Title: Basics of Commercial Music _ Sound Systems
1Basics of Commercial Music Sound Systems
2- Need a Music Sound system for a restaurant,
school, warehouse, or other institutional
building to play background music or broadcast
announcements? A high-voltage system frequently
offers the most cost-effective, useful, and
secure alternative. - Customusic is the best place for most
organizations, commercial audio equipment
performs better than residential audio equipment
3Take a look at our packaged systems.
- Not sure where to begin? Visit our packaged
systems page. For instance - restaurant speaker system from Customusic
- JBL's brewery package Atlas Sound's retail sound
systems - a sound system from Atlas Sound for a classroom
or training space - If you can't find a package that works for your
company, we can develop one specifically for you.
4Receive a free, personalized system design.
- Call our Commercial A/V Design Group at
1-800-632-1808 for professional guidance and a
free system proposal for your company.
Alternately, you can upload your floorplans and
submit a Music Sound design request. You can
plan your system and assemble everything with the
aid of our designers.
5The ideal solution might not be a typical stereo
receiver.
- A small business, like a restaurant, could get by
with a typical home stereo receiver and a few
pairs of speakers but, that setup could not
function well in a system with many speakers and
extensive wire runs. - Standard stereo amplifiers produce low-voltage,
high-current signals that must be powered by
thick speaker lines, which are relatively
expensive. It gets trickier to connect speakers
securely the more speakers you add to a Music
Sound system. It's possible that you'll need
additional amplifiers, which would significantly
increase expenditures.
6What a 70-volt system has to offer
- A 70-volt system has a limited current flow
because of the high voltage. You can utilize
speaker wires that are thinner and less
expensive. These systems' amplifiers don't
experience "load impedance" problems. How many
speakers you connect with is irrelevant.
7changeable power levels for speakers
- A 70-volt system's speakers resemble residences
that are connected to a power transmission line.
A transformer built into each speaker reduces the
high voltage to a level that the speaker can
manage. The transformer contains several taps
that can be used to supply the speaker with
various wattages. The speaker will play louder
the greater the wattage tap. - Any number of speakers can be used as long as
their combined wattage rating does not exceed the
amplifier's power limit. Typically, 10 to 20
percent of an amplifier's output is set aside by
system designers as additional headroom for those
sporadic periods of peak demand. This means that
80 to 90 5-watt speakers might be easily powered
by a single 500-watt amplifier, providing a
sizable amount of commercial speaker system.
8- An announcement or background music can be
produced with as little as one watt from a
speaker that is around 10 feet away from the
listener (two watts in a noisy environment like a
restaurant or grocery store). - How can the number of speakers in each room be
determined? As a general guideline,
ceiling-mounted speakers in open areas should be
spaced apart by twice the height of the ceiling.
Four ceiling-mounted speakers spaced 20 feet
apart from each other would adequately cover a 40
by 40-foot space with a 10-foot ceiling.
9Sound treatments
- The first two components of superb soundthe
appropriate equipment and appropriate speaker
placementhave already been discussed. Acoustic
treatments are the third component, albeit it's
sometimes forgotten. - The first two components are typically
insufficient for most structures. Even the best
speakers might not sound all that great in a
space with plenty of hard surfaces. The echoes
and reverberations that cause an uncomfortably
loud level of noise are eliminated by acoustic
panels. - What sort of acoustic panels do you require,
though? Exactly how many? - Based on the dimensions and peculiarities of your
rooms, your Crutchfield system designer can offer
a tailored solution.
10PA devices
- While 70-volt systems are ideal for background
music and brief announcements, they are not the
best option for staged events like speeches,
school plays, church services, live music, or
performances. You require a different PA system
for that. You can get assistance from your system
designer in picking the appropriate live sound
speakers, mixers, amps, microphones, and
connections. Alternatively, you might begin by
looking at our store speakers bundles.