Gordie Howe Sports Facility, Saskatoon, SK

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Sport Complexes

The Gordie Howe Sports Complex, named after legendary hockey superstar Gordie Howe, is a vast area of sports facilities both indoor and outdoor. Its is a hub for the city of Saskatoon with nearly 70,000 players coaches, officials and volunteers participating annually and over 100, 000 spectators annually for all events

Purpose

The facility wanted to upgrade the outdoor audio system and add a new system to a new section of the building and renovated areas. Better sound required for sporting events.

Challenges

Being an outdoor venue, designing a sound system that correctly directed audio to cover as much area as possible. Allocating the speakers location throughout the fields, to deliver intelligible messages in outdoor environment.

Solution

TOA needed to work closely with the on-site installer who did a great job on the set up and positioning of all the equipment. TOA recommended the M-864/DPSP3 for digital signaling processing to produce better sound quality and intelligibility, a DA-500 to power the system including Pro HX-5 compact arrays speakers and F-2000 wide dispersion speakers. Our high end 5000 series microphone was used for speech and vocal performance.

Feedback

The results were exceptional, with tonnes of power and outstanding coverage for all in attendance to hear. They were very happy with the audio system design.

About TOA Canada Corporation

TOA Corporation was founded in Kobe, Japan over 80 years ago. TOA operates in over 100 countries worldwide, with manufacturing Facilities found in nearly every major market area. These facilities have a reputation for precision design and fabrication, resulting in a Proven track record of TOA product reliability. TOA Canada Corporation was formed in 1990 as a complete sound solutions provider, specializing in commercial audio, including, Public address, voice communications, voice evacuation and emergency paging requirements. TOA Canada offers complete solutions for all corporate and commercial audio communications and intercom security requirements.

FEATURED PRODUCTS

Variable Dispersion Array HX-5

Full area coverage and wider bandwidth sound.

The HX-5 is an innovative modular speaker design that incorporates the best characteristics of the traditional, cumbersome woofer enclosure combined with a CD horn-loaded high frequency driver and the full-range compact speaker enclosure without the drawbacks associated with each type. the HX-5 features remarkably easy to control coverage characteristics including problematic low frequencies and can be installed in a multitude of ways while maintaining a modern, unobtrusive appearance. a system is configured by four preassembled modules with four IF drivers and twelve HF dome tweeters. This configuration allows the variable directivity control and low-frequency dispersion control comparable to use a large constant directivity horn speaker. a choice of 4 directivity angles (15, 30, 45 and 60 degrees) can be employed as needed.

Ceiling Speakers (Wide dispersion type)

Expanded listening coverage area through extra-wide dispersion characteristics.

F Series Wide Dispersion Speakers are ideal for music and paging applications such as audio/visual, business music or retail sound systems. The lineup consists of six models with features and price points to suit premium-to-economy applications. Key benefits includes smooth off-axis coverage, versatile range of models and ease of installation.