Design & Installation

University of Wisconsin basketball arena has been decked with 20 x dBTechnologies Arena 15 loudspeakers, which managed to overcome the foibles of a room with a broad range of applications. Beside sporting events, Quandt Fieldhouse in Stevens Point is also the venue for ‘commencement’ ceremonies and hosts a multitude of concerts and assemblies, asking a lot of the sound system – and the design/build team!

Brian Baumann and Kent Laabs of Soundworks Systems Inc. handled the design and installation. They explain, “The audio system needed to be capable of high SPL’s for UWSP Pointer basketball games and other athletic events. It needed to be capable of clear music reproduction whilst maintaining high speech intelligibility for both low and high SPL events.  On top of all that, budget was a factor.

“The room itself presented acoustic challenges which included its mezzanine type area with tiered seating and a plexi-glass-faced guard rail system. We divided the room into 8 zones in order to accommodate the permanent seating, temporary bleachers and floor seating with delay and zone presets.”

Baumann continues, “Rotatable horns, M10 rigging points and their lightweight design made them very easy to install from the structure steel. When it came time to tune the system, we were again amazed at their smooth and articulate response without processing. Final tuning of the system was a breeze.  Now that the system is in and has been used for many athletic events and winter commencement ceremonies, it only confirms that our choice in loudspeakers was spot on and consistent with the high level of quality that our reputation is built upon.”

“We have years of experience in the pro audio field, and the dBTechnologies loudspeakers are impressive,” Baumann adds, who has since spec’d more Arena 15s in a local elementary school gymnasium. “I don’t think the performance of these boxes can be beat at their price point.”

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