Commercial AV installation and design-build for Denver offices, restaurants, hotels, campuses, and the regional sites they run. Designed once, documented properly, supported for years.
There's honest skill in residential AV work and the Front Range has plenty of it, but it prices a different job. A living room runs three hours a night for one family who knows where the remote lives. A dining room runs sixteen hours a day for a rotating cast of staff, cleaning crews and vendors who've never seen a manual. Quotes for those two jobs shouldn't look alike, and in Denver they often land in the same inbox. The gap stays invisible until something fails on a Friday night.
We're the commercial kind, only that, and the choice shapes more than the gear grade. Our racks assume a stranger will service them in year four, so every cable is labeled at both ends and the documentation matches the wall. Our warranties assume commercial hours. Our training assumes your staff will turn over and the next hire learns from the doc. The process itself hasn't changed since 2008: figure out what each room does for the business, design and specify it, bench-build and test at our shop, install, tune, train, document, then stay on call for years.
What We Do Here
Every system is designed, installed, and supported by our own team in Denver — never subcontracted.
01 / DENVERAV consulting from an audio visual consultant who joins at the architectural phase, designs the technology into the plan and steers the project around your business outcome.
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Commercial video walls across LED, LCD and Direct View. Designed, integrated, installed and supported by a national design-build AV integrator.
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03 / DENVERCommercial sound system design and installation: multi-zone audio engineered around how your space is used, wired and tuned on site, and supported as a partner.
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Design-build digital signage for hospitality and enterprise: commercial displays, content management, and installation that keeps your screens selling and current.
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Design-build AV control systems: one iPad, wall panel, or browser runs every display, audio zone, lighting scene, and source in the room. Programmed and supported in-house.
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AV programming that starts with the right design: a vetted, interconnectable stack unified into one control system, so the whole room runs from one simple interface.
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Conference room AV designed around the people using the room: video conferencing, Zoom and Teams Rooms, displays, and audio, installed and supported as a partner.
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Spaces we've wired across Denver — each built and supported by the same local crew.
LoDo and the central business district, RiNo and Cherry Creek, the Tech Center, and the separately governed cities ringing the metro. One standard, tuned building by building.
The Front Range takes damaging hail most years. Outdoor enclosures and mounts get picked for impact, and the pretty option loses to the surviving one.
Thin air removes less heat, and projector makers publish altitude thresholds that Denver exceeds. Selection and rack cooling both get checked against 5,280 feet.
Ultraviolet is stronger up here and it chews through enclosures, gaskets, and cable jackets faster than any sea-level schedule predicts.
A warm afternoon and a freezing night in the same 24 hours cycles outdoor hardware constantly, so seals and housings matter more than the temperature rating on the box.
What we do here
Four kinds of work fill our Front Range calendar. In every one, the question underneath is whether the design still holds at the second location.
A lot of Denver's corporate square footage arrived from somewhere else. Companies relocate or expand here and bring an AV standard written years ago for a different building in a different state. Sometimes it fits. Often the room proportions don't match, the far end of a long table goes thin and hard to place on calls, and everybody blames the network.
The other silent failure is a floor where no two rooms behave alike. Staff learn one, walk into the next, start from zero, and quit trusting all of them. At Crunchy Tech we start from the actual space: how it's built, how it sounds when it's full, who meets in it, and which platforms your people and clients use. The standard should describe your rooms and not the old office's.
Indoors, the usual crime scene is a perimeter speaker layout. The middle of the dining room gets nothing, the wall booths get punished, and the volume knob can't fix geography. Zoning at the processor can - with the bar, tables, and the patio each tuned for their own job.
Outdoors is where it gets expensive. We replaced a rooftop enclosure at a LoHi restaurant after exactly one hail season. Four punctures through the grille, stones the owner described as golf balls, and the speaker underneath still worked fine. Wrong housing, right speaker, and that's the whole lesson. Up here, outdoor equipment gets chosen for impact, ultraviolet, and a forty-degree swing between lunch and midnight, and it hangs on mounts picked for weather (rather than for the rendering).
Speech work is a big share of this market (hearing rooms to lecture halls to training space) and speech is unforgiving. If the back row can't follow a soft-spoken presenter, the room failed, whatever it cost. So microphone pickup, gain structure, and feedback margin come first, ahead of anything on a screen.
Classrooms carry one extra rule we treat as law: the instructor starts class without calling anyone. The first time tech support interrupts a lecture, that podium becomes furniture and the laptop comes out for good. Public buyers often arrive with sourcing rules, bid formats, and documentation standards, and we price to whatever the current version says. If a room needs to feed a stream, we build the outlet. Running the broadcast stays with you.
Denver headquarters run satellites. That's simply what this city is, and the sites end up in Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Cheyenne, and towns with one stoplight, usually installed by whoever was closest at the time, none of it matching.
What we promise is a standard that travels: same interface, presets and training everywhere, documented well enough that any competent tech can service it. What we won't do is pretend a six-hour drive is a support plan. For genuinely remote sites the honest structure is our design, our programming, our documentation, a vetted local contractor's hands, and remote commissioning by us. You keep one point of accountability without paying windshield time. On every rollout we'll also name the sites that don't need the full package.
Yes, and the honest version is worth two minutes, since a company that promises to drive anywhere is promising something you don't want to fund. What travels perfectly is the standard. We design once, build the control layer and presets to behave identically everywhere, write documentation a stranger can follow, and train to one method, which is what lets a manager transfer between your sites without relearning anything. The physical work splits by geography. Across the Front Range we install directly, and we regularly travel for larger builds beyond it. For a remote site, the structure that respects your budget is this: we hold the design, the equipment, and the programming, a vetted local contractor does the wiring and mounting to our drawings, and we commission the result remotely and sign off. One design and one point of accountability. No six-hour windshield invoices attached to a thirty-minute fix. We'll tell you which of your sites belongs in which bucket instead of quoting them all the same way and hoping you don't do the math.
It does, and it hides on page forty of the manual. Air at 5,280 feet carries away less heat than air at sea level - anything that cools itself by convection or fan works harder here for the same result. Projectors are the usual casualty. Most major manufacturers publish a high-altitude mode with a threshold, and those thresholds commonly sit between three and five thousand feet, meaning Denver is past them before the box is open. Run one in normal mode up here and it throttles, runs loud, or shortens its own life, and the failure gets blamed on the brand instead of the elevation. Our answers are unglamorous. Check altitude ratings during selection (that is, not after delivery). Give the equipment room dedicated cooling that holds 75 degrees. Leave more thermal headroom in the rack than a sea-level design would call for. Outdoors, elevation shows up as ultraviolet instead, chewing gaskets and cable jackets faster than the spec sheet promised. Hail is its own subject with no relationship to altitude, and it picks your mounts and housings for you.
Design, no. Approvals, yes. Aurora, Lakewood, Boulder, Littleton, Englewood, Westminster, and the surrounding counties all run their own review. We confirm the path for the actual address instead of assuming the metro behaves like one city. Review usually gets triggered by the same short list on an AV project: heavy displays going on walls, new dedicated circuits feeding a rack, and any work above a finished ceiling. Those get confirmed, and our boundary around them is firm. We identify what the design needs from the structure, and we don't perform electrical work, make structural determinations, or rule on code compliance. Your licensed electrician, structural engineer, general contractor, and building management own those calls, and we coordinate with all of them and design around the answers. Boulder earns one extra sentence. Tenants there tend to show up with a network and security standard already written, and the AV has to live inside it, so we get their IT team talking with ours early instead of discovering the rules at commissioning.
Client successes drive Crunchy Tech to become better. Below is how our customers feel about us.
Just do it. Spend the money. It’s well worth it. It’s not worth your time, hassle, energy, and stress of trying to make it look right and do it right when there’s somebody who has been doing it for years and has perfected the craft.
You're a great partner with Florida Hospital and this project will make a difference in Children's Health.
Working with Crunchy Tech was a fantastic experience from start to finish. They handled the sale and installation of all our sound and TV equipment at The County Bar in Aviston, IL, and absolutely nailed it. We were on a very tight deadline, and they not only met it—they delivered top-notch quality and service the entire way. Highly professional, responsive, and easy to work with. We couldn't be happier with the results.
Crunchy's AV Services are outstanding. Staff members are experts, who really extend themselves to find the right technology for helping us reach our marketing goals in creative ways. The best thing about working with Crunchy is collaborating with the staff – they are patient, responsive, knowledgeable, and available.
Crunchy has been great to work with. They communicate well and deliver as promised.
The work Crunchy has been doing is a game changer for this industry.
Being able to reuse the existing structure created a much lower cost for the client and they were ecstatic.
Crunchy has done an amazing job on our A/V install. The sound is perfectly balanced throughout our many zones and the entire system is super simple to use.
Just do it. Spend the money. It’s well worth it. It’s not worth your time, hassle, energy, and stress of trying to make it look right and do it right when there’s somebody who has been doing it for years and has perfected the craft.
You're a great partner with Florida Hospital and this project will make a difference in Children's Health.
Working with Crunchy Tech was a fantastic experience from start to finish. They handled the sale and installation of all our sound and TV equipment at The County Bar in Aviston, IL, and absolutely nailed it. We were on a very tight deadline, and they not only met it—they delivered top-notch quality and service the entire way. Highly professional, responsive, and easy to work with. We couldn't be happier with the results.
Crunchy's AV Services are outstanding. Staff members are experts, who really extend themselves to find the right technology for helping us reach our marketing goals in creative ways. The best thing about working with Crunchy is collaborating with the staff – they are patient, responsive, knowledgeable, and available.
Crunchy has been great to work with. They communicate well and deliver as promised.
The work Crunchy has been doing is a game changer for this industry.
Being able to reuse the existing structure created a much lower cost for the client and they were ecstatic.
Crunchy has done an amazing job on our A/V install. The sound is perfectly balanced throughout our many zones and the entire system is super simple to use.
We don’t sell you what we have. We design what you need. That line is the operating principle I’ve built Crunchy Tech around for the last 20 years. And it’s the single sentence that separates us - and the small handful of firms like us - from the other 97% of the commercial AV industry.
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Read article arrow_forwardTell us the address, where the project sits in its schedule, and how many other rooms this one eventually has to match. The consult starts from your whole footprint rather than the single space in front of us, includes a walk to confirm what the building and its jurisdiction allow, and comes back as an engineered scope plus a standard you can hand to any site.
