WORCESTER, MA – Byblos Lounge and Ritual, two local food and drink destinations here, are also serving up an upgraded audio experience, with an assist from PowerHouse Sound & Lighting. Michael Lavoie, PowerHouse owner, consultant and systems designer, drew heavily from D.A.S. Audio's Avant and Arco lines for the two projects.
Byblos Lounge, which specializes in Mediterranean fusion cuisine, uses background music early in the week and live entertainment with a Middle Eastern accent on weekends, Lavoie noted. It opened this past New Year's Eve.
"For this venue, we deployed 14 D.A.S. Arco 24T enclosures with multi-tap transformers that down-fire over the main lounge area and are spaced roughly 10 feet apart," Lavoie said. "This distributed system is driven by a D.A.S. Audio CSA-600T power amplifier that takes its signal from a 16-channel Mackie audio mixer interconnected with a variety of signal processing equipment."
Low frequency support, Lavoie added, is provided by two D.A.S. Arco 12 subwoofers, which use the company's new 122S dual coil, 12-inch transducer for bass reproduction. These two enclosures are flown in central locations over the lounge and are powered by a Yamaha P3500S power amp.
"At the stage area, we also placed two D.A.S. Avant 12A 2-way powered loudspeakers-one each, mounted to the pillars at the sides of the stage," Lavoie said. "These loudspeakers serve as the mains for the musicians or DJ."
At Ritual, which also serves Mediterranean cuisine and opened this spring, D.A.S. Arco loudspeakers-augmented by the company's CL-6 ceiling speakers-serve as the house sound system.
"During the week, the sound system supports various playback options," Lavoie said. "These include sound for the TV systems as well as an iPod for their own internal music programming. On weekends, the system supports a DJ booth or a single musician/entertainer.
"Here, we used eight Arco 24T enclosures," Lavoie continued. "The loudspeakers are positioned on an outside wall and are angled down, pointing toward center of room. For the restrooms, we placed a D.A.S. CL-6 ceiling speaker in each area."
A Rane RPM 44 multiprocessor handles loudspeaker management, and a D.A.S. Audio CSA-600T power amplifier drives the distributed system, Lavoie added. Two D.A.S. Arco 12 subwoofers handle the low frequency. "These enclosures are flown on an outer wall and are positioned to project over the lounge," he said. A Yamaha P3500S power amplifier drives the subwoofers.
Lavoie opted for D.A.S. Audio equipment, in part, because "D.A.S. provides our company a one-stop shop for all our loudspeaker requirements. The company offers us every scale and can support us with every project from small home theater systems to large venues for production work.
"When I first heard D.A.S. Audio's products," Lavoie added, "I said to friends and colleagues, ‘It's been a long time since I've been excited about a loudspeaker.' I couldn't believe the quality and power of the audio that came from my first demo of the company's Aero line arrays during LDI 2009. Since then, I've blown away many club owners and DJ's with D.A.S. products."
Lavoie also credited D.A.S. Audio's customer service. "Equipment is delivered in timely fashion, the company's billing is as agreed upon, and their support has been extremely responsive."
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