Turbosound installations

Kohl Center, USA

kohl center Venue: Kohl Center
Location: Wisconsin, USA
Venue-type: Multi-purpose venue
Loudspeaker system:
10 x TFS-780H Flashlight mid/high
8 x TFL-760H Floodlight mid/high
18 x TFL-760HM Floodlight downfill
18 x TSW-721 bass enclosures
28 Impact 50 enclosures

Turbosound North American distributors, Audio Independence Ltd supplied a huge system to the Kohl Center in Madison, Wisconsin. The Center is a $76 million multi-purpose venue covering over 450,000 square feet and is not only home to a local basketball team - The Badgers of the University of Wisconsin, who are now able to house 16,500 fans - but also features reception halls, a retail store, an auxiliary gymnasium and extensive CCTV capabilities. Named after Herb Kohl, a US Senator, businessman and 1956 graduate of the University who donated $25 million personally to the project, the Center opened its doors for the first time in January 1998.

The Center is loaded with four main four-way fully active Turbosound clusters, with the largest clusters on the north and south ends of the interior being a massive 51 feet apart. These two clusters consist of five TSW-721 21" bass enclosures, five Flashlight TFS-780H boxes and five TFL-760HM high/mid downfill enclosures. The east and west clusters, which are situated 43 feet apart, consist of four TSW-721 bass enclosures, four TFL-760H mid-high enclosures and four TFL-760HM high/mid downfill enclosures. The spec doesn't end here either!

The main clusters are augmented with 28 Impact 50 two-way enclosures mounted under the upper balcony to cover seats in the direct sonic shadow of the balcony, and a second upper ring consisting of a further 28 TMI-102 12" two-way enclosures suspended from the 90 foot ceiling to cover upper-deck seating. Twenty-eight separate delay settings used in the venue range between 60ms and 120ms and were determined by Audio Independence customer service engineer Paul Giansante, and Jack McCallum, project manager for Chicago-based Ancha Electronics who supplied the mammoth 400,000 feet of mic/line cabling, 200,000 feet of speaker wiring and 30,000 of triax camera cabling.

Danny Abelson, president of Audio Independence Ltd., says of the project: "We teamed up with Ancha to accomplish what was truly a massive job. The way we both entered the picture dovetailed well with the way the entire construction project was proceeding - instead of the typical bid and spec process that perhaps gives a client the lowest price but not always the best result, Ancha, the University, the general contractors and we established a co-operative design-build effort right from the start in which everyone's goal was the best result at the best possible price."

Ancha Electronics implemented all of the wire and cabling runs for the entire project and designed and installed the sound system head-end, based around a Peavey MediaMatrix controller, run via a Creston microprocessor system through MC2 power amplifiers. "From our point of view, the project needed as much pre-planning as possible," explains Bill Gillette, sales manager for Ancha. "We put in hundreds of thousands of feet of cabling, much of it as concrete was poured, when we were installing conduit."

The final word goes to the project construction supervisor, John Rodell of Badger Sports Developments: "It's one of the nicest-sounding systems I've ever heard in my life; the teamwork that went into it really paid off."

	Kohl Center, USA

	Venue: Kohl Center Location: Wisconsin, USA Venue-type: Multi-purpose venue Loudspeaker system: 10 x TFS-780H Flashlight mid/high 8 x TFL-760H Floodlight mid/high 18 x TFL-760HM Floodlight downfill 18 x TSW-721 bass enclosures 28 Impact 50 enclosures

	Turbosound North American distributors, Audio Independence Ltd supplied a huge system to the Kohl Center in Madison, Wisconsin. The Center is a $76 million multi-purpose venue covering over 450,000 square feet and is not only home to a local basketball team - The Badgers of the University of Wisconsin, who are now able to house 16,500 fans - but also features reception halls, a retail store, an auxiliary gymnasium and extensive CCTV capabilities. Named after Herb Kohl, a US Senator, businessman and 1956 graduate of the University who donated $25 million personally to the project, the Center opened its doors for the first time in January 1998. The Center is loaded with four main four-way fully active Turbosound clusters, with the largest clusters on the north and south ends of the interior being a massive 51 feet apart. These two clusters consist of five TSW-721 21" bass enclosures, five Flashlight TFS-780H boxes and five TFL-760HM high/mid downfill enclosures. The east and west clusters, which are situated 43 feet apart, consist of four TSW-721 bass enclosures, four TFL-760H mid-high enclosures and four TFL-760HM high/mid downfill enclosures. The spec doesn't end here either! The main clusters are augmented with 28 Impact 50 two-way enclosures mounted under the upper balcony to cover seats in the direct sonic shadow of the balcony, and a second upper ring consisting of a further 28 TMI-102 12" two-way enclosures suspended from the 90 foot ceiling to cover upper-deck seating. Twenty-eight separate delay settings used in the venue range between 60ms and 120ms and were determined by Audio Independence customer service engineer Paul Giansante, and Jack McCallum, project manager for Chicago-based Ancha Electronics who supplied the mammoth 400,000 feet of mic/line cabling, 200,000 feet of speaker wiring and 30,000 of triax camera cabling. Danny Abelson, president of Audio Independence Ltd., says of the project: "We teamed up with Ancha to accomplish what was truly a massive job. The way we both entered the picture dovetailed well with the way the entire construction project was proceeding - instead of the typical bid and spec process that perhaps gives a client the lowest price but not always the best result, Ancha, the University, the general contractors and we established a co-operative design-build effort right from the start in which everyone's goal was the best result at the best possible price." Ancha Electronics implemented all of the wire and cabling runs for the entire project and designed and installed the sound system head-end, based around a Peavey MediaMatrix controller, run via a Creston microprocessor system through MC2 power amplifiers. "From our point of view, the project needed as much pre-planning as possible," explains Bill Gillette, sales manager for Ancha. "We put in hundreds of thousands of feet of cabling, much of it as concrete was poured, when we were installing conduit." The final word goes to the project construction supervisor, John Rodell of Badger Sports Developments: "It's one of the nicest-sounding systems I've ever heard in my life; the teamwork that went into it really paid off."