What is the best speaker for a hotel in New Zealand?

A hotel is not one acoustic space but many: lobby, restaurant, bar, ballroom, spa, conference rooms and back-of-house corridors. Each zone has different ceiling heights, reverberation, ambient noise and functional needs. The right approach is a networked audio system that delivers background music, paging and emergency messages from one control point, with loudspeakers selected per zone rather than one model forced everywhere.

SSOUNDS install loudspeakers cover the full range. CL6 and CL8 ceiling loudspeakers suit low ceilings and distributed audio in lobbies, spas, corridors and retail areas. LC8.2 and LC16.2 slim column loudspeakers provide controlled vertical coverage for restaurants, conference rooms and long, reverberant spaces where ceiling speakers would struggle. P4, P5, P6T, P10T and P12T install loudspeakers handle bars, ballrooms and multipurpose rooms; the T models run on a 70/100 V line for long cable runs and multiple taps. M series point-source boxes and subwoofers add full-range music and low-frequency impact for ballrooms and entertainment venues.

Sizing and selection follow a simple process. Define each zone's coverage area, ceiling height, target SPL and intelligibility requirement. For background music, a distributed ceiling system at low SPL is sufficient. For speech in conference rooms, column loudspeakers give better direct-to-reverberant ratio. For ballrooms, model the room in prediction software to determine box count, array length and subwoofer placement. A series networked amplifiers with DSP and Dante provide the processing, routing and zone control, with presets tuned for each SSOUNDS loudspeaker.

SSOUNDS designs and installs across New Zealand, with engineering support from our UK, US, Nigeria and Ghana bases. We work with integrators and consultants to specify the right system for each property, from a single restaurant to a full hotel with ballroom and conference facilities.