MONTREAL – Montreal's City Hall, which was re-built in 1922 within the shell of its original walls after the original structure was destroyed by fire, is modeled after the city hall of the French city of Tours, and is designated a National Historic Site of Canada.
As such, when city officials recently decided to modernize its conference systems, they adopted a "no compromises" policy toward the building's historic style.
Grant Ritchie, Mike Davidson and Mark Dunn of Contact Distribution reconciled the contradictory objectives with a demo of the Iconyx IC7 Steerable Arrays from Renkus-Heinz to the building's engineering staff.
IC7s are self-powered linear arrays that use individual driver control to deliver precisely shaped beams of sound with factory-programmed pre-sets.
The City of Montreal purchased six IC7s for use in the Hall of Honour, an ante-room that is used for ceremonial occasions. The IC7s have been well-received. A recent case in point was after a visit from a Japanese delegation, which featured a performance on the koto.
"Once the microphone was in place," a City of Montreal technician noted, "we received a ‘thumbs up' from a member of the delegation. He told us that it is extremely rare to hear this instrument properly represented by a PA system."
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