D.A.S: A Sound Bet for Royal Ascot.

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Andy Wood Jul 21 2008, 9:00am

Spanish audio systems in use at world famous horse racing event

Royal Ascot, one of horse racing’s most prestigious meetings took place in the UK during late June, with some of the exhastive sound reinforcement system utilising products from Spanish firm D.A.S. Audio in the VIP and Silver Ring areas.

The systems were specified by UK installation specialists SYSCO following discussions with Roland Hemming, an audio consultant contracted by Sennheiser UK, the D.A.S. distributor in the UK. In addition, Jack Palacio, D.A.S. export director and Eva Argandoña, sound engineer and project designer, travelled from Valencia to Berkshire to verify the system’s performance in person.

The VIP area saw 44 Arco 24T two-way speaker units installed in the horizontal position, and were used to provide audio for the A/V equipment throughout the zone.

In the Silver Ring, SYSCO Director Hugo Roche and Associate Director Glyn Hughes acted on Hemming's recommendation and utilised an Aero 38A powered line array systems.

Fourteen powered D.A.S. Aero 38A modules were flown in the Silver Ring public enclosure, with the line array modules accompanied by a D.A.S. DSP-26 digital signal processor that provided crossover, equaliser, limiter and delay unit functions, enabling SYSCO’s engineers to make the required delay adjustments.

"Expectations were fully met,” commented Argandoña who used the Ease Focus simulation program to design the project, “300 meters in the Silver Ring were covered with high intelligibility. The message must be clear and precise for these types of events, and it was through Royal Ascot’s four days of racing."

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