If location is important to a leisure
venue's success, then you couldn't
do much better than owner Frank
Dwyer's latest New York City venture,
Legends 33.
The upscale sports bar and
restaurant faces the Empire State Building,
and customers dine to music from a
discretely distributed Renkus-Heinz loudspeaker
system.
Legends 33 – named for both its featured
sporting icons and its West 33rd Street location – is pitched at both the local office
lunch / dinner market and tourists looking
for a top quality all-American dining
experience.
It combines three floors of
plush, finely detailed old-world ambience
with the sports bar mix of screens showing
every available sports channel, along with
background music to accompany gourmet
burgers, steaks, pasta and traditional Irish
fish'n'chips. Meanwhile, a VJ booth on a
balcony level sets the party scene for Friday
and Saturday nights.
HIGH STANDARDS
The systems integrators were Starview
Satellite, which has been designing and
installing AV systems for Dwyer's locations
for some 10 years.
Starview President John
Paturno comments: "Frank is really happy
with the system here, and with Renkus-
Heinz equipment. He's knows exactly what
he wants to achieve with each location and
how to make it work."
Richard Trombitas, of Renkus-Heinz's
New York area rep firm Cardone Solomon
Associates, comments: "The sound system
had to provide high quality background and
foreground music, as well as serve video DJ
applications and live music – but without
intruding on the architecture of the space." |
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MULTIPLE SOURCES
Background sources during daytime are
typically iPod, video, satellite TV and satellite
music. along with the video DJ booth
and live band facilities.
A total of 14 wall-mounted TRX81 compact two-way cabinets, with 120 x
60 degree dispersion horns, are distributed
throughout the space, matched with
three BPS12-2 and a single BPS12-1 low
frequency cabinets.
The balcony bar housing the VJ booth
is covered by a pair of the higher powered TRX82/12 units while the basement level is
fitted with 14 compact CFX61 cabinets and
several flush-mounted ceiling subwoofers.
Trombitas comments: "This was the
first time Starview Satellite had utilized the
TRX61 as a distributed speaker. They were
very impressed and want to feature them
in future installations."
Powering the entire
system is a basement-located rack of QSC
I
RMX4050 amplifiers with a minimum power
of 300W RMS allocated to each speaker.
"Since it opened the place has done
fantastic business," says John Paturno,
"and they've been overwhelmed at the
response. The system delivers as designed
and the client, video DJs and everyone have
been very happy with it." |
