Powersoft and its UK-based distributor CUK supported Leeds-based audio integrator Audioserv in creating a large-scale audio system for the Roxy Ball Room, a bowling alley and bar experience in Birmingham, UK.
Audioserv has also provided audio systems for more than 15 Roxy Ball Room locations in working with parent company Roxy Leisure. “We’ve been working with Roxy Ball Room since the beginning of the brand in 2013,” explains Pete Rollinson, technical director of Audioserv. “For the Birmingham venue, we designed a system to give consistent coverage across the whole space, with an added impact in certain areas of the venue, as we did for the other Roxy Ball Room locations.”
Audioserv and Roxy Leisure’s Matt Jones, designed a system with the ability to sound like a club system when required in addition to providing balanced background music. Key elements in the approach are Powersoft amplifiers joined by Turbosound and Audac loudspeakers.
Mounted horizontally on the back wall upstairs of the venue, five Turbosound TSC122 loudspeaker cabinets are paired with two NuQ118B subwoofers. “It would have been tempting to use smaller boxes, but they would have started to sound thin in such a large volume of space,” Rollinson says. Meanwhile, above the bar, 10 Turbosound NuQ82 loudspeakers are mounted to provide coverage, with another five Turbosound TSC122 loudspeakers and two NuQ118B subwoofers to cover the area between the bar and the bowling lanes.
Audioserv deployed three Powersoft Quattrocanali 4804 and 2404 fixed install amplifiers to drive the loudspeakers. “We’ve been using Powersoft amplifiers for years. In many of our installations, we use multiple channels of audio for either the number of loudspeakers we use or the amount of different time alignment delays,” Rollinson says. “Having a huge number of channels of conventional amplifiers would take up a massive amount of room in what is usually a small office.
“We’ve supplied amplifiers from Powersoft’s installation range to Roxy Ball Room on different projects before, as well as a number of other clients. They sound excellent, they are extremely small physically and their power consumption is exceptionally low. Overall, we were pleased with the outcome of the project,” Rollinson concluded. “And with careful adjustments of the different areas, we managed to minimize the potential sound reverb which is always a concern for large venues like this one.”
Images supplied by Roxy Leisure Ltd
