AV Design & Engineering in Ann Arbor, MI
av designed around your needs
We design your custom AV system before you spend a dollar.
Whether you're outfitting a conference room, a lecture hall, a city council chamber, or a training room, we run the same free design process first — one to two weeks spent assessing how your space is actually used in order to tailor an AV system that's completely customized to your layout and audio-visual goals.
- Custom Crestron and QSC touch panel interfaces built for your room
- Control systems for conference rooms, classrooms, and auditoriums
- Direct consultancy on all design work: scopes, drawings, and specs
- On-site needs assessments and product demos before you commit
An AV design process built around free consultation.
After we assess your space, we take one-to-two weeks to deliver a custom AV design that's built around your space, at no extra cost to you.
Consultation
Your assigned account manager and engineer work with you to define what the space needs.
Design
We design the system around how your space is actually used, and demo it before you commit.
Installation
Once you approve the design, our trained AV technicians install and program it.
Support
We maintain, troubleshoot, and support the system for as long as you own it.
One system, start to finish
Design is the first step in an AV system built to last for years.
An AV control system is only as good as its design. Whether it's a video conferencing platform, digital signage, or a video wall, a seamless design is the only thing that can ensure optimal performance and easy operation.
When AV design happens in isolation, someone ends up missing a mount, a cable run, or an integration point, and the system needs rework before it ever gets used. That's why Thalner designs AV setups with every component in mind, ensuring you're set up for nothing short of streamlined success.
- One-year warranty included with every AV design
- Maintenance contracts with quarterly system checks available
Getting the design right changes everything that follows
Most of what counts for effective AV design is revealed during a site visit. Once we've assessed your working environment, our AV design and engineering team starts plotting out every detail of your new system before a single cable is pulled.
A project manager and engineer sit down with you to define what the room actually needs to do, what budget you're working with, and what pieces you might not have thought of yet: the mount, the cable run, the extra outlet nobody planned for. Most projects move through that design process in one to two weeks, and our AV setup proposal doesn't cost you anything until you decide to move forward.
We do this work for corporate offices, municipalities, and just about every commercial space you can think of across Ann Arbor and all surrounding areas throughout the greater Detroit metro, running the same design-first process whether the finished system costs a couple thousand dollars or well into six figures. We only get one chance to nail the design for your new AV system, which is why we put in all the prep work necessary to deliver exactly what you expect from us.
Attention to details: AV systems designed to work together
A control system only earns its keep when everything else in the room does what it's supposed to. Our design work happens on Crestron, QSC, and Extron platforms, because those are the systems our in-house certified programmers build custom interfaces on every day. These are not off-the-shelf templates, but personalized touch panel layouts specially built around how your staff actually runs the room.
That means a conference room AV systems design has to account for video conferencing, room scheduling displays, and audio reinforcement all working off one interface. A classroom AV systems design has to survive a rotating cast of instructors who've never seen the room before. We've engineered control for everything from electric tinting glass in a boardroom to digital signage systems for city council chambers and funeral homes, and once a design is approved, our own AV system installation team builds it, not a subcontractor.
60+ years of AV design in Ann Arbor, Detroit, and Lansing
We've operated out of the same office in Ann Arbor for over 60 years, and AV design and engineering work has been part of our framework for that the entire time. We're also been a proud AV partner for The University of Michigan for nearly 30 years, and that campus work — lecture halls, research auditoriums, training rooms — has shaped how we approach every system design since.
Our sweet spot runs about 60 to 80 miles out from Ann Arbor, which puts Detroit and Lansing squarely inside our service area, along with the corporate offices, municipalities, and universities in between. For clients with locations outside our own footprint, our 25-plus years in the PSNI Global Alliance means we can bring in a vetted, trained affiliate to install or service a system the same way we would, so you still get one point of contact even when the work happens somewhere else.
It starts with a design and continues with ongoing AV service and support
Design is just the start of the relationship. Every installation includes a one-year warranty as well as maintenance contract options, providing quarterly visits, firmware updates, and system checks so the equipment we specified keeps working the way it was designed to. If you're inheriting a system from another integrator, we'll take over service and support on it, too.
The whole idea behind offering our clients free AV design proposals is that we're not just selling you a box and moving on. We're here to help ensure your setup maintains its superior performance for many years to come. If you've got a room that isn't doing what it should, or a project that hasn't been drawn yet, request a quote today and let's start planning your new AV design.
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