What is the best speaker for a boardroom in Riyadh?

Boardroom audio is a speech-first discipline. The priorities are consistent coverage across every seat, high speech intelligibility at conversational levels, low visual impact, and clean integration with video conferencing and control systems. In a Riyadh boardroom, where rooms are often glass-fronted, hard-surfaced and air-conditioned, the loudspeaker choice must control direct sound and limit unwanted reflections. SSOUNDS approaches this by modelling the room before specifying: seating layout, ceiling height, table size, screen position and reverberation time all determine the loudspeaker type, count and placement.

For most boardrooms, SSOUNDS CL6 and CL8 ceiling loudspeakers are the natural choice. They sit flush in the ceiling, provide even coverage over the table and perimeter seating, and keep the room visually clean. Where the ceiling is high, the walls are glass, or the room is long and narrow, SSOUNDS LC8.2 and LC16.2 slim column loudspeakers deliver tightly controlled vertical coverage that puts speech on the seats and away from reflective surfaces. Where a boardroom needs higher output for presentations or background music, SSOUNDS P4, P5, P6T, P10T and P12T install loudspeakers, or M series point-source boxes and subwoofers, provide the headroom. The T models operate on a 70/100 V line for long cable runs and simple multi-speaker distribution.

Sizing is driven by coverage, not by box count alone. SSOUNDS engineers calculate the required coverage angle and SPL at the furthest listener, then select the model and spacing that meet it with minimal overlap. Ceiling loudspeakers are typically spaced to give consistent level across the table, while columns are aimed to cover the seating plane. All systems are powered and processed by SSOUNDS A series networked amplifiers with DSP and Dante, which handle EQ, delay, limiting and zone control, and integrate directly with video conferencing and room control. This keeps the audio path simple, reliable and easy to manage.

SSOUNDS designs and installs across Riyadh, with support from our UK, US, Nigeria and Ghana operations. Every project starts with a room survey and acoustic model, so the specification is based on the actual space rather than a generic package. For a boardroom, that means the right mix of ceiling, column or point-source loudspeakers, correctly aimed and tuned, with hidden control and clear speech for every participant.