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Royal Albert Hall Installs Meyer System

As part of a £100 million refurbishment effort, Surrey, England-based Sound By Design Ltd. recently designed and installed a new in-house sound system for London’s Royal Albert Hall‘s famously echoey main hall based on arrays of Meyer Sound M1D ultracompact and M2D compact curvilinear array loudspeakers.

The new system features 10 M2D cabinets, 20 M1D cabinets, two M1D-Sub ultracompact subwoofers and one M2D-Sub compact subwoofer. Six UPA-1P compact wide-coverage loudspeakers provide coverage to the seating surrounding either side of the hall’s famed pipe organ. A Galileo loudspeaker-management system handles system drive and processing.

The design collaboration between Sound By Design’s principal engineer Phil Wright and systems engineer Dave Shepherd resulted in a system that can be reworked into several configurations to suit the hall’s varied program requirements. Additional groundstacked components—including four additional UPA-1P units, four UPM-1P ultracompact wide-coverage loudspeakers, two UPJ-1P compact VariO loudspeakers and four 700-HP ultrahigh-power subwoofers—can be employed when needed.

“The new system configuration was conceived well over a year ago, and our Phil and Dave have fine-tuned the design over recent months prior to its permanent installation in June,” says Sound By Design managing director Andy Callin. “The system had to fit within a compact profile to allow unrestricted access to key rigging points for touring shows, and our aim was to provide the best possible performance by creating a system that would cater to a wide range of events.”

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