Sound goes to the room, not to you
A speaker system fills a space and leaves the sound to find you. By the time it does, it has crossed thirty feet of air and picked up every conversation, air handler, and chair scrape between the stage and your seat.
Nothing in that chain is aimed at you. Your seat, your hearing, and the volume you actually need have no bearing on what arrives. splitR® sends the sound to your ears instead, at the volume you choose.
1 in 5
people live with hearing loss
The fix most venues bought does not work
The standard answer is an assistive listening system, installed once and rarely thought about again. It sends you to a desk before the event starts, where you ask a staff member for a receiver, sign it out, and wear it back to your seat in front of everyone. Plenty of people skip that entirely.
The hardware fails quietly. Dead batteries, missing units, staff who have never been shown how it works, a system nobody has tested since the inspection. For the venue it was an expensive box to tick, and nothing tells them it stopped working. The alternative is a system with nothing to hand out and nothing to break.
Broadcast it once, and listeners tune in on their own gear
splitR Pro™ is the hub a venue installs. It runs up to nine independent streams at once, takes real inputs (HDMI ARC, Ethernet, 6.35mm and 3.5mm, WiFi with AirPlay 2), and units link over Ethernet to cover a whole building, indoors and out. Instead of pushing sound across a room and hoping, you send it out as a broadcast that listeners join on their own devices, at their own volume, privately. No desk, no sign-out sheet, no hardware that marks anyone out.
Venues still need to keep listening devices on hand to meet ADA requirements, and that does not change overnight. What changes is what comes next. The coming generation of assistive listening hardware, earbuds, and hearing aids supports this standard out of the box, so more of your audience will arrive already able to listen on the gear they own, which is far more comfortable than anything signed out at a desk. For devices that predate the standard, splitR® bridges the gap today.
Compare that to a hearing loop, the current default. A loop is a physical metal wire embedded in the floor or the walls around the entire venue, and a listener has to be standing inside it to hear anything. It is expensive to install, disruptive to retrofit, and it pins the sound to wherever the wire happens to run. splitR Pro™ needs none of that.
