BALTIMORE — Sound integrator AVI-SPL used Crown CTs series amplifiers and PIP-Lite modules for the redesigned sound system at 48,000-seat Camden Yards, home of the Baltimore Orioles. The installation also included BSS Soundweb London signal processing devices.
“When you’re dealing with a project of this magnitude, you’re constantly looking at the solution on a large scale,” said Will Parry, senior vice president, large product group at AVI-SPL. “We need to know that the individual components will work together seamlessly and perform with the highest level of reliability. With Crown you know you’re going to get that consistently.
“We continue to use Crown in professional sports arenas across the country because these amps are built with these types of installations in mind,” Parry added.
Other Harman equipment installed includes BSS Soundweb London BLU-320, BLU-160, and BLU-120 devices. “For signal processing BSS provides the best solution for a network of this size. Plus, networking a system using Harman HiQnet System Architect is a given in a system of this size,” Parry said.
Crown PIP-Lite modules integrate Ethernet-based IQ Network control via 100-Mb TCP/IQ protocol for digital control of analog devices. Since audio signals are not converted to digital, a larger dynamic range is possible. Digital signal control allows for error trapping and a proactive response; provides input compression, multimode average power limiting, peak power limiting, thermal limiter, clip limiting, and load monitoring.
Crown is a unit of Harman International Industries, Inc.
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