The Saint Marks Audio System

Vladi Chaloupka  vladi@uw.edu

 

The status of the system as of Aug.28, 2015:

Flowchart of the 6 input lines including the two Distribution amps

Flowchart of the Fill speakers

Flowchart of the Line Array

(the originals are in the Sound Room, together with detailed specs of the various components)

Informal photos of

top of the LHS rack, with

Hearing Impaired unit,

Distribution Amp. #1

 two Sabine digital delay boxes

the TOE BG10 amp serving the Narthex, Thomsen chapel and Bride’s room

and one of the two BiAMPs (see the next photo)

bottom of the LHS rack,

both BiAMP D6EQ units serving West wall and McCaw chapel, and the choir monitors

the Control room Symmetrix 420 amp

top of the Central rack with

the two Symmetrix 420 amps serving the Fill Speakers

the Distribution amp #2

(the 7 Symmetrix 420 amps feeding the 2*14 line array speakers are at the bottom of this rack  - not shown here. The power supply (I think it is a UPS) is also located there.)

Description of the DSP processor for the Line arrays

Note: we ended up not using the FIR coefficients, due to the difficulties with the precise corrections for the timing that would be required – the system performance was found satisfactory without the FIR filtering.