We use the gear we sell.

Recommended from real-world experience

Spec sheets only tell you so much about how a product performs under real conditions. We recommend equipment we’d want to use ourselves, sized to your long-term needs and budget, and built to last years, not seasons.

Every sale comes with competent local support: no long drives, no long hold times waiting on a distant internet vendor. We consult, design and install permanent audio, lighting and video systems for venues, commercial and creative spaces, and broadcast environments, and we can design and fabricate custom structural and decorative pieces.

We sell to businesses and organizations.

Commercial installs

Bill Martel first brought us in to design and install the sound at his bar in Brooklyn. When he bought another bar in Park City, he called us again.

Abe’s Pagoda Bar · Brooklyn, NY

We flew to Brooklyn to build a three-zone Tannoy and Lab.gruppen system with zone paging, DJ access points at the front and rear of the room, and pre-wired expansion into the back room, which is now in use. Fire code required low-smoke zero-halogen (LSZH) shipboard communication cable throughout for life safety, so we specified it from the start.

Bad Quail provided system design, delivery, installation and commissioning. Almost a decade later, it still sounds great.

I’m at the bar, and man you hooked me up on the sound system. It gives me chills. Thanks Tim. It’s stellar.

Bill Martel, owner, Abe’s Pagoda Bar and The Cabin

What we sell

Made in America

We’re fanatics about companies that design and manufacture professional AV gear in the United States. These are the American makers we work with: