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Wharfedale Pro ensures sound coverage at popular Swiss sporting event

Schwingen, known colloquially as trouser wrestling, is a martial art practised almost exclusively in Switzerland. An unofficial national sport, the annual NWS Championship is a celebration of this cultural tradition. Hosted in an open-air venue designed to accommodate thousands of enthusiasts, alongside plenty of wrestling, this year’s event also showcased an audio system installation from Wharfedale Pro.

In a collaboration between technical event specialists Powerlight and Pixava, distributors Sacher Music and Wharfedale Pro’s own Application and Solution Manager Alex Lane, the event - broadcast in full by SF DRS, the Swiss national TV station - was an action-packed day of Swiss traditions.

The venue, featuring four grandstands, can host up to 4,500 visitors with two grandstands seating approximately 1,050 visitors each, and the other two accommodating around 700 visitors each, with additional space for 1,000 people standing. The primary goal was to achieve the best possible sound coverage and quality for voice reproduction and live and background music across the entire event space.

The installation comprised a total of sixteen Wharfedale Pro WLA-112 line array loudspeakers, powered by two DP-4100N power amplifiers, connected over a Dante network. Two WLA-112s per grandstand were also powered by DP-4100N amplifiers.

“The loudspeakers were strategically placed with two WLA-112s on pole stands at around 1.8 m high in each corner between the grandstands”, explains Lane. “An additional two WLA-112s were ground stacked on specially made wooden stands in front of each grandstand. This set-up helped ensure optimal sound coverage, eliminating the need for delay lines for the upper seats of the grandstands.”

The open and expansive nature of the venue posed challenges in terms of speech clarity. Wharfedale Pro’s DP series amplifier presets were used to ensure each event announcement could be heard clearly. “Through using the WLA-112 voice presets, alongside FIR filtering to fine-tune the system, we could improve the overall audio clarity”, says Lane.

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