Meyer Sound\u2019s new ULTRA-X40 speaker signs its largest permanent installation at the Austria Center Vienna so far<\/strong><\/p>\n Located adjacent to the United Nations<\/strong> headquarters complex in Austria<\/strong>\u2019s capital city, Austria Center Vienna (ACV)<\/strong><\/a> is an expansive conference and exhibition facility offering 24<\/strong> presentation halls for 100<\/strong> to 4.320<\/strong> participants along with 180<\/strong> smaller meeting rooms and 22.000<\/strong> square meters of exhibition space. Over the past year, Austria Center Vienna<\/strong><\/a> overhauled the audio systems in eight of the largest halls, replacing aging conventional loudspeaker systems with new Meyer Sound<\/strong><\/a> self-powered systems based on LINA line array<\/strong><\/a> and the new ULTRA-X40<\/strong><\/a> point source loudspeakers supplied by ATEC Pro Audio<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The premier showcase systems are in ACV<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s three largest halls, A<\/strong>, B<\/strong> and C<\/strong>, which have moveable walls which close to partition halls as separate spaces or open to join two or three together for maximum seating of over 4.300.<\/strong> The largest, hall A<\/strong>, deploys left and right arrays of 13 each LINA<\/a><\/strong> loudspeakers with a center array of six LINA<\/strong><\/a> loudspeakers. To ensure clear line of sight for video projectors, the six 750-LFC<\/strong><\/a> low frequency control elements are flown as dual cardioid arrays in a horizontal configuration using custom mounting frames. Six additional 750-LFC<\/strong><\/a> elements are available for ground stacking if needed. Four ULTRA-X40<\/strong><\/a> loudspeakers serve as in fill and flown stage monitors, with eight UPM-1P<\/strong><\/a> compact loudspeakers available for stage front fill. <\/p>\n Austria Center Vienna<\/strong><\/a> claims the first and largest permanent installation to date of the new ULTRA-X40<\/strong><\/a> point source loudspeakers, which had not yet been released until most of the planning was complete. ULTRA-X40<\/strong><\/a> loudspeakers are the foundation of systems in four of the mid-size halls (E<\/strong>, F<\/strong>, G<\/strong> and K<\/strong>), with four of the loudspeakers as mains in each. <\/p>\n As for the ULTRA-X40<\/strong><\/a> speakers, Ronald Wittenberg, ACV<\/a> deputy head of event management and supervisor of staff technicians<\/strong>, notes: \u201cI first heard ULTRA-X40<\/strong><\/a> at ISE<\/strong> in Amsterdam and I was immediately impressed. I asked if it would be possible to replace some other planned speakers with ULTRA-X40<\/strong><\/a> and fortunately the production models became available in time to do so.\u201d
\nThe systems for halls B<\/strong> and C<\/strong> are identical, each with dual arrays of six each LINA<\/strong><\/a> loudspeakers at left and right. The single ULTRA-X40<\/strong><\/a> center loudspeaker is suspended on a custom mount. For quick, seamless and reliable room combining, there are four AVB-networked Galileo GALAXY 816<\/a><\/strong> processors in hall A<\/strong> and one each in B<\/strong> and C<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWe did have significant weight restrictions on a truss for the main stage, which allowed only 500<\/strong> kilograms at three points for audio and lighting\u201d, said ATEC Pro<\/a> managing director Manfred Prochazka<\/strong>. \u201cBut this was not a problem with LINA<\/strong><\/a>. The slender and unobtrusive profile of the LINA arrays<\/strong><\/a> was another big plus.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nManfred Prochazka<\/strong> concludes: \u201cBy placing the three larger rooms on an AVB network<\/strong> we were able to offer a very cost-efficient and fail-safe solution. If one connection fails, the other takes over immediately and automatically. Also, we put the RMS Servers<\/strong> on the same network infrastructure for comprehensive monitoring and control of each individual loudspeaker.\u201d<\/p>\n