Over the past 85 years, the LA Coliseum has hosted the Olympics games twice, and is the only venue to stage both a World Series and two Super Bowls, as well as countless sports games, concerts and other events. Jon Lee, director of marketing of the LA Coliseum, reports that the Meyer Sound installation has made a dramatic improvement on the audience experience at the stadium.
"It's hard to overstate what a difference this new sound system makes," says Lee. "Spoken announcements are more intelligible; music is more powerful. The fans in the seats have a feeling of really being in touch with what's happening on the field."
Hugh O'Donovan of South San Francisco-based McCune Sound - the provider of the sound system - finds that the SB-3F is the ideal choice for this application, with the end of the stadium 1,000ft from the audio system. "The Coliseum is a difficult venue due to its sheer size," says O'Donovan. "The seating is a relatively shallow rake, so the farthest seats are quite a distance from the sound source. The SB-3F is really the only solution for a challenge like this-it projects the sound a phenomenal distance without any loss in intelligibility."
(Jim Evans)
