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Ceiling Speakers for Office Space
Isaac South:
The company I work for wants to get speakers installed in the ceiling throughout the building and they've asked me to do some research. My experience is in church-audio. I know nothing about these kinds of speakers. Your help is appreciated.
Our building is 3 floors. Drop ceiling throughout. Running wiring will not be a problem. I am mostly wanting to get some recommendations on sizes and brands.
The purpose of the speakers will be simply to play music (radio, XM, etc.) throughout the building. We are a financial institution and we would like this to assist in our ability to keep someone waiting on side A of the room, from hearing what's being discussed on side B of the room, for example.
Thank you again.
Tim Weaver:
The Atlas FAP40T is a good sounding speaker for a reasonable amount of money. It strikes a good quality/price ratio. Don't worry about it being a 4". If you didn't know it was a 4" you wouldn't be able to tell.
If it were my project I'd submit one bid using all FAP40T's and the submit a lower cost option with FAP40T's in the high profile areas and some 15 dollar full range speakers everywhere else to save costs.
How you do the head end and amplification depends on if its strictly for BGM or if anything else is ever needed like announcements, zoning, multiple music stations, etc, etc.
Lee Douglas:
You will want to determine if you are working with plenum spaces above the drop ceiling and make sure that your wire and speakers are plenum rated. The above speaker is not plenum rated, but an FAP42T-UL2043 would be.
Robert Healey:
--- Quote from: Isaac South on July 26, 2021, 10:37:52 AM ---The company I work for wants to get speakers installed in the ceiling throughout the building and they've asked me to do some research. My experience is in church-audio. I know nothing about these kinds of speakers. Your help is appreciated.
Our building is 3 floors. Drop ceiling throughout. Running wiring will not be a problem. I am mostly wanting to get some recommendations on sizes and brands.
The purpose of the speakers will be simply to play music (radio, XM, etc.) throughout the building. We are a financial institution and we would like this to assist in our ability to keep someone waiting on side A of the room, from hearing what's being discussed on side B of the room, for example.
Thank you again.
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There are a couple routes you can take - you can do a commercial audio/paging system which is as described above with 70V speakers throughout the building and a central head-end amplifier rack. Atlas, QSC, and JBL all have commercial music systems that would work for this.
The second route would be to use a purpose-built sound masking system that is capable of playing background music. Cambridge, Logison, and several others make systems like that. In my experience the sound masking systems tend to be cheaper.
Isaac South:
Thank you everyone for your reply. It looks like we are going to go with the FAP42T-UL2043 speakers (plenum rated). One other issue: Our building is three floors and we need to be able to independently control volume on each floor or maybe even have different zones. What's the best way to achieve this capability?
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