Sonance representative — Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec

Sonance Architectural Audio and Invisible Speakers

The best speaker in a finished room is the one nobody can find.

What it does for a space

Everything in this line is built to put sound into the architecture instead of adding equipment to it. The Invisible Series is skimmed over with compound and painted — mudded into the wall or ceiling, flush with the surface. No grille, no trim, no bezel, no rectangle.

What you get is a room that sounds complete and looks untouched: a gallery, a lobby, a restaurant or a boardroom where the audio is unmistakably there and the hardware is nowhere. It finishes into drywall, plaster, wallpaper, leather and wood veneer.

Behind it sits a full commercial line — 70V and 100V distribution, amplification and DSP from the same house.

What we specify it for

Where nothing may show

Boardrooms, lobbies, galleries and executive floors, where a grille is the one thing the architecture will not take.

Distributed commercial audio

70V and 100V systems for retail, hospitality, fitness and worship, with amplification and DSP from the same house.

Plenum-rated ceilings

UL 1480 and UL 2043 listings to NFPA 90 and NFPA 70 on the professional in-ceiling range.

Everything else flush

TRUFIG does to a keypad, an outlet or a touchscreen what the Invisible Series does to a speaker.

Hear it in our Ottawa showroom

Invisible in-wall speakers, Ottawa

You do not pay for it in the sound

The reasonable assumption is that the disappearance costs you performance. Less than you would expect. The ten-inch Invisible Series runs 35 Hz to 30 kHz and disperses across 170 degrees, so the room fills rather than the sofa getting beamed at, and it sits 68 millimetres deep — which is why it fits where a speaker has no business fitting.

There is an in-wall subwoofer that reaches down to 32 Hz under the plaster, across 180 degrees. It is easier to hear than to describe, which is why it is running in the showroom.

Hear it in our Ottawa showroom

Architectural audio, Ottawa

The commercial half of the catalogue

Pendant loudspeakers, surface mounts, and PowerZone Connect amplifiers running 70V and 100V distribution with adaptive DSP and a published system-design calculator.

The maker names retail, hospitality, restaurants, fitness, corporate, museums, worship and education as its markets for that line. It is often the part of the catalogue that solves the project.

Four names, one house

The house also owns James Loudspeaker — custom-built to an opening you specify, rather than the other way round — along with IPORT, which puts a dedicated tablet on the wall to control the room, and TRUFIG, the flush-mounting platform. Worth knowing before anyone treats the four as competing options on a schedule.

Stand in the room and try to find them

A specification sheet cannot tell you what a room sounds like. The system is installed and running in our Ottawa showroom — Invisible Series mudded into the wall, small-aperture in-ceiling alongside it, an in-wall subwoofer. Stand in the middle and work out where the sound is coming from. That is the demonstration.

Why teams bring us in early

Invisible speakers are a wall detail before they are an audio decision. We help you place them, match them to the wall and ceiling build-up, size amplification and zoning, coordinate the finishes with the trades, and commission the system so the room sounds the way the showroom did.

The best moment to call is while the wall types and the ceiling are still being coordinated — not after the drywall is closed.

Good to know before you specify

Because this audio is built into the architecture, a couple of details are best settled project by project.

For corridor-mounted or pendant speakers we get the actual fixture weights and put the protrusion and ceiling-loading questions to the engineer of record, so the answer on your drawings comes from the person who carries it.

See the range

Browse the Sonance products published to our line card. Manufacturers maintain their own listings — if you can’t find what the drawing calls for, ask us.

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Common questions

Who represents Sonance in Ottawa?

Flux Lighting is the Sonance representative for Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec, including Ottawa and Gatineau.

Can I specify Sonance through Flux Lighting?

Yes. On commercial projects we specify Sonance architectural audio and invisible speakers alongside the lighting, so the ceiling is coordinated as one.

Show us the room while the finishes are open

Bring the plans for the room or the venue, and we will show you where the speakers can go.

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