Electro-Voice in Sharm El Sheikh

Straubing, August 2009 Sharm El Sheikh is one of the most popular holiday resorts on the Red Sea coast. Among the main attractions in the tourist metropolis are the new Il Mercato shopping mall and the Hard Rock Café. Electro-Voice is setting the tone in both locations.

The Il Mercato shopping centre boasts numerous stores, boutiques, bars, and restaurants. To ensure homogeneous coverage throughout the length of the mall, Electro-Voice partners Alpha Audio installed 68 SX300PIX, 38 ZX1i-100T, and 48 EVID3.2T loudspeakers. Ten CPS2-T amplifiers drive the installation. More Electro-Voice speaker systems serve the main piazza in a mobile capacity. The piazza is used for concerts and live transmissions of sporting events, and there are plans to extend coverage to the 1,000-metre-long shopping promenade. The way for the extension has already been paved with the installation of three NetMax N8000 controllers linked via CobraNet.

The Hard Rock Café franchise in the city centre, a restaurant offering diners the delights of live music, is equipped with fourteen ZX1i-90, four EVID C8.2 and ten EVID C10.1 loudspeakers. Five CP1200 and six CP1800 amplifiers supply the requisite power.

“This was by no means an easy project to land,“ says Alpha Audio’s Hesham Enan. “We had to fight off fierce competition; but in the end, the management of the Hard Rock Café decided in favour of Electro-Voice for a number of reasons, including our sterling reputation as a design team, the excellent support we offer customers, and the outstanding quality of the products themselves.“

Evidence of Electro-Voice’s strong position in the Egyptian pro audio market can be found elsewhere in the city: Electro-Voice equipment (including ZX5 loudspeakers and microphones from the PolarChoice Family) is being used in the luxurious Hotel Savoy and the classy Pacha night club (Gladiator tops and Eliminator K-1 subs).

For further information about Il Mercato, visit www.ilmercatosharm.com.

For further information about the Hard Rock Café, visit www.hardrock.com.

Equipment lists (extracts)

Il Mercato

3x Electro-Voice NetMax N8000 controllers

Zone A

36x Electro-Voice SX300PIX loudspeakers

24x Electro-Voice ZX1i-100T loudspeakers

24x Electro-Voice EVID 3.2T loudspeakers

5x Electro-Voice CPS2-T power amplifiers

Zone B

32x Electro-Voice Sx300PIX loudspeakers

14x Electro-Voice ZX1i-100T loudspeakers

24x Electro-Voice EVID 3.2T loudspeakers

5x Electro-Voice CPS2-T power amplifiers

Main piazza

4x Electro-Voice Sx600PIX loudspeakers

4x Electro-Voice ZX1i-100T loudspeakers

2x Electro-Voice CPS2-T power amplifiers

Mobile systems

4x Electro-Voice ZX5-90B loudspeakers

2x Electro-Voice SbA760 loudspeakers

2x Electro-Voice SxA100+ loudspeakers

4x Electro-Voice RE2-N7/D wireless microphones

1x Dynacord PowerMate 1000

Hard Rock Café

14x Electro-Voice ZX1i-90 loudspeakers

4x Electro-Voice EVID C8.2 loudspeakers

10x Electro-Voice EVID C10.1 loudspeakers

1x Electro-Voice AC-One

5x Electro-Voice CP1200 power amplifiers

6x Electro-Voice CP1800 power amplifiers

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