Malmö's Europaporten is home to one of Sweden's largest Pentacostal congregations, but its spacious modern auditorium is also a popular venue for conferences, live music performances and corporate meetings. Its search for a new and versatile sound reinforcement system led to the consideration of several blue-chip brands, and the contract was awarded to Nexo after a series of on-site demonstrations.
"We prepared very well, studying the room's characteristics carefully and staging a very successful demo which showed off the Geo S12's strengths of audio quality and coverage," says Per olof Ljungmark from Nexo importer Intersonic and local installation company Art Electronik, who identified a perfect match between the venue's requirements and Nexo's latest cabinet designs, the S12 line array modules and the RS15 sub-bass units.
"The Geo S12 provides fantastic coverage in this auditorium, which is wide rather than deep. We are able to provide the best coverage with just 10 S12 cabinets, whereas many other manufacturers would have to use more boxes to achieve the same results, inevitably pushing up the price. This makes Geo S12 very affordable."
Art Electronik has come up with a stereo solution for the hall, using two clusters of five S1230 loudspeakers, arrayed horizontally and finished in white. Using Nexo's new RS15 subs, which are flown above the acoustic panels in the Europaporten's ceiling, further reduced the visual impact of the sound equipment. "There are six RS15s installed, in groups of three, in the ceiling for reasons of aesthetics and convenience," continues Ljungmark. "The RS15s are operating in directional mode, which means that much less bass appears on the stage compared to a regular sub."
The system controllers are Nexo's NX242-ES4 units, and the amplification uses models from all three of CAMCO's current ranges, Vortex, Tecton and Q10. For the frequent live music performances staged by the Church and by some of the commercial users of the venue, Intersonic has also supplied a six-way Nexo PS15 stage monitor system.
(Jim Evans)
