Whole-home audio, TV mounting, theater rooms and smart-home AV across Murray and the central valley - built for smaller houses with nowhere obvious to put the equipment.
Murray has a lot of smaller older houses, and in a smaller house the hardest question is not what to buy but where any of it goes. There is frequently no media closet, no spare cupboard and no basement room that is not already doing something. The equipment ends up on the floor beside the television, which is how it gets kicked, overheated and eventually replaced.
Solving that is most of the job. A shallow rack in a closet, a ventilated cabinet, or simply a decision to use fewer boxes changes the outcome more than any component choice. Equipment that is put somewhere sensible lasts; equipment on the carpet does not.
The second Murray constant is that these houses were wired for a different era. Outlets are where they are, and they are rarely where a television wall wants them, which is a conversation to have with an electrician rather than with an installer.
The three workable answers in a small house are a shallow wall-mounted rack behind the television, a ventilated section of existing cabinetry, or a closet on the other side of the wall with a conduit through it. All three need airflow - a closed cabinet with a receiver in it and no ventilation runs hot and shortens the life of everything in it. The fourth answer, which people underrate, is using less equipment: a modern television and one well-chosen soundbar removes the problem rather than housing it.
In a house of this age the television wall usually has one outlet in the wrong place, and the tidy solution - power and signal through the wall - is only partly a job for an installer. Signal cable can go in the wall. Mains power cannot be run as an extension inside a wall; it needs an outlet put where it is wanted, which is electrical work. We will say so rather than improvise, and electric801.com is the 801 line for that.
We match Murray homeowners and business owners with installers who do this as their trade rather than as a sideline. If what you are describing is really electrical work — a new circuit, a panel, rewiring a room — that belongs to an electrician and we will say so rather than take the job.
A shallow rack behind the television, a ventilated part of existing cabinetry, or a closet behind the wall with a conduit through. Whichever it is, it needs airflow. Often the better answer is fewer components rather than a better hiding place.
Signal cable, yes. Mains power is not something to run as a concealed extension - it needs a properly installed outlet where you want it, which is an electrician's job. We will tell you that rather than work around it.
In a small room, frequently yes, and it solves the equipment-placement problem at the same time. A good soundbar in a room that suits one beats a system that has nowhere sensible to live.
Tell us about the house, the room and the stage the project is at, and we will match you with an installer who works this way.
Get Matched With an InstallerA rough description is enough — we will follow up to size the job and set a walkthrough.