Auracast location profile - Grace Lutheran

Summary

A church considered a new hearing loop but chose Auracast with loan receivers after finding loop cost a barrier, according to the Bluetooth SIG’s venue profile.

Key findings

• Grace Lutheran Church in Woodstock, Illinois, accommodates about 300 people and previously used FM receivers with earpieces and neckloops; the profile says cost was a major barrier to replacing FM with a hearing loop.
• The church chose an Auri package with one transmitter, eight receivers, a charging rack, earpieces and neckloops, and retired its FM system after a trial and permanent installation.
• The profile quotes the church’s audio technician on favourable congregant reactions to the new receivers and describes future interest in direct reception through personal hearing devices.
• The Benefits section reports that congregants using receivers with telecoil hearing aids or earpieces found sound quality better than with the old FM system, and that users so far found the receivers easy to use; it gives no listener sample size or test method.
• A latency demonstration was being prepared; the profile publishes no latency results.

Limits

A promotional trade-body account of one venue, with no prices, measured comparison, listener sample size or independent evaluation. The purchase decision concerns replacing FM and considering a new loop; no existing loop was removed. Reported listener reactions concern the old FM system and new Auracast receivers, with no listener comparison against a loop. Date comes from the SIG’s linked resource listing, which displays 16 May 2025.

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Cited in

• Should a venue keep its hearing loop when it adds Auracast, and can one system serve both?Partly answered

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