To keep up with its international standing, the Stade Toulousain recently underwent a complete technical upgrade for its stadium. With the passing of time, new security /evacuation standards such as EN54-24 had been introduced and digital signal transport protocols streamlined with the introduction of Dante by Audinate.
The club approached local audio visual installation company Triaxe with whom they had worked, previously for a screen solution deployment - and the integration company embarked on a mission to find the best solution for the best value. The decision was for an advanced Powersoft Ottocanali system to power a D.A.S. stadium speaker system.
Christophe Carles, technical director of Axente, who distribute both Powersoft and D.A.S. Audio, first modleled the stadium using EASE predictive and visualization software.
Working with Axente, Triaxe has designed a cost-effective and economic PA system in which five of Powersoft's increasingly popular eight-channel Ottocanali 8K4 drive 76 D.A.S. Audio WR8826 DX IP65-rated 80° x 80° dispersion loudspeakers.
The Ottocanali 8K4 outputs 1,000W per channel into 4 ohms (600W into 8 ohms) and the sound is processed through D.A.S. Audio's DSP-2060A processing.
Housing two 6" drivers, the speakers are hung in clusters of two - one enclosure pointing back at the upper tier and the other for the lower stand. These are mounted around the lip of the stadium roofs while in both corners of the 'C'-shaped stands there is an additional cluster of three speakers.
The sound was zoned using a pair of Yamaha matrix devices, which managed the routing over several protocols including Dante
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