Llandudno Swimming Centre, designed as a fully equipped regional facility and fully compliant with the Disability Discrimination Act, has a 25 metre, 8 lane international short course main competition pool, with a moveable floor that allows its depth to be varied, a 20 metre, 4 lane pool for teaching and training, and seating for 427 spectators and 250 competitors.

The bright, spacious interior features an unusual wave roof profile that looks spectacular after dark when the roof appears to float above the internal illumination. Both pools, seating areas and changing rooms, are covered by a six-zone, digitally based audio paging and background music system.

Compact, waterproofed Renkus-Heinz PNX61 dual 6-inch/1inch HF loudspeakers provide high-directivity coverage of the pool and seating areas. It was also the largest UK application to date of Biamp's NPS1 Network Paging Station, which integrates seamlessly with Audiaflex DSP audio distribution over CobraNet.

That mix has given the facility's managers what Swimming Centre manager Peter Aldous calls "a dream of flexibility and sound quality: this combination of technologies gives a centre like ours an audio facility that's stunning, flexible and affordable."

System integration was by Martin Dawes, with the backup of Polar Audio project manager Simon Druce. Martin Dawes had tendered for the project at its birth in 2004. Martin Dawes' Paul Berry comments: "The brief was to provide PA facilities for various zones within the complex, including the main and learner pools, changing rooms and various staff areas. Our proposal was accepted three years later so we re-appraised the specification to accommodate newer technology."

"Simon Druce had already proposed Renkus-Heinz PNX61 loudspeakers for the main pool areas, with a Biamp Audiaflex for signal routing and processing, and those remained at the core of it.