The Ho Bee Auditorium at the University Cultural Centre (UCC), situated at the Kent Ridge campus of the National University of Singapore, recently underwent an audio upgrade.
The horseshoe-shaped seating area of the auditorium accommodates up to 1,700 attendees and features two tiers of balconies alongside stall seating.
The auditorium accommodates a wide range of event activities and productions, such as orchestral performances, musicals, faculty events, commencement ceremonies, and external hires.
Concept Systems Technologies, an L-Acoustics Certified Provider Distributor, offered a proposal to upgrade the venue's audio system.
L-Acoustics application engineer Chung Wah Khiew assisted Concept Systems by designing an L-ISA configuration using L-Acoustics Soundvision 3D modelling software.
Their 5.1 design features five hangs of five A15i Focus and one A15i Wide each, with eight KS21i centre-hung subwoofers for low-end definition. Seven X8 coaxial speakers deliver front-fill, while nine 5XT coaxials and two Syva colinear line source speakers deliver sound as deck-fill. Fourteen 5XT provide fill to the Grand Circle and Circle seating areas. The system is powered by 10 LA4X, four LA2Xi, and one LA7.16i amplified controllers. Driven by L-ISA Processor II, a P1 processor and an LS10 switch are also deployed.
The auditorium is the first venue in Singapore equipped with L-ISA immersive technology.