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L-Acoustics x QAV | Creating the Ultimate Home Theater Experience

Explore how Denver based L-Acoustics Home & Yacht CPi QAV reimagined their Home Theater at their luxury Showroom. The Theater features 3 Syva paired with Syva Low’s for the LCR channels, X4i paired with SB6i Subwoofers for surround and rear channels, X4i for height channels and 4 Syva Sub for the LFE channel. This 11.1.6 Home Theater is powered by 2 LA7.16i amplified controllers with processing from Storm Audio. Projection is from Barco Residential paired with a MadVR Envy for processing. An acoustically transparent masking screen from Display Technologies. Room build from SRND Group and seating from Cineak.

December 2025 by designing lighting

Welcome to the December 2025 issue of designing lighting (dl), a celebration of lighting as storytelling. On the cover is the world-famous Sphere. We

Residential Lighting Best Practices Guide 2026 Now Available

This special issue is designed to assist custom installers who are venturing into the world of lighting and offer some advice for those who continue to navigate this lucrative product category. It features some of the top experts and companies in the lighting and CI worlds, many of whom gave presentations and exhibited at Lightapalooza 2026.

Shaded in Stone

Situated in the exclusive community of Cherry Hills Village, Colorado, this home is a 10,000-square-foot modern sanctuary defined by craftsmanship and natural materials. The home does not feature a single sheet of drywall and is wrapped entirely in stone, wood, and handcrafted finishes, creating a warm, organic environment rooted in intentional design.

Camping Out

Residing just outside of Denver, Colorado, this contemporary home includes many features that accentuate the family’s lifestyle and hobbies, such as a home theater, a golf simulator, and a wine cellar. The homeowners knew this would become their forever home from the evergreen design and tailored characteristics that would cater to lives today and in the future.

Comfort in Colorado

This modern brick home in Denver blends contemporary design with functional elegance, offering a stunning living space that reflects style and comfort. The natural light and high-end finishes make it an ideal urban retreat in the heart of Colorado.

Handcrafted Haven in Colorado

Nestled in the scenic Fox Hill community of Franktown, Colorado, this custom-built home beautifully captures the essence of rustic charm and sustainable living. Thoughtfully designed to reflect the values of community and craftsmanship, the residence blends natural materials and handcrafted details to create a warm, inviting atmosphere.

Collaborative Craftmanship Creates Design-Forward System for Colorado Luxury Home

Wireless lighting control as well as some creative AV elements integrated directly into the home’s exposed architecture make for a sophisticated mountain getaway.

Lighting Scenes Deepen Connection to the Mountains in Custom Colorado Home

A Rocky Mountain new build becomes a case study in design-first technology, as QAV and DMF Lighting demonstrate the power of layered lighting, scene control and architectural alignment.

Automated Shades Concealed in Stone and Wood Elevate Cherry Hills Residence

In high-end residential construction, complexity is often a given. But on this Cherry Hills estate, complexity became the proving ground for a design-first approach to technology integration by Quality Audio Video (QAV).

QAV Introduces HelioWing by World4Solar

QAV, Colorado-based Custom Home Integration Company, recently launched the HelioWing by World4Solar with an event just ahead of the Denver CEDIA/CIX 2025 trade show. Around 50 select guests attended the event that showcased the whole-house energy system, which the integrator suggests, adds a forward-thinking solution to QAV’s luxury product portfolio.

I Got to Experience L-Acoustic’s Exclusive Home Theater

French audio manufacturer L-Acoustics was heavy on home theater demonstrations at CEDIA Expo 2024, including an 11.1.6 Doly Atmos Theater in its show floor booth, as well as an equally powerful system at Denver-area integrator QAV’s showroom at which the companies hosted press.

The Daily Raff: CEDIA Expo/CIX 2024 Day 1 Thoughts

Hi, everyone! Welcome to my wrap-up of Day One of CEDIA Expo/CIX 2024. First of all, I’ll say this was a weird day for me as someone who normally has back-to-back appointments. Trust me; I still had appointments. But I got to choose all of them for myself!

6 awesome home theater installations you won't believe

Home theaters are the stuff of dreams – spaces where you can retreat from everyday reality into a world where movies, games, and music are the only things that matter. For many, a simple setup can be created in a living room using the best 4K projectors and best TVs paired with one of the best Dolby Atmos soundbars.

StormAudio elevates the home theater experience

A unique combination of design-forward, technologically advanced AV gear, powered by a StormAudio ISP Elite 24 Analog MK3 processor, inspires visitors of QAV’s remodeled demo theater to dream big when it comes to their own entertainment environments.

Home Theater Week Case Study: QAV’s Showroom

It’s not often that designing a new home theater is described as a transcendent experience, but for Tyson Rabani, founder and CEO at integrator QAV, a recent project to upgrade the company’s home theater demonstration room has proven to be as near life-changing as it can be.

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Ghosted by Your Integrator? Here's How to Never Let It Happen Again

If your integrator vanished after the install and now no one answers when something breaks, you are not alone, and you are not stuck. A good firm can often take over a system someone else installed, bring it up to standard, and care for it for life. Here is why ghosting happens, what to do right now, and how to choose a partner who stays.

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The Wire Is Cheap. The Access Is Priceless.

A luxury home without proper cabling is a luxury home with a weak foundation. The wire behind your walls is what every screen, speaker, camera, and smart feature depends on, and it costs very little to do right while the walls are open. The expensive part is getting to it later. Here is why cabling is the most important thing you cannot see.

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Should One Team Design Your Lighting? Why the Answer Is Yes

Lighting is the first thing you feel in a room, and most homes split it across four companies who never talk: an electrician, a lighting showroom, a shade vendor, and a control installer. When one team designs the fixtures, the controls, the shades, and the daylight as a single system, you get a result none of them can deliver alone, and one place to call when you want it perfect.

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What a Great Integrator Actually Gives You (That Most Don't)

A great integrator gives you far more than a pile of equipment. They give you a real design, documentation your architect can build from, a system tested before it ever reaches your home, and someone who still answers the phone years later. Most give you a box and a bill. Here is what to look for.

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The Costliest Mistake in a Custom Home: Calling the Tech Team Last

The most expensive mistake in a custom home is bringing the technology team in last. When your integrator joins at the first design meetings, the wiring, the speakers, and the screens disappear into the architecture. When they join after the drawings are done, you pay for it twice, in change orders and in compromises you will see every day.

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Five Questions to Ask Before You Build Your Smart Home

Before you build or remodel, the single smartest move is to bring your technology designer in early, ideally right alongside your architect. These five questions help you plan a home that feels effortless, ages well, and never makes you think about the technology behind it.

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How Much Does a Luxury Smart Home Cost in Colorado?

A QAV home is custom, so the investment follows the home and the life inside it. Many clients begin with the foundation, or one or two things done beautifully, often starting around $10,000, and grow the home over the years. Most fully integrated homes land across the five and six figures, and a rare few go further, by invitation. The best way to find your number is a short conversation, so it reflects your home and not someone else's.

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Woven-to-Size: The Shade Detail Designers Notice First

Woven-to-size means your shade fabric is handwoven on a loom to the exact width of your window, instead of being cut from a mass-produced roll. The result is seamless, full of natural texture, and free of the visible seams or banding that wide windows usually force. It is the quiet, couture-level detail that makes a room feel finished, and it is the first thing a great designer looks for.

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Motorized Shades: The Quiet Art of Controlling Natural Light

Motorized shades are how you control the most beautiful light in your home, the sunlight, on your terms. They sculpt daylight through the day, give you privacy and blackout the instant you want them, protect your art and furniture from glare and heat, and do it all silently, with no cords and no effort. The best ones you never even see.

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Smart Home Trends 2026: What's Actually Worth Your Money

The smart home upgrades worth your money in 2026 are not gadgets. They are systems that make life calmer: a home that anticipates you, light and air that help you sleep and feel better, and technology you never have to see or fight with. The flashy robot stuff is still a demo. The quiet, livable upgrades are the ones that pay you back every day.

The Same Standard. Now in Colorado.

Hollywood Bowl. Nobu Toronto. Four Seasons Surf Club. The audio technology serving these iconic properties is available through QAV.

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Each pillar represents a dimension of modern luxury living. Explore how QAV transforms Colorado homes into sanctuaries of comfort and capability.

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Each pillar represents a dimension of modern luxury living. Explore how QAV transforms Colorado homes into sanctuaries of comfort and capability.

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Each pillar represents a dimension of modern luxury living. Explore how QAV transforms Colorado homes into sanctuaries of comfort and capability.

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Each pillar represents a dimension of modern luxury living. Explore how QAV transforms Colorado homes into sanctuaries of comfort and capability.

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Each pillar represents a dimension of modern luxury living. Explore how QAV transforms Colorado homes into sanctuaries of comfort and capability.

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