Keith Yates Design, an industry-leading design & engineering firm specializing in high-end residential theaters and media rooms as well as acoustic design for residential multi-use common areas and high-spec commercial facilities.

Serving clients world-wide from our base in the Sierra foothills between Sacramento and Lake Tahoe, Keith Yates Design is the largest and most technically advanced designer of highly immersive, purpose-built Private Theaters, Media Rooms and Private Concert Halls in the US, with over 200 such venues built or under construction from Aspen to New Zealand.

We draw on a 24 year history of envisioning, modeling, documenting, testing and obsessively calibrating purpose-built screening rooms, private theaters and listening rooms for marquee-name directors, cinematographers, technologists and, especially, everyday movie and music lovers seeking to be transported to another place and time, for entering a story, a life, they wouldn’t have otherwise known or imagined.

KYD's main product is a 50-200 sheet package of standard 2D-based CAD-based drawings, supplemented by:

• artist and near-photorealistic type renderings
• exploded 3-D assembly type drawings of noise- and vibration-engineered walls, ceilings, floors, soffits, etc.
• 4-D exploded drawings showing the sequencing of the depicted structure
• extensive acoustic treatments
• specification of audiovisual elements (speakers, subwoofers, screens, etc.)
• ultra-low noise HVAC and power system details, and
• graphed results of KYD's in-house, physics-based modeling and optimization processes.
• on-site audio and video calibration