PA for big track sporting events like horse, car, or bike racing hasn’t changed much in the past few decades – it’s still very much about 100s of 100V line horns covering the big runs you need on courses that can be kilometres long. Add the complication of temporary road routes at the UCI cycling event Santos Tour Down Under in South Australia and it’s more of the same, but with demanding set-up and pack-down times.
Unless you’re Adelaide’s Novatech Creative Event Technology, who decided to employ 24 premium L-Acoustics Syva colinear line source loudspeakers trackside to cover the Santos Tour Down Under 200 metres either side of each start, and 400 metres either side of each finish line for the 6 stages held daily. A loudspeaker more famously known for being at home on the catwalks of Paris Fashion Week and at top-end events all notably held indoors, Syva surprised and wowed the crowds and organizers with full-range, stunning quality, high SPL music and speech at all of the Tour’s seven stages.
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