When designing a 70-volt commercial speaker system, you’ll need components like robust commercial audio mixers and amplifiers, paging horns, wired or wireless microphones, equipment racks, speaker stands & mounts, and accessories that are built for the demands of operating 24/7, 365. You will also need 70V commercial speakers. There is a wide variety of in-ceiling speakers, hanging pendant speakers, and surface mount speaker systems to choose from.
Commercial audio speakers are perfect for public address, paging, and background music in restaurants, retail stores, churches, offices, stadiums, airports, hospitals, and schools. Each of these may need a different type of speaker and each speaker may need a different type of commercial speaker mount to best fit the application. It’s important to think through what kind of 70-volt speaker you want to use and what types of speaker mounting brackets you’ll need to mount them properly.
Speaker Wall Mount U-Shaped Brackets
Typically a wall mount speaker is going to come with some form of U-bracket or speaker wall mount that you can use to mount it to the wall.
Drywall Ceiling Speaker Mounts
Sometimes you will need additional accessories to go into sheetrock, drywall, or a hard lid ceiling. For example, the Pure Resonance Audio C3 speaker has drywall mounts that basically go in and clip down onto the drywall, and the speaker mounts into that.
Ceiling Speaker Rough-In Brackets
Rough-in kits are pre-installed brackets that go above your drywall. The speaker mounting bracket lays across your studs and hammers or screws into the actual structure itself, leaving a hole in the center for the speaker to mount into.
Drop Ceiling Tile Speaker Mounts
When mounting a speaker into drop tile or acoustic tile, there is a different range of brackets. Normally most speakers can't go into an acoustic tile ceiling without some additional hardware. An exception to that is the Pure Resonance Audio C3 speaker which has a threaded backcan that can tighten right up to the acoustic tile and the speaker is rated to be mounted into the tile itself.
Drop Ceiling Tile Bridges
When the speaker is too heavy to be supported by the tile, many times you need a speaker tile bridge. The tile bridge lays across your two-by-two or two-by-four tile grid. The speaker gets mounted inside and then mounts to the actual tile bridge itself which helps to support the weight.
C-Ring & Ceiling Tile Support Rails
Some speakers use what's called tile rails and a C-Ring. These tile rails lay across your T-bar ceiling. From there, the C-Ring lays across the rails, and you mount your speaker into that.
A variety of different ceiling mount speaker brackets are available from different manufacturers. Normally, if you're looking at a Bose Commercial speaker or JBL speaker, they will have Bose or JBL pre-install or pre-construction speaker brackets.
It’s also important to note that it's always a good idea to add a secondary safety when mounting commercial speakers, which may be included with the speaker, to actually mount to the grid itself. This ensures that you have a secondary fail-safe if needed.
If you have any more questions about commercial speaker mounts or hardware that you might need, give us a call at (888)-256-4112, or email us at [email protected]. Our sound system experts are happy to help!
