Elk Grove Public Library Needed a Multi-Room Hearing Loop

Challenge: The use of this room is such that rooms could be divided up in a number of ways. Therefore, Elk Grove Public Library needed a flexible hearing loop system that would work in one space without interfering with the space next to it when the rooms were divided. And all three hearing loops needed to work in unison when the three spaces are used as one large room. 

 

Solution: Thunder Hearing & Sound designed a flexible hearing loop system that would match the use of the space. Three separate hearing loop zones were used to match the spaces. Computer modeling was used to design the loop wire layout of each space to make sure the proper balance of spill control between spaces and coverage within each space was correct. Great care was taken to ensure each space had the correct polarity/current flow. This step is often missed by even experienced installers and hearing loop driver manufactures. However, the outcome by missing this step makes for areas with sub-standard signal levels when all the spaces are used together.