Is sound masking system effective in improving open plan office acoustics?
This was selected as Best Answer Yes! That said, there are numerous ways to attack the problem. Furniture mounted devices that produce white noise furniture mounted devises that actually garble the ambient speech, blending into the background Ceiling mounted systems with simple controls Above the ceiling systems with very sophisticated controls Good old ambient background noise from HVAC and people! I have had success with several. The biggest problem that I have had was a building built so well that it was too quiet. We needed a system to overcome the dead silence that allowed one person to speak to the entire office and be heard. (When she did not want to) Back in my skeptic days, I visited an office with a good but simple system. It sounded quiet and normal to me. I asked if they could turn the system off to show me the difference. That proved to be the biggest disruption they ever had. I was sold. Also consider the trick of not turning the system on for a few weeks. (In a new build
