Part of the BGM system provided by Hoàng Phú Sound at the Covid-19 memorial park in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, are three Powersoft Quattrocanali 4804 DSP amplifiers.
The park serves both as a memorial to those lost during the pandemic and as an amenity for the surrounding community, and is home to The Tear, a 6m stainless-steel sculpture, incorporating a teardrop form, representing the tears shed by the country’s people and a heart-shaped void at its centre. Its stepped circular Powersoft incorporates motifs drawn from traditional Vietnamese culture.
Hoàng Phú Sound is a Ho Chi Minh City-based audio systems integrator and Powersoft distributor specialising in the design, supply and commissioning of end-to-end audio solutions across hospitality, commercial and public-sector projects. The company was chosen to deliver a complete audio installation and selected the Quattrocanali 4804 DSP as the amplifier platform for the site.
The project presented a specific set of demands – with the park intended for public use at all hours, the amplifiers were required to operate continuously in an outdoor environment subject to the heat and humidity of the city. The scale of the site also called for long cable runs, requiring a high-impedance distribution solution to minimise signal loss. A further consideration was the reliability of the local electrical supply, with the system needing to perform consistently under variable mains conditions.
The Quattrocanali 4804 DSP addressed every one of these requirements directly. Powersoft’s Power Factor Correction (PFC) technology allows the amplifier to operate stably under fluctuating mains conditions, containing current draw, reducing harmonic distortion on the supply and contributing to cooler operating temperatures. This is a big practical advantage in a fixed installation where long-term thermal management matters. Additionally, the amplifier’s high-impedance output minimises signal loss across extended cable runs. In a distributed outdoor installation of this scale, Hi-Z distribution allows cables to run significant distances without major signal degradation, while enabling simpler, more cost-effective wiring than a low-impedance system would require.
Powersoft’s proprietary Smart Rails Management (SRM) technology further improves system efficiency by dynamically managing power rails to match load conditions, reducing energy consumption and heat without compromise to output quality.
‘The Powersoft Quattrocanali 4804 DSP proved to be the ideal solution,’ says Hoàng Phú Sound Technical Director, Mai Nguyen Hung Truong. ‘Its multichannel architecture allowed us to divide the system into multiple zones quickly and easily.’
The amplifiers’ Power Sharing feature automatically redistributes available power across channels to where it is needed most and operates across channels running at different impedances without any user configuration. This feature provided additional flexibility during system design. ‘Power Sharing provided flexible power allocation between channels,’ says Truong. ‘This significantly streamlined system design and helped optimise overall spend on this solution.’
The audio system pairs the Powersoft amplification with Bose Professional loudspeakers and a Bose ControlSpace signal processing and control platform networked via a Cisco Catalyst switch, to deliver background music across the park’s commemorative and communal spaces.
For the visitors who gather at Lý Thái Tổ Park, whether in remembrance or as part of their daily lives, the audio system provides a consistent, considered presence. For Hoàng Phú Sound, the project represents a meaningful early milestone in its partnership with Powersoft and is a demonstration of what the two can deliver together in a project of genuine significance to the city.