What is the best speaker for a school in Switzerland?

Schools present a mix of acoustic environments: classrooms with low ceilings and short reverberation, corridors and communal areas needing distributed speech and paging, and large assembly or sports halls where direct sound must carry over distance and noise. The best speaker is the one engineered for each space, not a single model applied everywhere. SSOUNDS designs and installs across Switzerland, so we can specify a system that meets local building and safety requirements.

For corridors, classrooms and general paging, ceiling loudspeakers on a 70/100 V line are the practical choice. The CL6 and CL8 ceiling loudspeakers provide even coverage and simple installation, while the P4 and P5 install loudspeakers offer a compact surface-mount option. The T models (P6T, P10T, P12T) run on a 70/100 V line, allowing long cable runs with multiple speakers without complex impedance calculations. This makes them ideal for distributed systems where clarity for young listeners is critical.

Assembly halls and sports halls demand higher SPL and controlled directivity. Here, slim column loudspeakers such as the LC8.2 and LC16.2 deliver focused vertical coverage that keeps sound on the audience and away from reverberant surfaces, improving speech intelligibility. Where more output or music reinforcement is needed, M series point-source boxes and subwoofers can be added. For all installations, A series networked amplifiers with DSP and Dante provide flexible routing, equalisation and paging integration, with simple wall controllers for staff operation.

Selection and sizing depend on room volume, reverberation time, listener distance and required SPL. As a guide, ceiling speakers should be spaced to give overlapping coverage at ear height, columns should be mounted at a height that covers the seating area without excessive vertical spread, and point-source boxes should be aimed to cover the farthest listener with minimal delay. Tamper-resistant mounting and 70/100 V line operation simplify compliance and maintenance. SSOUNDS engineers use AI-assisted acoustic modelling to predict coverage and optimise the design before installation.