The Legacy Fitness chain of fitness centers, which has facilities in Fort Lauderdale, Pembroke Pines, Coral Gables and Wynwood, Florida, offers a range of programs supported by music that’s reinforced with systems employing loudspeakers and related equipment from DAS Audio, including models from the company’s ACTION-500 Series, ARTEC Series, and E11EVEN Sound by DAS Audio product lines.
“As the person ultimately responsible for managing the operation, overseeing facility design, as well as managing customer service and all programs, it was important to me that each Legacy location have world-class sound systems to help motivate everyone during their workouts,” says Manning Sumner, the chain’s founder and CEO. “This is precisely what led me to DAS Audio. Throughout 2022, we had systems deployed into each of our locations. While there is some variation between each facility due to room size and other factors, one thing is consistent: great sound that motivates people to give their very best effort.”
The Wynwood facility also serves as Legacy’s headquarters, and in addition to housing Sumner’s office, there are staff administration offices, a conference room, a podcast room, a cold plunge facility, sauna, IV Suite & Smoothie Bar, as well as the open gym. In this location, the system includes eight ARTEC-310.96 compact 2-way array enclosures, eight ARTEC-308 2-way passive systems plus four ESBR18 passive direct radiation subwoofers from the E11EVEN Sound catalog. E11EVEN Sound EP-6K4 amplifiers power the loudspeakers, with signal processing from BSS Audio completing the setup.
The Fort Lauderdale location includes six E11EVEN Sound ES-10 2-way point source loudspeaker enclosures mated with two ACTION-S18 passive subwoofers. Like the Wynwood location, E11EVEN Sound EP-6K4 amplifiers power the system, with processing from BSS Audio.
Similar to the equipment setup deployed in Fort Lauderdale, the Pembroke Pines facility includes eight E11EVEN Sound ES-10 2-way point source loudspeaker enclosures mated with two ACTION-S18A active subwoofers. E11EVEN Sound EP-6K4 amplifiers power the ES-10 enclosures while processing from BSS Audio completes the setup.
At the Coral Gables Legacy facility, the system six ARTEC-310.96 compact 2-way enclosures along with two ACTION-S18 passive subwoofers. Again E11EVEN Sound EP-6K4 amplifiers power the system with processing from BSS Audio.
“At each location, the one most important and consistent factor regarding the quality of sound is the clear, natural, and balanced performance. As you move about the various spaces, the sound is very consistent,” Sumner notes. “The coverage provided by these systems is excellent. Dead zones simply don’t exist. Because the areas are so well covered, the volume doesn’t have to be overbearing. Each space has a volume level that is comfortable while being a key motivating factor for people to get on with their workouts.”
Miami-based AV integration firm Willy-Tech, headed by owner Guillermo “Willy” Rodriguez, handled the installation of the systems based on designs by DAS Audio’s John Fiorito, with Geovanni Ortiz, DAS Audio applications engineer, performing loudspeaker optimization at each location joined by BSS Audio programmer Santiago Ruiz. “From the initial demonstrations through the final installations, the entire team was a pleasure to deal with,” Sumner reports. “Questions were answered in timely fashion and explanations about various aspects of each system’s performance were thoroughly addressed. Every aspect of my dealings with the company were handled with the utmost professionalism.”
