The Amsterdam-based Van Caem Klerks Group international trading house recently called on local integrator Van Brienen AV to install a sound system fror background music and announcements, radio and music streaming to each floor of its HQ, with local level control. The company specialises in importing and exporting A-branded goods, including liquor, beer, wine, fragrances, and luxury and fast-moving consumer goods.

‘This project was unique for us,’ reports Harry Scheringa, Senior Sales executive at Van Brienen AV. ‘We had 60 Sonance speakers with excellent sound reproduction, and the perspective to combine this large number of speakers with an easy-to-operate central management and local resources.’

Facing a complex brief, Vthe an Brienen AV team turned to Powersoft’s Dynamic Music Distribution (DMD), which streamlines multi-zone and multi-source management.

‘Installing DMD was simple,’ Scheringa says. ‘We gave the manager panel access to all the zones to have a full control over all the rooms. Thanks to scene selection, we were able to add a central announcement option that we connected via WM Touch to receive it on all the amplifiers.’

Van Brienen AV also installed six Powersoft WM Touch (Wall Mount) controllers to manage the DMD system. ‘The combination of WM Touch and SYS Control app makes it easy for the end-user to select a desired space, change volume or the audio source,’ Scheringa explains. The WM Touch can autonomously drive a system consisting of WM Touch panels and at the same time serve as the views host for system control via a mobile app. ‘We chose what zones a certain panel can control and gave the manager panel access to all the zones to have full control over the rooms. We also created a simplified user interface, so each floor only sees their own settings.’

Another important aspect of the installation was the WMP controller that manages volume, source selection and scene recall from intuitive preset layouts, designed specifically for dynamic music distribution applications. In an otherwise complex installation, the WMP controller simplifies the entire process.

Alongside Powersoft’s WM Touch and Mezzo amplifiers, the install comprises 60 Sonance Professional Series PS-S63T Surface-Mount speakers – 20 loudspeakers pointing at the desks on each floor – five WHD Airbridge-Pro WLAN/BT receivers and an AV-Wall-DT4i Dante Mic interface wall plate to provide clear background music, radio streams and intelligible central announcements.

‘We installed Mezzo amplifiers and WHD Airbridge-Pro audio receivers in a central IT Rack,’ Scheringa says. ‘Ensuring each floor would hear a clear sound, we distributed the signal and control panels through the building with internet patches.’

‘Van Caem Klerks Group is very happy with the end result,’ Scheringa says. ‘They are delighted that each floor can control their own sound individually and the WM Touch is incredibly easy and reliable to operate.’

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