The Palacio de los Deportes is one of the reference fields of Spanish basketball. It is the home of Unicaja Málaga Team (League Champion in 2006, Cup Champion in 2005 and 3rd in Euroliga in 2007).
The stadium owners decided that whilst expanding the stadium to more than 11,000 seats, which is an audience area of over 5,500m2, they would resolve the historic issue of poor intelligibility (0.44 STI) with the PA system.
Genuix Audio's technical team supported by Duran Audio Iberia, opted for a centralised sound system, one focussed around the score board. Using four AXYS DS1608 which not only have the ability to offer over 98dB (continuous) evenly across a range of over 50m, but also allow for preset programming that allows the stadiums sound system to be reconfigured quickly for a variety of uses, such as live performances, tennis matches, motocross, etc which are also staged at the venue.
The Digital Directivity Control of the Intellivox loudspeakers is a real advantage since the sound emission patterns can be adapted for each of the shows based on the audience areas and the position of the video scoreboard.
Despite having a reverberation time (T60) at the Palacio of around three seconds. The new system has achieved an intelligibility level of over 0.56 STI at a level around 94dB.
(Jim Evans)
