FORT WORTH, TX – The newly opened Cendera Center is a multi-purpose facility designed to serve performing arts, meetings, training sessions, presentations, boxing events and parties. Selecting a sound reinforcement system to serve all these needs was of great importance during the building's planning process.
Fort Worth-based Sowden and Associates and American Audio Visual combined efforts to design the building's audio system. Christopher Sowden, principal consultant of Sowden and Associates, and Mike Horn, president of American Audio Visual, demonstrated systems to Cendera Center personnel, including the D.A.S. Audio Aero 8A and Aero 12A line array elements, partnered with Aero LX-215RA subwoofers.
"Cendera Center was designed to accommodate a broad assortment of activities," Horn explained. "And as such, it was critical for the system to not only provide first-class sound quality, it also needed to be relatively compact so as to facilitate the resulting three stage positions in Cendera Hall, which is the primary entertainment space at Cendera Center." Loudspeakers are moved depending on the space's use, so a compact footprint was important. "The system's self-powered design was equally important, as it virtually eliminates the necessity of housing separate power amplifiers."
The main sound system consists of two primary clusters – each containing five Aero 12A mid-high line array elements. Each cluster is augmented by two D.A.S. Aero LX-215RA band-pass subwoofers per side, residing behind the Aero 12As. A pair of Aero 12As is used for side-fill purposes. Six Aero 8A ultra-compact, two-way line array elements complete the system, used as side-fill, front-fill and delay.
Since its opening in July, the Cendera Center's new sound system has been winning praise from visitors and staff alike. Brian Collins, Cendera Center's president, said, "We've been very pleased with the new sound system's performance. The audio quality is everything I had envisioned for the room and the versatility of the system is quite impressive. We've received numerous positive comments from our clients. The combined efforts of Sowden and Horn have resulted in a system that delivers upon the promise of superior sound quality for all the events that take place here."
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