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Community ENTASYS Installed in Historic Belgian City Hall
Community ENTASYS and VLF loudspeakers have recently been installed in the Gothic Hall of Stadhuis Kortrijk, the grand 16th century City Hall in Kortrijk, Belgium.
Mario Clabots, of Community distributor M-Pro, worked on the project together with Zedelgem-based audio installation specialist company, Falco.
"The Gothic Hall is a multi-purpose room, used primarily for meetings, conferences and presentations, so intelligibility is critical," explained Clabots. "Against us, the room was long and narrow with a high reverberation time, so a very special solution was needed."
"The venue had bad past experience with distributed audio systems, some quite expensive and nothing that worked or provided satisfactory intelligibility", continued Clabots, "so they were not prepared to make a decision again based on design work alone; they insisted on a full demonstration so the results could be heard and properly proved."
M-Pro and Falco jointly designed a system based around the new Community ENTASYS, a three-way, full-range column loudspeaker system that delivers true line-array performance with exceptionally controlled vertical dispersion. Two ENTASYS FR, in a single-column configuration, would be mounted centrally on the short wall behind the presentation position, firing down the length of the hall, and a single Community VLF212 dual 12-inch sub would supply the low frequency.
"Aesthetically it would work perfectly, but we had obvious concerns about the speaker location being behind the presenter and panel microphones," commented Clabots. "For the demo we therefore took the whole proposed system, which also consisted of a Symetrix Symnet Express DSP audio matrix mixer with ARC2 control panel, Amptec A1.5 amplification, a MIPRO ACT52 dual receiver with two ACT5H handheld mics, six Astatic 915B gooseneck mics and an Australian Monitor MYMTCD tuner/CD player."
"At the demonstration, any fears of interference with presenter or mics, or lack of even coverage in the room were instantly dispersed. We could experience the very narrow vertical beamwidth of the ENTASYS from the front to the back of the room and intelligibility and coverage were excellent throughout," said Clabots. "The Mayor and his staff instantly gave the system the thumbs up and they wouldn't let us take away our demo gear until Falco had installed the permanent system."
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