Heard. Seen. Felt.
Some rooms can't afford to fail: a council vote, an emergency briefing, commencement, opening night. We engineer sound, video, and control so every voice is heard, every time.
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Civic, Education, & Performance Spaces
Clear. Reliable. Ready.
Fix the room first.
Some rooms can't afford to fail: a council vote, an emergency briefing, commencement, opening night. Before the microphones or the cameras, the room itself has to work — acoustics that carry a voice, sight lines that include every seat, lighting that fits the moment, and video that holds the room's attention. We engineer the space so every voice is heard, every time.
Fix The Room First
The room before the gear. You can't DSP, EQ, or tune your way out of poor room physics — acoustics, sight lines, lighting, and geometry shape the experience before a single piece of gear is specified. We model reverberation, reflections, sight lines, and coverage before we choose anything.
Too many spaces spend top-dollar on flagship speakers, screens, and fixtures only to discover the room still fights them — harsh reflections, dead zones, blocked sight lines, harsh lighting. We address wall geometries, absorption, bass trapping, sight lines, and lighting first so every watt, every pixel, and every cue performs cleanly.
Accounting for Every Seat
A council vote, a town hall, commencement, opening night — the room only works if every seat works. We model coverage and sight lines so the back row hears what the front row hears, and the dais reaches every one of them.
We map speech intelligibility and sight lines across the full seating plane, then engineer assisted listening, broadcast feeds, and camera coverage as one system. Whether it's a quorum or a sellout, every voice is heard and every seat is in the room.
Fail-Safe, Day One
Civic and performance spaces carry real stakes. We build redundancy and intuitive control so the room is reliable for the AV team and the volunteer running the lectern — every meeting, every show, every emergency.
Redundant DSP paths, hot-swap amplification, auto-failover routing, and lectern control simple enough for a guest presenter. Preventive maintenance plans and rapid local response mean the room is ready the morning it matters most — not the morning after.
The Gear-First Trap vs. Physics-First Engineering
Most sales-driven integrators ask for your budget, quote their favorite speaker brand, and hope digital room-tuning masks room resonance. At 20-20, our engineering team calculates boundary phase cancellation, directivity index, and early reflection geometry first — then specifies the audio, video, lighting, and control that earns its place. Solve it once and for all.
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Design the space. Then design the system.
20-20 starts with the physics of the space — acoustics, sightlines, light — then engineers the audio, video, lighting, networking, and control systems that bring it to life. From a worship center to a game-day stadium, a civic chamber to a one-of-a-kind private theater, every space gets the same uncompromising care. Different rooms, one standard: extraordinary.
Our philosophyFix the room first
Acoustics, sightlines, light, and geometry get diagnosed before any equipment is specified. The space shapes the system — not the other way around.
Design before equipment
New build or retrofit — we engineer the system to the room. On new construction we're alongside your architect and builder from day one; on a retrofit we design within what's already there and engineer around its limits.
Rooted in the Southeast
Based in Wilmington, NC — projects nationwide, with a handle on the Southeast. Service is right here when you need it.
Let's talk about your room.
Building new, renovating, or just tired of fighting your systems? Pick a time that works for you and we'll dig into the project — no obligation.
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