Powersoft powers PA at Anjuman El-Saifee centre
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The Dawoodi Bohra community spent years fundraising, planning and preparing to build the Community Centre comprising a mosque, evening school and sports hall – and as with any House of Worship, it would require a robust AV system so that the imams and speakers could clearly project their message to the audience.
Pete Rutherford owns and runs Direct Audio Visual, which was engaged as AV integrator for the project. With a background in retail, corporate and warehouses, this House of Worship project was a departure for Rutherford and his team. “With the layout and events that were to be run in the Centre, it required installed equipment run as a live event - like trying to equip a nightclub venue with the what you would put in a retail environment - two different worlds meeting,” he said.
Sourcing the right equipment quickly was key to the success of the installation, and Rutherford turned to Powersoft’s Ottocanali 4K4 amp to power the Pan Acoustics steerable array and Audac loudspeakers fitted into the ceiling. Mipro microphones were installed where the imams sit and an Attero Tech Dante-networked audio interface.
“We’ve been working with Powersoft amplifiers for the last two and a half years on various different projects and I put them in whenever I get the chance. I’d also previously worked with the Powersoft Ottocanali before in distribution centres which have requirements that are similar to this environment, and found it very effective and been impressed by its efficiency. I’ve never had any problems with it reliability-wise” Rutherford expands. “In my books, Powersoft are just really good at what they do.”
Marc Kocks, business development manager for the EMEA fixed install market at Powersoft, comments: “We’ve steadily built our credentials in the House of Worship sector, where intelligibility is understandably high on the list of priorities when it comes to the audio set up. The Ottocanali 4K4 addresses the challenges of amplifying in a House of Worship environment, where sound distribution must be uniform, easy to control and reliable. It provides clarity throughout the dynamic range, whether it be speech or music reproduction - in a sonically-unforgiving venue with high ceilings and highly reflective surfaces.”
(Jim Evans)
