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Xavier University

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Cincinatti, Ohio

Brilliant Audio for an Amazing Athletics Program

The Musketeers men’s basketball team is the standout athletic program at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Musketeers play at the 10,500-seat Cintas Center at Xavier University, which was built in 2000.

Xavier University asked consultant Anthony James Partners and local integrator ICB Audio & Video to update the sound system with increased coverage of seating areas that were poorly covered by the original system.

The solution centered on lightweight Danley loudspeakers and subwoofers in part because no additional rigging points could be added but mostly because of their excellent pattern control and sound quality.

“The Cintas Center is a large venue, and Xavier University does a good job keeping up with it’s A/V system,” said John Keller, who configured the system and the rigging with ICB Audio & Video. “They wanted the new system to improve upon the old system’s coverage, which had quite a few holes – most notably in the first few rows on the floor.

“The big trick was that we couldn’t add any rigging points nor add significant weight to the rigging points that existed,” he explains. “Of course the reason you get holes in coverage is because the speaker is delivering the wrong pattern at the wrong location, but the direct and obvious solution of adding new locations wasn’t on the table.”

“Nevertheless, the coverage, efficiency, and relatively lightweight design of Danley loudspeakers allowed us to meet the facility’s goals within those stringent constraints.”

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The Power of the Synergy Horn

The new Danley system replaced the old system, cluster for cluster. Ten clusters use a pair of Danley SH-96 full-range loudspeakers stacked in opposite orientations to provide complete coverage of the upper and lower bowls. Two additional clusters use an SH-96 with two Danley SH-64s to provide expanded coverage at either end of the bowl. A total of six Danley TH-115 subwoofers hang independently in two rows along the arena’s long axis. Each cluster is dead hung from a single point because a pick point wasn’t possible; the catwalks and other ceiling hardware couldn’t safely support it.
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