The new five-star Legend Palace Hotel in Macau offers more than rooms, six diverse restaurants, a conference centre, health and spa facilities, myriad recreational activities and views of Macau’s Pearl River. The sound system serving the Legend Palace uses 76 Ashly amplifiers (504 channels) powering 700 ceiling loudspeakers.

DC Systems Digital Communications Limited designed the sophisticated system to the exacting standards of the hotel. Although there are several zones (notably the conference centre) where DC Systems provided microphones and user-controlled auxiliary inputs, the system is largely a high-fidelity music playback system that sets the right atmosphere for the Legend Palace.

‘Meeting the standards of the Legend Palace and yet keeping the project on a reasonable budget was a value-engineering challenge for us,’ explains DC Systems Project Manager, TC Chiu. ‘Perfect fidelity was very important – the hotel did not want anything that would sound cheap. Because so many amplifier channels would be required, we also needed something that would be absolutely reliable.’

In total, the 100V distributed ceiling speaker zones feature 46 Ashly ne8250.10 eight-channel network amplifiers, 22 ne8250.10 four-channel 250W network amplifiers. Low-impedance loudspeakers are powered by four ne8250 amplifiers, and four nX1.54 four-channel 1.5kW multi-mode amplifiers. The amplifiers power 644 four-inch ceiling loudspeakers, four six-inch ceiling loudspeakers, and 62 eight-inch ceiling loudspeakers.

‘The Ashly-based system at Legend Palace Hotel is everything the client had hoped for,’ Chiu reports. ‘It is stable and reliable, giving 24/7 service – and the sound quality is excellent.’