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Dining room at Anemelo Greek restaurant, Maxwell Chambers Suites, Singapore, with Bose Professional speakers installed by Energycon
F&B · Hospitality

Sound Systems for Restaurants, Cafes & Bars in Singapore

Multi-zone background music, paging, and one-touch ambience control — designed for your floor plan, installed around your operating hours, tuned to the room.

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Energycon Engineering designs and installs sound systems for F&B venues across Singapore — cafes, restaurants, bars and food courts. F&B is our largest sector: it is where a sound system either builds the atmosphere your interior designer intended, or gets in the way of it.

Installing commercial audio in Singapore
Since 2009
Installed, small cafe (excl. GST)
From $1,500
Installed outside operating hours — no need to close
After hours
Independent volume from a wall panel or phone
Per zone

Why most F&B sound systems fail

Most systems we replace failed for the same reason — they were never built for a restaurant.

What we usually replace

  • Consumer speakers driven by a home amplifier

  • One zone — loud near the counter, silent at the back

  • No tuning to the room

  • Dead within two years of twelve-hour days

What a commercial system does

  • Commercial-rated speakers built for all-day use

  • Matrix zoning — every area at its own volume

  • DSP processing to keep the sound clean

  • Calibrated to the room after installation

Recent restaurant projects

Private dining room at Anemelo Greek restaurant, Maxwell Chambers Suites, Singapore — one of three independent audio zones
Bose Professional
Powersoft

Maxwell Chambers Suites · Completed August 2026

Anemelo Greek Restaurant

3

zones

15

Bose speakers

1

wall panel

Bose FreeSpace 3
Powersoft Mezzo 604 A
WM Touch

Result

The owners say the music encourages diners to stay longer.

We planned the system from a bare-shell floor plan and split the restaurant into three zones — the private dining area, the bar, and the dining area by the kitchen. Six pairs of Bose Professional FreeSpace 3 satellites and three pendant-mounted FreeSpace 3 bass modules run on a single Powersoft Mezzo 604 A, and staff set each zone's volume independently from a WM Touch wall panel.

Case study
Bar and dining room at Spice Mahal restaurant, Beach Road, Singapore, with Bose Professional speakers installed by Energycon
Bose Professional
Powersoft

Beach Road · Completed November 2025

Spice Mahal

4

zones

16

Bose speakers

0

external processors

Bose FreeSpace FS3
Bose FS2CE
Powersoft Mezzo 604 A
WM Touch

Result

Hosts set each zone’s ambience with one touch — no technical training needed.

Spice Mahal is a fine-dining restaurant on Beach Road. The four-zone system is built on the Powersoft Mezzo 604 A — its internal matrix and Dynamic Music Distribution run all four zones with no external processors. Eight Bose Professional FreeSpace FS3 satellites and two FS3 surface subwoofers carry the dining areas, six FS2CE ceiling speakers fill the remaining zones, and the entire system is operated from a single wall-mounted WM Touch touchscreen.

Case studyCovered by ProAVL Asia

What an F&B sound system costs

These are the same figures our online estimator uses, from installed projects. Prices exclude GST.

VenueTypical systemInstalled price
Small cafe (under ~60 sqm)Compact in-ceiling background music$1,500 – $3,000
Small restaurant, single dining areaIn-ceiling background music system$2,000 – $4,000
Medium restaurant (dining + bar zones)Multi-zone system, independent volume$5,000 – $10,000
Large restaurant with pagingMulti-zone BGM + PA announcements$8,000 – $15,000
High-ceiling / industrial-style spacePendant speakers + zone system$10,000 – $18,000

The full breakdown of what moves the number — zones, ceiling type, paging, alfresco areas — is in our restaurant sound system cost guide.

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The hardware we deploy in F&B venues

Speakers

Bose Professional

Bose Professional DesignMax and FreeSpace ceiling speakers — pendant models where the ceiling is exposed.

Amplification & zoning

Yamaha
Powersoft

Yamaha MA-series for single-zone rooms; Yamaha MTX or Powersoft Mezzo for multi-zone venues.

Music source

Bluesound

Bluesound network streamers that work with licensed commercial music services.

We are authorized dealers for Bose Professional, Yamaha Pro Audio and Bluesound — the warranty is backed by the same company that installed the system.

Common questions from F&B owners

Yes — this is the norm, not the exception. Cabling and speaker installation happen outside operating hours, including overnight where the landlord requires it, and the changeover to the new system is done before service starts.

That is exactly what a zoned system does. Dining room, bar, alfresco and private room can each run independent volume — or entirely different sources — and staff control it from a wall panel or phone, not an equipment rack.

Public-performance licensing in Singapore (COMPASS) is separate from the hardware and is the venue's responsibility. We advise on streaming hardware that works with licensed commercial music services.

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