaming and sources

Streaming services, turntables, network drives and broadcast, all available in every zone rather than tied to the room the box sits in.

05

Amplification and racks

One ventilated rack, properly powered and labelled, with amplification matched to the speakers rather than to the price list.

06

Room calibration

Every zone measured and set up in the room it lives in, so bass is controlled and the balance is right at listening height, not at the ceiling.

07

Listening rooms

A proper stereo pair, sited and set up for someone who actually sits down to listen. Placement first, cables last.

08

App control

One app for the house, with keypads where an app is a nuisance. Guests should be able to turn the kitchen on without instruction.

04 Our process

Five stages, one team.

The same people survey the house, draw the system, install it and look after it afterwards. Nothing is subcontracted, and nothing is programmed by someone you have never met.

Stage 01

Consultation and survey

An hour or two at the property, looking at the rooms and listening to how you use them. We measure, photograph, and note what the building will and will not allow. No charge, and no obligation at the end of it.

Stage 02

Design and specification

Drawings, a schedule of equipment and a fixed price. Every position is marked, every cable route decided, and the specification is written so your architect, builder and electrician can all work from it.

Stage 03

Project management

We hold the programme alongside the other trades, from first fix to second. Across the Ribble Valley, Lancashire and Cheshire that usually means working around a builder who is already on site.

Stage 04

Installation and calibration

Our own engineers install, dress every cable, and then calibrate to the room rather than to a factory preset. Audio is set up in the space it lives in, at the time of day it will be used.

Stage 05

Handover and aftercare

A proper handover, documentation, and the same phone number afterwards. Remote monitoring catches most faults before you notice them, and the person who answers already knows your house.

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05 Commercial & hospitality

Sound systems for bars, restaurants and hotels.

A restaurant sound system has to do something a home system never does: hold an even level across a room full of people, at a volume where conversation still works, all day, without a member of staff touching it. That is a design problem, and it is solved with speaker placement and zoning rather than with more power.

We install pro-grade systems from K-array alongside residential brands, with zoned control so the bar, the terrace and the dining room can run different levels and schedules. Staff get one simple interface, and we lock everything else away.

Commercial & hospitality work
Typical venues
01 Bars Zoned sound, day to night
02 Restaurants Even coverage at conversation level
03 Hotels Lobby, spa and function rooms
04 Gyms and studios High output, hard surfaces
05 Retail Background music and paging
08 Common questions

Multi-room audio, honestly answered.

A three or four zone system runs between £4,000 and £9,000 installed. A whole house with garden audio typically lands between £12,000 and £30,000. Zone count and speaker choice move the number more than anything else.

Yes, within reason. Flush architectural speakers give up very little, and invisible plaster-over units give up a little more in the bass, which we compensate for with a discreet subwoofer. We will tell you plainly where a visible speaker would sound better.

Sonos is a good, honest starting point and we install a lot of it. A wired system wins where you want many zones, better speakers, no reliance on wireless, and one rack instead of a box in every room. Often the answer is both.

Usually. Ceilings, cupboards and existing routes give us more options than people expect, and where a wall genuinely cannot be opened we will say so rather than make a mess of it.

Yes, and it is a real part of what we do. Venue systems are zoned, level-limited and scheduled so staff have one simple control, with pro-grade speakers where the room and the hours demand them.

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09 / START HERE

Let’s talk about your audio.

We visit, listen, measure, and come back with drawings and a fixed price. No obligation, and no hard sell afterwards.

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