Speaker strobes are the way to go

Speaker strobes are a much more useful alarm notification appliance and believe it or not they cost relatively the same or less for the over all system. There are several advantages to speaker strobes:
1. You can send any audio file out
2. You can you use for overhead paging
3. You can use for back ground music
4. You can make all call announcements to all zones
5. The sound is less irritating and customizable (Canned sound files available)
6. Speaker Circuits higher capacity then conventional appliance circuits.
These make the system more useful overall.