Located in the largest city in Northeastern Poland, Białystok City Stadium has completed a major redevelopment and now meets international standards for modern sports facilities. Its new 360° grandstand has a capacity of 22,400, and the venue also incorporates conference rooms, a VIP room, a restaurant area and a shop for fans of the local football team.
Using Community loudspeakers and Dynacord electronics, the stadium’s sound system was designed by Tommex Żebrowscy and installed by Zeto SA. Under the supervision of Project Manager Zbigniew Kaczmarczyk, the main system has been installed in the commentary room and linked to four separate amplifier rooms. The audio signal is transported over the stadium’s network using Dante and is triple redundant, with two fibre-optic rings and a turbo function ring. It is the largest Dante-based installation in any stadium in Poland.
The system uses a Dynacord CMS 2200-3 audio mixer, 16 x 16 DSP equipped digital control matrix and a DPM 8016 digital matrix manager. The audio matrix is 32 × 32 and handled by Dynacord’s P 64 digital audio matrix units. By using the Iris-Net network, each element of the system is continuously monitored and all operations are controlled via a Dell all-in-one touch-screen PC. A DPC 8015 microphone, located on the Events Security Commander desk, has full priority over other audio signals, enabling the effective communication of voice messages in the event of non-standard events.
The main loudspeaker system comprises 48 Community R2-474s and three R2-52s. The combination provides the dispersion patterns required for complete coverage of the stadium’s 360° grandstand. In addition, 38 R.25-94s and 41 R.5-99s provide audio for the stadium’s internal promenades and public areas around the building. Twenty Dynacord DSA 8410 4-channel amplifiers provide the 80kW required to power the loudspeaker systems.
‘Visitors to Białystok City Stadium will not only enjoy their sports with great audio quality, but they can also be assured that their safety is our primary concern with reliability being a fundamental consideration in the design and every component of the system,’ says Marcin Zimny of Tommex.
More: www.communitypro.com
