JOPPA, MD – When the leadership team at Mountain Christian Church (MCC) found a prime location in nearby Abingdon to establish its fourth area campus, there was one thing that wasn’t quite so ideal – the facility’s 13-foot ceilings limited sound reinforcement options for the planned 600-seat worship space. To address that acoustic challenge, AVL systems provider Mankin Media Systems of Franklin, TN, recommended L-Acoustics’ new Syva colinear loudspeaker system. The project marked the first permanent Syva install in North America, and the first Syva system to be installed in a house of worship.
“The Syva system at Abingdon’s campus is the secret weapon that really made the room what it is,” said Mankin’s Tim Corder. “In the project’s early phase, we explored multiple loudspeaker design approaches that were either too large — compromising the height of the room, or created too much variation throughout the space to be acceptable. Syva was the perfect solution. The finished result blends into the space unlike anything else possible, without compromising quality in the least.”
“In our area, buildings with taller ceilings are difficult to find and in high demand,” noted technical arts pastor Bob Rufenacht. “Syva was key to this project. Its sleek and compact form factor, which is no wider than the support columns they’re mounted on, allowed us to keep speakers out of the way of our sightlines and out of the way of our lighting angles. It enabled us to tuck the lighting up into the ceiling structure without being blocked by speakers and facilitated raising our screen heights to help with message visibility.”
Although Rufenacht was initially concerned the space would need more fill speakers than originally planned, he points out that the system tuning process did a miraculous job of filling the gaps and smoothing out the room coverage. “Syva ultimately gave us a less costly solution requiring fewer speakers than other systems we considered, so it’s a real ‘win-win-win’ for us that sounds absolutely great.”
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