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July 23rd, 2008 - Sounds right at the Groove Train
The Groove Train gets wired...
For Brisbane riverside restaurant Groove Train, getting the sound system right was as important as creating a quality menu.
With three restaurants in Melbourne, the Groove Train chain has set up in Brisbane alongside the hustle and bustle of the busy Riverside CityCat Ferry Terminal.
The challenge for owner Rocky Veneziano was finding the right ambience in the restaurant to blend with the noise of the passing people traffic from the ferry and a building with “the acoustics of a concrete box”.
Rocky turned to an acoustic, visual and digital sciences company to design and install an integrated sound system for the Groove Train.
“Their speakers are amazing, you cannot see them and they sound crystal clear,” Rocky says.
“Every day we receive compliments on the food but never before have we received so many compliments on the sound of our restaurant. Customers also comment on how the sound system enables them to focus on their own conversations and not on those happening at other tables.”
The sound can be turned up or down in different sections of the restaurant, with even the kitchen staff having control of their own volume.
The director of CEAD – the company behind the system – John Hammett, says the speakers installed in the ceiling of the Groove Train deliver a smooth full spectrum blanket of sound without any high or dead spots.
“It’s all about the ambience in a restaurant where the taste, the smell, the sights and the sound should all blend together to create the right feel,” John says. “[They] provide a warm rich sound that enhances the ambience.”
CEAD, which has operations in Australia and Canada, has made recent breakthroughs with both distributed mode loudspeakers (DML) and balanced mode radiator (BMR) technology. CEAD’s technologies are based on harnessing the natural modes of vibration to reproduce high quality sound.
“The result is outstanding speakers that deliver a true natural warm sound, ultra wide dispersion at full spectrum and crystal clear intelligibility,” John says. “We have challenged the physics and refused to be constrained by previous concepts. This has been a true research and development collaboration between our teams in Australia, Canada and our technology partner NXT in England.”
SOURCE: www.eatdrink.com.au