CV Lloyde Audiovisual Integration | LEA Integrator Spotlight
CV Lloyde Audiovisual Integration has been serving Illinois and Mid-West for over 150 years with a growing list of well-known clients in all audiovisual markets. C.V. Lloyde Audiovisual enjoys continued success in the design and installation of turn-key audiovisual systems in a wide variety of facilities with an even wider variety of applications.
We sat down with Stephen Morris President and CEO of C.V. Lloyde to chat about his career, challenges of the job, and more…
Stephen Morris
President and CEO
C.V. Lloyde Audiovisual
Tell me about your career?
CV Lloyde Audiovisual Integration | LEA Integrator Spotlight
[SM] Well, I have been at this for a while…with over 35 years of experience in the professional Audiovisual industry. I actually started with C.V. Lloyde in the 80s, then moved out West and held a design engineer position with ProMedia. From there I jointed Harman where I held multiple marketing and sales positions that lasted 12 years. While with Harman, I wrote the patented product definitions for the I-Tech and CTs Series amplifier platforms. I have been fortunate to work alongside many global AV consulting firms while leading the commissioning of many professional sports facilities, Division 1 stadiums and arenas, houses of worship, and countless higher education environments.
What is the most challenging part of your job?
CV Lloyde Audiovisual Integration | LEA Integrator Spotlight
[SM] I would say one of the most common challenges we have is time. We have so little time, normally we are the last trade on the job. This tends to be the nature of low voltage integrators. Those that don’t live in our world often think, “It’s just low voltage…it’s AV”, and we can install overnight. It simply doesn’t work that way. LEA Professional is hugely helpful in this sense, an integrated amplifier like LEA allows you to do the majority of the channel assignments, DSP programming, and testing in the office, saving us time on site. Having a reliable and predictable amplifier outcome is critical so the more time we can spend with it in the office the better.
How do you know the job is a success?
CV Lloyde Audiovisual Integration | LEA Integrator Spotlight
[SM] Customer feedback is so important; our clients trust us, our culture and our post- sales support. It’s no surprise we get a lot of repeat business that way. The owners, architects, and consultants that end up hiring us to design their systems, they do it because they trust our decisions…product choice being one of the most significant decisions. Simply put, they trust our trust in our vendor relationships and product performance. In this business, word of mouth, recommendations, and the measured success of your last job are so critical. We have many exciting projects coming up, we are currently designing new systems for a large hotel renovation and expansion with a convention center, a large stadium project and several other sports facilities, house of worship, and multiple higher education environments. We plan on specifying and designing LEA Connect Series amplifiers into the systems where we can.
We’d like to thank Stephen Morris and CV Lloyde Audiovisual Integraion for taking the time to speak with us and also for working with our CONNECTSERIES amplifiers in their recent KAM’s Bar installation project, which you can read more about here.
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