★Carried & Installed
Episode architectural speakers · Kansas City.
IntegrateIT carries and installs Episode across the Kansas City metro — in-wall and in-ceiling speakers for living rooms and whole-home audio, home theater models, outdoor speakers for the yard and a range of subwoofers. One precision first, because the trade is sloppy about this word: Episode 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 Episode dealer. What we are is the people who draw the room-by-room speaker plan, cut the openings where the drawing says and tune the house after the furniture is in. Phone: (913) 804-7575 or office@integrateit.tech.
The useful thing to know before any model name: Episode organises its own installation page around the job, with four headings — Living Room, Home Theater, Whole-Home and Outdoor. That is how we start too. The question is not which speaker is good; it is how many rooms need covering, which of them are listening rooms and which are background, and what the weather does to the ones outside.
What we carry and install from Episode
Episode’s site sorts its range into architectural speakers, soundbars, subwoofers and outdoor, and names the architectural families below. These are the ones we specify here, as Episode names them.
- Episode Signature. Three series. Episode describes the 3 Series as a polypropylene woofer and silk dome tweeter for all-purpose use, the 5 Series as adding an adjustable silk dome tweeter, with titanium on woofer and tweeter, for upgrading an install, and the 7 Series as a honeycomb fiberglass woofer and pure titanium tweeter for distributed audio or home theater. Signature is the family for the rooms in a whole-house audio system where somebody sits down.
- Episode CORE Series. The 1 Series, 3 Series and 5 Series. Episode describes an extensive line of in-wall and in-ceiling speakers, including all-weather models and dual voice coil hybrid models that can serve as surrounds. This is the family for the many openings of a house, and the one we draw into the pre-wire when the room count is high.
- Episode Impression. Distributed-audio speakers that Episode says suit room aesthetics and need a four-inch hole. The Impression Bandpass Subwoofer is the companion that goes through a smaller opening. They suit the rooms where a large cut-out is unwelcome: a bath, a hallway, a kitchen soffit.
- Episode Home Theater. A home theater line that Episode lists beside its architectural ranges, with a ribbon tweeter. Whether it or Signature suits a room depends on the seating and the screen; see home theater.
- Outdoor. Landscape satellite speakers in four, six and eight-inch sizes; the Terrain Landscape Kit, with four four-inch satellites, four stakes and one eight-inch subwoofer; surface-mount, omni-directional and rock speakers, the rock ones in granite and sandstone finishes; the Burial and Hardscape outdoor subwoofers; and three-channel all-weather soundbars. For how we draw a yard, see outdoor audio.
- Subwoofers. The MEGA, Triple, Evolution and Element lines, an in-wall model in single and dual versions, the Bandpass for use with Impression, and subwoofer amplifiers. Positions are measured in the room rather than assumed; see home theater calibration.
How we put Episode into a house
- A speaker plan, room by room. Every room gets a line on the plan: which family, which opening, which zone it belongs to. A room missed on the plan is a room that gets a speaker added later through finished drywall.
- Openings and cable at rough-in. Cut-out size, depth and the cable path are checked against Episode’s published specification for the exact model, and settled while the wall is open. Speaker cable is home-run to the rack, labelled at both ends, with no splices in the wall.
- Outdoor runs in conduit. Landscape and surface-mount speakers get cable in conduit with any splice in an enclosure we can open again, because the yard is the part of the system that gets dug up.
- Zones, tuned. Levels matched zone to zone, subwoofers measured, and the whole house checked after the furniture and rugs are in, not on the day the speakers were mounted.
- One control surface, one record. The speakers sit behind a keypad or an app on a Control4 or Crestron system we design and program, and model numbers, wire labels and settings land in your portal with the project record.
Where Episode sits beside the other lines we carry
Episode is the line to look at when the question is how to cover many rooms evenly, with in-wall, in-ceiling, outdoor and subwoofer ranges from one maker. Monitor Audio is the comparison when the house also wants boxed speakers and an in-wall subwoofer kit from the same maker. Triad is built to order and painted to match, which wins when the architecture is the constraint, and TruAudio covers the architectural and landscape work. The recommendation comes off the room plan.
Common questions
Who installs Episode speakers in Kansas City?
IntegrateIT (Overland Park, KS) carries and installs Episode across the Kansas City metro — whole-house systems, home theaters and outdoor audio on both sides of the state line, from Overland Park and Leawood to Mission Hills and out to Lee’s Summit. To be precise about the relationship, because the trade is sloppy about this word: Episode 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 Episode dealer. What we do is walk the house, specify the speakers, install and commission them, and document the result. Phone: (913) 804-7575 or office@integrateit.tech.
What is the difference between Episode Signature and CORE Series?
Episode describes Signature as a design and sound line, in 3, 5 and 7 Series. The 3 Series is a polypropylene woofer with a silk dome tweeter; the 5 Series adds vacuum-deposited titanium and an adjustable silk dome tweeter; the 7 Series uses a honeycomb fiberglass woofer and a pure titanium tweeter, for distributed audio or home theater. The CORE Series, in 1, 3 and 5 Series, is described as an extensive line of in-wall and in-ceiling speakers, including all-weather and dual voice coil hybrid models. The practical split is the room: the rooms where somebody sits down get the higher series, the rest get coverage.
Do Episode speakers work for a whole-house system?
That is the job Episode’s Whole-Home heading describes: products for every room, from the garage to the kitchen. The design question is zones. We draw each room as a zone, choose the family for what the room is used for, and check that the amplification can drive the load before a single opening is cut. Episode’s Impression speakers need a four-inch hole, which is the answer in rooms where a larger cut-out is unwelcome.
What outdoor speakers does Episode make?
Landscape satellites in four, six and eight-inch sizes, the Terrain Landscape Kit, surface-mount speakers, omni-directional speakers, rock speakers in granite and sandstone finishes, outdoor subwoofers and three-channel all-weather soundbars. Episode publishes temperature ratings for the landscape speakers. A Kansas City yard sees heat, ice and a mower, so we draw the placement, the conduit and the connection with those in mind.
Which Episode subwoofers go in a wall?
Episode lists an in-wall subwoofer in single and dual versions, and an Impression Bandpass In-Ceiling model that goes through a smaller opening to pair with the Impression range. The decision that matters on site is the cavity: its position, its depth and where the amplifier lives go on the drawing before the drywall closes.
What does an install involve, and what happens afterwards?
A site walk first: how many rooms, what the walls and ceilings are made of, where the cable can run and where the rack goes. Then the plan, rough-in, installation and commissioning — levels matched, subwoofers measured, zones tuned after the furniture arrives — and documentation with model numbers, wire labels and settings. Our installation carries a five-year workmanship warranty from the final invoice; whatever warranty Episode gives on its own hardware is Episode’s to state.
Tell us how many rooms and what the yard looks like. The speakers follow.
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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, HTA Certified. Overland Park, KS.