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Lee Standardises on Denon for Major Lancaster Uni Refit
Over a 12 year period, Lancaster-based Lee Engineering has proven to be one of the UK’s most dependable technical resource groups.
The company’s scope of work extends from offering support to massive industrial and architectural lighting projects (including power stations on the Isle of Man to lighting the toll booths of the Forth Road Bridge) to providing regular services to the BBC. Customers return to the company time and again because of their ability to provide bespoke solutions.
Lee Engineering also has a reputation for thoroughly scrutinising each new piece of equipment before it goes out. “The kit goes straight into the workshop,” says director Phil Leedal. “We are a sales rep’s worst nightmare as we won’t sell anything that we know will give us grief.”
Which is why they have supported Denon build quality over an extended period.
Although operating on a national scale, one of Lee Engineering’s major accounts is right on their own doorstep — the local university.
“We have been looking after Lancaster University’s nine colleges on the Bailrigg campus, along with the Student Union nightclub, The Sugar House, for some time,” Leedal explains.
In the past, each of the colleges had operated its own independent sound system for use in their bars — which had been far from ideal. This year the Union decided to standardise the kit in all nine colleges — and turned to Lee Engineering for advice.
Phil Leedal explains that the essential requirements of each bar were the same — and the most difficult task was to specify a front-end that would provide each college with flexibility and reliability, while preserving the signal’s integrity.
He opted to standardise on Denon’s DN-D4500 rackmount twin CD player, matched with the new DN-X500 mixer. “Denon is as reliable as you can make a DJ product. It’s recognisable, it works well consistently, it is intuitive to operate and a familiar brand to everyone.”
The DN-D4500 represents a recent overhaul of the popular DN-D4000, with new playback facilities including vastly-extended MP3 functionality — features which were acclaimed by mobile and club DJ requiring a simple workhorse with high reliability.
Like the DN-D4500 the DN-X500 offers the robustness that campus activity demands. This 4U mixer boasts rock solid construction, superb audio fidelity, high quality components and of course reliability; eight-channel input matrix routing provides the freedom to move any source to any channel or even the same source to multiple channels for remixing.
Each Denon combo fits neatly into a robust flight-case, custom designed by Lee Engineering. All are kept in store and wheeled into position as required, the Denon kit keeping company with the Formula Sound Guardian CX4 fire alarm interface and Cloud zoner.
“The Denon equipment contains all the features the University needs,” summarises Phil Leedal. “It fits into a standard spec perfectly.”
In picture: The new Denon rackmount kit in situ at Lancaster.
13th July 2006
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