Benefits of Sound masking
Workplace acoustics are often problematic in many ways, and while acoustic treatments may help with resonance and echo performance on a video conference call, it won’t prevent the travel of sound from one room to the next, particularly if walls are thin or built between open ceiling and floor voids.
Privacy of conversation is paramount, yet sound masking is often overlooked when the budget for an office refit is agreed, or it is ignored by designers as something that doesn’t enhance the “wow-factor” of a room, due to none of its advantages being immediately visible.
What is Direct vs Indirect Sound Masking?
Direct Masking continuously emits a low-level sound into the adjacent work area which would normally receive the unwanted audio. It uses a set of loudspeakers set into its ceiling but rather than receive white noise, they receive a modified waveform, based on the original source, effectively scrambling the sound to make it less intelligible.
Indirect Masking works in a similar way but uses the structure of the building, eg reflecting the sound waves through sound generators placed inside the ceiling void, invisible to the room users below. This can create a more uniform spread of masked sound and reduces the number of objects visible in the ceiling grid.
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Where is Sound Masking Important?
Why Biamp QT X ?
VideoCentric first installed Biamp QT sound masking back in 2018, the same year that Cambridge Sound Management (CSM) was acquired by Biamp, after being established in Cambridge MA, USA in 1999. Prior to that CSM themselves had acquired another pioneering sound masking company, Dynasound, and together they have become the world’s largest and most respected, provider of such solutions, with over 20,000 sound masking customers.
Which Biamp QT solutions does VideoCentric UK support?
QT X100– 1 zone (up to 12,000 sq.ft, 1,115 sq.m)
QT X300 & X300D– 3 zones (up to 36,000 sq.ft, 3,345 sq.m)
QT X600 & 600D – AVB or Dante with 6 zones (up to 72,000 sq.ft, 6,690 sq.m)
QT X800 & 800D – AVB or Dante with 6 zones (up to 84,000 sq.ft, 8,920 sq.m)
QT X800 & 805D– AVB or Dante with 8 zones (up to 84,000 sq.ft, 8,920 sq.m)
QT-CRE – Conference Room Edition (Bundle for single Meeting Room)
QT-HCE – Healthcare Edition (Bundle for Doctors, Surgeries, Medical Consultation Rooms etc)
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