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.
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.
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.
