SUWON, South Korea — The Suwon Outdoor Concert Hall (SOCH) was recently equipped with an Adamson sound system for its amphitheatre’s seated area by Kim Jin Yong, design team manager for Sound Solution, Adamson’s Korean distributor.
The SOCH was awarded the Korea Architecture Prize in 1996 and has hosted musicians including Pavarotti, Sumi Jo and Andrea Bocellini, among others. The concert hall is also home to the Suwon Metropolitan Symphony and the Suwon Metropolitan Choir.
The venue’s 796-capacity seating area is relatively small, but the venue is located in an oval park with lawns that can accommodate up to 15,000 additional spectators. The installed system was designed to cover beyond the permanent seated area, but not to be used as a full park system.
The initial design for the venue proved to be problematic due to the nature of the amphitheatre’s permanent roof, which is made from a tarp-like material. In windy conditions it creates some levels of uncontrollable noise, which could not be masked with the previous system’s coverage and output.
A line array system, however, can be more accurate and directional, and is also capable of producing significantly higher SPL than the previous install.
Mr. Kim’s design features a classical stereo design of left and right flown arrays made-up of a single double 18-inch cardioid SpekTrix Subs on top of each array with four 8.5-inch 5 degree SpekTrix enclosures hung below the bus, and two 8.5-inch 15 degree SpekTrix W (Wide Angle Vertical Enclosures) for front fills at the bottom of each array. Lab.gruppen C Series 48:4 and 68:4 amplifiers power the Adamson system.
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