Sound Masking Systems in DFW
Sound Masking Systems
At RC Security Consulting we offer an advanced line of Sound Masking systems. Sound masking should deliver speech privacy and comfort within the designed environment to allow collaborative and individual work spaces to co-exist. Individuals will produce their best work in a non-stressful, comfortable environment and without proper acoustics this environment is unattainable.
How Does Sound Masking Work?
Small speakers are placed in the ceiling of your office area which emit a low-level background sound.
When utilized to boost productivity, speakers are placed uniformly throughout the office in order to render speech and other distracting sounds unintelligible from a distance.
When utilized to ensure privacy, speakers are placed strategically outside private offices and conference rooms to ensure conversations are contained within each room and can’t be overheard.
Most applications employ a combination of both approaches and a well-configured system will …
Be unobtrusive—sounds like airflow
Cover over speech and other private information
Reduce distractions, which increases productivity and focus
Be compatible with background music and paging capability
We are dealers for the leading Sound Masking manufacturers in the industry. RC Security Consulting is a dealer for Pure Resonance, Atlas, Cambridge, Lencore and many more.
More than 40 million North Americans work in open-concept offices.
These designs make better use of space, but they’re an acoustical challenge.
Why? More employees use the same space, and everyone is seated closer together. At the same time, absorptive treatments, quieter air handling, and new construction methods have lowered the background sound level.
That’s a problem, because without background sound, it’s easier to hear distracting things happening around your desk.
A sound masking system can help address these problems by producing a comfortable, engineered background sound and distributing it throughout the workplace.
CHALLENGES
- Modern corporate offices use fewer sound absorbing materials (rugs,
material partitions, etc.) in favor of reflective surfaces like metal,
aluminum, glass and gypsum, contributing to unwanted noise reflections
and buildup.
- Workstations have shrunk from 8 ft x 8 ft to 6 ft x 6 ft (2.5 m x
2.5 m to 1.8 m x 1.8 m) and partitions have reduced from 66” to as low
as 42” (168 cm to as low as 107 cm) in height.
- More companies are seeking LEED certification and implementing
“green” design and construction initiatives, which often reduce speech
privacy.
- The resulting noise distractions make employees less productive, which costs companies billions of dollars each year.
CHALLENGES
- Modern corporate offices use fewer sound absorbing materials (rugs,
material partitions, etc.) in favor of reflective surfaces like metal,
aluminum, glass and gypsum, contributing to unwanted noise reflections
and buildup.
- Workstations have shrunk from 8 ft x 8 ft to 6 ft x 6 ft (2.5 m x
2.5 m to 1.8 m x 1.8 m) and partitions have reduced from 66” to as low
as 42” (168 cm to as low as 107 cm) in height.
- More companies are seeking LEED certification and implementing
“green” design and construction initiatives, which often reduce speech
privacy.
- The resulting noise distractions make employees less productive, which costs companies billions of dollars each year.