FEA TURE —S POR TS VENUE SOUND SY STEMS
Left: Acoustic Dimensions designed the audio system for Salt River Fields at Talking Stick, AZ, spring training ballpark shared by the MLB Arizona Diamondbacks
and Colorado Rockies. IMAGE: ACOUSTIC DIMENSIONS
technology. It is no longer necessary to put up with poor quality sound from large scale sound systems.” The final word on what the future will hold for sports
about the impact as the sporting event occurs. You don’t get goose bumps [athome] when somebody shoots a three-pointerwhen the announcer goes crazy—with the crowd noise to get the whole package. The Amway Center has the video down pat, with fast video changes matched by equally fast audio response.” Harman’s Chavezsaid: ”Networking technology is
rapidly converging toward the Ethernet AVB IEEE stand- ard. There are several audio networking protocols on the market, but they are always going to be limited because of the need forcontinuing productdevelopmentversus the sizeofthe professional
market.Asaresult,AVB has the attention of real networking companies, like Broad- comand Marvel, who are building AVB into the everyday network hardware that we’ll all be using in the future. This will lower the cost of robust audio networking to professional customers and provide a stable set of tech- nologies from top of the line networking companies to provide partstoprofessional audio manufacturers like Harman.” Danley’s Hedden answered: ”Our industrygoes
through trends, cycles and fads. We’ve been riding the line array crest for a while now, and, predictably, some folks are beginning to acknowledge some drawbacks. While line arrays have their place, Ibelievethatmost of the situations wherethey’recurrently deployedwould be better served by a well behaved ‘point source’prod- uct, like our Synergy
Horntechnology.This delivers all the benefits of the line arrayinasports arena, without self-interferenceand uneven patterncontrol thatcan cause peaks and troughs in both SPL and frequency
response.Superior efficiencyalso means less electrical power, so the technology is easier on the environment. I predict the constriction of the line array’s dominance, even in applications for which it truly is suited, and the rise of horn technology for arenas and stadiums.” ”In the future, pre-packaged systems are going to
play a significant role in smaller venues,” said Ryan Knox, audio designer for Acoustic Dimensions’Citizens Busi- ness Bank Arena and Livestrong Sporting Park projects. He added: ”Higher end venues arelikely to work toward a more immersive sound experience and a more person- alized experience, whether that be audio streams to per- sonal devices,greater source selection options forclubs and suites, or multichannel systems for arenas.” Funktion One’s David Bruml noted: ”For the industry,
it is our hope thatsound in sports venues will showa significantimprovementwith our recent advances in
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venue sound systems went to Turbosound’s Blackwood: ”We are alert to the future need for increasingly flexible audio solutions that can quickly be re-purposed as sports venues strive to widen the event markets they address. We also see increasing demand for total system integra- tion using smart devices such as a laptop or iPad to remotely controlcritical parameters of the entiresound system.” As sports venue sound systems become increasingly
integrated into the overall entertainment systems offer- ing at stadia and arenas, the Autumn/Fall’11 issue of Pan- Stadia will highlight sports lighting and video trends, products and
technology.Among featured global manu- facturers already confirmed to take partare Philips Sports Lighting,Martin Professional,Musco Lighting, and High End Systems (HES). ✪
Meyer Sound installed a complete sound system at the new Amway Center in Orlando, FL, including its MILO loudspeakers and M3D-Sub directional
subwoofers. IMAGE: MEYER SOUND
The new Amway Center, home of the NBA Orlando (FL) Magic, boasts a complete audio system by Meyer Sound with six arrays around a
centre-hung video scoreboard. IMAGE: MEYER SOUND
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