Customized AV Solutions for Your Home
Expert design and installation of AV systems
Auth Designs specializes in designing and installing high‑performance audiovisual (AV) systems, home theaters, media rooms, and integrated technology solutions for luxury residences and small businesses. By working closely with each client, we create systems that reflect their aesthetic preferences, technical requirements, and investment goals. Every project is engineered with precision and intention, ensuring the technology enhances the space with comfort, clarity, and a truly elevated experience.
High-performance systems for homes and small businesses
About Us
Since 2001, when Auth Designs was founded, the business has been built on nearly 100% referrals. To operate in this manner, it is imperative that the company excel in all areas. The mission is simple: Exceed customer expectation in all areas, while designing and installing systems that perform extremely well, are easy to use, and offer tremendous value. By doing so, Auth Designs forms partnerships with homeowners that mature over time. Auth Designs wants to be your source for a lifetime of audio/video enjoyment in your home.
Ed Auth, founder and owner of Auth Designs, received a Bachelor's of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University in 1986. During the next fifteen years, he worked as a product design engineer at several companies in the Dallas area. Two of these companies develop products that are used in today's electronic homes. One is a world leader in home automation and remote control integration devices. The other is a leader in high-end lighting control systems. It was this background, combined with a several decade hobby in the home electronics industry, that propelled Mr. Auth to launch Auth Designs.
Company
Located in Heath, Texas, Auth Designs specializes in custom residential electronic system design and installation. Primary services range from structured wiring of new homes to complete design and installation of dedicated home theaters. Please review the "Services" links to see a complete listing of services offered.
Collaborative Approach to Installation
Ed Auth
Home Theater
Home theaters are meticulously designed and built for one primary purpose - watching movies. This is because a true home theater is modeled after the environment where movies are actually made - the movie mixing stage. Fortunately, the mixing stages that nearly all movies are made on are virtually identical. Everything from speaker type, layout, frequency response (of both speakers and room), viewing position, seating, screen size, lighting, and background noise level are all tightly controlled. When these items are carefully designed and recreated in your home, the result is magical.
Media Room
Media rooms are carefully designed and built to provide exceptional multi-media performance in multi-purpose rooms, as opposed to being completely optimized for movie watching as home theaters are. These rooms often serve purposes well beyond multi-media. They could be a den, living room, etc. As such, media rooms are much more common than true home theaters.
Multi-Room Audio
Multi-room audio is the distribution of audio to other areas of your home. This means that you can personalize every space, indoors or out, with terrific sound. It enables everyone in the family to listen to whatever they wish, whenever they want to and wherever they desire to listen. So everyone gets the exact music or program material they want without hassle and without bothering anyone else. Multiroom audio, made possible by this new breed of electronics, delivers unique and personal sound for everyone in the family or for every entertaining occasion.
focus on precision and quality. Our installations not only integrate seamlessly into your home but also enhance functionality and sophistication for contemporary living.
Remote Control Systems
Are you tired of the pile of remotes on your coffee table? If so, then a remote control system may be your answer. Remote control systems can be customized to contain only the buttons that you actually use. This greatly simplifies the operation of the system. They vary from simple hand-held remote controls to elaborate touch-screen panels. Auth Designs will work with you to find the best remote control system for your application
ls to deliver high-performance audio-visual setups designed for your enjoyment. We prioritize your satisfaction from concept to completion, ensuring perfect results.
Expert AV Installation Services
Acoustics and Noise Control
Noise is basically unwanted sound. A great home theater is really cool, but you won't think so if you can hear it from the bedroom when you're trying to go to sleep. Fortunately, noise control techniques can be engineered into walls, floors, ceilings, and HVAC ductwork to minimize these issues. Auth Designs will determine the proper level of noise control for your application, desires, and budget.
Video Display Calibration
Auth Designs specializes in advanced AV installation and design, creating bespoke electronic systems for your home that align with your neeVideo display calibration is the process of adjusting the display settings for optimum performance. This provides many advantages, including improved detail in the brightest and darkest parts of the scene, accurate color balance at all picture light levels, a sharper image, and increased display life.
The reason that this is necessary is because manufacturers are forced to improperly calibrate displays to provide the brightest (not best) picture, since most buyers in a showroom are drawn to the brightest (again, not best) displays.
Proper display calibration involves adjusting the basic user controls (black level, white level, saturation, hue, and sharpness) as well as technician controls (white balance, focus, SVM, color decoder, and geometry). This is accomplished by using a video generator (which provides reference-level test patterns) and color analyzer (connected to a laptop computer). Fortunately, the science of calibrating video displays is exactly that (a science) and is not subjective to personal preferences.
Following calibration, your display will be properly set to industry standards and will produce the most accurate image, with the truest colors, with film-like picture qualities, and often with a much longer life. This provides a more life-like, engaging entertainment experience that you will be excited to share with your family and friends.
Auth Designs is fully trained and certified by ISF (Imaging Science Foundation) to perform these calibrations, thereby permitting you to obtain the optimum performance from your video display.
Audio Design and Calibration
Audio design and calibration covers a broad spectrum of services. At the low end of the spectrum, it is the process of verifying that all speakers are hooked up correctly, are in proper working order, are set to identical volume levels when playing reference-level audio test tones, and receiver time delay settings are properly set. When these items are properly calibrated, the surround-sound performance of the room will be much more convincing, resulting in a greatly-improved experience
The other end of the spectrum contains the items above, plus much more. While primarily intended for dedicated home theaters to produce the best possible sound, it is possible to perform these calibrations in any room. This level of calibration requires a combination of advanced test equipment (to accurately measure and display exactly what's happening with the audio in the room), equalization electronics (to alter the electrical audio signals to compensate for uneven frequency response in the room), and very often the use of sound/noise control products (absorptive panels, etc.).
The reason that this is necessary is because the room in which you install your system is as much a component of your audio system as the speakers or the amplifier. You need to have a professional analyze how audio signals behave in your room to properly set up your system for optimum performance.
When all these measures are implemented, dramatic improvements in the audio system's performance will be realized, providing improved dialogue intelligibility, more lifelike clarity, subtle details at low volume levels, and full smooth sound which envelopes you. If your sound system is professionally calibrated, you will be overwhelmed with the experience of being there. Audio calibration is the only way to capture the full potential of your audio system.
Auth Designs is fully trained and certified by HAA (Home Acoustics Alliance) to perform these calibrations, thereby permitting you to obtain the optimum performance from your audio system.
Lighting Control Solutions
Lighting control comes in a variety of forms, from basic on/off switches to simple dimmers to hand-crafted, custom-engraved keypads and sophisticated controls.
Lighting control systems connect these sophisticated controls to ensure that users can regulate their home’s ambiance with ease. Some smaller-scale systems, like Lutron’s Caséta, which can transform basic switches into smart dimmers, can be installed easily and quickly without a professional. However, the majority require trained specialists to install and configure them. Lutron has a broad portfolio of lighting control systems with different styles and configurations that adapt to homeowners’ needs and preferences.
Auth Designs is fully trained and certified by Lutron to design and configure both RadioRA 3 and RadioRA 2 lighting control systems.
Remote Control Systems
Specializing in expert design and installation of custom electronic systems, including AV home theaters, media rooms, and tailored remote control solutions. Enhance your living experience with Auth Designs’ professional expertise.
Home Networking
A modern luxury home deserves more than beautiful AV, home theater, and media‑room design — it needs a network foundation strong enough to power it all. Today’s systems rely on fast, reliable connectivity to deliver seamless 4K/8K streaming, whole‑home audio, smart‑lighting control, and rock‑solid automation. A professionally engineered network ensures every room has consistent wireless coverage, zero buffering, and the bandwidth to support dozens of devices without hesitation. From hard‑wired backbone infrastructure to enterprise‑grade Wi‑Fi, a strong home network is the quiet force that keeps a high‑end home running smoothly, securely, and effortlessly.