★Carried & Installed

1Sound loudspeakers · Kansas City.

IntegrateIT carries and installs 1Sound across the Kansas City metro — the commercial loudspeaker we specify when a room has nowhere to hide a speaker and the speaker therefore has to be worth looking at. One precision first, because the trade is sloppy about this word: 1Sound is a line we carry and install under distribution, not one we hold our own dealer agreement on, so we do not call ourselves an authorized 1Sound dealer. What we are is the people who measure the room, lay out the coverage, hang the boxes, tune the zones and save the presets the staff will actually use. Phone: (913) 804-7575 or office@integrateit.tech.

A note on the name, because it will come up if you go looking: the manufacturer styles itself “1 SOUND” and publishes at 1-sound.com, with the hyphen. It describes itself as an American-made professional loudspeaker maker for the commercial audio industry, and builds in Monmouth County, New Jersey. This is not a home-audio brand wearing a commercial jacket, which is exactly why it holds up in a dining room at full service on a Saturday.

What we carry and install from 1Sound

The line is organised by how the speaker covers a room rather than by price, which is a more useful way to shop for a commercial space. These are the families we specify here, with the job each one does:

Cannon coaxial loudspeakers — C4, C5, C6 and C8. Compact passive coaxial surface-mount boxes, and the workhorse of a dining room: a dense grid of small speakers each covering a short distance, which brings the average level in the room down rather than up. Install and marine variants exist for terminal type and cable gland. This is the family behind most of what we build on restaurant and hospitality audio.
Sona 35 architectural point source. A three-way flush-mount speaker that stands about four inches off the wall or ceiling and is published as ADA-compliant — the one to reach for in a corridor, a lobby or a tasting room where the wall plane has to stay clean and a projecting box would be in the way.
Level point sources — L35 and L38, wall or ceiling. Progressive-horn full-range speakers in a flush enclosure, aimed at exactly the bar-restaurant-retail case: a discreet object that still puts real level into the room. The wall and ceiling variants are different products rather than a bracket choice.
Tower cardioid column arrays — LCC44 and LCC84, plus the LF44 low-frequency column. The answer to a long, tall or hard-surfaced room. A cardioid column throws down the length of the space and puts markedly less energy into the ceiling and the wall behind it, which is how a restored warehouse room with a hard rear wall becomes intelligible instead of washed out.
Contour horn-loaded point sources — CT28 and CT212. Three-way horn-loaded boxes with a defined 100° by 50° pattern, for rooms that need a longer throw and a coverage shape you can actually plot — a performance space or a large hall rather than a dining room.
Subwoofers, wall, floor, ceiling and flush. A range from the MiniSUB5 up through the SUB and CSUB models, so the low end comes from a box designed for it rather than from pushing the small speakers past where they are comfortable. Which one, and whether the room wants one at all, is a measurement question.
Custom Shop finishes. Stock is black and white; the manufacturer will build in a custom colour — any Sherwin-Williams or Benjamin Moore colour by their own description — or a natural wood finish. We raise this at schematic, with the designer in the room, because a speaker chosen to match is a different object from a speaker painted afterwards.
Amplification and DSP presets. 1Sound does not manufacture amplifiers; it publishes that it supplies Powersoft amplifiers carrying its own DSP presets, available only alongside a loudspeaker purchase. Every model publishes a low-impedance rating rather than a 70-volt tap, so amplifier and processing are designed in with the speaker. This is the layer that ties into the rest of a commercial AV build.

We specify and install to order — we do not hold shelf stock, and the model list on your proposal comes off the site walk and the coverage plan rather than off a catalogue page.

How we design the line in

The room is measured before a model is named. Brick, timber and polished concrete are the three surfaces this market builds hospitality out of, and all three are reflective. What the room does to sound decides the speaker count, the spacing and how much treatment has to go in before any of it is worth doing.
More speakers, working less. A dining room is judged at every table, so the layout is a coverage grid rather than a pair at the front. Each speaker covers a short distance at a low level; the room gets quieter and more intelligible at the same time, which is the opposite of what owners expect.
The shape of the room picks the family. Normal ceiling and a lot of seats: coaxials on a grid. Long, tall, or a hard rear wall: a cardioid column. A wall plane that has to stay flat: the flush architectural models. Nobody should be selling you one family for every room in the building.
The finish is a design decision, made early. Colour, mounting hardware and bracket are settled with the designer at schematic. Left to the install week, they get decided by whoever is on the lift.
Zones, then day-parts. Every zone is tuned separately, then soundcheck, lunch, dinner and late night are saved as presets. The bar gets authority over the bar and a limited range around its preset — enough to answer a guest, not enough to change the dining room. That constraint is the reason the room still sounds right a year later.
One system, not three logins. The audio lands on the same network and the same control layer as the signage and the televisions, so a manager runs the building rather than a collection of boxes.

Where it sits beside the lines we also carry

1Sound is the visible-speaker answer, and it is not the only answer we have. Where a ceiling exists and the brief is that the audio should not be seen, we specify Sonance and let the speaker disappear into the plane. Outside — the patio, the pool deck, the event lawn — it is Coastal Source, which is built to sit out through a Midwest year rather than to survive one summer. In a house, distributed zones are usually Triad in the ceiling. The reason to land on 1Sound is a specific one — a room that cannot take a flush speaker, and an owner who would rather the speaker be part of the design than an apology in it.

Common questions

Who installs 1Sound speakers in Kansas City?

IntegrateIT (Overland Park, KS) carries and installs 1Sound across the Kansas City metro — specified into the room, mounted, amplified, tuned zone by zone and saved to day-part presets. To be precise about the relationship, because the trade is sloppy about this word: 1Sound is a line we carry and install under distribution, not one we hold our own dealer agreement on, so we do not call ourselves an authorized 1Sound dealer. The brands we do hold dealer agreements on are listed on our site and include Control4, Crestron, Lutron HomeWorks and Sonance. Phone: (913) 804-7575 or office@integrateit.tech.

Is 1Sound a commercial line or a home audio line?

Commercial first, and that is why we reach for it. The manufacturer describes itself as an American-made professional loudspeaker maker serving the commercial audio industry, and its own application list runs to hospitality, restaurants, retail, houses of worship, performance venues and museums, with residential appearing as one category among several. So the rooms we put it in here are dining rooms, bars, lobbies, tasting rooms and fitness floors — spaces judged at every seat, by people who did not choose to be in the audience. For a house, we would normally be specifying Sonance or Triad instead.

Why not just put speakers in the ceiling?

Because a great many Kansas City hospitality rooms have no ceiling to put them in. Exposed timber joists in a Crossroads warehouse, an open plenum with the mechanical run left deliberately visible, a tin ceiling somebody spent real money restoring, twenty-two feet of open volume over a dining room — in all of those a flush architectural speaker is not an option, and the alternative is either a compromise or an object. 1Sound is the object done properly: a small surface or flush enclosure in a colour chosen with the designer, mounted where the coverage wants it rather than where the structure allows. Where there IS a ceiling, we generally specify Sonance and let the speaker disappear.

What 1Sound models would go in a restaurant?

It depends on the shape of the room, which is the whole point of the walk. A dining room with a normal ceiling height and a lot of seats usually wants a dense grid of small coaxials — the Cannon series, C4 through C8 — each covering a short distance at a low level, so the front tables are not shouted at to reach the back. A long, tall or narrow room, or one with a hard rear wall, is where a cardioid column earns its place: the Tower LCC44 and LCC84 throw down the length of the room with much less energy going into the ceiling and the wall behind them. Where the wall has to stay visually flat, the Sona 35 and the Level L35 and L38 sit close to the surface. Bass, where the room wants it, comes from the subwoofer range rather than from pushing the small boxes. Nothing is specified before the room is measured.

Can the speakers match the room instead of fighting it?

Yes, and it is a real reason this line gets chosen. The standard finishes are black and white, and the manufacturer runs a Custom Shop that will build a product in a custom colour — any Sherwin-Williams or Benjamin Moore colour, by their own description — or in a natural wood finish. In practice that means the speaker is chosen with the designer during the buildout rather than explained away after opening, which is a much better conversation to have. We bring the finish question to the table at schematic, along with the mounting hardware, because a bracket decided late is the thing that ends up visible.

Who do you buy the amplifiers from?

They come with the speakers, and that is by the manufacturer’s design rather than ours. 1Sound does not build amplification itself; it publishes that it supplies amplifiers from Powersoft, carrying its own DSP presets, and that they are available only alongside a 1Sound loudspeaker purchase. For us that is a feature. Every model in the line publishes a low-impedance figure rather than a 70-volt tap, so the amplifier and its processing are part of the design from the beginning instead of a separate line item chosen on price — which is how a commercial room ends up with speakers that measure well and a system that sounds thin.

Bring us in at schematic. The speaker finish is a design decision, not an install one.

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Send the plans, the RFP, or a photo of the room. We return a fixed bid, not a range.

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Written by Daniel Alon, founder of IntegrateIT LLC, with twenty years in IT and AV integration — Control4 Platinum Dealer, Crestron Elite Partner, Lutron Certified Installer, CEDIA member. Overland Park, KS.