NEW YORK — City Winery, a 21,000-square-foot combination of winemaking, gourmet dining and live music in New York’s SoHo neighborhood, is equipped with a M’elodie line array loudspeaker system from Meyer Sound.
Founder and CEO Michael Dorf specified the M’elodie after using Meyer Sound systems in the Knitting Factory live venues that he formerly owned and operated. The Winery has since hosted artists ranging from Joan Osborne, Suzanne Vega, Lenny Kaye, Boz Scaggs, Philip Glass, Rufus Wainwright and others.
The M’elodie line array loudspeakers are positioned on both sides of the stage. “It doesn’t blow away the people in the front, and it still can reach to people 75 feet back,” said Dorf. “The vocal clarity is precise, deep, rich and it sounds very true. For instrumentation we get a full, rich sound—anything plugged in is coming out very accurately.”
Ed Greer, general manager of operations at City Winery, designed the system in collaboration with Meyer Sound Tech Support, and Music First Productions did the installation.
There are two Meyer Sound UPQ-1P wide coverage loudspeakers which anchor left and right fills for the far sides of the wide room. Three M1D-SM loudspeakers, a version of the M1D line array loudspeaker with alternate end plates for single-mount configurations with the M1D-MUB single mount U-bracket, provide frontfill.
The design also includes two 600-HP subwoofers, four UM-1P stage monitors, eight MM-4XP self-powered miniature loudspeakers and a Galileo loudspeaker management system.
“To have many of these performers come in and say, ‘This is one of the greatest musical performance rooms that I’ve played in for many years’ is a very high compliment,” Dorf said. “City Winery spent a lot of time thinking about both the audience and the artist experience. We’ve nailed it with Meyer Sound.”
For more information, please visit www.citywinery.com and www.meyersound.com.
