The rules are simple. Enjoy music throughout your home and not just one room. No more cranking it in one room to hear it in five others. Keep it discreet and blend with the décor.

We like to stress this point. Don’t put your self in a position to second-guess. Cutting corners in one area can affect the entire system. The wiring, volume controls, impedance, speakers and amplifiers form a system that is as weak as the weakest link. Skimp on one and it will weaken the whole (we don’t do it!).

The control of such systems is just as important as the sound. Interior Media specifies a variety of methods to make Whole House Audio as convenient to use as your car radio. Keypads placed discreetly and appropriately give you One-touch access to audio.

Basic systems can have one, two or more keypads controlling all rooms as one zone (meaning playing the same thing). A more sophisticated, multi-zone system might have a keypad for every zone with each keypad playing and controlling only that zone or all zones together. And finally, a premium system might have multi zone functionality as well as one or two central LCD touch screen keypads that sort and play your entire CD collection and display the CD art work too.

• Discreet and virtually hidden high quality audio
• Inwall, inceiling, bookcase and freestanding speakers
• Control volume and sources in each room or zone
• One-touch “on/off” of preset music formats, CD or radio
• Activate from anywhere in the house