WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VT – Tupelo Music Hall, a 4,000-square-foot space inside a former railway freight depot, is the first venue to be equipped with Meyer Sound MINA line array loudspeakers.
"The sound in the room is incredible, really," said Tupelo Music Hall owner Scott Hayward. "For example, last night Marc Cohn was trading licks with his guitar player and it was astonishing the detail you could hear. It was like being on the stage no matter where you were in the room."
The intimate live concert venue was also updated with new acoustically treated walls that work with the original hardwood flooring to enclose a space devoted to live music.
"For rooms like this, Meyer Sound absolutely nailed it with MINA," said Scott Tkachuk, system designer and project manager for Atkinson, N.H.-based Rainbow Production Services/New England Audio Tech. "It has amazing output and headroom in a small footprint, and the high end is just spectacular."
The system includes five MINA line array loudspeakers per side, a 700-HP subwoofer and a Galileo loudspeaker management system with one Galileo 408 processor. The system also includes RMS remote monitoring, and Tkachuk tuned the system using a SIM 3 audio analyzer.
Hayward's first Tupelo Music Hall opened six years ago in Londonderry, N.H. That location uses a Meyer Sound system based on M'elodie line array loudspeakers.
"Meyer delivers consistent quality across the board, which is right in line with what we do here," said Hayward. "The MINAs are the ideal boxes for this room. They are small and unobtrusive, but powerful-really powerful. And it's great to be the first to have them."
The MINA system will be used for a variety of musical styles, with plans to host Dave Mason, Judy Collins, Aimee Mann, Savoy Brown, The Subdudes, Johnny Winter, the Average White Band and Jefferson Starship, among others.
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