Jyske bank
A desire to create multifunctional meeting facilities was the starting point when Stouenborg was tasked with designing a sound system for the auditorium at Jyske Bank's headquarters in Silkeborg. The goal was to create the most optimal setting for something as diverse as board meetings and good acoustic conditions for Jyske Bank's choir. At the same time, the system had to be discreet and, not least, easy to operate, so that you could quickly switch between activities.
Meyer Sound's Constellation system is actually intended for venues such as restaurants, sports, and concert halls. Here, the system excels by simulating different acoustic conditions, where sound in a room is captured using fixed microphones and then adapted to the surroundings through advanced processing.
Despite the system's most common use in larger venues and its previous absence in smaller auditoriums, an extensive collaboration with Meyer Sound was initiated. The aim was to investigate how the technological capabilities of the system could be utilized to create optimal conditions for speech intelligibility during all types of meeting activities – from group work to larger meetings with speech across a long table.
Jyske Bank's auditorium thus became a pilot project for what is now known as Meyer Sound's Voice Lift concept, which enables the creation of focused acoustics in different zones within the same room. This means that you can sit in groups and have conversations with high speech intelligibility without being disturbed by others in the room, in principle, like sitting in a cheese dome. The system can also amplify the sound ultra-locally, making the use of table microphones and headsets unnecessary, even when sitting at opposite ends of the room.
The 25 DPA microphones in the ceiling and 64 speakers, which the system consists of, among other things, are discreetly placed so that you don't notice them.
The project has paved the way for new ways to utilize the Constellation system, and it can now be found in several auditoriums around the world.
Stouenborg has also worked with consulting and integration of a Constellation system on other projects. You can read about Mærsk Tower and Avicii Arena, among others, where a Constellation system has been integrated.