Keith Yates Design Group designs acoustically optimized Home Theaters, Media Rooms and Precision Listening Environments. Our goal is not simply to place you in a movie theater ... it's to place you in the movie. We call it "Performance-Based Room Design(SM)" and it enables music and film lovers to improve, dramatically, the immersive power of the entertainment experience. Why "Performance-Based Room Design(SM)"? Getting an audience to accept as real a fictional, made-up world—to become an astronaut or a concert attendee for an hour or two—is a trick the poet Coleridge termed "the willing suspension of disbelief" nearly 200 years ago. The power to immerse you in a forget-who-you-are sensory experience comes more from the sound than the picture; getting the room and system singing together is our specialty. Our Focus Our focus is engineering residential spaces—home theaters, media rooms, listening rooms—that work. New construction and remodel projects provide homeowners a great opportunity to enlist our expertise in acoustical, structural, mechanical and electrical design & engineering. Our Role Serving homeowners directly, we're often brought into the project by the architect, builder, audio/video dealer, custom installer, interior designer et al. to develop a comprehensive package of CAD drawings and follow-up services, including site inspection and testing visits. We're the "glue" that keeps everyone "on the same page." We're Everywhere While most of our projects are in North America, we're currently working on jobs from Aspen to Africa, from Los Angeles to Lisbon, from Seattle to Southeast Asia. E-mail us to see how we can help you! Performance-Based Room Design (sm) Building your own dedicated A/V room? Wondering how to get your room & A/V gear to work with each other? Questions about Home Theater or Listening Room acoustic design? E-mail us! Copyright (c) 1998-2002 Keith Yates Design Group, Inc. All rights reserved.