Sitting at the top of downtown Saigon’s Centec Tower, the exclusive SOHY Sky Lounge & Dining includes the indoor/outdoor Sky Lounge, Champagne Garden, Star Dining Room and Zero Gravity Cigar Room. Local A/V integrator DesignLive Technologies helped the venue elevate the high-end sky lounge concept a sound system based on Fulcrum Acoustic loudspeaker systems.
SOHY required powerful yet compact, loudspeakers, with the flexibility to support vocal stage shows, instrumental performances and DJs without detracting from the club’s design aesthetic. Pinpoint pattern control was also critical to keep sound from reflecting off stone, glass and aluminium finishes, and from troubling a five-star, high-rise hotel next door. Extremely durable, weather resistant loudspeakers were essential to withstand Saigon’s challenging environment of alternating phases of sweltering heat and tropical thunderstorms.
‘One of our proposal’s big advantages was that Fulcrum Acoustic’s compact loudspeakers could provide high-fidelity, high-powered audio while easily integrating into SOHY’s very limited interior design provisions,’ explains DesignLive Technologies owner, Phu Tran Pham. ‘Twenty-one Prophile P 8-inch coaxial speakers and 29 pole-mounted, weather-resistant DX896-WR dual 8-inch speakers were chosen to provide even coverage, focusing immersive sound inward to the venue and away from reflective architectural surfaces and neighbouring structures.’
Fulcrum WR enclosures provide weather resistance in lightweight packages, and feature triple-plated grilles and stainless steel mounting hardware.
‘Fulcrum’s extremely powerful but deceptively small VLF Install Sub series installation subwoofers allowed us to implement the 15 subs Ease modelling called for to provide club-worthy low-frequency extension,’ continues Phu Tran Pham. ‘Fulcrum also shared their extensive experience with nightclub systems to provide points of reference for our design which helped SOHY raise the bar with the the top luxury sky lounge in Vietnam.
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