Two fully-weatherized Danley OS-90 full-range loudspeakers and two fully-weatherized Danley OS-115 subwoofer powered by two Danley DLA7500 processor/amps give DCHS high-fidelity sound in rain, snow, or blazing heat.
"Despite all of the excitement at Douglas County, their old sound system was pretty weak when it went in and only got worse over time," said Jeff Brotherston, chief design engineer at AV Colorado, the company that designed and installed the new Danley system.
"Intelligibility was poor, and support for music wasn't really there. They were motivated to improve the system, but their budget was tight. We looked at their situation a couple of times from every angle, and one of the things that kept blowing the budget was a lack of poles on which to mount loudspeakers. We came up with the idea of mounting the Danley boxes directly on the press box. It was a little counterintuitive to place the loudspeakers behind the listeners, but it had the benefit of a nice, short distance between the loudspeakers and most listeners, plus minimal added cost to get them in the air."
AV Colorado built custom rigging for the Danley OS-90s, which were mounted on opposite sides of the press box to cover both halves of the bleachers and field, and for the Danley OS-115 subwoofer, which was mounted below each OS-90 on the sides. "We could have used an off-the-shelf product, but it was more cost-effective to build our own," said Brotherston. Together with the truly weatherproof Danley boxes, which are compact and low-profile, Douglas County's new system is ready for anything."
(Jim Evans)
