In a home where the architect chose every sightline and the designer chose every surface, a grille in the ceiling is a compromise and a box on the wall is a defeat. Invisible speakers install inside the wall or ceiling and disappear under the finish itself: plaster, paint, wallpaper, or wood veneer, with nothing visible in the room at all. Near-invisible systems reduce the footprint to an opening the size of a small downlight. Either way, the room keeps its lines, the surfaces stay clean, and the sound arrives from everywhere and nowhere. It is the audio strategy interior designers specify when the room itself is the point.
Home theater and AV installationFully invisible speakers install inside the wall or ceiling and are finished over with plaster, paint, wallpaper or other compatible architectural finishes so there is no visible grille in the room. Regent5 coordinates the speaker location, framing, backing, finish depth, wiring, amplification, subwoofers and calibration before the surfaces are complete, so the hidden audio is engineered into the architecture rather than added afterward.
Browse the brands we installWe also design and install the Sonance Invisible Series, the line built on Sonance's Designed to Disappear philosophy. Motion Flex technology pairs a bending-wave high-frequency drive unit with an Air Flex woofer to produce detail and warmth that rivals visible speakers, installed behind drywall, plaster, wallpaper, or wood veneer. The range runs from the compact IS6 through the large-format IS10, with invisible subwoofers extending the low end, and the IS10 is strong enough to serve as the front left, center, and right channels of a serious surround system, a living room theater with no visible speakers at all. Invisible Series products carry a fifteen-year warranty when installed by an authorized dealer.
Fortress theater seatingSome ceilings call for a footprint that matches the downlights rather than full concealment, and that is the James Loudspeaker Small Aperture series. A complete three-way speaker system, tweeter, midrange, and a real PowerPipe subwoofer, lives above the ceiling and speaks through an opening of just three or four inches, round or square, sized and trimmed to match the lighting fixtures in the same ceiling. The result is over seventy-five percent smaller than a traditional in-ceiling speaker with full-range sound that has no business coming from a hole that small. In slat ceilings, minimalist interiors, and rooms where the lighting plan sets the ceiling's rhythm, Small Aperture keeps the audio in step.
Whole home automation platformsHidden audio should not stop at the last conditioned room. Saunas, steam rooms, covered outdoor living areas and landscape spaces require speakers designed for heat, humidity, weather and, where relevant, salt exposure. Regent5 selects sealed or weather-rated audio solutions for those environments and coordinates concealment through soffits, architectural features and landscape placement so outdoor sound follows the same design discipline as the interior.
Outdoor audio, video, and Wi-FiInvisible audio succeeds or fails in the details no one sees: placement calculated for coverage before the walls close, backboxes and framing coordinated with the structure, amplification matched to the specific panels, wiring that reaches every location through structured pathways, and a finish process coordinated with your plaster or paint contractor so the surface over the speaker is indistinguishable from the surface beside it. As a C10 electrical and C7 low voltage licensed contractor we handle the wiring, the amplifier racks, the finish coordination, and the calibration as one scope, on new construction and in finished homes where the retrofit path is planned around the walls you are not opening.
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Hidden speakers join the home's audio system like any other zone: streaming from Sonos or the automation platform, grouped and scheduled through Lutron, Savant, Control4, Crestron and Vantage systems, present in the dinner-party scene and silent after the goodnight command. The speakers disappear; the music does not. Experience discreet audio at Regent5, or contact us to talk through where sound belongs in your home and what should remain out of sight.
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Regent5 designs, installs and supports invisible and near-invisible speakers by Sonance and James Loudspeaker across the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California. Select engagements extend to Santa Barbara, the Los Angeles area, and Orange County. Projects include custom homes, estates and private cinemas, from rough construction and plaster finishing through tuning and long-term service.
The systems that surround hidden audio in a complete home, each covered in depth.
Fully invisible models such as Sonance Invisible Series install inside the wall or ceiling and are finished over so there is genuinely nothing to see. James Small Aperture systems take a different approach, using a very small ceiling opening that can be coordinated with the lighting layout.
Far less than most people expect, and in a well designed system the difference is not the story. Modern invisible lines are full range designs with dedicated invisible subwoofers, and the Sonance IS10 is capable enough to serve as the front three channels of a surround system. Matched amplification and calibration matter more than the grille ever did.
Yes, with a finish process. The speaker installs into the wall or ceiling and the surface is refinished over it, so retrofits are planned together with your painter or plaster contractor. We design the retrofit path around the walls you are not opening and tell you honestly what each room requires.
Yes. We install weather-sealed speakers built for heat, humidity, and wet environments, including hermetically sealed IP68-rated models, so saunas, private steam rooms, and covered outdoor spaces get real sound engineered for the conditions.
It depends on the room and finish strategy. Full concealment under plaster or other finishes can favor Sonance Invisible Series, while ceilings organized around a lighting plan can favor James Small Aperture. Wet and outdoor spaces require appropriately sealed or weather-rated models. Regent5 selects the approach room by room and can demonstrate supported architectural-audio options at the Regent5 showroom and design center.
Yes. Hidden speakers join the home's audio system like any other zone, streaming from Sonos or the automation platform and grouped and scheduled through Lutron, Savant, Control4, Crestron and Vantage systems, so they play in the dinner-party scene and go silent with the goodnight command.
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