TACOMA, WA —With the ambient noise of multiple furnaces, whirring blow-torches and other machinery, even normal conversation can be a challenge at the Hot Shop at the Museum of Glass. To boost intelligibility in the 200-seat amphitheater that surrounds the workspace, the museum is using a single Community Entasys full-range column-line-array speaker. The new system has been providing far better intelligibility than the previous system, with four speakers mounted in different locations. For most of the seating area, that had resulted in a lack of a coherent sound image.
Now visitors can hear all the details of how furnaces filled with up to 1,000 pounds of molten glass burn 24 hours a day at temperatures up to 2,400 degrees F. as they watch teams of resident and visiting artists milling about, blowing and shaping the hot glass to forge an array of creations.
The single Entasys unit concentrates the energy directly at the seating area while keeping reflections and reverberation to a minimum. The result is greatly improved intelligibility and a “sound” experience for visitors.
For more information, please visit www.communitypro.com.
