Sound Masking Technology

Today’s workplaces are more collaborative, open, and flexible than ever, but they’re also noisier and more distracting. Conversations travel further, concentration drops, and maintaining speech privacy becomes increasingly difficult.

Ricoh New Zealand offers Biamp Cambridge Sound Masking solutions to help organisations create quieter, more productive workplace environments. By intelligently reducing speech intelligibility and minimising distractions, sound masking supports better focus, workplace wellbeing, and confidential conversations.

As part of Ricoh’s Connected Workplace Solutions, Biamp Sound Masking integrates seamlessly into your environment to improve both employee experience and workplace performance.

Why sound masking matters

In open-plan offices and hybrid workspaces, noise distractions can impact concentration, productivity, and employee satisfaction. Conversations from nearby desks, meeting areas, or shared spaces often interrupt focused work and compromise privacy.

Biamp Sound Masking helps solve these workplace challenges by:

Reducing the impact of distracting conversations
Improving concentration and workplace productivity
Enhancing speech privacy in shared environments
Supporting a more comfortable acoustic experience
Enabling focused work without compromising collaboration

Key benefits of Biamp Sound Masking

Improve workplace focus and productivity

Create distraction-free work environments by reducing the impact of surrounding conversations. Sound masking introduces a subtle, engineered background sound that helps employees concentrate and stay productive throughout the day.

Protect confidential conversations

Improve workplace privacy by reducing how far speech travels. Ideal for offices, meeting rooms, reception areas, and shared environments where sensitive discussions need greater confidentiality.

Enhance employee experience

Support employee wellbeing with a more balanced acoustic environment. Reducing noise-related interruptions helps create a calmer, more comfortable workplace experience.

Support modern hybrid workplaces

Designed for evolving workplace environments, sound masking helps organisations balance collaboration with focused work across open and flexible office spaces.

How sound masking works

Biamp Sound Masking works by introducing a carefully engineered background sound into a workspace. Tuned to the same frequency range as human speech, the sound reduces how clearly conversations can be understood at a distance.

Unlike white noise, workplace sound masking is designed to be subtle, comfortable, and unobtrusive, blending naturally into the environment while improving privacy and reducing distractions.

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Biamp Cambridge Sound Management technology

Biamp’s advanced sound masking technology delivers consistent acoustic coverage and workplace performance through intelligent sound design.

Engineered sound profile

A precisely tuned background sound designed to reduce speech intelligibility while remaining comfortable and unobtrusive.

Even sound distribution

Strategically placed emitters provide consistent coverage across workplaces, helping maintain balanced acoustic performance.

Reduced distraction distance

Conversations become less intelligible beyond short distances, helping employees maintain focus in busy environments.

Comfortable background sound levels

Operates at low, optimised sound levels to improve workplace privacy without adding noise fatigue.

Scalable workplace solutions

Suitable for a range of environments, from small meeting rooms to large open-plan offices and multi-site workplaces

Ideal for a range of industries and environments

Biamp Sound Masking is well suited to workplaces where productivity, privacy, and employee experience matter.

Common applications include:

Open-plan offices
Meeting rooms and collaboration spaces
Corporate headquarters
Healthcare environments
Financial and professional services organisations
Customer-facing workplaces
Education and shared workspaces

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Why choose Ricoh New Zealand?

End-to-end workplace expertise, from consultation and design through to deployment and support
Seamless technology integration into your existing workplace ecosystem
Tailored workplace solutions aligned to your business needs
Trusted local support backed by Ricoh New Zealand’s expertise

Create a quieter, more productive workplace

Reduce distractions, improve workplace privacy, and support employee focus with Biamp Cambridge Sound Masking solutions.

Talk to Ricoh New Zealand today to discover how sound masking can transform your workplace.

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