But the team achieved more than outstanding sound quality for the 63,000-seat stadium with the design; they are also saving the owners upwards of $100 million over comparable projects of this size and scope, according to Pro Sound's president, Rod Sintow: "The simple fact that Meyer Sound equipment is self-powered enables us to accelerate our installation schedule by 12 weeks," says Sintow. "The UPA-1Ps were installed in eight days. If we'd done that with unpowered speakers, that alone would have taken about six weeks."
The Meyer Sound system includes 70 MILO high-power curvilinear array loudspeakers and 84 UPA-1P compact wide coverage loudspeakers, which according to Sintow, "simply disappear into the ceiling." Performance of the system can be checked at any time with a glance at Meyer Sound's RMS remote monitoring system.
The installation will be completed in July 2006, with the stadium's opening slated for August.
(Lee Baldock)
