Audio Visual Installation in NYC

We work across commercial and residential properties in all five boroughs:

Corporate offices: conference rooms, boardrooms, huddle spaces, training rooms, reception and lobby displays.

Restaurants, bars, retail and hospitality: zoned background music, paging, menu boards and promotional displays.

Houses of worship, schools and auditoriums: speech reinforcement, projection, assistive listening systems.

Studios, production and broadcast spaces, where acoustics and AV have to be solved as one problem. Our work at Galaxy Visuals, a video studio in Brooklyn, started with a room too reverberant to record in and ended with a space usable for professional video production.

Residential: home theaters, multi-room audio and concealed installations in co-ops, condos and prewar apartments.

Buildings in this city come with constraints most AV contractors would rather avoid. Landmarked facades. Co-op boards with strong opinions about wall penetrations. Concrete slabs that turn cable routing into a negotiation. Restricted hours for noisy work and narrow freight elevator windows. We handle all of it routinely and coordinate the building-side requirements so that your facilities team does not have to chase them.

We design and install AV for commercial and residential spaces across NYC. Every project below starts the same way: we measure the room, then specify equipment that suits it.

Conference Room and Boardroom AV

Meetings fail on audio far more often than on video, so we start with microphone coverage matched to the room geometry: ceiling arrays for open tables, boundary or table units for smaller spaces, gooseneck microphones where the speaking position is fixed. The rest follows. Displays sized for the furthest seat, cameras framed for your actual seating layout, speakers placed to hold intelligibility down a long table, and a control interface that starts a meeting with one press. We configure Zoom Rooms and Microsoft Teams Rooms and integrate with whatever platform you already run. See our conference room soundproofing page

Digital Signage and Video Walls

From a single lobby display to a multi-panel video wall with scheduled content. We specify commercial-grade panels rated for extended operating hours, because consumer televisions fail quickly in this application, and size the mounting structure to the actual wall with power and data concealed. Video walls also require bezel alignment, processor configuration, and a calibration pass, which is what makes a grid of panels read as one image rather than nine screens. We set up the content management system and train your staff to use it.

Commercial Sound and Paging Systems

Restaurants, retail floors, gyms, lobbies and hotels need audio that covers the space evenly and stays under control: zoned distribution with independent volume, source selection and scheduling for each area. We design speaker layouts for even coverage rather than raw output, which decides whether conversation is possible in the room or everyone ends up shouting. For venues with a noise complaint history, the system can be combined with isolation work. See our restaurant soundproofing and bar and lounge soundproofing pages.

Training Rooms, Auditoriums and Houses of Worship

Large rooms are unforgiving. Distance, ceiling height and hard surfaces all work against speech intelligibility, and a system that measures well on paper can still leave the back rows guessing at what was said. We design projection and sound reinforcement around coverage and clarity, and specify assistive listening where accessibility rules apply. Temples, churches and older schools complicate this further, since masonry, plaster, stained glass and vaulted ceilings each change how the room responds. More on our auditorium sound system installation and house of worship pages.

Residential AV and Home Theater

Home theaters, multi-room audio and concealed AV in apartments, brownstones and townhouses, including the isolation work that keeps a soundtrack from reaching the unit below. Full details are on our home theater installation page.

Installation puts equipment on the wall. Integration makes it behave as a single system, and the gap between those two things produces most AV complaints. A room with a display, a camera, four microphones, a DSP, a matrix switcher, and three remotes is technically installed. It is also a room where meetings start eight minutes late.

Our AV integration services cover the layer that ties hardware together:

Control systems with a single touch panel or wall interface, so one press starts a meeting, switches sources, and sets lighting and shades.

Network configuration for networked audiovisual systems, including AV-over-IP and Dante audio, coordinated with your IT department and their security requirements.

Platform integration with Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, or Webex, including scheduling panels and calendar sync.

Building system integration, tying lighting, motorized shades, and climate into the same interface where the project calls for it.

Standardized room profiles for multi-room offices, so every conference room behaves identically, and staff do not relearn the interface floor by floor.

We document the signal flow and hand over as-built drawings, so your next contractor or your own IT team can work on the system without reverse-engineering it.

Most AV companies treat the room as a container. It behaves more like a component, and an uncontrolled one.

Consider a typical Midtown conference room: glass on two walls, gypsum on the others, exposed concrete overhead, a hard table, a bare floor. Reverberation in a room built that way often exceeds 1 second. Speech intelligibility starts to degrade noticeably after roughly 0.6 seconds, and video conferencing is less forgiving than a live listener because the far end loses the visual and spatial cues a person in the room uses to fill in gaps. The result is familiar. Participants asking for repeats, echo cancellation working overtime, meetings that leave everyone tired.

No microphone array solves this. Beamforming improves the direct-to-reflected sound ratio by a few decibels, whereas a reverberant room can be off by far more than that. The room comes first.

Every commercial audiovisual project starts with a sound measurement pass before anything is designed: 

Reverberation time across octave bands, so we know how the room behaves at speech frequencies rather than only as an average.

Background noise level in dBA, including HVAC, street noise, and adjacent mechanical equipment.

Speech intelligibility assessment where that is the deciding factor, as in auditoriums and training rooms.

Isolation between adjacent spaces when confidentiality matters, for legal, medical, HR, and executive suites.

Where the numbers call for it, we install acoustic treatment as part of the same project: absorption panels, ceiling clouds, or acoustic upholstery, selected to achieve a target reverberation time without deadening the room. Materials are chosen by NRC and STC ratings against the measured problem. For speech privacy in open plans, sound masking often does more than any AV upgrade. Confidential meeting spaces may also need conference-room soundproofing to keep conversations inside the room.

We measure again after installation and give you the before-and-after data.

Eight stages from first visit to handover. You approve the design and the price before anything is ordered.

Site Survey and Requirements Review

We come to the space, free and with no obligation. We record dimensions, ceiling height, wall and glazing construction, background noise in dBA and reverberation across bands, plus what you want to keep: network infrastructure, conferencing platform, displays worth retaining. Building constraints get logged here too, because access windows and permitted work hours shape the schedule more than the equipment does.

System Design and Equipment Schedule

You receive a written solution: display positions with viewing angles, microphone and speaker layout, signal flow, network and power requirements, and an equipment schedule with alternatives at several price levels. Nothing gets ordered until you approve it. Scope and price are fixed at approval.

Coordination with Contractors and Building Management

The part most AV companies leave to the client, and the part that causes the most delay. We coordinate directly with your general contractor, electrician, and IT department, and handle building-side logistics: access requests, elevator reservations, work-hour approvals, and management company documentation. On fit-outs, we schedule rough-in around the trades ahead of us, so cable goes in before the walls close.

Cable Infrastructure and Rough-In

Conduit, cable pathways, backing for display mounts, power drops, and network terminations go in first, with spare capacity in every run. The display you install this year gets replaced in five, and the cable should not have to be. In finished spaces, we route inside existing wall cavities; where a wall cannot be penetrated, we use surface raceway matched to the finish.

Equipment Installation and Mounting

Displays, projectors and screens, ceiling and surface speakers, microphone arrays, cameras and equipment racks. Racks are dressed and labeled so anyone opening the door later can follow the signal path. Floors and furniture are protected, and the space is cleaned when we finish.

Commissioning, Calibration and Acoustic Verification

DSP configuration, gain structure, equalization, echo cancellation tuning, display calibration, and camera framing. Then we test the way you will actually use it, with a live call to the far end rather than a bench check, and re-measure the room against the survey data so you get a report showing what changed.

Training, Documentation and Handover

We train your staff in the room, on the system they will use: starting a meeting, switching sources, sharing a screen, recovering from common problems without calling anyone. You receive as-built drawings, an equipment list with serial numbers, warranty paperwork, and a one-page quick reference. IT gets network documentation and admin credentials.

After Handover

Systems drift. Firmware updates arrive, a replaced laptop comes with different output settings, a conferencing platform redesigns its interface. Because we designed and documented the system, we can diagnose most issues without having to start from scratch. Call us, and you get the people who installed it.

Equipment We Install

We specify commercial-grade equipment from manufacturers with real support infrastructure in the United States, because a discontinued product with no parts channel becomes your problem in year three. Our installations use Crestron for control, Bose for audio, and Sony for displays and cameras. If you already have an equipment standard, we build to it; if not, we present options at several levels and explain what each costs you in capability.

Acoustics in-house. Most AV companies subcontract this or skip it. We measure, treat, and calibrate under one contract, with one team accountable for the room's sound when the system is running.

Founded in 2014, with team members working professionally in acoustics and soundproofing since 2002.

Experience across the building types this city actually has: prewar co-ops, landmarked properties, Class A towers, Brooklyn studios, Broadway rehearsal spaces.

Free on-site assessment with a written custom solution, sized to your requirements and budget before you commit to anything.

Fixed scope and pricing on an approved design. You sign off before equipment is ordered.

Measured results. Acoustic data before and after, as-built documentation at handover.

Our installers cover New York City and the surrounding metro area:

Manhattan: Midtown, Financial District, Tribeca, SoHo, Chelsea, Upper East Side, Upper West Side.

Brooklyn: Downtown Brooklyn, DUMBO, Williamsburg, Park Slope, Bay Ridge, Sheepshead Bay.

Queens: Long Island City, Astoria, Forest Hills, Flushing.

The Bronx and Staten Island.

Westchester County, Long Island and northern New Jersey.