professional range catalogue - Tannoy

Applications
Project: ARC Pavilion
Location: University of California Davis Campus
Type: Sports arena
Obsessive about dance music
Whilst many consider the likes of Berlin, London and Ibiza to be the
clubbing hubs of Europe, on the continent’s often overlooked peripheries,
there are some surprisingly high-end venues being created. One such venue
is Obsession, located in the Transylvanian town of Cluj-Napoca. Obsession
is a subterranean club entered via a long golden passageway leading directly
into the main room. Here interior designers Indestudio have created an
intimate space that mixes shiny onyx-black, gold-leaf and cut glass. SGM
Idea Series moving heads provide the main dancefloor action while LED
cove lighting and illuminated panels allow the Obsession team to subtly alter
the club’s identity from one night to the next. It is the sound system,
however, of which the club is most proud.
The launch of the VQ series in 2008 marked Tannoy’s re-entrance into the
high energy large scale club market. Whilst it has already been used to great
effect in a number of venues (such as Es Paradis in Ibiza), the system at
Obsession is by far the most impressive yet. The main room features a
stunning eight Tannoy VQ 60s - full range, three-way loudspeakers offering
very high output capability with class leading pattern control. With low
frequency extension to 90 Hz, the VQ 60 can be combined with various
subwoofers for extended bandwidth and in the case of Obsession, eight
Tannoy VS 218DR were placed around the room. Each VS 218DR
subwoofers comprise twin 458 mm (18”) high efficiency drive units producing
106 dB (1W), with a 100 mm (4”) voice coil. Even the DJ booth has a high
quality sound in the form of two Tannoy IQ10s.
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Stadium sound quality for Californian University sports arena
Ranked as one of the largest on-campus arenas in Northern California, the
ARC Pavilion is an integral part of campus life for UC Davis’students, and
hosts basketball games and other sporting events, as well the school’s
annual commencement ceremonies. But although the roughly 8000capacity
facility was plenty big enough for any event UC Davis held in it, the
sound provided by its pre-existing audio system wasn’t.
Where the previous rig relied heavily on a central cluster of speakers, a
newly installed Tannoy VQ system is distributed throughout the entire venue
in a series of twelve clusters: Four distributed equally along each of the
longer east and west sides of the arena – one Tannoy VQ DF apiece in the
two inner clusters and one VQ DF and two VQ MB’s at each corner –
Identical coverage of the north and south bleachers was provided by two
more VQ DF’s, one mounted above each end of the court, with additional
sound reinforcement for the players – and for events in which only the floor
of the arena is seated – provided by way of two Tannoy V12 HP’s set
midway between the inner and outer east/west clusters along the court’s
centre line. The ability to control and mute individual zones enhances
intelligibility further, particularly during events where only a portion of the
venue is in play. “Intelligibility goes way up because you’re not bouncing all
that extra sound around.”, explained Ian Hunter of AV design firm Shalleck
Collaborative Inc., describing the Tannoy VQ’s pattern control as “amazing”.
Project: Obsession
Location: Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Type: High energy dance club