Whole Home Audio · Westchester & Fairfield County
One system, and music anywhere in the house.
Jazz on the porch, the kids' movie in the family room, the game in the kitchen. All at once, all from one system.
How a whole-house audio system is put together.
Coverage is a floor-plan problem before it is a speaker problem. We place drivers against the shape of each room so the music arrives evenly at standing height instead of collecting in bright patches under the fixtures, and we set independent zones so nobody has to negotiate the volume.
Where a grille would spoil a ceiling, we use plaster-in and hidden speakers finished flush. Where it will not, we choose one family of hardware and keep it consistent from room to room. Equipment is picked for performance, reliability and how it will look on the wall in ten years.
Control stays short. Streaming, radio, the turntable and the television all show up in the same place, and a houseguest can find the kitchen volume without a lesson. For the whole house that is Savant, with the lights and the shades in the same place; a Sonos room can live inside it where that suits.
How we work
- 01
Walk the house
Which rooms you actually use, where you stand in them, and which ceilings cannot take a grille.
- 02
Place the speakers
To the room, on a plan: how far from the wall, how far apart, which rooms share a zone. This is most of what decides how it sounds.
- 03
Choose the hardware
Visible, small aperture or invisible, chosen room by room, and one family of hardware kept consistent through the house.
- 04
Wire and install
Our own crew. Speaker wire to every location while the walls are open; fished through closets and the attic when they are not.
- 05
Set it up and show you
Sources, zones and volume limits set, then the family tutorial. A guest can find the kitchen volume without a lesson.
Past the back door
The terrace is a room too.
Outdoor audio is its own discipline: speakers aimed at the seating rather than the property line, brass and marine-grade near the water, buried cable to the pool. It joins the same system as the rooms inside.
- Coastal Source bollards aimed at the seating, not the neighbours
- Buried cable to the pool house and the terrace
- Equipment that survives salt air and a Westchester winter
- One app, inside and out
Your house
Wondering what whole home audio would look like, and cost, in your house?
Tell us about the room or the whole house and we will come and look. The calculator gives a planning range before you talk to anyone.
At a glance
Every room, evenly
Speakers placed to the shape of each room, so music arrives at standing height rather than collecting under the fixtures.
Visible, small aperture, or invisible
Three kinds of speaker: a grille that finishes flush, a small-aperture speaker that reads as a downlight, or an invisible one plastered over and painted. The room decides which.
Independent zones
Kitchen, terrace, study and the children's floor at their own volume. Nobody negotiates.
One app
Streaming, radio, the turntable and the television in the same place, on Savant, with the lights and the shades.
Outside too
The terrace and the pool on the same system, with outdoor speakers specified for a Westchester winter.
In the ceiling and the wall
Speakers you hear and do not see.
Invisible, literally
Sonance Invisible Series speakers are plastered over and painted. The wall is a wall. The music comes from it anyway. The right answer where the architecture has to come first.
In a room that is not about speakers
A patterned bedroom with music in it and nothing on the walls to say so. This is what in-ceiling and invisible speakers are for: the room gets to be the room.
Common questions
What people ask us about whole home audio.
- Can different rooms play different things at once?
- Yes, and that is most of the point. Jazz on the porch, a film in the family room and the game in the kitchen, all at the same time from one system, each controlled where you are standing.
- Do we need speakers in the ceiling?
- Not necessarily, though in-ceiling speakers are the usual answer because they disappear. In-wall, bookshelf and architectural options all exist. The right choice depends on the room, the ceiling and what the room is for.
- Will this work with Sonos?
- Yes. Sonos is one of the lines we carry and it is the right answer for a great many houses in this county, on its own in a few rooms or as the music source inside Savant. Where a project wants more than Sonos can do, we say so rather than stretching it.
- Can we keep the equipment we already own?
- Often, and we will tell you when it is worth keeping. If what you own is good and up to standard, it stays and the money goes where it actually shows.
- How many rooms is a sensible start?
- Two or three. Most whole-house systems here grew that way rather than arriving all at once. We plan the whole house, wire what is open, and finish rooms as budget and timing allow.
- What happens if a speaker fails?
- Our own crew comes out rather than a third party, and anything still under its manufacturer's warranty we handle for you. On a service plan you hold next-business-day response.
“They took the time to design several different home theater/whole-house music system solutions for us taking into account our needs, wants and budget and ultimately let us select what package we liked best… Best of all, they trained my whole family on how to use everything and we've been enjoying our system immensely.”
Afterwards
Looked after by the people who installed it.
Our own crew does the work, so the number you call afterwards is the same one you called at the start. Equipment carries its manufacturer's warranty and we handle those claims rather than handing you a phone number. A service plan adds monitoring, next-business-day response and scheduled visits on top.
Also consider
Start a project
Tell us about the space. We'll come out and give you a straightforward plan.
The consultation is complimentary and it starts with a walkthrough or a set of drawings. You will leave it knowing what is realistic in your house, what it costs, and what can wait until phase two.