High End Hi-Fi Designers & Installers

Specialist Dealers for Magico, Steinway Lyngdorf, Soulution & Premium Audio Since 1998

Custom Controls are independent designers and installers of high-end hi-fi systems, with no manufacturer targets or tie-ins to compromise a recommendation. We are Steinway Lyngdorf Room Perfect Certified installers, and authorised dealers for Magico, Soulution and Lumin, among other reference-grade brands. We have been designing and installing premium audio systems for homes, cinemas and dedicated listening rooms since 1998, across London, Cheshire, Surrey, Dubai and the French Alps.

We Are Not a Hi-Fi Shop

We are designers and installers, not retailers with sales targets to hit. That difference matters: every recommendation we make is based on what suits your room, your listening habits and your existing collection — not on which brand we need to move that quarter. We have specified and installed systems from Magico, Steinway Lyngdorf, Soulution, Bluesound, NAD, Burmester, Esoteric, Lumin and Bowers & Wilkins, often combining brands within the same system where that combination genuinely serves the client better than a single-brand solution would.

Steinway Lyngdorf Room Perfect Certified

We hold certified installer training in the Steinway Lyngdorf system — proprietary digital processing, active bass management, room correction and calibration protocols. Steinway Lyngdorf systems combine hand-built loudspeakers with integrated digital signal processing and active subwoofer integration. The Room Perfect system uses speaker placement, room geometry and listening position to create a calibrated, phase-coherent listening environment. Every installation is profiled, measured and tuned to the specific room acoustics. Read our full Steinway Lyngdorf page →

Brands We Specify

Magico. Sealed-enclosure loudspeakers built around beryllium tweeter platforms and Nano-Tec driver cone construction, engineered to remove coloration rather than add character. Our reference recommendation for clients who want the recording, not the speaker, to be what they hear. Read our complete guide to Magico loudspeakers →

Soulution. Swiss electronics built to the same zero-compromise philosophy as Magico — extremely low distortion, ultra-wide bandwidth, and current delivery that stays effortless as speaker loads get harder. We pair Soulution with Magico on our most ambitious two-channel systems.

Steinway Lyngdorf. Hand-built loudspeakers with integrated digital signal processing and Room Perfect calibration — the right choice where a fully integrated, self-correcting system matters as much as outright performance.

Bluesound & NAD. Multi-room streaming and amplification that scales elegantly from a single room to a whole property, with the audio pedigree of the NAD engineering team behind it. Our recommendation for clients who want serious sound quality across several rooms without the complexity of a fully custom installation in every one of them.

Burmester & Esoteric. Reference-grade electronics and source components for clients building a two-channel or multi-channel system around a specific sonic signature — Burmester’s for its refined, musical presentation, Esoteric’s for its exceptional digital source engineering.

Lumin. Dedicated network streaming transports, built specifically to deliver music data with the lowest possible jitter and noise floor ahead of D/A conversion — our standard streaming recommendation on systems where the source needs to match the quality of everything downstream of it.

Design & Installation

All high-end audio systems begin with design — equipment selection, placement, acoustic treatment and system integration. We work with architects, interior designers and contractors from the planning stage through commissioning. For existing spaces, we measure the room, analyse the acoustics and design a system that works within the constraints of the space. For new builds, we advise on room geometry, speaker placement, cable routing and acoustic treatment during the construction phase.

Commissioning & Calibration

Installation quality and commissioning determine how well a high-end audio system performs. We use professional acoustic measurement tools, spectrum analysers and listening assessment to commission every system to standard. Steinway Lyngdorf systems include automated Room Perfect calibration. Bluesound systems are configured and tested for wireless coverage, lip-sync and audio quality across multiple zones. All installations are handed over with training and documentation.

Integration with Your Wider Smart Home

A dedicated hi-fi system does not need to sit in isolation from the rest of your home. Where a client wants it, we integrate high-end audio sources into the same Crestron control system that manages the rest of the property — source selection and playback from the same touchpanel or keypad used throughout the house, streaming from Roon or a centralised music library shared across every room, while the reproduction itself remains entirely dedicated, reference-grade electronics with no compromise introduced by the wider system. Equally, we design and install purist, fully standalone two-channel systems for clients who want a listening room with no automation involved at all. Read more about our whole-house audio systems →