Even by Hong Kong’s leisure standards, its Clearwater Bay Golf & Country Club is out of the ordinary. The members’-only venue has an impressive technological infrastructure that has recently benefitted from the addition of high-end audio processing from a Symetrix Solus open-architecture DSP.
South China House of Technology (SCHOT) was enlisted to design and install the new processing, which was timed to coincide with a refurbishment and expansion of the main club house and restaurant areas.
The Solus DSP was supplied by regional distributor Soundclassy, whose director Chris Fung explains that the system had to fulfil several primary functions: ‘First of all, it had to be able to undertake standalone audio matrix and processing duties for the club house and restaurant areas,’ he says. ‘Second, it also needed to work seamlessly alongside the AMX A/V technology that is being used by the Clearwater Bay club to control lighting, video,etc. Plus it had to be easy to use by the personnel, with a minimum of specialist knowledge required.’
Providing the necessary input and output count (16-input/8-output), a sole Symetrix Solus 16 DSP provides the necessary processing. Symetrix ARC-2e wall-mount controls have also been installed for local control of basic parameters and presets. Meanwhile, the AMX NX-3200 NetLinx NX Integrated Controller is being used for more detailed adjustment of the venue’s audio and video systems.
‘Several factors convinced SCHOT to opt for Symetrix,’ Fung says. ‘The Symetrix brand is greatly respected, of course, and we were able to point to a number of other projects where the Solus had been used successfully. But they were also impressed by the good price/performance ratio of this DSP and, of course, the brilliant local support that Soundclassy can deliver.’
Axxent AX4120TS power amplifiers were among the other new equipment selected as part of the upgrade. Fung reports that the completed project has met with the full satisfaction of owners and staff: ‘They are very happy with the whole A/V system.’
