A new development at King Abdullah Economic City in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Royal Greens Golf & Country Club offers a championship golf course whose clubhouse needed an audio system to satisfy the demands of a prestigious facility. As well as its golfing facilities, With the Red Sea coast as its backdrop, the venue is designed to appeal to golf connoisseurs and beginners alike, as well as to anyone looking for an ‘exclusive lifestyle experience’.
The audio system in the Royal Greens clubhouse had to match the high standard set throughout the complex. Zuhair Sarhani of Riyadh-based systems installer aDawliah Electronics Appliances discussed the project with Anubhav Khurana of Yamaha Music Gulf, and specified a system based on MTX series matrix processors, which was subsequently approved by the club’s main contractor, Al Hosseini Contracting & Al Maqbool Contracting.
The system covers the ground and first floors of the Royal Greens clubhouse and is divided into 13 zones. Managed by an MTX5-D and two MTX3 matrix processors, VXC6W full-range ceiling speakers are installed throughout both floors. Inputs to the system are from Yamaha BD-S477 Blu-ray players, T-S500 AM/FM tuners and SD card. The system is controlled by DCP1V4S surfacemount controllers, Wireless DCP IOS/Android app and iPads running Yamaha’s proprietary ProVisionaire Touch.
Calls to prayer are prioritised over all other input sources, managed by an Al- Harameen HA-4010 Azan clock, routed through the system’s priority input. The volume of all other sources is automatically muted when the call to prayer sounds.
‘By choosing a complete Yamaha system, we could provide the customer with the exceptional audio quality that a venue as prestigious as Royal Greens required,’ Sarhani says. ‘The MTX processors provided all the flexibility we needed and having the audio distribution and Blu-Ray/AM/FM equipment all made by Yamaha gave the client total confidence in the system’s performance.’
ProVisionaire Touch allowed aDawliah Electronics Appliances to provide a bespoke control solution for the system that, despite the system covering 13 zones, has made it very easy to control for clubhouse staff. Once the IT manager had been shown how to control the system, he was quickly and easily able to instruct the staff.
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