Jungla is a modern and spacious new restaurant located within Gdańsk’s Forum shopping centre, offering tropical décor, a breath-taking view of the city, and a sound system that serves both the restaurant and cocktail bar, as well as live bands.
Offstage designed and installed the sound system, with owner Przemysław Waszkiewicz working with closely Patryk Kozak from Sound Service, who assisted in tuning the system. Together, they have created a system using Turbosound, Klark Teknik and Powersoft products, supplied by Poland-based distributor SoundTrade.
Waszkiewicz explained that part of designing the audio system was optimising costs and energy consumption, as it would be in everyday use. ‘The Klark Teknik DM8000 processor sends signals to the Turbosound iQ12 PA via the Ultranet protocol, which has simplified wiring and bypassed all unnecessary signal conversions to analogue. With this, Turbosound iQ12 was the choice that optimised costs.’
‘For energy efficiency, we turned to Powersoft’s Duecanali and the Ottocanali amplifiers – Powersoft offers very energy-efficient amplifiers, in which losses are minimised with power stages working in the efficient class-D. While primarily the choice of Powersoft was determined by the energy efficiency of the products, it was also the flexibility of the product that really drew us to it.’
The Ottocanali amplifier, named after the eight channels it supplies, allowed the sound system to be divided into zones within the club. The ceiling speakers that comprise one of the zone required 100V line operation, which was provided by an optional plug in BatFormer Powersoft created for the Ottocanali. BatFormers are inserted into the amplifier chassis through a dedicated lid, allowing the conversion of single channels, or all, into 70V or 100V output.
‘Thanks to the BatFormer transformer option, it wasn’t necessary to add another amplifier to this line, which saved on cost. The potential contained in a single rack space is quite phenomenal, honestly,’ Waszkiewicz says. ‘I consider Powersoft amplifiers, especially the new X and T Series, to be the most universal tool on the market. They have been designed with a library of presets for a wide range of popular speaker sets.’
Waszkiewicz believes that there’s potential for the X and T Series, the latter of which was released last year. Both Series were created with touring and sound system installations in mind and are designed to be flexible solutions with loudspeaker management. All models of the T Series deliver the same high peak voltage for projects that require sharing power between several channels. The X Series boasts a single lightweight unit that provides loudspeaker management, with all signal processing functions included.
‘ArmoníaPlus software provides to a system engineer the comfort of almost total control over his work, allowing a very efficient tuning process, even with quite extensive configurations,’ Waszkiewicz says. ‘Overall, we felt the product was a huge success, and we know we can always rely on Powersoft’s incredible products and support throughout the installations we’re part of.’
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