L-Acoustics Syva installed in Marina Bay complex
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The 767sq.m Garden Ballroom hosts wedding banquets and corporate dining events and can also be partitioned into three separate rooms for seminars. Acoustic and audio-visual consultants CCW Associates were tasked with the technical specifications of the Garden Ballroom. Concealing all speakers at their installation points within the elegant interior design was an essential requirement.
CCW Associates invited Singapore-based L-Acoustics certified provider Concept Systems Technologies to participate in the project tender, based on its proven credentials in providing audio solutions to over 40 hospitality projects around the city island.
Gerald Fong, project and sales director at Concept Systems Technologies, explains that the system previously installed in the space had limited sound power and coverage ability. “A stereo pair of point source enclosures and 6.5-inch ceiling speakers had been distributed across the ballroom. Unfortunately, the technical limitations of the system prevented the team from being able to push the levels to their desire,” discloses Fong.
Fong and his team believed the low-profile design of the L-Acoustics Syva and coverage capability, augmented by the distribution of L-Acoustics 5XT would achieve achieve both power and discretion.
With full 140° of horizontal coverage, a single pair of L-Acoustics Syva, concealed on either side of the Garden Ballroom stage cover the 36m ballroom. A pair of Syva Low are embedded in the ceiling area close to the stage, and 18 compact 5XT speakers, again hidden in the ceiling architecture, are pointed down, offering full-range clarity to seated guests.
Six additional Syva Sub are hidden in the back and side ceiling area to provide clear low-end down to 27Hz. Two L-Acoustics LA4X and three L-Acoustics LA2Xi amplified controllers drive the system.
Fong continues, “The Syva system looks, sound and feels comfortable for guests who come here to celebrate some of life’s most momentous occasions. We have had event companies coming to this venue for set up, and when they recognise and hear the L-Acoustics Syva installed, they will promptly request to use the system for the event. I believe they are pleasantly surprised by a system that is well hidden in the beautiful interior design delivering pristine sound for their clients and guests.”
