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Community Loudspeakers Announce the Olympics Loud and Clear
As all eyes have been focused on this year's Winter Olympics in Vancouver, many visitors to the Games were listening to the announcements, commentaries and entertainment through Community loudspeakers.
"As a premium provider of large scale, all-weather, voice communication and entertainment systems, we have had a long association with the Winter Olympics", commented John Wiggins, Community's Vice President of Business Development. "In Turin 2006, Community loudspeakers were installed in three of the major venues and this year Canadian contractors have installed many more with a longer term community benefit view being taken by venues; not just those hosting events but also by the numerous practice venues".
The Speed Skating Oval in Richmond, a suburb of Vancouver, is the first Olympic venue to use Community's compact ENTASYS three-way, full-range, weather-resistant column line-array loudspeaker system. The ENTASYS is used in various areas to support the Olympic portable system, in areas where wide coverage and tight vertical dispersion are needed for spectator coverage in difficult acoustic environments.
The Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports facility includes a hockey arena and various practice facilities. Here the installations include the Community R.5 full-range, all-weather systems for high intelligibility and well-controlled audience coverage.
One of the superb new venues of the 2010 Winter Games is The Trout Lake Ice Rink. Trout Lake is home of figure skating training sessions and after the Winter Games the rink will be used for Community recreation. This venue uses powerful Community iBOX iHP1596 two-way loudspeakers for full-range entertainment and high intelligibility speech, providing the rink with a true multi-purpose system.
The Vancouver Olympic Centre/Vancouver Paralympic Centre at Hillcrest Park is one of the signature venues of the 2010 Winter Games and the home of competition curling events. After 2010, the venue will be converted to a legacy community facility for the residents of Vancouver, boasting a new community centre, ice rink, curling club, library, preschool, field house and offices with a permanent system incorporating Community R1, Cloud6 and Cloud12 loudspeakers.
Another training rink is the Killarney Community Centre. Currently used for short track speed skating it will be converted after the Olympics for community recreation use. The installation at Killarny again uses powerful Community iBOX IHP1596 loudspeakers for multi-purpose use.
Other official Olympic sites to use Community loudspeakers are the Richmond O Zone and the West Vancouver Spirit Square Community Centre. For 17 days, the Richmond O Zone becomes an official celebration site of the 2010 Winter Games and a key destination for an authentic Olympic Games experience. Covering over 60 acres in the heart of Richmond City Centre the site will feature mammoth ice art, massive high-definition screens, outdoor ice skating, entertainment from the region and around the world, art, athletes, exhibits, food and fireworks. The Richmond O Zone sound systems were designed with Community R1, R.5 and R2 loudspeakers to provide the coverage, sound levels and excitement expected of an Olympic site of this stature. The West Vancouver Spirit Square also provides visitors a facility to watch the Games with a CTV Broadcast on big screens in a heated and covered Atrium, and an Olympic experience of events and entertainment. A combination of Community iBOX iHP1200 Series and Cloud12 loudspeakers provide the quality and level of audio for the enthusiastic Olympic fans.
1st March 2010
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