Legends 33 - named for both its featured sporting icons and its West 33rd Street location - is pitched at both the local office lunch / dinner market and tourists looking for a top quality all-American dining experience. It combines three floors of finely detailed old-world ambience with the sports bar mix of screens showing every available sports channel, along with background music to accompany gourmet burgers, steaks, pasta and traditional Irish fish'n'chips. Meanwhile, a VJ booth on a balcony level sets the party scene for Friday and Saturday nights.
The systems integrators were Starview Satellite, which has been designing and installing AV systems for Dwyer's locations for some 10 years. Starview president John Paturno comments, "Frank is really happy with the system here, and with Renkus-Heinz equipment. He's knows exactly what he wants to achieve with each location and how to make it work."
Richard Trombitas, of Renkus-Heinz's New York area rep firm Cardone Solomon Associates, comments, "The sound system had to provide high quality background and foreground music, as well as serve video DJ applications and live music - but without intruding on the architecture of the space."
To deliver the right sonic ambience the firm specified a substantial distributed audio system, designed, Paturno says, "to create high quality background music during the day, but capable of really moving the house when the VJ's playing and the place is rocking at weekends".
Background sources during daytime are typically iPod, video, satellite TV and satellite music. along with the video DJ booth and live band facilities.
A total of 14 wall-mounted TRX81 compact two-way cabinets, with 120 x 60 degree dispersion horns, are distributed throughout the space, matched with three BPS/12-2 and a single BPS/12-1 low frequency cabinets.
The balcony bar housing the VJ booth is covered by a pair of the higher powered TRX-82/12 units while the basement level is fitted with 14 compact CFX-61 cabinets and several flush-mounted ceiling subwoofers.
"Since it opened the place has done fantastic business," says John Paturno, "and they've been overwhelmed at the response. The system delivers as designed and the client, video DJs and everyone have been very happy with it."
(Jim Evans)
