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Life Co. Chester
Outdoor audio
that doesn't stop at the door.
Distributed outdoor audio designed to follow people through Life Co's walkways and gathering spaces at an even, comfortable level.
View the project- Location
- Chester, Virginia
- Project type
- Outdoor audio upgrade
- Environment
- Campus exterior
- Disciplines
- Audio / Network / Control
Outdoor coverage
One loud speaker is not coverage.
Outdoor audio usually fails at one of two extremes: too quiet at the edges or painfully loud near the source. Life Co needed music and announcements to extend across the campus without turning the entrance into the loudest place outside.
Six points. One continuous campus.
Smaller sources spread along the building carry sound farther at a lower local level. The result is coverage that follows the path instead of shouting from one doorway.
06networked loudspeakers
- Format
- 8-inch / two-way
- Transport
- Dante / STNet
- Weather
- Weather Extreme
- Finish
- Black / surface mount
Networked audio
Attach to the building. Address on the network.
The exterior loudspeakers are weather-ready endpoints, not a separate consumer system. Dante and SoundTube's network infrastructure let Qohr integrate, program, and control the outdoor zones from the church's existing audio environment.
- Loudspeaker
- SoundTube IPD-SM82-EZ-II-WX
- Network
- SoundTube STNet Switch II
- Coverage logic
- Distributed / moderate level
- Commissioning
- Program / tune / train
The system reveals itself one path at a time.
Coverage continues along the façade and around the corner, keeping the listening experience consistent as people move through the property.
Continue around the corner.
Outside the sanctuary. Inside the same system.
The project combines weather-rated loudspeakers, network audio, installation, programming, tuning, and training as one usable exterior extension.
Distributed coverage
Six smaller loudspeaker locations carry music and announcements across walkways and gathering areas without forcing one source to overpower the entrance.
Weather-ready hardware
Black SoundTube IPD-SM82-EZ-II-WX speakers use an 8-inch, two-way format built for exposed exterior conditions.
Networked audio
Dante-enabled endpoints and a SoundTube STNet Switch II connect the exterior system cleanly to the church's existing audio infrastructure.
Commissioning
Qohr programmed and tuned the system for comfortable day-to-day operation, then trained the Life Co team on control.
Comfortable everywhere. Overpowering nowhere.
Music and announcements now follow people through the campus without dead zones at the edges or one painfully loud source at the door.
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