Last year, former Boston Red Sox second baseman Jerry Remy partnered with Cronin Group Restaurants to create Jerry Remy’s Sports Bar & Grill just outside of historic Fenway Park.
The venture was so successful that a second location at Liberty Wharf on Boston Harbor was recently opened.
Like its predecessor, the new restaurant promises a game-day experience that rivals Fenway itself, with a 32-foot monster HD video wall (New England’s largest) and forty-six additional large HD plasma screens distributed strategically throughout the open-air facility.
Rob Soluri of Custom Cable got the nod to design and install the all-important AV system, using the Symetrix Zone Mix 760 to deliver easy-to-use, reliable, and cost-effective digital signal processing.
“The AV system is a critical component of the original location’s success,” explained Soluri.
“The owners definitely wanted a well-differentiated system at the new seaside location as well. Visuals are what grab your attention when you enter Jerry Remy’s, but I knew that the audio quality had to be commensurate with the brilliance of all those screens. It’s the perfect job for the Symetrix Zone Mix 760, which, apart from sounding fantastic, is competitively priced, quick to set up, and steadfastly reliable. Paired with Symetrix ARC wall panels, I can tailor those aspects of the system that the user has control over. Thus, from the user’s viewpoint, the audio system is intuitive, dependable, and less expensive than they anticipated.”
Concomitantly with the new Jerry Remy installation, Soluri installed an AV system at the adjacent Temazcal Cantina, as both establishments are under the same ownership.
The two systems are approximately paralleled, excepting a few different zone definitions and loudspeaker counts as called for by the particulars of each space. Each has its own Symetrix Zone Mix 760, which provides a wealth of inputs for DirecTV receivers, iPod, iTunes/Pandora, wireless microphones, live web, radio, and TV broadcast, as well as six outputs for location-specific zoning.
The systems deliver precise volume and equalization requirements to bar, restaurant, bathroom and hallway zones. Tannoy V12 loudspeaker provide the bulk of the content, with a few Tannoy CMS 801DC loudspeakers for fill. Tannoy VS 15DR subwoofers convey the low-end, and Lab.gruppen C 10:4X and C 28:4X amplifiers provide the power. Users select input sources and adjust zone volumes with strategically placed Symetrix ARC-2 wall panels.