The Council of Europe has equipped its primary Strasbourg council chamber with a double cluster of Nexo Geo loudspeakers, in order to relay its debating sessions.
Not to be confused with the EU, the Conseil d’Europe is primarily concerned with ensuring legal and cultural cooperation between the 47 countries of Europe, with responsibility for human rights and democratic development. Under the famous blue flag with its 12 stars, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe uses the large debating chamber in the centre of the Palace of Europe, called the Hemicycle, noted for its unusual architecture.
This auditorium has been fitted with a substantial Nexo Geo-S8 speech reinforcement system by installation company Lagoona – meeting the tender process’ criteria for speech intelligibility and uniform sound coverage throughout the chamber. Lagoona’s system design was verified by NS-1 software models predicting the Geo-S8’s performance.
Luxembourg-based Lagoona has been working with the institutions of Europe for many years, and has previously equipped EC facilities with Nexo PS8s. Having won the tender for the main council chamber, the Lagoona team undertook the installation – which included PS10 and PS8 cabinets – in a very short time-frame. With its low visual profile, the central cluster of Geo-S8 has been praised by council staff, who say that Lagoona and Nexo have given ‘a new voice to Europe’.
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