Issue Eleven - Martin Audio

F12 ‘Chandelier’ in County Assembly
Mioli is the mountain county in central Taiwan, where 80% of
the population speaks Hakka.
The Mioli County Assembly has been renovated twice in last ten
years to correct extreme echo, reverberation and howling.
Taisheng Trading, Martin Audio’s Taiwan distributor, assisted the
sound contractor, Yangming Pro-audio Inc, of Taipei, to achieve
the best possible solution by flying a central speaker cluster with
eight Martin Blackline F12 enclosures, to provide the shortest
direct sound transmission (four of these are used by the
councillors and four by the county officers). A further 16 of
Martin Audio’s elegant C115 surface-mount loudspeakers have
been installed on the second floor, facing the audience. The
result is a smooth and clear sound, with both the chairman and
councillors expressing their satisfaction at the beautiful speaker
cluster ‘chandelier’.
Blackline in Taipei Stadium
Ceramic Speakers
Vichai Trading of Bangkok have hung a cluster of Blackline F12’s
and groundstacked S18 subs at the Dynasty Tyetop Company.
Although Dynasty are a ceramic manufacturer they needed a
separate space in which to entertain their own clients.
The size of the room is around 20m x 25m — which presents
little problem for the F12’s and S18’s — more than adequate to
reinforce a small band.
“We won this project because our competitors were unwilling
to arrange a speaker demonstration — or perhaps they were
simply too afraid to compete with Martin Audio,” reasons Vichai
Trading director, Suthichai Sopchokchai
Dynasty have a second Karaoke room at their facility, where they
now intend to reinvest by replacing their old unbranded
speakers.
Just 20 minutes south from central Taipei the 8,000-seat domed County
Stadium is now the most important event venue in northern Taiwan.
A new Blackline system has been installed by the local Kailay
Engineering Co., Ltd under the technical supervision of Taisheng Trading
Corporation, with acoustic analysis conducted by Peter Child, senior
application engineer at Martin Audio.
Four main clusters point north, south, east and west, from the huge
central LED screen gantry, with four H2’s and an S218 complemented
by two F15’s (underneath the cluster). Augmenting the clusters are a
total of 16 x H2’s, 16 x S218’s and eight F15’s. Providing the delays are
18 x F15’s (for the far rear surround seats), four F15’s (for north and
south) and five F15’s (for east and west).