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Adventure Cinema makes further investment in HK Audio

Founded in 2019, Adventure Cinema is the UK’s biggest open air cinema tour, delivering movies to audiences across more than seventy venues. Medieval castles and country estates all play host to a mix of classics, musicals, blockbusters, and family films. Since its inception, Adventure Cinema has invested exclusively in HK Audio systems, and recently contacted UK distributor Polar about expanding its inventory to include HK Audio’s Cosmo line array.

As demand for Adventure Cinema’s service has grown, so the size of its audiences has steadily increased, with more than 200,000 tickets sold at venues across the UK in 2024. In order to meet the requirements of larger events with bigger audiences, the company’s technical team needed a more powerful system to obtain the necessary coverage. At the beginning of the year, Mark Thompson, Director at Adventure Cinema, spoke to Polar’s Head of Professional Audio, Andy Plunkett, who arranged a demonstration of the Cosmo line array.

“Adventure Cinema has had great experience with HK Audio for a number of years now, so they asked us for some options”, says Plunkett. “We looked at the new CX210LT long-throw point source and some Cosmo line array systems. The Cosmo was preferred, so we set up a demo at a rugby ground near their Bishop’s Castle HQ. We were able to easily reach the stated furthest distances for coverage with three Cosmo C10 modules.”

“Our HK Audio Linear 5 system has served us brilliantly since we started but we really needed to up our game for much bigger events”, adds Jon O’Neill, Head of Sound at Adventure Cinema, who was at the demo. “Obviously, we weren’t going to buy a load of boxes without hearing them first, so it was great that Polar were able to arrange a local demo so quickly. When I heard the system on the day there was no doubt that Cosmo was the way forward.”

“Our ability to deliver well inside Adventure Cinema’s season-start deadline gave us plenty of time to run through the Lab Gruppen amplifier setup at their HQ”, notes Plunkett. Adventure Cinema took delivery of twenty-six HK Cosmo C10 line array modules and six HK Audio CS218 subs, complete with wheel boards and rigging. Six Lab Gruppen PLM12K44 amplifiers completed the investment.

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