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Home Theater · Kansas City.

IntegrateIT is a home theater installer in Kansas City, working from a design center at 15108 Glenwood Ave in Overland Park, Kansas: Control4 Platinum Dealer with a Control4 Certified Showroom, Crestron Elite Partner, Lutron Certified Installer, CEDIA member, BBB-accredited. Judge any theater bid here on four things you can verify: the manufacturer dealer tier in writing, an acoustic design with a measured RT60 target, calibration done after the seats are installed, and what the labor warranty covers. Founded in 2021 by Daniel and Moran Alon. A dedicated theater gets a CEDIA RP-22 §4.2.3 acoustic design with a measured RT60 target, not a speaker brochure. Labor carries a 5-year workmanship warranty; products carry their manufacturer warranties. Call (913) 804-7575 or email office@integrateit.tech.

A theater is a room first. IntegrateIT designs and installs dedicated home theaters across the Kansas City metro from Overland Park, Kansas: Dolby Atmos 7.2.4 and 9.2.6 layouts, Sony or JVC laser projection on Stewart Filmscreen screens, CEDIA RP-22 §4.2.3 acoustic treatment designed to the room, starlight fiber-optic ceilings and one-touch scene control, calibrated once the seats are in. Control4 Platinum Dealer, Crestron Elite Partner, Lutron Certified Installer. Phone: (913) 804-7575 or office@integrateit.tech.

Control4 Platinum Dealer · Control4 Certified Showroom · Crestron Elite Partner · Lutron Certified Installer · CEDIA member · BBB-accredited · authorized Foresight and Trackman dealer · 5-year workmanship warranty

How to choose a home theater installer in Kansas City

If you are collecting bids rather than picking a name, the rest of this page is the checklist we would want you to hold us to. Every row below is something you can verify before you sign — a dealer portal lookup, a line on a proposal, a number on a warranty document. Ask all nine of every bidder. The answers will separate them faster than the equipment lists will, because the equipment lists all look the same.

Seven questions, in the order that matters

1. "What is this room's RT60 target, and how did you get it?" Ask this first, before anyone says a brand name. A bidder who can answer it has done the room. A bidder who redirects to projector specs has done a quote.
2. "Show me your dealer tier." Not "we install Control4." The tier. It takes thirty seconds to state and it is the cheapest lie to catch.
3. "Did you measure my basement, or estimate it?" Finished ceiling height, joist direction, column locations, and where the HVAC trunk runs are the four numbers that constrain the whole design. If nobody crawled the mechanical room, the bid is fiction.
4. "Line-item it." A lump sum is not comparable to anything. Ask for the screen, the projector, the amplification, the acoustic treatment, the seating, the electrical, and the labor broken out separately. Three bids become legible the moment they are itemized.
5. "What is explicitly excluded?" Then read that list twice. This is where the second, unbudgeted contractor appears three weeks into the job.
6. "What does calibration mean here, and when does it happen?" You want a real answer — measured, from the seats, after the room is finished.
7. "Who services this in five years, and what does the labor warranty cover?" Ask it last so the answer isn't rehearsed. The theater will outlive the excitement of buying it.

Three bids, one number

Three Kansas City proposals can land within a few thousand dollars of each other and describe three genuinely different rooms. The gap is almost never the projector — projector model is the one line every bidder prints proudly. The gap is in the parts nobody photographs: whether the screen is perforated or matte white, whether the surrounds run off a receiver or off separate amplification, whether there is one subwoofer in a corner or two placed by measurement, whether "acoustic treatment" means rigid fiberglass at the first reflection points and traps in all four corners or six foam squares from an online store, and whether the room build — framing, drywall, decoupling, the dedicated circuits — is inside the number or waiting outside it.

We do not publish price bands, because two rooms that look identical from the doorway can be very different projects. What we do publish is what moves the number. The three shapes a theater takes, and what separates them, are laid out in our Kansas City home theater cost guide; the long version — including the section on when not to spend the money at all — is what a home theater really costs in Kansas City. We give a fixed price after a no-cost site walk. We do not quote a theater by email, because we cannot see your joists from here.

What goes into the room

• Speakers and amplification. Triad Platinum / Wisdom Audio in-wall LCRs, Triad Bronze / Sonance in-ceiling for surrounds and height channels, dual Triad Mini IW subwoofers (or REL / SVS visible if cabinetry allows). Trinnov Altitude32 processor with matched multi-channel power amplifiers.
• Display. Sony BRAVIA Projector 9 (VPL-XW8100ES, native 4K laser SXRD), JVC DLA-NZ900 laser D-ILA with 8K/e-shiftX, or Samsung The Wall MicroLED for the no-projector option. Stewart Filmscreen WallScreen Deluxe 120-150" 2.40:1 — perforated acoustically-transparent so the center speaker sits behind the screen.
• Acoustic treatment. OC-703 / OC-705 rigid fiberglass at first reflections, GIK Tri-Trap corner bass traps, RPG Skyline or QRD-7 rear-wall diffusion, heavy carpet floor, leather theater seating. Predicted RT60 0.30-0.45s @ 500Hz; validated post-install.
• Seating. Salamander Designs / Fortress / Cinematech / Cineak motorized recliners with cup heaters, USB charging, and motorized lumbar. Tiered platform construction for the back row(s) — riser height per CEDIA RP-22 §3.2 sight-line geometry.
• Starlight fiber-optic ceiling. A few thousand single-mode strands, remote LED engine, optional twinkle wheel and shooting-star fiber, scene-triggered with the rest of the room.
• One-touch control. Crestron CP4-N or Control4 EA-5 processor, scene buttons on a Crestron Mercury / Control4 touch panel, voice via Apple HomeKit / Amazon Alexa optional.

That bill of materials is the dedicated room. Two more projection lines we carry and install under distribution sit either side of it, and naming them is more useful than pretending every room deserves the list above. BenQ is the honest answer for the media-room build below — its Home Cinema and TV Projector ranges are designed for a room with light in it, where a reference projector spends its money on contrast the room will not let you see. Panasonic is the other direction: SOLID SHINE laser projectors organised by light engine and brightness, specified where a room runs all day — a simulator bay, a screening room in a club, a commercial-spec install — rather than for the black level a dark theater is built around.

Three ways we build it

• Dedicated theater. A purpose-built cinema room with acoustic treatment, tiered seating and reference projection, in a space that does nothing else. The full version of everything above.
• Media room. A multi-purpose space that keeps theater-grade picture and object-based Dolby Atmos or DTS:X sound while staying a room the family actually uses. Short-throw laser or large-format display, in-ceiling height channels, and an ambient-light-rejecting screen so it holds up with the lights on.
• Living-room theater. Cinema-quality audio and video built into your existing great room, no dedicated space required. A large-format display or discreet projector, in-wall LCR speakers, hidden subwoofers, and 4K HDR video processing that upscales and tone-maps every source.

This page stays the general one — how to choose, how to compare, what the room does to the design. Three of its subjects have grown their own pages, because the questions people ask about them are longer than a bullet: the dedicated cinema as a build — isolation, sight lines, screen and projection, concealment, and the order the work runs in; Dolby Atmos as a room-design problem — how many height channels a ceiling can carry and whether they go in it or bounce off it; and calibration on its own, including the rooms we did not build.

What a Kansas City basement does to the design

Many of the theaters we are asked to build here are basement theaters, and the basement decides more than the budget does.

Ceiling height is the first constraint, and it costs you twice. A poured nine-foot basement wall does not give you nine feet of theater. Once the joist bays, the ductwork and the ceiling assembly are in, what is left is meaningfully less — and that remainder still has to absorb a second-row riser, seven to twelve inches for a proper sight line over the front row, and leave the Atmos height channels above and outside the seating. Under roughly eight feet of finished height, no budget buys a good result, and we would rather say so than build it. That arithmetic is why two houses four miles apart in Overland Park can support very different theaters, and why the tape measure comes out before the drawing does.

The supply trunk runs where you want the projector. The main HVAC trunk very often runs the long dimension of the basement — directly through the projector line or the ceiling-speaker layout. Rerouting it is real HVAC scope. It belongs inside the bid or explicitly outside it, and "we'll figure it out" is not a third option.

Poured concrete walls are a gift; the other three surfaces are the work. Concrete is an excellent bass boundary, which is part of why KC basements can sound genuinely good. The problems are the stud wall to the rest of the finished basement, the door, and the joist ceiling that transmits straight into the kitchen above. Decoupling that ceiling — resilient channel or isolation clips with hat channel, double drywall with damping compound — plus a solid-core door with a full perimeter seal is what keeps a 10 p.m. movie from being a family event. The full treatment method is on our theater acoustic treatment page.

Keep the mechanical room and the rack out of the room. Furnace, water heater, and sump pump all cycle mid-movie. Put a wall and a door between them and the seats, and put the equipment rack in a ventilated closet on its own circuit — never in the theater, where its fans become part of your noise floor.

Older housing stock east of State Line is a different answer. Brookside, Waldo, the older Prairie Village and Mission Hills blocks: stone or block foundations, lower headroom, and rarely a square corner in the building. Those homes are usually better served by an excellent media room than by a dedicated cinema, and pretending otherwise is how people end up with a theater they duck to enter.

Two more local facts. Overland Park, Leawood, Olathe, Lenexa, and Kansas City, MO each run their own building department — somebody has to pull the electrical permit for the dedicated circuits, and your proposal should say who. And a finished basement here in August needs a dehumidification plan, or the screen material and the seating leather age on a schedule nobody warned you about.

When we are not the right answer

If you want a 75-inch TV on a wall with a soundbar, hire a TV mounter and keep your money. If you have a fixed budget and want all of it spent on gear, a big-box installer will get you closer to that list than we will, because a meaningful share of what we charge goes into the room rather than the boxes. And if your basement gives you seven and a half feet of finished height with a trunk line down the middle, the honest recommendation is often a media room, not a dedicated theater — we would rather tell you that on the site walk than build the compromised version of the thing you asked for.

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