Small Zone Sound Masking Promotes a Comfortable Workplace

Today’s buildings have a variety of spaces – big and small – that require their own sound masking solutions to improve employee productivity and enhance their speech privacy and comfort. The trouble is that most sound masking solutions simply do not provide the granular control you need to get the best result for everyone.
 
Logison’s Small Zone solution – installed and configured by NET100 – enables fine tuning to suit every office, meeting room and common space, ensuring acoustic comfort across your entire workplace.
 
Negative Impact of a Large Zone Solution
 
With large zones, the masking sound will fluctuate across the space as it interacts with elements of your workplace design – even if the loudspeakers are set to the same volume and frequency. If you can’t make precise changes in specific areas, you’ll have to settle for setting each zone to a level that’s merely best on average.
 
Some large zone systems try to address this problem by providing audio transformers at each loudspeaker, but these only offer coarse volume adjustments – and no control over frequency. Others direct their loudspeakers downward in an attempt to compensate for design factors influencing the sound. This approach also doesn’t provide the control you need to get the best result.
 
The larger the zone, the greater the number of occupants who are affected by changes to the system’s settings. If you’re limited to increasing the volume in 4 to 6 dB increments to improve the system’s effectiveness for some occupants in one area, it will be too loud for others. And if you need to lower it, you’ll sacrifice speech privacy and noise control.
 
Positive Impact of a Small Zone Solution
 
Any sound masking system can protect conversation privacy and limit noise in your environment, but how well it performs depends on the size of the system’s zones and the degree to which you can control each one.
 
Not only does LogiSon provide the smallest zones in the industry (1 to 3 loudspeakers), it provides the finest adjustments within each one – 100 volume steps in 0.5 dBA increments and 1/3-octave frequency control over the complete sound masking spectrum.
 
With this level of control, you can adjust the masking sound exactly where it is needed to achieve the desired result, ensuring sound masking that is both effective and unobtrusive.
 
With the small zone solution from LogiSon, implemented by NET100, you will eliminate the tradeoff between sound masking system performance and having to sacrifice occupants’ comfort.
 
Contact NET100 to discuss your acoustic network management needs or schedule a site survey: 703-995-5200 or info@net100ltd.com.