MSE Audio is a commercial and residential audio manufacturer based in Lenexa, Kansas, in the Kansas City metro. Its flagship brand, SoundTube, makes the open-ceiling pendant loudspeaker that shows up in retail stores, restaurants, hospitality lobbies, houses of worship, and corporate spaces across the country. For commercial and hospitality operators in NJ, CT, and NY who need distributed audio that survives daily operational load, Restrepo Innovations designs, deploys, and supports MSE Audio and SoundTube systems as an Elite Pro Crestron Dealer and OSHA-certified integrator. The pendant format exists because a lot of commercial rooms are built with the ceiling exposed on purpose, and a speaker that hides in a grid has nowhere to hide.
The Company: MSE Audio in Lenexa, Kansas
MSE Audio is headquartered and manufactures in Lenexa, Kansas, part of the Kansas City metro. The company owns four brands built around one engineering group: SoundTube for commercial pendant and ceiling audio, Phase Technology for in-wall and in-ceiling loudspeakers used in residential and light-commercial work, Rockustics for landscape audio, and Induction Dynamics for custom home audio.
Manufacturing on US soil is not incidental to the story. It is the reason MSE Audio can put TAA and BAA compliant models into the field, which matters for any integrator chasing federal, GSA-schedule, or other public-sector work that requires domestic sourcing. A Kansas factory building speakers for a New Jersey corporate lobby is an unusual supply chain on paper, but it is the one that clears procurement rules a lot of competitors cannot touch (SoundTube).
SoundTube: The Open-Ceiling Pendant Standard
SoundTube pendants are the reference product for commercial spaces where a suspended ceiling grid was never part of the design. Exposed-structure retail buildouts, warehouse-style restaurants, industrial-modern hospitality lobbies, and wood-truss houses of worship all share the same problem: there is no drop ceiling to hide a speaker in, and a hard, exposed ceiling reflects sound in ways that hurt intelligibility.
A pendant solves this by hanging the driver at a fixed height and aiming it directly at the listening plane instead of bouncing sound off exposed decking, ductwork, or timber. That is the acoustic reason pendants win in these rooms when a flush in-ceiling speaker would just fire straight up into structure and scatter. SoundTube's line goes well beyond pendants into surface-mount, in-ceiling, and landscape products, but the pendant is the piece that built the brand's reputation in open-structure spaces (SoundTube).
TAA and BAA Compliance: Why It Matters
SoundTube's CM62 series, including the CM62-BGM-II-US and IPD-CM62-BGM-II-US in-ceiling speakers, is TAA and BAA compliant, manufactured in the Lenexa, Kansas facility as part of a Made in America initiative confirmed by AVNetwork industry press in July 2026. That status unlocks federal, GSA-schedule, and other public-sector procurement paths that simply exclude non-compliant hardware, regardless of how the product performs.
Restrepo Innovations works under cleared primes for any classified-area scope and carries Elite Pro Crestron and OSHA. We do not hold or claim any federal facility security accreditation ourselves, and we do not need to for the honest framing to hold: TAA and BAA compliant hardware from a domestic manufacturer like MSE Audio simplifies the compliance path on public-sector and federal-adjacent projects, which is real value regardless of who holds the clearance on a given job.
48-Hour Design Services
SoundTube runs a design service where an integrator submits floor plans and gets back a system layout, complete with speaker placement, coverage modeling, and a bill of materials, typically inside 48 hours. It is a free service aimed at removing the design phase as the bottleneck on a project timeline.
In the field, that turnaround matters more than it sounds like it should. A two-week hospitality opening or a boardroom retrofit does not have room in the schedule for a design cycle that drags for two or three weeks. A 48-hour design service means the audio layout can keep pace with the rest of the build instead of holding it up (SoundTube).
Where MSE Audio Fits in a Commercial Build
The anchor use cases for MSE Audio and SoundTube are quick-service and full-service restaurants, retail, boutique hospitality, corporate cafeterias, houses of worship, and fitness clubs. Every one of those spaces runs a daily open-and-close cycle that most residential audio gear was never designed to survive.
Restrepo cares about the operational reality underneath the spec sheet: cleaning crews wiping down or bumping fixtures every night, HVAC vibration running for ten or more hours a day, and kitchen humidity that migrates from the back of house into the front-of-house ceiling plane. Commercial-grade audio that is engineered for that load, rather than adapted from a residential line, holds up longer with fewer service calls. That is the standard we specify to across a commercial build in NJ, CT, and NY.
Restrepo Innovations and MSE Audio
Restrepo Innovations designs, deploys, installs, configures, and supports MSE Audio and SoundTube systems for commercial and hospitality clients. Restrepo is HTA Luxury Certified, Elite Pro Crestron Dealer, OSHA Certified, and a Ubiquiti UISP/Pro partner, which means a SoundTube audio layout gets coordinated with the same network infrastructure and control systems running the rest of the property, not treated as a standalone speaker install.
"Ceiling audio in a commercial room is judged by whether the room still sounds right at 10pm on a Friday. SoundTube pendants pass that test more often than the alternatives, which is why we specify them when the ceiling plane is exposed." — Michael Restrepo
FAQ
What is MSE Audio?
MSE Audio is a commercial and residential audio manufacturer headquartered in Lenexa, Kansas, in the Kansas City metro. The company owns four brands: SoundTube for commercial pendant and ceiling audio, Phase Technology for in-wall and in-ceiling loudspeakers, Rockustics for landscape audio, and Induction Dynamics for custom home audio.
What is SoundTube best known for?
SoundTube is best known for its open-ceiling pendant loudspeakers, which hang from an exposed structure instead of mounting flush in a ceiling grid. The pendant format shows up across retail stores, restaurants, hospitality lobbies, houses of worship, and corporate spaces where the ceiling itself is part of the design, not a place to hide equipment.
Are SoundTube speakers TAA and BAA compliant?
Select SoundTube models are TAA and BAA compliant, including the CM62-BGM-II-US and IPD-CM62-BGM-II-US in-ceiling speakers, manufactured in the company's Lenexa, Kansas facility as part of a Made in America initiative confirmed by AVNetwork industry press in July 2026. That domestic-manufacturing status opens the door to federal, GSA-schedule, and other public-sector procurement that requires TAA or BAA sourcing.
What is the SoundTube 48-hour design service?
SoundTube's Design Services team reviews an integrator's floor plan and returns a system layout with speaker placement, coverage modeling, and a bill of materials, typically within 48 hours. The service is free and is meant to keep a project's design phase from becoming the bottleneck on a tight construction or renovation schedule.
How do I get MSE Audio / SoundTube installed on a project in NJ, CT, or NY?
Restrepo Innovations designs, deploys, installs, configures, and supports MSE Audio and SoundTube systems for commercial and hospitality clients across NJ, CT, and NY. Call 201.405.2022 or email office@restrepoinnovations.com to start a planning conversation before the ceiling grid or finish plan is locked.
For a SoundTube or MSE Audio commercial project in NJ, CT, or NY, call 201.405.2022 or email office@restrepoinnovations.com. You can also review MSE Audio's SoundTube product line directly at soundtube.com.
Sources: MSE Audio and SoundTube company details (https://www.soundtube.com/about-us/). SoundTube product line and pendant loudspeaker details (https://www.soundtube.com/). SoundTube Design Services (https://www.soundtube.com/design-services/). TAA and BAA compliant CM62-BGM-II-US announcement, AVNetwork industry press, July 2026 (https://www.avnetwork.com/products/soundtube-unveils-new-taa-and-baa-compliant-in-ceiling-speakers).