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Atlas Sound & IED
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“Atlas sound is probably the oldest manufacturers of sound masking equipment; we were one of the first to produce commercial gear for sound masking applications,” says Steve Brooks, VP of Sound Masking Products. “The industry is obviously growing because sound masking is being implemented more and more – health care, banking institutions, open-office cubicle farms … 90 percent of the jobs I design are open-office cubicles, because there’s no privacy anymore, there’s too much chatter going on.”

Making amps and speaker products that cater to sound masking, including “out of sight, out of mind” speakers that go above a drop ceiling, Atlas is teaming with sister company IED in taking mass notification systems and adding in masking, paging and background music in one combined platform and system, powered by the DNA amplifier. “And the system is always out there looking at everything attached to it, saying is my paging microphone still working, is my speaker still connected, so they know everything’s ready to go with a ‘get out of the building’ message.”