With a 60,000-plus seating capacity, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi, India was the largest venue used for the October, 2010 XIX Commonwealth Games.
The stadium hosted athletics events and, most importantly, served as the venue for the Games’ opening and closing ceremonies.
The stadium is equipped with an audio system from Electro-Voice, extending EV’s footprint in the design of systems for the world’s largest sporting events, including the summer and winter Olympic Games and the recent FIFA World Cup soccer tournament in South Africa.
The EV loudspeaker specification at Nehru Stadium consists of 132 customized XLC127DVX (line-array), 120 Sx300PI, 300 EVID 6.2, and 60 ZX5-60PI surface-mounted systems, all driven by a combination of 135 P3000RL and TG amplifiers to deliver an average of 107 dB and a peak of 115 dB.
The system is remote-controlled and supervised from a single laptop in the stadium control room, all via EV’s IRIS-Net software platform. The system’s Auto Gain Control increases or decreases the sound levels consistent with changes in the level of ambient crowd noise.
All external speakers are manufactured to exceed the IP55 standard for weather resistance, while the system’s speech intelligibility surpasses the approved standard of 0.55 RASTI.
