About Opus AV
Forty-seven years of fitting out Lancashire.
Founded by Andrew Kay in 1979. Still on Parker Lane. Still listening to the room before specifying the kit.
The story
How it started.
Andrew Kay opened Opus Pro Audio in Burnley in 1979 with a straightforward intention: to install sound systems that actually worked in the rooms that needed them. The early years were chapels and school halls — buildings where the gap between what the congregation heard and what the preacher intended was often embarrassingly wide.
The answer was never more kit. It was better listening. Andrew would come out, walk the room, identify where the sound broke down, and specify only what was needed to fix it. That approach built a reputation across Lancashire that no advertising could have bought. By the mid-eighties, civic buildings, leisure centres and council chambers had joined the books. By the nineties, so had SEN schools and sensory environments.
Today the company Andrew started is still on Parker Lane, still family-owned, and still run on the same principle: listen first, specify second, and look after the installation for as long as the building stands.
How we work
The site visit comes first.
Every project starts with us coming out to hear the room for ourselves. What you describe on the phone is never quite the same as what we find when we get there.
Only what’s needed.
We specify what the room requires — not what’s on promotion this month. That has been the same rule since 1979 and it’s the reason clients come back.
Someone you’ll know by name.
Service contracts mean a real relationship, not a call centre. Most of our clients have spoken to the same engineer for years. Some for decades.
Looked after long-term.
We install and then we maintain. The same team, the same number, for as long as the building stands. That’s what a service contract should mean.
We come out, listen to the room, and tell you what’s really needed — not what’s on offer this month.
The rebrand
Opus Pro Audio became Opus AV.
Audio became audio-visual. Visual grew a sensory dimension. In 2026 the wordmark caught up with the work.
Same Kay-family ownership. Same Helvetica Light wordmark. Same engineers, same address, same number. Just a name that finally tells the whole story.
| Stayed the same | Changed |
|---|---|
| The Kay family | The trading name |
| 35–37 Parker Lane | |
| The same engineers | |
| 01282 420795 | |
| The approach |
Why it matters
Every room has a job to do.
To help every congregation, classroom, council and community space in the North West be heard clearly, seen properly, and felt fully — through honest engineering, plainly explained, and looked after for as long as the building stands.
Said another way: every room has a job to do. Our job is to make sure the room can do it — and keep doing it long after we've packed up the ladders.
The team
The same engineers. The same number. Since 1979.
Our clients know the engineers by name. They've seen the same faces for years — in some cases decades. Opus AV isn't a franchise or a managed-services provider. It's a team of people who work from Burnley, know the rooms they've installed, and answer a number that hasn't changed in over forty years.