The SoundTube RS500 pendant loudspeaker has been choosen by Clarkson Safety to optimise the voice alarm systems they install in Sainsbury's stores. The RS500's superior high frequency dispersion has allowed to reduce the number of loudspeakers considerably. The direct plug-in BS5839-8 compliant optional terminal has allowed to reduce the labor time involved in modifying the previously used loudspeakers. The result is a higher performance loudspeakers that offers great intellegibility to the public without a sensible price increase.

SOund Directions has just supplied a total of 46 SoundTube HP loudspeakers to be installed in the new Dublin airport T2 terminal which is due to open to the public in April 2010. The sound system design team from Arup Acoustics had to overcome the challenges of great ceiling heights, long reverberation times and ambient noise. They selected the HP890i and HP129i to be installed in the open ceiling areas at heights greater than 10 meters. Thanks to their 100 degrees dispersion high frequency compression driver, they are delivering  a consistent full range sound over large areas at sufficient levels to overcome paublic and airplane noises.

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We are please to anounce that Sound Directions is expanding in France. Sound Directions France SARL was incorporated last March and is offering SoundTube, Focal and Myst Systems products to the French Market. The company is run by Christophe Palluat de Besset, a well known character in the audio integration business with previous sales manager positions held at Bose, Toa and Bosch.

 

Active Audio's range of steerable line arrays is now available in the UK through Sound Directions.

Xavier Meynal, a well respected acoustics researcher and engineer created Active Audio in 2002. The company offers acoustical engineering, room acousics simulators and the latest StepArray columns, which are based on the DGRC patent (digital and geometric radiation control). These columns are the answer to most speech reinforcement problems due to architectural constraints or difficult acoustical conditions. Please contact us for any technical or pricing information or visit their english website: http://www.activeaudio.fr/?page_id=31&lang=en

Open since 1990, the Beatles Story, a themed visitor attraction based at the Albert Dock in Liverpool, contacted Sound Directions to find a solution to their sound bleed problems. As there are several displays each featuring historical footage and soundtracks

The internationally acclaimed driver and loudspeaker manufacturer Focal/JMLab group has just launched a commercial range of loudspeakers and has chosen Sound Directions Ltd to be their exclusive UK representative.

The great SoundTube sound quality and superior coverage is now available in a compact wall mount enclosure at a competitive price.

Its main features are:

• 4" Polypropylene woofer with 1" BroadBeam
  aluminium dome tweeter.
• Constant high frequency directivity pattern (75 degrees at 10KHz) which offers higher coverage per unit.
• Proprietary corrosion- and theft-resistant
  self-locking Stealth� bracket
• Powder-coated steel bracket and aluminium grille
• Dimensions: 190mm deep x 177mm wide x 246mm tall
  

All of this for £99 list!

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ASDA is so impressed with the perfect performance of Soundtube loudspeakers that it is installing them in every store.

British retail giant Asda has been using SoundTube pendant loudspeakers since 2000, installing SoundTubes in their audio-visual department for high quality audio playback of movie trailers.

Now ASDA is installing SoundTube BroadBeam dispersion loudspeakers in their stores for paging customers and staff and background music playback. A spokesman for ASDA reports that not only has the stores’ musical atmosphere improved, but customer announcements are now clear and easy to follow.

Thanks to SoundTube’s exclusive constant directivity dispersion, the specification, wiring and installation processes of this top-quality product have been simplified. Andy Eastbury from Direct Communications, ASDA systems integrator says: "It is unusual to achieve installation time reduction, increase client satisfaction and stick to the same budget all at once. SoundTube made this possible for us."

So far 18 ASDA stores have been fitted with SoundTube and more are on the way. So next time you’re in an ASDA, listen out for SoundTube sound!