The experience gained from daily rental work enabled them to undertake installations, while as a distributor "we have an input from the great technical support engineers of the manufacturers", according to owner Priit Kivimägi.
Among their suppliers is Powersoft, with whom they started working a little over a year ago, after placing an order for K Series amplifiers. They have gone further and invested in the Italian company's new X Series platform.
Kivimagi explains out how the relationship developed. "We had used another premier amplifier brand for a long time but had a chance to do a side-by-side comparison. Powersoft's wide model range covered our needs better and it was easier to find a perfect match for our EAW systems. On top of that, we just loved the sound of the Powersoft amps."
With three K10's installed per amp rack (and an option to add another one should it be necessary) Heliart could easily drive a smaller line array system with subwoofers from a single amp rack, and a rack per side to power EAW's KF730 line array system (with or without subs). Meanwhile, K3's are mainly used for mobile systems and monitor applications.
Then at Frankfurt Prolight+Sound last year Heliart's owner witnessed the spectacular launch of X Series. "We are always expanding and upgrading our inventory, and happy as we are with the current K Series, the new X Series had some really cool features. We placed our order for the X8 at the beginning of the season and have had a few months to play around with it."
By that, he means they have tested it "at numerous events in every possible way and mostly under heavy conditions." He says that of the toughest was an event where 10x EAW KF730 and four EAW SB2001 dual 21" subs were driven by a single X8. "And it turned out we could have accommodated at least two-to-four extra line array modules easily." The hardest task for the X8 so far has been to drive 12 EAW SB1000 dual 18 in subwoofers. "But once again the result was amazing."
In conclusion, Priit says, "Even though we will continue adding K10's to our inventory we see the X8's taking the lead role in the future."
(Jim Evans)
