Atlanta Audio & Automation

A note as July closes. The custom theaters and outdoor systems that homeowners ask us about in August are the ones being installed when fall arrives — in time for football season, in time for the long entertaining stretch that runs from September through the holidays.

Lead times this year are running eight to fourteen weeks for theater builds and four to eight weeks for outdoor systems, depending on scope. The Bang & Olufsen and other reference-brand equipment we specify most often for fall projects is being ordered now — if a project is on the calendar for fall, August is the conversation to have.

The summer equipment offer continues for projects committed this season.

Start the August conversation now. AA is currently offering 10% off equipment on projects $10,000 and above. 770-977-9110.

(10% off equipment on projects $10,000 and above. Excludes labor, materials, and sales tax.)

Bang & Olufsen occupies a specific position in the whole-home audio conversation. Not because it is the loudest, or because the specifications win a spec-sheet comparison — but because B&O has treated speakers as sculpture, and sound as design, longer than any other brand at this tier.

In a home we finish, that matters. The Beolab standing as a design object in the living room, the Beosound built into the kitchen millwork, the in-wall lines integrated so quietly across the master and outdoor zones that the family stops noticing they are there. The music the homeowner started at breakfast follows them through the morning, into the home office, out to the patio — same fidelity, same aesthetic language, one system.

We specify Bang & Olufsen most often in homes where design is not an afterthought. It is not the only brand we install at this tier, but for clients who care as much about how the audio looks as how it sounds, B&O is usually the answer.

Hear a Bang & Olufsen system room by room at our showroom. 770-977-9110.

A walkthrough of a finished theater in Alpharetta — a project that began in October and was delivered to the family this past spring. Five slides through the design choices.

Slide one. The screen wall at scale, the seating positioned for the geometry of the room rather than the room arranged for store-bought seating.

Slide two. The acoustic ceiling — fabric-wrapped panels designed to look like architectural detail rather than treatment, hiding the reality of what makes the room sound the way it does.

Slide three. The integrated lighting reveal, with three scenes — Pre-Show, Film, Credits — each calibrated to the family's actual viewing habits.

Slide four. The seating, leather chosen by the homeowner's designer, with the riser geometry calculated to clear sightlines from every position.

Slide five. The room from the screen's perspective — every line of the design pointing the same direction. Eleven months of work, hidden inside a room that now looks effortless.

A current note: AA is offering 10% off equipment on projects $10,000 and above this summer.

See similar projects in our showroom theater. 770-977-9110.

Designing outdoor technology for Atlanta is a regional discipline. The integrators who have only worked in dry climates underestimate three things.

Humidity. Equipment rated for outdoor use in Phoenix often fails inside two summers in Atlanta. The specifications matter — IP ratings, weather sealing, marine-grade hardware on coastal-adjacent properties.

Afternoon sun. The same brutal exposure that fades cushions destroys speaker cones and degrades projection screens. South-facing patios need different equipment than north-facing ones, full stop.

Pollen and storms. Two seasons of yellow dust on every surface, plus thunderstorms that arrive without warning. Systems built here are built to survive both.

We have specified outdoor systems across metro Atlanta for nearly three decades. The brands we recommend, the placements we choose, and the warranties we require all reflect what we have seen actually hold up.

A current note: AA is offering 10% off equipment on projects $10,000 and above this summer.

Talk through your outdoor project at our showroom. 770-977-9110.

A pool deck transformation across five slides. What changes is not just what is visible — it is what works without thinking about it.

Before: a pool deck with the basics. Lights on photocells. A bluetooth speaker in a planter. Two patio chairs that have seen a few summers.

After: integrated landscape lighting that follows the deck architecture. Outdoor audio engineered for the open geometry of the space rather than borrowed from indoor specs. Motorized shading on the covered seating area, on a schedule that tracks the afternoon sun. A single touchpanel near the door that controls all of it.

The family did not get more devices. They got their evening back.

A current note: AA is offering 10% off equipment on projects $10,000 and above this summer.

Save this post for your designer. Or come see live examples. 770-977-9110.

Outdoor systems are often misunderstood as a single category — speakers in the yard, lights along the path. What we actually design is a layered system that has to perform across four axes at once.

Audio that stays balanced from the dining table to the grill twenty feet away, without the speakers being audible as objects.

Landscape lighting that follows the architecture of the home and the geometry of the planting beds rather than dotting the lawn at fixed intervals.

Motorized shading on covered patios that drops on schedule as the afternoon sun moves west.

Climate-zoned outdoor heaters and fans integrated through the same Control4 or Crestron Home system that runs the rest of the home.

Each system affects every other system. Designed together, they are invisible. Designed separately, they fight each other.

We are offering 10% off equipment on projects $10,000 and above this summer.

See our outdoor systems set up at the showroom. 770-977-9110.

Today we celebrate the country that has been home to our work, our families, and our craft for nearly three decades.

Atlanta Audio & Automation will be closed for the holiday. We will be back Monday.

Wishing everyone in our Atlanta community a meaningful Fourth of July.

Atlanta Audio & Automation
770-977-9110

A note ahead of the long weekend. The Fourth of July weekend tends to bring out the homes we have worked on at their best — the patios filled with extended family, the pool decks running into the evening, the media rooms that hold the kids when the heat gets to be too much.

These are the moments the technology was designed for. None of it gets mentioned over the weekend. The audio just works. The lighting comes on when it should. The home holds everyone, the way it was built to.

Wishing every family a safe and meaningful weekend.

There is a difference between a home that survives the Atlanta summer and one that comes alive in it. The first is the default. The second is the result of design — outdoor systems that work in 95-degree humidity, lighting that scales from sunset through midnight, audio that fills a pool deck without overpowering a conversation at the table.

Designed once, then quietly running in the background of every gathering. We have spent twenty-eight summers in Atlanta building homes for these months specifically.

Visit our Miami Circle showroom. 770-977-9110.

July begins this week. The Fourth of July weekend, the family vacations, the long Saturday dinners on the patio — the homes that handle these moments gracefully are not improvised.

They are planned, designed, and integrated months in advance. If a project has been on your list for later this summer or into the fall, July is the right month to begin the conversation. Lead times for serious projects extend through the season, and we will give you a realistic timeline for what you are considering.

Plan your July project conversation. AA is currently offering 10% off equipment on projects $10,000 and above. 770-977-9110.