When the recently completed concert hall at Stockholm’s Lilla Akademien music school needed a sound system, the school turned to a speaker maker from neighboring Finland, Genelec.
Of course, it had to be top-notch since the patron of the school is Queen Silvia of Sweden. And the petite performance and practice space is named for her as well.
So Queen Silvia’s Concert Hall was the recipient of 22 Genelec 4420 and four 4430 powered speakers from the Smart IP line.
Accommodating the nontraditional design project integrator Informationsteknik’s Technical Director Marcus Haraldsson Boij said, “We needed to distribute high-quality sound close to the audience without it playing louder than the reverb. Without a traditional ‘left/right’ stage and with the audience seated at three different levels surrounding the orchestra, it demanded a different way of thinking…”
He added, “By positioning them around the space, we avoided using a traditional line array system, which would have been too obtrusive in this setting. Instead, we created a unique distributed sound system which utilized the volume of the entire hall while still giving the audience a sound that felt both rich and intimate.”
In addition the Dante IP audio signal sourcing allowed for minimal cabling.
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