Ashley KLR at home in Cowboys Saloon
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It has a live stage devoted mainly to country music, but with a healthy dose of rock music and DJ sets thrown in, and ample table and bar seating. In order to give Cowboys Saloon the most powerful sound reinforcement system possible on a constrained (and already stretched) budget, local AV integration firm Visual Technologies used 10 of Ashly Audio’s uniquely affordable, powerful, and reliable KLR-Series dual-channel amplifiers.
Rich Trombitas, regional sales & product manager with A/V manufacturers rep firm Cardone, Solomon & Associates (CS&A), which handles Ashly Audio gear in New York City and northern New Jersey, assisted Jim Blair, sales manager at Visual Technologies with the system design at Cowboys Saloon.
In a single day, Trombitas travelled to Syracuse from New York City, surveyed the space, met with the owner, went back to Visual Technologies, designed the system with Blair, compiled a materials list, and drove back home. “The two keys to the project’s success were having the owner meet us halfway on the budget and designing a system that was as powerful and reliable as they really needed to pull off the promise of the brand on what was - despite the owner’s flexibility - still a tight budget,” Trombitas said.
The 10 Ashly KLR-Series amplifiers were an integral part of making it work. “We needed dynamic, high-power, low-cost amplification,” he continued. “The Ashly KLR-2000, for example, is one of the best values on the market, especially when bridged mono as we did to power some Renkus-Heinz subwoofers at Cowboys Saloon.”
Three Ashly KLR-2000 amps bridged mono at 2,000W power three Renkus-Heinz CFX218S dual-18 subwoofers for the stage. Four Renkus-Heinz CFX101 point arrays handle the stage’s full-range material, two per side. A single beefy Ashly KLR-4000 delivers 2,000W per channel to power them, two CFX101s per amp channel. Another Ashly KLR-4000 powers four Renkus-Heinz CFX121M stage monitors (again, two per amp channel).
Cowboys Saloon’s dining and dancing area features four Renkus-Heinz CFX121 loudspeakers powered by a single Ashly KLR-3200 (1,600W per channel at two loudspeakers per amp channel), with low-end support from two Renkus-Heinz CFX12S subwoofers. A single Ashly KLR-2000 bridged mono powers them.
Six existing 8” two-way loudspeakers, powered by a single Ashly KLR-2000, cover the bar, with another Renkus-Heinz CFX12S subwoofer powered by one channel of an Ashly KLR-2000 amplifier. Its other channel powers yet another CFX12S subwoofer in the “audience area” of Cowboys Saloon.
Finally, an Ashly KLR-3200 powers four more Renkus-Heinz CFX121 loudspeakers in that same “audience area.”
A 24-channel digital mixing console with a digital snake serves as the main input to the system, with DSP support from a Symetrix Prism 16x16.
(Jim Evans)
