Architectural Houston living room with integrated lighting and technology

High-performance AV · Houston, Texas

High-performance AV. Beautifully integrated.

Two-channel music. Dolby Atmos cinema. Whole-home audio. Lighting, control and networks—designed, programmed and tuned as one complete system.

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Why Obsidian

This isn't equipment.
It's the moment.

There is a moment after a theater demo when the room goes quiet and the client just smiles. There is another when a favorite record suddenly has depth, space and detail they have never heard before. Those moments are why we do this.

We care where a speaker sits. We care how the room behaves. We care about the source, the amplifier, the cable hidden in the wall, the network carrying the stream and the programming that makes it all feel effortless. None of those details exists by itself. Together, they become the experience.

We build it the way we'd want to live with it.

Luxury dedicated home theater with immersive audio

Home Theater · Dolby Atmos

The grin after the demo is the point.

A great theater should stop feeling like speakers, amplifiers and a screen. The room should disappear. Dialogue locks to the picture, bass has weight without becoming noise, and Atmos opens above and around you until the soundtrack becomes a place.

That only happens when speaker placement, acoustics, amplification, calibration, lighting, video and control are treated as one system.

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Projection · Dolby Atmos · Acoustics · Calibration · Lighting · Control

Two-channel listening room with high-performance floorstanding loudspeakers

Two-Channel · High-Resolution Audio

Stop listening to the system. Hear the music.

Two-channel audio leaves nowhere to hide. Placement matters. The room matters. The source, preamp, amplification and loudspeakers matter. When everything is right, the equipment stops calling attention to itself and the performance is simply there.

We build listening systems for people who know that high-end equipment makes a difference—and want someone who understands why.

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Outdoor patio, pool, television and integrated audio system

Distributed Audio · Smart Home

Music should already be there.

Kitchen. Patio. Great room. Morning coffee. Dinner with friends. Background when you want it; authority when you turn it up. Distributed audio should feel effortless because the design, network and programming underneath it are anything but.

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McIntosh high-performance AV equipment rack

Engineering · Programming · Networks

The magic is behind the wall.

A beautiful room means nothing if the Wi‑Fi drops, the rack is impossible to service, the control system is confusing or the audio was never tuned. We care just as much about the infrastructure no one sees as the finish everyone does.

Network architectureWired · Wi‑Fi · VLAN
Control programmingCrestron · Control4 · Savant
Audio engineeringDSP · Calibration · Gain structure
Rack + powerServiceable · documented · clean

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Commercial AV

Technology should work as hard as you do.

Boardrooms, conference rooms, Microsoft Teams and Zoom video conferencing solutions, training and divisible spaces, houses of worship, video walls and networked AV. We bring the same attention to signal flow, intelligibility, programming and reliability that we bring to a listening room.

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Commercial multi-display collaboration space

Service · Repair · Takeovers

When the system stops working, we find out why.

Crestron, Control4, Savant, theaters, distributed audio, networks and commercial AV all become service calls eventually. We work on systems we did not install and start with diagnosis before replacement.

A control problem can be a network problem. A dead room can be routing, power, programming or hardware. We trace the system, preserve what still works, document what we find and build a practical path back to reliability.

For Houston homeowners and businesses, service is not an afterthought. It is a core part of what Obsidian does.

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Capabilities

Everything.
Considered.

Not a menu of products. Disciplines that have to work together if the experience is going to feel right.

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Real Obsidian Work

The finish matters. So does the work.

We are not hiding behind renderings. These are real systems, real rooms and real racks. Some are glamorous. Some are the engineering nobody sees. Both matter.

Real Obsidian dedicated theater project — Dedicated Home Theater · Houston

Real McIntosh AV rack installed and serviced by Obsidian — McIntosh · High-Performance Audio

Real Obsidian commercial AV project — Commercial AV · Collaboration

The Obsidian Standard

Designed carefully. Built properly.

Every system is planned around how you will actually use it—from speaker placement and calibration to programming, network performance and long-term serviceability. The details matter, even when you never see them.

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