Gauteng-based Surgesound has carried out its first installation project for the Rhapsody’s bar/restaurant chain in Hatfield, Pretoria, where it has installed eight EAW SMS5 loudspeakers and a Powersoft Ottocanali 4K4 DSP+Dante amplifier.
The system serves four areas inside the main restaurant area. ‘From a system design perspective, we needed high fidelity audio and control throughout the different areas of the restaurant,’ Product Manager, Ruan Joubert. ‘The Powersoft Ottocanali DSP was the ultimate all-in-one solution for the job.’
The distributors had been introduced to the client through one of a rental company partnes that looks after the nearby venue and is iself a Powersoft X4 and EAW JFL Series user. The operators were seeking a system that could accommodate standard playback of background music and televised sport, but equally be able to accommodate a low-key DJ set-up or one-man-band plug-in. Surgesound responded by supplying three auxiliary plug-in points.
The Ottocanali 4K4 DSP+D offers a wide range of system control and monitoring functions as well as sound shaping options, a total of 4kW output power at 4Ω over eight channels for lo-Z or distributed line systems. And with two redundant Dante digital streams, the Ottocanali 4K4 DSP+D will fit any venue as ‘stand-alone’ unit, making it ideal for multi-zone applications such as this.
In Pretoria, in addition to the SMS5, including two 10-inch loudspeakers installed in the mezzanine/smoking area, three EAW SMS4 loudspeakers are installed in two outside areas. An FBT MMZ8004s Zone Control unit provides the client with an uncomplicated signal management solution.
‘We are conistently impressed with the combination of EAW and Powersoft,’ Joubert says. ‘Even in an unassuming project like a restaurant, the sound quality and performance is everything we expected and more. The client was also impressed with the coverage of the different areas and the overall sound quality.’
