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“The toughest thing in doing a system like this is waiting for feedback from the public. And there’s been no feedback at all, which is precisely the response we were hoping for.”
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"The IC Live is great for installation in very tall rooms, where hanging or rigging is next to impossible," says Reeves. "It's ideal for large venues where we need a long-throw system but can't use a line array. The visual footprint, the ground support aspects, the ability to program the unit to cover different spaces - all these aspects make IC Live an ideal tool for so many of our projects."
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“They didn’t like the idea of a large cluster or line array. The Iconyx blends into the architecture so well, they’re practically invisible.” Badamo reports the new system has impressed congregation and pastors alike. “People are saying that for the first time in years, they can actually hear every word.”
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"I love the fact that Renkus-Heinz, as an American company, is so accessible," he says. "I can call them and speak directly to Ralph with an idea for a product or an improvement, and they have the passion to try and make it work. How many companies can you call and get through to one of the guys whose name is on the speakers? I like that kind of support."
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“The Renkus-Heinz systems are exceptionally smooth, and coverage is consistent to every seat,” says Hamilton. “I know exactly what I’m going to get with Renkus-Heinz speakers, and the company is very supportive and great to work with. We’ve used their products for over 15 years, and performance and reliability are the main reasons we keep coming back to them."
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As to those intelligibility issues, as Roland puts it, "The results from the Iconyx were absolutely stunning. Calling it night and day doesn't even do it justice. The congregation had been struggling for years with the old sound system, and it's just mind-blowing how good it sounds now."
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Not surprisingly, members of the congregation have been thrilled with their new home, with particularly high praise going to the sound of both the music and spoken word.
“The Iconyx was an ideal solution for what would have otherwise been a very challenging space,” says Cox.
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"Aesthetics were of the utmost importance," says Bragg. "They did not want to see the speakers. We worked with the architect, and had them leave an opening in the brickwork on either side of the proscenium. The Iconyx fit in perfectly, and we put a bit of standard molding around it. It looks terrific."
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Bruijns adds: "We demonstrated it in the Great Hall, and showed the management how the IC Live system's digital beam steering could achieve accurate vertical beam angles to cover seats all the way to the back at 30 meters. At the same time the technology allowed us to keep reflections from the hard ceiling and rear wall."
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"I love the fact that Renkus-Heinz, as an American company, is so accessible," he says. "I can call them and speak directly to Ralph with an idea for a product or an improvement, and they have the passion to try and make it work. How many companies can you call and get through to one of the guys whose name is on the speakers? I like that kind of support."
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"It's a very classic looking sanctuary, and putting in large loudspeakers simply wasn't an option," says Anderson. "The STX and Sygma cabinets have such a small footprint, there's hardly any visual impact at all. And it's really impressive that we could hang such a small system so high up and still get such tight, focused coverage. It's really a great little system."
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For the Museum, the IC Live system has opened up new possibilities. "Being able to finally offer the rotunda for events has made a big difference for them," says Hoyt. "They've been able to book many more events,, and that's a wonderful thing."
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We have not only accomplished a space that has improved our congregational song, we now have better speech intelligibility and clarity vastly improved over our past loudspeaker system. The installation of this system insured the success of our entire project. We have not had one complaint about not being able to understand the spoken word."
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We have not only accomplished a space that has improved our congregational song, we now have better speech intelligibility and clarity vastly improved over our past loudspeaker system. The installation of this system insured the success of our entire project. We have not had one complaint about not being able to understand the spoken word."
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'If you want to hit people right in front of the building, you can, and if you want to aim one 200 feet down the street, you can do that too. They're really that directional. It's unbelievable' – Courtney Ross, Air Canada Centre.
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"The Iconyx system has made the worship experience more enjoyable," Cardenas reports. "People of all ages can actually hear the sermons. We'll definitely be using the Iconyx in our next upgrades as well."
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"It works exceptionally well," concludes Timothy. "It's very subtle. When you're sitting in the Choir area, it's like you're speaking in a normal conversational tone, but it sounds like it's coming from everywhere. The singers and directors are very happy; most of them say it sounds every bit as good as the Tabernacle itself."
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"By being able to use two speakers instead of six or eight, and eliminating the need for external amplification and all the associated connectivity, we were able to realize a better result with minimal impact on their budget. It's always a real pleasure to complete a project that looks great, sounds great and makes the client happy."
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Karl-Heinz Brenig added: "Our tutors are really enthusiastic and confirm that speech intelligibility has been transformed in all areas of the auditorium, and finally voices sound natural. Tutors and students work more self-assuredly and our guests can follow speeches much more easily, especially important at international events - and musical events now sound great, too."
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"Once the microphone was in place," a City of Montreal technician reports, " we received a 'thumbs up' from a member of the delegation. He told us that it is extremely rare to hear this instrument properly represented by a PA system."
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"I wish to
express the friars' satisfaction. Following
the good results achieved, they intend
asking the supplier to provide a similar
system for the Sanctuary of Santa Maria
Delle Grazie, where the mortal remains of
Saint Pio are kept. I must say that the faithful
and pilgrims, who previously had difficulty
understanding sermons in the new
church, have also expressed their appreciation
of the tangible difference."
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Three ICONYX IC16 Digitally Steerable Arrays a side flank the proscenium arch of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, delivering clear speech to the furthest seats in the house.
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The 125 - year old Sacred Heart Church, in Springfield, Massachusetts, has a visually breathtaking, yet intensely acoustically reverberant, sanctuary. Richard G. O'Connell of AV DesignBuild asked to resolve a fundamental problem: parishioners were unable to hear eulogies and sermons, and there was occasional radio breakthrough. His solution comprised new control equipment - and a pair of Iconyx digitally steerable arrays.
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Two ceiling-mounted PN212-SUB subwoofers supply the low-end impact that the younger
members of the congregation enjoy. “The subs are configured as a central cardioid array,” Roda
says, “to focus the sub-bass reinforcement into the nave and avoid exciting the clerestory
space. We continue to be impressed by the very ‘musical’ full-range punch of the
Iconyx/PNX212-SUB combination.”
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It also works well enough that in the Sunday services, the church is able to have children
participate at the altar, almost directly in front of the Iconyx, on lavalier microphones. “For the
first time ever,” comments Mike, “the congregation can hear the children’s choir properly, so
they’re very happy with that.”
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“With the new ICONYX system, St. Patrick’s now sounds as good as it looks,” says Don Beyer, “The congregation has grown enormously as a result of restoring the building and enhancing its functionality. They now average 800 people at Sunday services, which had fallen as low as 80 in the 1980’s. In addition, St. Patrick’s is one the most frequently rented churches in the Toledo area for weddings, baptisms and other family events.”
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Simon Cooper, Head of Projects for Northern Light, says: “The Iconyx loudspeakers were specified by
Peter Mapp for several reasons, including the fact that the size of the unit allows them to fit ideally into the
space either side of the pros arch. During the design process Peter also wanted to have more control
over directivity from the main loudspeakers, rather than fit delay loudspeakers.”
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Minister of Music and Worship D. J. Bullsis also pleased with the outcome: “It has far exceeded our expectations in every way,” he says. “It brings a new energy to our worship space; the sound is crystal clear, intelligible, and adds a great deal of vibrancy to both the spoken word and our music, with each vocal part extremely clear.” He adds: “ I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Iconyx, Curt Taipale or the guys from Summit to anyone.”
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“In dealing with this central but acoustically very difficult space,” we needed the spoken voice to be totally intelligible everywhere. But we also wanted an audio solution that could handle music properly, including occasional small concerts.” said Malherbe.
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Two single Renkus-Heinz Iconyx digitally steerable array
loudspeakers have brought a 1960s audio design stunningly to life for an 800-sea
church in Bethesda, MD.
The Catholic Church of the Little Flower has recently witnessed the successful commissioning
of the third sound system in its 45-year life.
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The embossed stone St. Cunégonde church, one of Montreal’s unknown treasures, is impressively topped by two identical pavilion style spires with verdigris-colored copper bell tower roofs. Directly beneath a large rose window, a monumental portal frames the main entry. The five-bell carillon was blessed in 1907; a year after the church was built in 1906, on the site of the original church, which was destroyed by fire in 1904.
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“The customer had huge acoustical problems inside those areas, because of the seating layout, the reflective table surfaces and the huge, tall glass windows that face the track. They needed a high Q, precisely aimable loudspeaker system that would direct sound onto the audience but keep it away from the hard surfaces – without impeding the clear view through the windows out to the track".
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“They're ideally suited for a project like this,” continues Northwood, “a nice compact little box that's quite unobtrusive. We had to work from the walls, so at that point you want something that gives you as much of a fighting chance as possible, and having arrays that are steerable gave us a lot more control to play with. Each speaker effectively covers its own quadrant of the room, but the pair opposite the entrance passage are a little more centered to feed down into a corridor where the main bar is located – it’s great to have that kind of focusing precision within each cabinet.”
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The Senate chamber has now reopened and, adds Myerscough, its users are extremely happy
with the end results: “The Iconyx system has addressed all the acoustic problems that used to
characterise the room, and the AV system and touch screen control provides the Senate with a
University of Birmingham - Senate Building
level of functionality that transforms the way they can use the space – a pretty successful
outcome.”
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Novita’s Senior A/V Designer Christian Bechard says, “ We had worked with ICONYX in several other venues and had
been impressed with their steerability, in other words, their ability to aim the
audio exactly where you want it. In this case we needed to be able to avoid
getting sound energy up into the ceiling, so we chose the ICONYX to steer
the sound directly to the audience without any splashing into the ceiling.”
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Adds Rutten: “In the end we had two weeks to devise a solution and design and install the system. The theatre’s management is very happy with the end result and for us the Iconyx provided the only workable solution, as well as being more cost-effective than a traditional system.”
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A new audio installation designed to transform the PA/VA intelligibility on the concourse of Stockholm’s historic, 19th century Central Railway Station is the latest phase in a multi-million-Kroner upgrade of the country’s national rail network passenger information systems.
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The front of house system for the main stage is a line array system, a pair of Renkus-Heinz Iconyx IC24 systems mounted just outside the proscenium with two Renkus-Heinz PN112 subwoofers. This system isn't really used as much for concerts, as most touring acts bring in their own systems or use local rentals, but they are perfect for large corporate events that utilize the entire space, and of course can be used for entertainment that is not touring with their own system.
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“The great advantage of this speaker is that it has a very precise vertical opening angle, so there’s no feedback even if a singer is standing close to the column. The other unique thing about these columns is that they’re very warm-sounding; usually columns sound like columns but this is a music loudspeaker.”
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With the visual & mounting hurdles surmounted, Design Sound Northwest turned to the acoustic problem. “We did a basic EASE model in order to optimize the coverage,” says Leppert. “The wide 140 degree horizontal pattern works well in this application, even though the two light poles are very far apart. With the digital steering we can mount the arrays flush on the poles, yet aim the sound downward so it covers the seating area well without annoying the neighbors.”
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Because the loudspeakers are designed to be heard and not seen, so when the managers of Eleven Madison Park entered the restaurant following the sound system installation and heard the music for the first time, their first question was “wow, sounds great, but where are the speakers?”. And that’s precisely how the nature of sound was intended – cherished unseen.
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“Shortly after the speakers were hung, our
organist walked in and asked, “Where are the new speakers?’
He didn’t see ‘em.” Says Breshears. “The challenge was that the facility didn’t
lend itself to sound reinforcement. One of the architects’
criteria was that the speakers could not impose on the facility
architecturally. We considered a tradition cluster, but nobody really liked
that idea, and then ICONYX, which gave us the option to
make good sound in the balcony and on the floor. So we put
that idea to the guys at the church and they liked the concept
of it."
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“It was essential that the acoustical performance be balanced with the aesthetics of this historic building. We evaluated several possible options, ultimately settling on Renkus-Heinz. Iconyx proved to be a great solution, meeting or exceeding everyone’s expectations and satisfying the most critical eyes and ears simultaneously.”
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“For so many
years we’d watched manufacturers of loudspeakers improve
their products, yet this kind of space remained unsolvable,” he
says. “But ICONYX has finally made it happen in a remarkable
way. It’s a major change of direction for us as integrators, too.
Higher performances can be achieved with less equipment,
less wiring and shorter installation time. You could say the
technology we waited so long for is finally available.”
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Frode Bye concludes: “We’ve had a lot of positive feedback from users since the new system went in as well as people working there or people visiting from other churches. Even those with hearing loss comment on the sound quality; they can finally hear what is said.”
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It may be Florida’s oldest retirement community, but Advent Christian Village (ACV), founded in 1913 as a unique intergenerational community in north central Florida, boasts a spacious modern church at the heart of its campus. The church recently became the proud owner of a state-of-the-art Renkus-Heinz ICONYX digitally steerable array sound reinforcement system.
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Jean Giroux concludes: “Two Renkus-Heinz ICONYX IC32s have replaced a large system of
loudspeakers, amplifiers, crossovers, EQs, racks and
cabling – and perform far better!”
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The beautiful 19th-century St Peter Cathedral in Erie, PA is among the first of many acoustically challenging buildings to reap the benefits of an ICONYX installation.
The new system’s designers, regional integrator Fact AV Technologies Inc., faced the kind of challenge that ICONYX has already proved to be a world beater at overcoming.
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In a new addition for the event, Renkus-Heinz Iconyx loudspeakers were also put to use. Sockey observed, "We have two Iconyx IC16s and one Iconyx IC32, and actually, an interesting point to consider is that this job used to be over 100 loudspeakers and now just three arrays of Renkus-Heinz Iconyx has eliminated around 30 loudspeakers."
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“The inconspicuousness and elegance of the columns is a great bonus for visually sensitive productions, and the system’s long throw means that in most cases no delay speakers are needed. As well as meetings, press conferences and presentations, live music such as jazz ensembles are projected highly transparently, elegantly and right to the last seat.”
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During the Nasher’s Grand Opening, events included live bands and CD playback as well as speeches and lectures. “The ICONYX system passed all these tests with flying colors,” Foulkrod reports. “The client has told us that the Nasher Museum’s atrium sounds far better than they ever thought it would.”
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