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Located in Ostend, Belgium, Versluys Arena is a multi-use stadium that boasts a capacity of 8,432, has four large halls and three breakout rooms, a cafe and two new halls that can serve up to 1,100 diners.

Typically, the time to build a football stadium would take a couple of years, minimum, yet Versluys pulled out all of the stops and completed the arena in just five months. The luxury of time didn’t exist, as the home ground of KV Ostend was quickly outgrowing its capacity. Tickets to game nights were sold out for almost every home match and a premise next-door was needed to serve dinner for business guests. Club owner, Marc Coucke, decided that the stadium needed to be converted into a place where the team could grow and attract better players. Aside from creating a stadium with a larger capacity, the architect was also commissioned with making the largest bar, restaurant or club that the coastal city of Ostend had to offer. It had to be a modern, state-of-

the-art and multi-functional football stadium in which there is also room for seminars and corporate parties. Regarding the support for the audio installation, the technical expertise of installation company AVME was utilised for this project. AVME selected an AUDAC solution. At the heart of this system are the M2 multimedia digital audio mixers that are connected through a fibreglass network. Up to eight high quality stereo channels can be sent to the four M2’s that control 21 zones in the sports complex. The stadium is fitted with the FX Series of power loudspeakers from AUDAC. These can deliver a clear reproduction of music and speech for the thousands of screaming football fans. The smaller areas and hallways are equipped with weatherproof WX802_O wall speakers that can operate outdoors and deliver a deep bass for their size. Even though the M2 has sufficient processor power, the technicians from AVME decided to take the advantage of the WaveDynamics

technology that is built in the SMA and SMQ power amplifiers. This technology can deliver advanced audio processing directly from the amplifiers to the loudspeakers. Because of the immensity of this football stadium a large quantity of CS Series quick fit ceiling speaker were used for the indoor areas and the café, CLUB31 received a combination of VEXO8 and PX12 high-power loudspeakers and BASO15 bass reflex cabinets that will accommodate the atmosphere after the game.

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VERSLUYS ARENAOstend, Belgium

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

INSTALLER: AVMEBRANDS: AUDAC WEBSITE: www.audac.eu