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Vaughan Sound has upgraded the emergency public address system at the Office for National Statistics’ headquarters in Newport. The ONS are a long-standing client, after Vaughan Sound was directly appointed by VINCI Facilities following previous successful work across similar public sector buildings throughout Wales. Having inherited the maintenance of the existing public address system –...Continue Reading

Let’s begin with what sound masking isn’t. Sound masking is not white or pink noise played back at high levels. It’s not noise cancellation as seen on some headphones, and it’s not sound proofing. Sound masking can be simply defined as the addition of a specially engineered noise (or sound) into a space (or area)...Continue Reading

Regular inspections, testing, planned maintenance and certification are all essential elements of compliance. Consider electrical system compliance and immediately many people think of Portable Appliance Testing (PAT)…and that’s about it. There is, however, much more to it than that. We live and work in a world in which the health, safety and wellbeing of ourselves...Continue Reading

We had a very interesting consultation recently with an architectural practice and the principal contractor’s design team. We were invited in to review the performance sound, stage lighting and audio-visual systems for a venue that comprised, amongst other key areas, three defined user spaces. These areas were required to operate independently for 90% of the time, but...Continue Reading