When the performance of the audio system in Hong Kong’s City Hall began to fall short, local integrator Digital Media Technology (DMT Pro) stepped in to install a replacement in the venue’s 463-seat theatre.

After a thorough review of the venue with specific attention paid to addressing acoustical challenges that troubled the old system, DMT chose to install an LCR Clair Brothers system, comprising two Clair Brothers kiT 12+ two-way, self-powered speakers for each of the LCR channels, and two kiT-Sub-mini+ single drive self-powered subwoofers, all supported by two Lake LM44 digital processors.

‘The speakers have a DSP function, but for a greater degree of fine tuning we also installed the Lake processors,’ says Ricky Wan, Sales Manager at DMT, Clair Brothers distributor for China.

‘We are impressed with the quality of Clair Brothers,’ says PCCW-HKT Technical Services Chief Engineer Zachary Cheung, who is in charge of all A/V systems in Hong Kong City Hall. ‘The installed system sounds even better than the initial demo we heard. We also needed to install the system in a very short space of time, so we wanted to use an active system. This is the first time we’ve used Clair Brothers in any of the city hall venues, and the management is incredibly pleased with the finished result.’