Merivale is a large, fast-growing Australian hospitality operator with several high-profile pubs, bars and restaurants, mainly in the Sydney area. The Martin Audio’s new Coaxial Differential Dispersion [CDD] series and Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array [MLA] were selected by Justin Hemmes, the owner of Merivale.
Glen Rayner, AV manager at Merivale, explained, “We looked at the existing audio at The Newport and quickly established that the only way we’d get the sort of clarity and coverage we required was to have lots of speakers.â€
“Because it’s coaxial you can install the speaker in a landscape or portrait orientation and you maintain the same highly coherent sound quality. What’s more, the dispersion pattern of the Martin Audio CDD design is intentionally non-symmetrical. The advantage of such an approach is a more consistent delivery of HF, regardless of the listening distance.â€
The Newport garden, for which MLA was chosen, features a fully-fledged performance stage. The audio comprises eight MLA mini elements a side, each with a pair of MLA mini subs. Every MLA enclosure is bi-amped and individually addressed.