First published June 2021. Rewritten and last reviewed 1 September 2026.
Lairds AV is an authorised dealer for Steinway Lyngdorf and for Lyngdorf Audio, with a Lyngdorf showroom at Marathon House in Ayrshire. Both appear on the manufacturers’ own dealer locators. This article is about why we chose to work with them, what makes the systems different from other high-end audio, and what it means for a private cinema or listening room designed in Scotland.
Who Steinway Lyngdorf are
Steinway Lyngdorf was founded by the Danish audio engineer and entrepreneur Peter Lyngdorf, whose career in home entertainment began in 1975. Since 2005 the company has built loudspeakers and electronics in collaboration with Steinway & Sons, the piano maker, under a stated promise: that the systems would reproduce the sound of a Steinway grand piano as faithfully as possible. The same parent company, SL Audio, makes Lyngdorf Audio, which brings the same engineering to a wider range of rooms and budgets. Both lines share the technology that matters most.
RoomPerfect, and why the room is the problem
Every loudspeaker is judged in a room, and the room always wins. Walls, floors, glass and furniture reflect and absorb sound unevenly, so a system that measures perfectly in a laboratory arrives at the listening position coloured by the space it is in. Traditional high-end audio answers that with heavier speakers and more acoustic treatment. Lyngdorf’s answer is RoomPerfect, a room correction system that measures the room from a number of positions, builds a model of how it behaves, and corrects the signal so that what reaches the listener is what was recorded.
For an architect or interior designer this changes the conversation. The speakers can sit where the room wants them, on or in the wall, in corners, behind fabric, rather than where a textbook would place them. A great deal of the visible acoustic treatment that a cinema used to require can be reduced, and the result is a room that looks like a room. That is the reason we specify these systems: not because of the name on the front, but because they let the technology fit the architecture rather than the other way round.
Where each line sits
- Steinway Lyngdorf for the dedicated private cinema and the serious music room, where the client wants the reference and the room has been designed around it.
- Lyngdorf Audio for living rooms, media rooms and smaller cinemas, and for clients who want the same room correction and amplification in a more compact form. It is what you will hear first in our showroom.
What we do with it
Being an authorised dealer is a supply relationship. The work is in the design. We size the system to the room and the seating, set the speaker positions with the architect at RIBA Stage 3, coordinate the cabling and containment at Stage 4, install and calibrate, and hand over a system with its measurements recorded. The screen, projector, control system and lighting are designed alongside it, so the cinema is one room rather than a collection of purchases. A support agreement keeps the calibration and firmware current afterwards.
Questions we are asked
Can I hear it before deciding?
Yes. Our Lyngdorf showroom is in our demonstration theatre at Marathon House, Dundonald. Ask us to arrange a time so that the room is set up for you rather than for whoever was last in.
Does RoomPerfect replace acoustic treatment?
It reduces how much is needed and how visible it has to be. It does not replace good room design: proportions, isolation from the rest of the house and a quiet noise floor still have to be right, and those are drawing-board decisions.
Is this only for cinemas?
No. Two-channel music systems are as much a part of the Lyngdorf range as cinema, and the same correction makes a stereo system sound right in a room that was never designed for one.
Steinway Lyngdorf and Lyngdorf Audio in Scotland
Full details of the range and our dealer status are on the Lyngdorf and Steinway Lyngdorf page, and the wider design work is described under private cinema design and high-end audio. We normally work for the client, with the architect. To book a demonstration or discuss a room, start a conversation.