Shopify website design, build and marketing for hi-fi and AV retailers

Your showroom sells $20,000 systems. Your website should too.

Custom Shopify stores for established hi-fi and AV retailers. Designed and built by a senior team that has done it for six years.

Demo hi-fi store
Demo hi-fi store on desktop: homepage, collection page and product page
Demo hi-fi store on mobile
Our demo hi-fi store · homepage, collection and product page
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[ 01 — Who we are ]

Shopify specialists for hi-fi and home theater retailers.

KA Consultancy designs, builds and markets Shopify stores for established audio video retailers. One senior team takes the store from the first design brief to the campaigns that bring buyers in, so nothing gets lost in handovers between a design agency, a developer and a marketing agency.

350+Shopify stores engineered
20+Years in ecommerce
6Years designing, building and marketing for premium AV retailers
1Senior team, from design brief to marketing
[ 02 — The gap ]

Brilliant in the showroom. Invisible online.

Your customers still research before they visit. If your website doesn’t carry the same authority as your listening room, they finish the journey somewhere else.

01

They research with you, then buy elsewhere.

Crutchfield, Best Buy and Amazon win the sale your team started.

02

MAP pricing takes price off the table.

So the site has to win on trust, expertise and presentation.

03

Your product pages match every other dealer’s.

Manufacturer copy gives Google no reason to rank you.

04

A $15,000 system on a T-shirt template.

High-ticket products need a store built for considered purchases.

05

Big sales close in-store or by phone.

The website gets no credit, so it never gets investment.

06

Stuck on a platform no one can develop.

Legacy and niche systems leave you dependent on one supplier.

[ 03 — Why KA Consultancy ]

Built by people who know the category.

Most ecommerce playbooks assume you control your pricing, your product content and where the sale closes. In authorised hi-fi and AV retail, you control none of the three. We build around that from day one, so you’re not paying for an agency to learn it.

01

We understand how AV sells

MAP pricing, manufacturer content, long research cycles and sales that close in the listening room. The store and the campaigns are designed around all four.

02

One senior team, start to finish

The people who design your store build it and market it. No account managers, no junior layer and no handovers between agencies.

03

Measured against your store

We report on what the business actually takes, across every channel, including the phone and showroom sales the ad platforms never see.

[ 04 — Hi-fi Shopify case studies ]

Two AV retailers. Rebuilt properly. Still growing.

Two showroom-led retailers in the same category, with the same problem: a store that undersold the business. Here’s what happened once it didn’t.

McIntosh turntable and amplifier in the Lipton’s listening room
Ontario, Canada

Lipton’s Audio & Video

Sector
Premium hi-fi & AV, showroom and national ecommerce
Scope
Migration, custom theme, SEO, Google and Meta ads
Engagement
2023 – present
+191%Revenue growth in year two, then +114% in year three
11.9xBlended return on ad spend
Read the Lipton’s case study
The Hi-Fi Centre showroom in Vancouver
Vancouver, Canada

Hi-Fi Centre

Sector
High-end audio, video & hi-fi, trading since 1984
Scope
Custom theme, technical SEO, Google and Meta ads
Engagement
2020 – present
+202%Revenue growth in three years, from 2022 to 2025
19xBlended return on ad spend
Read the Hi-Fi Centre case study
[ 05 — What we build ]

A store built around how AV actually sells.

Hi-fi store and home theater website design on Shopify, from the theme to the product feeds. Everything a high-ticket, showroom-led retailer needs, in one build.

01

Custom Shopify theme design and development

A store designed from a structured brief around your brands, your showroom and how your customers buy. Built as native Shopify theme code, and yours to own.

02

Migration from your current platform

Catalogue, customers and order history moved across from your current system, with every URL mapped and redirected to protect your rankings.

03

SEO foundations so your models get found

Technical SEO, structured data and page speed in every build, with product content that goes beyond manufacturer copy.

04

Discovery for large catalogues

Filters that let buyers narrow hundreds of products by brand, category and specification, creating high-intent landing pages as a by-product.

05

Product feeds for Google Shopping

Clean, complete feeds set up so your exact models appear in Shopping results with the right data.

06

Showroom and service pages

Templates for your listening rooms, installation and services, with enquiry paths for the sales that close by phone or in store.

From$9,997Custom theme design and build
From$19,997Bespoke design and development

Not sure which build you need? The audit will tell you.

Request your free store audit
[ 06 — How we market it ]

Then we bring in the right buyers.

Marketing for audio video and home theater stores, built for how high-ticket electronics actually sell: long research, fixed prices and a sale that often closes in the showroom.

01

Google Shopping for electronics retailers

Feeds and campaigns structured so your exact models show up when buyers search for them.

02

Google Ads and Meta

Run as one account by a senior operator, not split between agencies.

03

SEO beyond manufacturer copy

Brand, model and category pages that earn rankings the other dealers can’t.

04

MAP-aware campaigns

Built to compete on authority, range and expertise, never on price.

05

Planned around the seasons

Budgets pushed into the peaks like Black Friday and Christmas, and held efficient through the quieter months.

06

Measured against real revenue

Results reported against store revenue, including phone and showroom sales, not platform-reported numbers.

[ 07 — What changes ]

What a proper rebuild changes.

Published results from our two AV case studies. Every figure is measured against the store, not against what the advertising platforms reported.

<1sPage load at Hi-Fi Centre, down from 3.2 seconds
+420%Conversion rate at Lipton’s following the rebuild
+488%Organic revenue at Hi-Fi Centre in the first seven months
2,800+Products migrated and re-optimised for Lipton’s
[ 08 — The demo ]

What a premium AV store looks like online.

Two new designs, both in development, built to show how a high-end hi-fi retailer should present itself: showroom-led, brand-first, and built for considered purchases from the homepage to the product page.

kestrel-audio.demo
Demo hi-fi store home page on desktop
Demo hi-fi store home page on mobile
Kestrel Audio · Under development · Homepage

A showroom,
brought online.

Brand-led and showroom-first. The homepage leads with a flagship system and a demo booking, then hands over to category and brand navigation, so a buyer can go straight to what they came for.

  • Showroom-first hero
  • Shop by category & brand
  • Book-a-demo path
Link coming soon
kestrel-audio.demo/turntables
Demo hi-fi store collection page on desktop
Demo hi-fi store collection page on mobile
Kestrel Audio · Under development · Collection page

Hundreds of models,
narrowed in seconds.

Filters built for how AV buyers actually shop: by drive type, brand, price and what is on display in the showroom. Each card carries the information that matters before the click.

  • Spec-led filtering
  • In-showroom filter
  • Comparison-ready cards
Link coming soon
kestrel-audio.demo/mcintosh-mt5
Demo hi-fi store product page on desktop
Demo hi-fi store product page on mobile
Kestrel Audio · Under development · Product page

Built for a
$12,000 decision.

Finance terms, stock by showroom, video, a spec sheet and in-home set-up on one page, with a system builder underneath. Everything a considered purchase needs before the buyer commits.

  • Finance & showroom stock
  • Video & spec sheet
  • Complete-your-system builder
Link coming soon
hifi-retailer.demo
Specialist hi-fi retailer concept — desktop
Specialist hi-fi retailer concept — mobile staff picks
Specialist hi-fi retailer · Under development

Authorised brands,
picked by people.

Built around how specialist hi-fi actually sells: authorised brands straight under the hero, shop by category, installation services, staff picks with a named recommendation on every card, and a clear path to book a listening demo.

  • Authorised dealer brand bar
  • Staff picks with real voices
  • Listening-demo booking
Link coming soon
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[ 09 — How it starts ]

It all starts with the audit.

Before you commit to anything, we look at your store and your marketing and tell you what we’d fix first. Free, honest, and yours to keep whether or not we work together.

01

The free audit

We review your store’s speed, technical SEO, product pages, Google Shopping feed and ad accounts.

02

The walkthrough

A call to take you through what we found, and what it’s costing you.

03

The proposal

A clear scope and price for the build, the marketing, or both.

04

Design, build and grow

We design and build the store, launch it without losing your rankings, then bring in the right buyers.

[ 10 — Who it’s for ]

Not for every store.

We take on a small number of AV retailers at a time, so each one gets the senior attention the work needs.

  • i.Established retailers with a physical showroom
  • ii.Authorised dealers for premium brands
  • iii.Owners who know their website is behind their store
  • iv.Based in the US, Canada, UK or Australia
[ 11 — Frequently asked ]

Questions AV owners ask.

Moving an electronics retailer to Shopify, protecting your rankings, selling high-end systems online, and what it costs. For more depth, read our Shopify guides for bricks-and-clicks retailers.

Request your free store audit
Yes. We migrate your catalogue, customers and order history, rebuild the store on a custom theme, and set up your product feeds.
Not if the move is managed properly. New stores are built and tested in preview, then published, with no downtime. Every URL is mapped before launch, redirects are set for anything that moves, and structured data is carried across. After launch we monitor against a baseline captured before we started, so any dip is caught in days.
Yes. Hi-Fi Centre was a custom theme build on its existing Shopify store, with no migration needed.
Yes. Hi-Fi Centre tripled revenue in three years with a showroom-led business.
We don’t compete on price. The store and the campaigns are built to win on expertise, presentation and trust.
Custom theme design and build from $9,997. Bespoke design and development from $19,997.
Yes. Design, build and ongoing marketing, or the build on its own.
You do. You receive the theme, documentation and full ownership of everything built. Thirty days of fixes are included, then ongoing support if you want it. No lock-in.
No. We work with AV retailers in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia.
A review of your store’s speed, technical SEO, product pages, Google Shopping feed and ad accounts, with a clear view of what we’d fix first. It’s free, and yours to keep whether or not we work together.
Free store audit

Find out what your website is costing you.

A free audit of your store and your marketing. Honest, specific, and yours to keep.

Senior-led, one to one. US · Canada · UK · Australia.