Audio · Video · Low Voltage · Since 2005
Systems that disappear into the architecture.
Design, installation and commissioning of residential and commercial audio, video and network systems across the Pacific Northwest, the Bay Area and Napa. Twenty years of them.
YT–00 / Index01 — Discipline
Low voltage is the quiet half of a building.
Nobody compliments the network. They notice when the music follows them from the kitchen to the terrace, when the cameras are already recording, when the conference room simply works. That is the job.
We have been doing it since 2005, which means we have also spent twenty years inheriting other people's work and learning exactly how these systems fail.
Multi-room and outdoor audio. Zoning, amplification, speaker placement specified to the room rather than the catalogue.
Networks built to carry it. Wired backbone, managed switching, wireless designed for stone, steel and glass.
Video, display and distribution. Media rooms, tasting rooms, boardrooms, exterior screens.
Surveillance, access and control. Cameras, door hardware, remote monitoring, one interface.
02 — Territory
Three regions, one standard.
Work is concentrated where the buildings are interesting and the expectations are high. Travel beyond these areas is quoted on request.
Pacific Northwest
Seattle, the Eastside, Portland and the surrounding counties. Waterfront, timber and glass, and weather that is hard on exterior equipment.
Bay Area
San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and the East Bay. Dense, retrofit-heavy, and unforgiving about finish quality.
Napa & Sonoma
Estates, tasting rooms and hospitality. Long runs, outbuildings, and networks that have to cover acreage rather than rooms.
03 — Systems
Specified, not resold.
Two platforms are named because they are the ones most often asked for and most often installed badly. Everything else is selected per project.
Sonos
Whole-home and whole-venue audio. Properly zoned, properly wired where it should be wired, and tuned to the room instead of left on the default curve.
Ubiquiti
UniFi networks, switching, access points, cameras and door access. Designed as one system with one controller, not assembled from parts.
- Structured cablingCat6 / Cat6A · fibre backbone
- Rack build & dressingLabelled, documented, serviceable
- ControlKeypads, touch, voice, mobile
- Lighting & shadesIntegrated where specified
- HandoverAs-builts, credentials, walkthrough
04 — Who we work with
Most of our work arrives through someone else's drawing set.
04 — Trade
Architects, designers, agents and estate managers
We are used to being specified early, working to a drawing set, and staying out of the way on site. Budgets, riser diagrams and equipment schedules provided at design stage. Discretion is assumed, and we are comfortable working under NDA on listed and off-market properties.
- Design-stage specificationIncluded
- Drawings & schedulesProvided
- Site coordinationWith GC and trades
- Client-facing handoverOn request
05 — Residence
Homeowners
If you are not working with a designer, we will walk the property, tell you plainly what is worth doing and what is not, and quote it in writing. No pressure to automate things that do not need automating.
- Site walkNo charge, local
- Written quoteItemised
- Phased workAvailable
06 — Service
The install is the beginning of the relationship.
Most of what goes wrong with these systems goes wrong quietly: a firmware update, a replaced router, an access point that has been offline for a month and nobody noticed.
Remote monitoring on supported equipment. We often know before the client does.
Scheduled maintenance visits. Firmware, backups, documentation kept current.
Takeover of systems installed by somebody else. Documented first, then repaired.
07 — Contact
Tell us about the building.
Drawings, a listing link or a few photographs are enough to start. We will tell you quickly whether we are the right fit.
Start a project- Telephone(805) 952-3364
- Emaildp@yosemite-tech.com
- Pacific NorthwestSeattle · Eastside · Portland
- Bay AreaSF · Peninsula · Marin · East Bay
- Wine CountryNapa · Sonoma