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Bayeux aquatic centre chooses APG

Twelve APG MC2C compact satellite loudspeakers are being used in the humid and challenging environment of the busy Centre aquatique Auréo in Bayeux (France).

Opened in 2019, Auréo is an aquatic centre combining multiple swimming pools with a 515 m² “wellness area” featuring saunas, a jacuzzi, a salt cave and a balneotherapy pool. The 2,300 m² complex is the only municipal swimming pool serving the nearly 15,000 residents of the district after the previous piscine de Bayeux closed a year earlier.

To upgrade the aquatic centre’s AV system, the town of Bayeux selected local system integrator Music Light, a long-term partner of both Bayeux and APG. After conducting an acoustic and technical study, Music Light specified a total of twelve column-shaped install dedicated APG MC2C speakers for Auréo, which are installed across three zones: four loudspeakers in the leisure pool, six in the sports pool, and two in the wellness area.

Music Light has worked with APG since 2010 and the company was able to draw on past experience to tackle the most challenging aspect of the Auréo install: the high ambient temperature and humidity presented by an indoor swimming pool. “APG coated the enclosures with stainless steel fittings to ensure that the products would not deteriorate in the years to come”, explains Gaëtan Potier, Music Light’s managing director. “We equipped a stadium with MC2s a few years ago with the same process.”

Other AV equipment used for the Auréo project includes a Shure QLX-D wireless system and Rane Terminal 1010x audio matrix. Amplification comes courtesy of a Powersoft Quattrocanali 4804 DSP+D, which drives the APG speakers via the 100V line. Music Light also used Powersoft’s ArmoníaPlus software for amplification control.

(Photos: Music Light)

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