Florida Power & Light, Juno Beach, FL
An expansive atrium room at the company headquarters is used frequently for annual meetings and employee gatherings, measuring approximately 175 feet long by 70 feet wide by 50 feet tall and bounded by glass walls, a metal roof and tile floor.
Sound had been provided by small, portable systems that couldn’t deliver sufficient intelligibility when company management asked Peerson Audio of Jupiter, FL, for a solution.
Looking at a single point-source approach, Peerson Audio brought in a Tannoy QFlex 32 steerable array loudspeaker for demonstration purposes and immediately received approval.
“They were extremely impressed with the system,” says company owner Alan Peerson. “I was told that it was the first time they had been able to hear anything crystal clear in the room – ever.”
After further review, Peerson decided that a taller QFlex 48, simply mounted via brackets from a metal ceiling joist, would better suit the project, providing additional SPL and the option of covering an even larger audience area.
He used VNET proprietary QFlex software to program the column array specifically to the room’s needs.
“It was important to provide them with a system that would not only supply intelligibility but also suit their needs for a long time,” Peerson notes. “This was a situation where QFlex was ideal for the application.”
Congress Palace, Oviedo, Spain
The main auditorium at this new exhibition and convention center has a capacity of 2,144, with a height of 148 feet up to the top of its domed ceiling. The room presents a complex geometry and very high reverberation, with Marc Rovira of Adagio Pro, the Martin Audio distributor in Spain, proposing a system with a large but controlled coverage pattern, especially in the vertical plane, fulfilled with Martin Audio OmniLine micro arrays.
Adagio Pro initially presenting a 2D model using OmniLine software before constructing a 3D visualization using EASE software. The modeling translated to dual hangs of Omniline arrays, each less than 10 feet tall, flown to each side of the main stage.
Overall, up to 32 Omniline modules can be interconnected, and in many cases, just one amplifier channel per array is required. In this instance, however, the installers, MEDIACOM 95 and GMI, preferred to divide each column of the array into three zones or channels of amplification to produce a greater degree of control. Processing is carried out with a Martin Audio DX2 digital processor, which manages the different levels and EQ of each column.