The newly-opened K Arena, a 20,000-seat purpose-built music arena that is part of the Music Terrace lifestyle complex by Ken Corporation, deployed L-Acoustics K Series solutions at its site.
Located in Yokohama, Japan, the arena has a fan shaped, four-tiered, seven-level audience area that would respond to a variety of technical production briefs. The arena is also equipped with sound-absorbing materials while further insulation materials spread around the arena is intended to minimise sound leakage.
K Arena’s management worked with Sony Marketing to deliver on-stage equipment, visual display units, lighting configurations and sound system integration to the arena.
For this project, Sony Marketing partnered with L-Acoustics certified rental agent, Hibino Sound, to help design the optimal system.
As for the system design, Hibino Sound proposed to install left-right hangs of sixteen L-Acoustics K1 boxes per side over four K2 down, with twelve KS28 subwoofers flown beside each array and a single centre array of six Kara II for centre-fill. Twenty further K2 per side provide out-fill to the wide fan-shaped audience area. Two delay rings send sound to the upper tiers and back rows.
A total of eighty-six units of LA12X amplified controllers drive the combined system of over 200 L-Acoustics speakers, with six P1 processors.