Commercial Audio Systems in New York

Conference Room Audio: Microphones, Speakers and DSP

In a conference room, audio determines whether remote participants can follow the meeting. Microphone selection follows the room: tabletop boundary microphones for small rooms, ceiling microphone arrays for medium and large rooms with hard finishes, beamforming bars integrated with video bars in huddle spaces. Loudspeakers are placed for even speech coverage. A digital signal processor handles acoustic echo cancellation, noise reduction, automatic mixing and gain so the far end hears clear speech rather than a reverberant room.

Glass-walled rooms — the default in new Manhattan offices — are acoustically difficult. Microphone type and placement, DSP tuning and, where needed, acoustic treatment are designed for them specifically.

Conference room AV installation

Office Paging, Background Music and Zoning

Office-wide audio covers paging for announcements and emergencies, background music in reception, cafés and amenity spaces, and zoning so each area receives the right program at the right level. Systems are networked and centrally controlled, integrated with room scheduling and building systems where required, and coordinated with sound masking where privacy is a concern.

Sound Systems for Presentation and Training Spaces

Large rooms need sound mapping: loudspeaker placement modeled so speech is intelligible at every seat, with voice lift for questions from the audience and integration with the room's conferencing and streaming systems. The General Motors Building amenity project included sound mapping and projector mapping for a presentation hall and event space as part of the AV consulting scope.

General Motors Building sound mapping project