Lencore® [the leading manufacturer of sound masking systems]

Lencore Sound Masking & Paging Systems provide proven increases in privacy, comfort and productivity.

Choose from a variety of sound masking, paging and music systems and select the system that best suits your project's unique needs.

Lencore Acoustics Corp. offers a full range of products that includes central, networked controls; a self-contained, de-centralized system; a system with remote access or a paging & music system; diagnostic software and Sound Manager for network controls that addresses speech privacy and acoustics. Lencore is committed to providing energy efficient and sustainable products that meet the acoustical needs of Fortune 500 companies around the world. Lencore Acoustics Corp delivers the highest quality sound masking and paging available, and is the only system in the industry manufactured with E-Sound® (environmentally friendly sound) and IndePage® technologies.

How Sound Masking Works

Sound masking works because it changes the 'dynamic range' of sound in an environment.

Typically, the dynamic range in most environments is large, meaning that there is a great degree of difference between the lowest, or ambient, sound level and the highest levels of sound, when people are actively speaking and working. Offices are perceived as noisy precisely because of this large dynamic range. Here, the higher decibel (dB) sound of normal speech is easily heard in a backdrop of a lower, ambient background sound (dB level).

Sound masking works by subtlety raising the ambient background sound level, thereby reducing sound's dynamic range. This effectively "masks" unwanted noise, makes speech unintelligible (creating privacy), and makes the work environment acoustically comfortable.
 

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