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Acoustic Designs Group

Our Work

Twenty years of homes across the Valley, and the parts of a job most people never see.

Recent Projects

Two Kendle Design Collaborative houses

Desert Geode

Built by G M Hunt Builders & Remodelers

Glass on nearly every elevation, so the lighting, shades, audio, network and rack were all placed at pre-wire.

The Desert Geode residence at dusk, lit from within
The entry court under the folded roof
The kitchen and dining area opening to the courtyard
Pendant lights over the entry glass at dusk
A backlit onyx basin under dappled light
The cantilevered roof plane over the pool
The stair hall under a cluster of pendants
The primary bedroom opening onto the desert patio
Dappled light across the marble island

Architecture by Kendle Design Collaborative · Construction by G M Hunt Builders & Remodelers · Photography by Ema Peter Photography

White Wing

Built by True North Builders

Lighting, shades and audio on one control layer, indoors and out, across a house that opens to the desert on every side.

The White Wing residence at dusk, the pavilion lit beneath its louvered canopy
The living room, fireplace set into stone
The kitchen island under the folded ceiling
The louvered colonnade running the length of the house
The gallery hall looking through to the courtyard
The primary bath in book-matched stone
The entry, a pivot door beside a large artwork
The house seen across the lawn
The reflecting pool at sunset, palms along the far wall

Architecture by Kendle Design Collaborative · Construction by True North Builders · Photography by Ema Peter Photography

The Infrastructure

The rack that powers the house

An AV rack is the engine room. Every source, amplifier, network switch and control processor in the house lives in one ventilated cabinet, wired back to a single point.

A technology closet built into walnut millwork, the rack door open on labeled equipment
The closet it all lives in

01

Sources

Streamers, players and tuners, so nothing sits in the room it feeds.

02

Amplification

The power for every zone of audio in the house, in one place, on one circuit.

03

Network

The switch everything else depends on. Cameras, control, streaming and the house wifi all land here.

04

Control

The Crestron or Savant processor that ties the lighting, shades, audio and video into one system.

05

Serviceable

Every run labeled and dressed, so the system can be worked on without opening a wall.
A finished equipment rack with labeled, dressed wiring
A finished rack, labeled and dressed
The lift, on site
Floor TV Lift

A TV That Lifts Out of the Ground

The cavity was framed into the structure at pre-wire, about eight months before the lift arrived. On command the display rises out of the floor, turns to face the room, and disappears again when the evening is over.

The crew working in the framed floor cavity
The cavity, framed at pre-wire
The television lift mechanism on the floor before installation
The mechanism, before it went in
3D LiDAR Scan

We have the ability to scan homes in 3D using LiDAR technology during the pre-wire and final stages. This allows our service team to pull up the exact layout years later and see precisely what is behind any wall before making a single cut.

An AV closet and stair at prewire, captured in the 3D scan
The AV closet at pre-wire.
A great room at prewire with the display back box framed in
The great room, with the display back box in the wall.
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