The recently opened headquarters of one of Asia’s largest power companies in the South Korean city of Gyeongju includes a large auditorium, a number of conferencing rooms and even an outdoors sports arena. Demonstrating that even the largest projects are not immune from familiar problems, it encountered acoustic issues…
‘Previously, the company had encountered a problem with the pubic address system for its employee apartments,’ explains DK Vascom’s Patrick Han. ‘They couldn’t solve it but Sein Co Ltd, our local partner in Gyeongsang province, looked at the issue and fixed it immediately using Renkus-Heinz loudspeakers. Since then the supervisors have recommended Sein and Renkus-Heinz to everyone.’
Opened at the beginning of 2016, the headquarters’ construction saw Sein brought in, with company owner Munbum Kim taking a direct interest in the design of the high-profile project. Working with him was project manager Jinwoo Park, while Chansun Choi from DK Vascom offered support throughout the construction. Towards the end of 2015, the team encountered the promlems.
‘We were scheduled to undertake the installation and tuning after the interiors and electrics were completed, but it was decided that the project had to be completed much sooner than originally planned,’ recalls Han.
The auditorium’s balcony was unusually high, meaning the first four rows of second-tier seating were not covered. It was the kind of problem that could have set back many projects with such tight timeframes, yet through the use of Rhaon software, only four hours were required to reconfigure and recalibrate the Renkus-Heinz solution.
Main front of house reinforcement within the auditorium is now handled by 22 active PN102LA series line arrays modules with low-end support delivered by four CFX15S subwoofers. Eighteen TRX61 two-way enclosures, equipped with 6.5-inch LF drivers, provide additional coverage, alongside eight TRX81 enclosures, loaded with 8-inch woofers. Four TRX82 models complete the auditorium system, with mixing via a Midas M32 digital console.
Elsewhere in the complex, the facility’s four conferencing rooms are served by pairs of TRX82 enclosures, but here a high ceiling within the largest of the four caused reverberation issues. DK Vascom and Sein have once again demonstrated a unique solution in the shape of IC8 digitally steerable Iconyx columns. Finally, the facility’s outdoor sports arena offered another opportunity to impress, when an unexpected rainstorm proved the water-resistant credentials of the two TRX 81/9W and four TRX121/9 enclosures that serve the area.
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