Christian City Church hired Auditoria Pty Ltd's consultant Scott Willsallen, sound designer for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, to design the room. Willsallen had visited Adamson's HQ in the fall of 2005 to familiarize himself with the products, and arranged a shootout with the aid of Frank Hinton of ATT Audio Controls based in Melbourne. Adamson's managing director, Jesse Adamson, flew to the shootout in Sydney where Christopher D. Ling engineer of the Church's Technical department joined them. The successful shootout resulted in Christian City Church deciding on a SpekTrix Installation and ATT Audio Controls taking on Adamson's Australasian Distribution.
Willsallen chose 20 Adamson SpekTrix 5° cabinets flown with four 15° SpekTrix Wave boxes as down fills in four arched arrays and two SpekTrix Subs flown in the centre of the stage, with six additional SpekTrix Subs placed around the 180° circular stage to smoothly cover the auditorium. Ling later admitted: "The Adamson SpekTrix system impressed me from the shootout on, mostly due to the great amplification on speaking voice and the size of the system was impressive in regards to the coverage that it outputs."
All speakers are powered by Lab Gruppen fP6400, 3400, and 2600 amplifiers. For Ling, a Yamaha PM1D mixing console was purchased. He continued: "It is the first system we have had in that room that is loud, yet doesn't make the congregation uncomfortable. It's made a massive improvement on the even spread of sound and given that we are expanding our auditorium later this year, we now have a system that's ready for that too!"
The Church's music director Ryan Smith added: "It has also delivered the glassy yet warm sound we always wanted."
(Lee Baldock)
