Changwon pumps up the crowd with JBL
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Changwon NC Park is a 22,000-seat baseball stadium which opened in 2019, replacing Masan Stadium as the home of the NC Dinos professional baseball team. The stadium features four tiers of seating that curve around home plate, leaving the outfield side open to the air.
To deliver premium sound across every seat while minimizing sound leakage to neighbouring residential and commercial areas, Changwon NC Park required an ultra-focused, efficient and highly scalable sound system. To achieve the client’s goals, TechData designed and installed an extensive Harman networked audio system featuring JBL loudspeakers, Crown amplifiers, Soundcraft mixing consoles and BSS signal processors.
“Since the stadium hosts highly competitive baseball matches, the client needed a sound system that could not only ensure even distribution of sound throughout the stadium, but also contain the sound within the stadium - a critical requirement due to the proximity of residential areas,” says Seung Duk Seo, technical manager at TechData Co. “The stadium also needed something slim and inconspicuous to install, so JBL Intellivox series speakers fit the bill. As a result, perfectly horizontal coverage control provides sound to where it is needed, but also reduces leakage of noise outside of the stadium.”
To ensure even sound coverage throughout the seating areas with minimal spill and wasted energy, TechData selected JBL Intellivox HP-DS370 active beam shaping column loudspeakers. TechData also deployed JBL AWC82 compact two-way loudspeakers to supplement the main speaker arrays, as well as ASB6125-WRX dual 15-inch subwoofers to provide full low-end energy.
Crown DriveCore Install and I-Tech Series amplifiers provide ample power for the extensive loudspeaker system, with network connectivity via BlueLink and HiQNet.
Soundcraft Si Impact and Vi2000 mixing consoles provide enough inputs and powerful DSP for the complex mixes required for games and events. Intuitive features like Faderglow technology and the Vi2000’s hands-on Vistonics interface streamline complex mixing tasks, increasing efficiency.
The entire audio system is seamlessly connected via a digital network of BSS signal processors.
(Jim Evans)
