504 ASHLY AMP CHANNELS IN LEGEND PALACE HOTEL
11 May 2017
The Legend Palace Hotel is a new five-star hotel in China’s lavish and densely-populated city, Macau. The hotel offers over 200 posh rooms, six diverse restaurants, a conference centre, health and spa facilities, a myriad of recreational activities, and breathtaking views of Macau’s famous Pearl River. The sound system that supports the Legend Palace relies on 76 Ashly amplifiers with 504 separate channels powering 700 ceiling loudspeakers.
DC Systems Digital Communications Ltd designed the sophisticated system to the exacting standards of the hotel. Although there are several zones (notably the conference centre) where DC Systems provided microphones and user-controlled auxiliary inputs, the system is largely a high-fidelity music playback system that sets the right atmosphere for the Legend Palace.
“Meeting the high standards of the Legend Palace and yet keeping the project on a reasonable budget was a value-engineering challenge for us,” explained TC Chiu, project manager with DC Systems. “Perfect fidelity was very important; the hotel did not want anything that would sound cheap. Because so many amplifier channels would be required, we also needed something that would be absolutely reliable. Ashly was a natural choice. Ashly’s products sound great and work reliably right out of the box.”
In total, the 100V distributed ceiling speaker zones feature 46 x Ashly ne8250. 10 x eight-channel network amplifiers and 22 x ne8250.10 four-channel 250W network amplifiers. Low impedance loudspeakers are powered by 4 x ne8250 amplifiers and 4 x nX1.54 four-channel 1500W multi-mode amplifiers. The amplifiers power 644 four-inch ceiling loudspeakers, four six-inch ceiling loudspeakers, and 62 eight-inch ceiling loudspeakers.
“The Ashly-based system at Legend Palace Hotel is everything the client had hoped for,” Chiu said. “It is stable and reliable, 24/7 services and the sound quality is excellent.”
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