Assistive listening for every kind of room

The physics of a hearing loop or an Auracast™ broadcast doesn’t change from room to room, but the problems do. A sanctuary has pews and a balcony, a courtroom needs privacy from the room next door, and a theater has guitar pickups on stage. Start with your kind of room below. If it isn’t listed, the notes further down cover the rest.

Other rooms we work in

The same design rules apply everywhere: we choose the layout for the room and the metal in the building, feed it a mix built for listening, and measure the result. See how we design hearing loops and how we design Auracast systems. Here’s what changes for the rooms that don’t have a page of their own.

Costs follow the room, not the venue type: our hearing loop and Auracast price guide has every range and what drives it. Already have a loop that hums, fades or has gone quiet? Start with hearing loop repair.

Schools and universities

Classrooms, lecture halls and auditoriums bring a problem a single room doesn’t: neighbors. A simple loop around one classroom can be heard in the next room and in the room above, which matters when two rooms are looped side by side or one is holding an exam. Low-spill phased arrays keep each room’s signal at home. Auracast avoids floor work, but campus buildings are full of Wi-Fi, which shares the same 2.4 GHz band, so we plan broadcasts around the Wi-Fi channels and the busiest hours. Lecture capture systems are often the cleanest source for the feed.

Offices and conference rooms

Boardrooms need privacy as much as coverage. Auracast can run as a private broadcast protected by a code, so only people given the code can listen, and a low-spill loop keeps a confidential meeting out of the room next door. In video-conference rooms, check the source first: some all-in-one Teams displays have no audio output at all. We specify a USB audio processor whose assistive listening output carries the room microphones and the far end of the call, because a listener who hears the room but not the remote callers has missed half the meeting.

Service counters and transit

Ticket windows, reception desks, pharmacy counters and teller windows need a counter loop: a small loop that carries the staff member’s voice, often through a glass screen, straight to a customer’s hearing aid. Installed counter loops are priced from $1,500. Stations and terminals raise a different question. The ADA’s receiver counts are written for assembly areas, and in our reading a concourse isn’t one, though a meeting room or auditorium in the same building may be. We’ll walk you through which ADA receiver and signage rules apply to your building.

Museums and tours

Auracast suits museums well. A guide’s microphone into a portable transmitter becomes a tour that visitors hear on their own compatible earbuds or hearing aids, and each language can be its own broadcast, chosen by name. Exhibit audio can be broadcast the same way. Auditoriums and information desks still benefit from a loop for telecoil users, and loan receivers cover visitors whose devices can’t join: as of October 2026, iPhones can’t join an Auracast broadcast on their own.

Looking for a looped venue as a listener?

If you wear hearing aids or a cochlear implant and want places with a loop or Auracast, start with the Center for Hearing Access state lists of looped venues or HearFinder, and look for the hearing-loss symbol with a “T” at the door. Our page for listeners and advocates explains how to ask a venue for one. Your audiologist can turn on your hearing aid’s telecoil program and tell you whether your hearing aids can join Auracast. We design and install systems for venues rather than fitting personal devices, but our answers to common listener questions may help.