Two decades on the build side. Now entirely on yours.

The founder

AVX Designs is led by Wyatt Olsen, who has spent more than twenty years engineering the very systems most homeowners only ever see a price for. He started in 2003 installing home theaters — learning the craft cable by cable — and by 2005 had opened his own AV design, installation, and programming firm.

Along the way he ran a residential home-theater company in Rhode Island while programming for a worldwide Crestron and AMX integrator — work that sent him across the globe, including a flagship installation in Singapore. Born in Santa Barbara and raised mostly in Vermont, he came home to the California coast in 2009. Having earned his stripes as both a laborer and a master programmer, he became known for engineering-first integration: systems designed on paper, documented, and built to last for years, not seasons.

Why he went independent

Two decades in the field taught Wyatt exactly where the money goes — and where it's wasted. He watched clients oversold on equipment they didn't need, and recommendations shaped by margin rather than merit. The best technology, he came to believe, is the technology you actually want, properly installed by people held to a documented standard.

So he built AVX Designs: a purely independent consultancy with no manufacturer relationships and no equipment to sell. The same engineering rigor that produced reference theaters and global flagships now works for one party only — the owner. When the honest answer is "you don't need that," there's finally someone free to say so.

Engineering-first, always

His reputation was built behind the wall, not in front of it. Anyone can mount a TV; the difference is the clean racks, labeled runs, segmented networks, and documentation you actually own. That discipline is exactly what an independent specification gives you — a system defined to perform and to be serviced, then competitively bid so you pay for engineering, not markup.