Meyer Sound loudspeakers form the new main cluster providing sound reinforcement at the Orange Bowl, a large outdoor stadium in Miami, and home field of the NCAA Miami Hurricanes football team. The new cluster was installed atop a new scoreboard structure erected beyond one of the playing field end zones.

A perspective of the Orange Bowl. The new cluster was installed within the structure to the right.

MSL-6 loudspeakers provide the majority of coverage.

The project was contracted to Pro Sound of Miami, with R.J. Coleman serving as principal system design engineer. “It was a difficult job on all fronts,” says Coleman. “We had a huge stadium to cover with higher intelligibility and better music quality. It was a collegiate budget, not an NFL budget. And it had to be a fast-track install, because the new scoreboard steelwork wouldn’t be up until a few days before the opening game.”

The unique SB-1 Parabolic handles extreme long-throw coverage.

Coleman recommended a self-powered Meyer point-source cluster incorporating the company’s SB-1 Parabolic Long-Throw Sound Beams. The ultra long-throw parabolic transducers proved the crucial element in covering the far side of the stadium without flooding the field with sound.

Coverage for the rest of the Orange Bowl is provided by four MSL-6 Horn-Loaded High-Q Main Loudspeakers, with two each on either end of the over-scoreboard structure, and a tight pack of four DS-4P Horn-Loaded Mid-Bass Loudspeakers.