// ERLANGER, KY · FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT CENTER · MULTI-ZONE AV

Different sound in every room.

A new family entertainment center in Erlanger, KY. Golf simulator with wraparound projection. A six-court gymnasium with retractable basketball backstops. Clip-and-climb tower. Ropes course. Trampoline floor. Guest services. Hallways. Bathrooms. Each zone got the AV it actually needed — designed at architecture, pulled during framing, calibrated for the room.

// CASE STUDY

Project Overview

The Problem

A family entertainment center needed different AV behavior in many rooms, from a golf simulator to a gymnasium, attractions, guest services, hallways, and bathrooms.

The Plan

Design speaker zones, projection, announcements, front-of-house audio, and low-voltage routing during the architectural phase.

The Install

Low-voltage infrastructure, conduit, cabling, and zone wiring were pulled during framing before finishes closed the walls.

The Result

Each room received AV matched to its use instead of forcing one generic system across the whole building.

System Notes

System notes visible on this page are limited to verified scope already published: golf simulator AV, gymnasium audio, attraction zones, front-of-house audio, conduit, and structured cabling.

Services Used

Commercial audio installation, commercial AV, structured wiring and Wi-Fi infrastructure, speaker zones.

Location

Erlanger, KY family entertainment center.

// THE BRIEF

A different AV problem in every room.

Family entertainment centers aren’t one room with one AV system. They’re a dozen rooms, each with its own acoustic challenge, its own content workflow, its own background-music-vs-game-day requirement. A golf simulator needs dead-quiet surround. A gymnasium needs intelligible announcements over court noise. A clip-and-climb tower needs music that fits the energy. A guest-services counter needs to be heard over everything else.

We designed the AV during the architectural phase — speaker placement on the prints before the framing went up — ran the low-voltage during framing, mounted and calibrated everything as the finishes went in, and signed off after every zone passed its own quality bar.

// SCOPE
  • Golf simulator — Curved wraparound projection, dedicated room audio, control
  • Gymnasium — Distributed audio over multi-court hardwood, PA announcements
  • Attractions — Background music + announcement zones for climb tower, ropes, trampolines
  • Front-of-house — Guest services, hallways, bathrooms — clean overhead audio throughout
GYMNASIUM · SIX COURTS, DISTRIBUTED AUDIO ·· CLIMB TOWER · ZONED BACKGROUND MUSIC
// THE WORK

All of that was pulled during framing.

Every zone above lives on a low-voltage backbone that went in during the framing phase. Steel-stud walls, low-voltage conduit, dressed cable runs to every plate location, equipment-room patch panel. By the time the finishes went on, the AV infrastructure was already in the walls and labeled. The kind of clean infrastructure work where the customer’s only question, two years later, is when we’re coming back to do their next building.

TRAMPOLINE FLOOR · BACKGROUND-MUSIC ZONE
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