The projects have taken them to the commercial hub of Taksim, where the Levi's Store is based, across to Bagdat Street (on the Anatolian side) to the Nike Store, and finally to Levent, and the prestigious new Kanyon Shopping Mall which houses Harvey Nichols.
SF and its dealer companies maintain regular contact with the leading architectural and consulting companies in Turkey, such as Yalin Tan & Jeyan Ülkü, who handled the Levi's and Nike store projects. The Harvey Nichols project came via SF's dealer, S&S Music Company, with whom they have enjoyed an association extending back more than a decade.
While all the stores required a high-quality background music system, the Levi's Store also required a complete DJ set-up on the first floor, enabling them to co-ordinate with local radio station, Dinamo FM, on their music days.
"The ZonePRO 1260 provided more than an adequate solution for our signal processing and routing requirements in each case," says SF's Levent Ugural.
At Harvey Nichols the integrators have divided the three-floor building into 18 mono sound zones, deploying three ZonePRO 1260s to route the signal generated from a Solea music software working on an HP server with 2 x 4-port pro audio soundcards, providing eight different scheduled playlist outputs for the related zones.
Local source selection and volume control is provided by 18 dbx ZC-8 zone controllers (one in each zone), while both the Levi's and Nike stores are also respectively equipped with three and four ZC-8 wall panels.
Says Levent: "We have been able to place all the dynamic processing, with signal routing and zoning facilities, in a single ZonePRO 1260 to meet the needs of our customers. We have also been able to provide remote control panels, at the same time preventing unauthorised personnel from accessing the sound system."
(Jim Evans)
