Odeon Munich

 

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Year: 2006/2007
Customer: MEDIA-tek Bodenkirchen, Building Authorities Munich
Services: Sound System Design, Measurements, room-acoustic consulting

The beautiful Bavarian Interior Ministry "Odeon", a former concert venue from the early 19th century features a central Atrium which was the former concert hall and demolished during the 2nd world war.
This beautiful room was remodelled in 2007 and fitted with a glass roof and will be used in the future for various events. was assigned by  Mediatek Muenchen to design a loudspeaker system which could deliver high intelligibility in spite of the long reverberation timereverberation timeRT60 is the time required for reflections of a direct sound to decay by 60 dB below the level of the direct sound….

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of up to 7 seconds.

The only possible choice was a DSP-controlled system with freely configurable beam characteristics; two Duran Audio DS430 were finally installed. The system was commissioned by in 2007, the measured STISTISpeech Transmission Index…

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-values range from 0,52 to 0,60.

Furthermore, a room-acoustic simulation was perfomed firectly for the Bavarian Building Authorities to predict the potential reduction in reveberation time with an additional suspended canvas.