Originally developed as the playing and training venue for the Sydney 2000 Olympic
Games Softball competition, Blacktown International Sportspark’s Softball Centre
remains the finest Softball facility in Australia, hosting a wide programme of
prestigious national and international tournaments and training.
Maintaining its facilities as the premium venue, the Softball Centre recently
commissioned Sydney based integrator, Kayder, to install a new main PA system. The
brief was to provide a durable all-weather system with superior speech intelligibility
while maintaining extended response for full range music when required. Working
together with Hills, the leading AV distributor in Australia and New Zealand, the
system was designed utilising Community R SERIES loudspeakers chosen as the
optimum solution to meet the client’s criteria.
Blake Kirby of Hills commented, “In addition to outstanding intelligibility, sound quality
and all-weather reliability, the advantage of R SERIES lies in its wide range of models,
which provides all the throw and dispersion pattern combinations needed to optimise
any system for complete and consistent coverage.’ Kirby continued, “For the Softball
Centre the coverage required four R.5HP, fourteen R.5-94TZ and two R.35-3896B.’
For ease of use with flexibility, Kayder designed the system with full Crestron control.
System DSP is handled by Q-SYS and QSC amplifiers were chosen to power the
Community loudspeakers.
“A leading international venue such as the Softball Centre deserves a class-leading
sound system, and that’s what has been delivered,’ concludes Kirby. “With glowing
reports from the installer and end-user alike, the system will provide the best possible
experience for fans for many years to come.’
