Nothing in the room but the screen
From our studio in Palma de Mallorca, we design, install and commission audio and video systems for luxury villas and superyachts across Mallorca and the Balearics: the sources in one place, the picture and the sound wherever they are wanted, and nothing on show in the room itself.
A set of boxes is not a system
Most houses accumulate audio and video rather than design it. A television with a box under it, a soundbar bought later, a second screen in the guest house with its own subscription and its own remote. Each piece works. Together they are five remotes, four apps and a conversation about which input the film is on.
A system starts from the opposite end. The sources live together in one place, properly powered and ventilated, and what reaches each room is the picture and the sound, not the equipment. Add a screen and it sees everything the house already has. The result is a house where the question is what you want to watch, not where it is.
Any source, any screen
Distributed, not duplicated
Equipment out of sight
One rack, properly built
Marine and residential
One standard
Mallorca
Our studio in Palma
Who designs and installs audio and video systems in Palma de Mallorca?
Halo · Beyond AV/IT & Lighting designs, installs and commissions audio and video systems from its studio in Palma de Mallorca, working across Mallorca and the Balearics. We cover the whole chain: the sources, the distribution that carries sound and picture to every room, the screens and speakers in them, and the rack that holds it together. The same team commissions systems on superyachts, where failure is not an option, and that discipline carries into every house we work in.
Can one system feed every television and screen in the house?
Yes. The sources sit together in one rack and the signal is distributed from there, so any source can appear on any screen and nothing has to be duplicated room by room. With two or three screens a direct connection still works. Past that, distributing over the property's network is what keeps it manageable: adding a screen becomes adding a point on the network instead of pulling another cable back to the rack, and the same infrastructure carries audio to its zones. The decision belongs at first fix, because it changes what gets cabled.
Four parts, and they are specified together
The order matters. Most of what goes wrong in an audio and video installation is decided long before anyone chooses a television.
Sources and distribution
Where the content lives and how it reaches each room. This is the decision that shapes everything else, and it belongs at first fix, while the walls are open.
Screens and projection
Televisions sized and positioned for the room they serve, and projection where a screen would dominate a space that has another job during the day. For a room built around the picture, see our private cinema page.
Sound in the room
From a pair of discreet in-ceiling speakers to a full surround layout. Which speaker, and where, is a question about the room: see hi-fi and architectural speakers.
Zones and control
Audio distributed to every room and terrace that wants it, on one interface. That is its own discipline, covered on our multi-room audio page.
The part that fails is the part nobody sees
When a system misbehaves, it is almost never the television. It is the signal chain. A video cable run a long way through a wall will carry a 4K signal on the bench and drop it in August, when the rack is warmer. Two screens that negotiate their capabilities differently will leave one of them black while the other works, and the fault moves when you swap the sources around. These are not exotic failures. They are the normal failures, and they are designed out rather than fixed afterwards.
The answer is to stop sending video over long copper. Beyond a certain distance the signal goes over fibre or over the property's network, which also means that the route is no longer point to point: adding a screen becomes adding a point on the network rather than pulling another cable back to the rack. Capabilities are set deliberately instead of negotiated afresh every time something is switched on, so the system behaves the same way on Tuesday as it did at handover.
The rack is the other half. It is a thermal and maintenance problem before it is a piece of furniture: equipment that runs hot fails early, and equipment nobody can identify is equipment nobody can repair. Ours are ventilated, powered through protection, sequenced so things start in the right order after a cut, labelled on both ends of every cable, and documented. Two years later, when something needs replacing, that documentation is the difference between an hour and a day.
Distribution on a vessel
A yacht concentrates every one of those constraints. Cable routes are decided at build and are not revisited, space in the rack is measured against weight as well as volume, and a display on an exterior deck has to stay readable in Mediterranean sun and survive the salt that reaches it every night. Distribution over the vessel's network does most of the work, because it turns new screens into network points rather than new cable runs through a finished headlining.
The system is commissioned before sea trials, not after, and the same engineers who set it up can reach it from shore when the vessel is somewhere else.
A house with more screens than anyone counts
A large house on this island is rarely one house. There is the main building, a guest house, a pool house, a gym, a staff flat, and a terrace that is used more than any room indoors from April to October. Each of them ends up with a screen, and each one left to itself ends up with its own subscription, its own remote and its own way of being turned on.
Distributed properly, they share. One set of sources serves all of them, a film started in the living room can continue in a bedroom, and the terrace screen behaves like the others rather than like an appliance someone added. It also means one system to support and one place to look when something needs attention, which matters a great deal in a house that is empty for part of the year.
Residential & VillasOne button, and nobody asks how
The measure of an audio and video installation is not its specification. It is whether a guest can put a film on without being taught. That is commissioning work, and it is where systems are won or lost: one button that turns on the screen, selects the right input, sets the sound to the right place and brings the lights down, and one that puts everything back. No input hunting, no second remote, no instructions taped inside a drawer.
It takes longer than it sounds. Every source has to be tested from every room, every scene walked through in the room it belongs to, and the names on the interface have to match the names the family uses for their own rooms rather than the ones on the schematic. We do that before handover, with you, and adjust it afterwards when the house tells us we got a name wrong.
One system, not several
We standardise a property on a single control platform, so that the audio, the video, the lighting and the shading answer to the same processor and appear on the same interface. A house assembled from several systems that each work well still gives you several apps, and it fails in the gaps between them, where nobody is responsible.
One platform also means one system to support for the life of the property, and the same engineers answering when something needs adjusting, wherever the property is.
For the control layer itself, see our Crestron control and automation page.
The system it belongs to
Audio and video is the part of the house that guests notice. It works best when it answers together with everything they do not.
Lighting
The lights settle as the film starts and come back up when it ends, on the same scene as the screen.
Shading
Blinds and curtains close for a daytime screening without anyone getting up.
Multi-room audio
The same sources feeding every zone of the house, indoors and out.
Private cinema
The dedicated room as part of the same system rather than an island inside the house.
Networking
The infrastructure the whole thing runs on, sized for it rather than inherited from it.
Remote support
Secure access so a setting can be corrected without a visit, wherever the property is.
Looking at the house as a whole? See our home automation in Mallorca page.
From the schedule of rooms to the last scene
01
Survey and schedule of rooms
We walk the property and agree what each room has to do, which screens exist, which are wanted and which can be left out. The answer to the last one saves more money than any other decision.
02
Specification and rack design
Sources, distribution, screens, speakers and the rack itself, documented per room and approved by you before anything is ordered.
03
First fix and installation
Cabling coordinated with the builder or the yard while the walls are open, then the equipment installed and the rack built, terminated and labelled.
04
Commissioning and handover
Every source tested from every room, scenes built and named, and the system walked through with you until it does what you expect without explanation.
The same people, drawings to handover
One team, start to finish
The engineers who design the rack are the ones who label it, commission it and answer the phone two years later.
Manufacturer-trained
Authorised dealer status on the platforms we specify, with direct manufacturer support rather than grey-market supply.
Marine and residential, same standard
25 years across superyacht refit, new build and luxury villas, from a studio in Palma de Mallorca.
Support from anywhere
Secure remote access means most adjustments happen without a visit, whether the property is occupied or closed for the season.
Tell us how the house is used
Which rooms matter, which screens you actually want, and what has never worked properly in the house you have now. Describe that and we will come back with a considered approach to sources, distribution and control.