Audibility and speech clarity across the whole stadium
Music quality and volume matched to each area
A shared low-power, optical-fiber infrastructure
Integration with a Bosch Praesensa voice evacuation system
Simple control for staff and guests at every event
Adams Park, High Wycombe
More than 250 loudspeakers, one network, every seat served
Adams Park is the home of Wycombe Wanderers Football Club in High Wycombe. Under owner Rob Couhig, the club set an ambitious vision for a great match-day experience and chose Landways to design and install a new digital infrastructure to deliver it. The brief covered high-quality audio for every seat and public space, plus Wi-Fi, security, and a voice evacuation system on the same network.
Case Study
Stadium / Arena
Dynacord
Electro-Voice
Europe
Adams Park, High Wycombe
More than 250 loudspeakers, one network, every seat served
Case Study
Stadium / Arena
Dynacord
Electro-Voice
Europe
Adams Park is the home of Wycombe Wanderers Football Club in High Wycombe. Under owner Rob Couhig, the club set an ambitious vision for a great match-day experience and chose Landways to design and install a new digital infrastructure to deliver it. The brief covered high-quality audio for every seat and public space, plus Wi-Fi, security, and a voice evacuation system on the same network.
- Venue
- Adams Park
- Location
- High Wycombe, United Kingdom
- Install partner
- Landways
- Product highlights
- Dynacord MXE5, TPC-1, SONICUE · Electro-Voice PolarChoice
The venue
An ambitious vision for match day
Adams Park is the home of Wycombe Wanderers Football Club in High Wycombe. Under owner Rob Couhig, the club set out an ambitious vision for a great match-day experience, and chose Landways to design and install a new digital infrastructure to deliver it, covering audio, Wi-Fi, and security.
Stadium audio was central to that plan. Like so many stadia, Adams Park faced familiar challenges of audibility, speech clarity, music quality, and volume. The new system had to guarantee specified levels of performance in every area, from the stands to the function suites, bars, and corporate hospitality boxes.
“I am delighted that Landways’ digital infrastructure is now fully in place and available for everyone inside Adams Park to enjoy. Through our partnership with Landways, we are making a long-term investment in digital technology to improve the match-day experience, reduce costs and help our business continue to thrive. It is great that the same underlying energy-efficient infrastructure that delivers our incredibly fast Wi-Fi can also be used to deliver high-quality stadium audio and new safety systems, at the same time as being ready to handle data growth and new digital services in the future.”
Rob CouhigChairman of Wycombe Wanderers
The challenge
Guaranteed sound for every seat, suite, and concourse.
The brief called for high-quality digital audio delivered to every seat and public space, with speech and music quality set to the needs of each area of the stadium. It also had to run on a new low-power, optical-fiber infrastructure shared with the venue's other digital services.
Safety sat in the same picture. A Bosch Praesensa voice evacuation system had to integrate with the entertainment audio, with emergency messages ready to broadcast at the highest priority at all times.
The solution
9 MXE5 engines at the heart of the network
Landways designed the system around 9 Dynacord MXE5 Matrix Mix Engines, which control and distribute high-quality digital audio streams over optical fiber to amplifiers at the edge of the network, feeding more than 250 new loudspeakers. The MXE5s act as the communications hub for all IP-based peripherals, supervise system-wide commands, and provide 24 x 24 crosspoint performance audio matrices for routing and mixing. Audio from the Bosch Praesensa system feeds into the MXE5 matrices via OMNEO IP architecture, and during an emergency the entertainment audio is automatically muted.
Control sits with the people who run the venue. 28 Dynacord TPC-1 touch panels in the function suites, bars, and corporate hospitality boxes let staff and guests set their own volume levels and choose sources, from the match-day presenter to a local Dante-enabled Bluetooth interface. The MXE5 and TPC-1 were all programmed in SONICUE Sound System Software, whose system logic editor allowed the designer to create advanced system tasks. Business paging runs from 2 custom touchscreen PC call stations using the OCA protocol, with audio from an Electro-Voice PolarChoice microphone distributed via Dante.
- 9 Dynacord MXE5 Matrix Mix Engines
- 28 Dynacord TPC-1 touch panel controllers
- SONICUE Sound System Software
- More than 250 new loudspeakers
- Praesensa voice evacuation system
- Electro-Voice PolarChoice paging microphone
- Dante audio networking
“Landways’ project at Adams Park highlights just how powerful the MXE5 Matrix Mix Engine is. This was a complex and innovative stadium sound solution, and MXE5 was exactly the right choice to turn the concept into a reality. The combination with TPC-1 means simple and intuitive control is at the fingertips of stadium staff for every event the venue hosts.”
Richard LeadbitterSales Manager at Dynacord
The result
Every seat and public space, served at a guaranteed level.
The result is a stadium where every seat and public space receives its specified level of speech and music quality, precisely configured for guaranteed performance. Staff have simple, intuitive control at their fingertips for every event the venue hosts, and Praesensa emergency messages are always ready to broadcast at the highest priority.
The same energy-efficient infrastructure that delivers the stadium's fast Wi-Fi now carries its audio and new safety systems, ready for data growth and new digital services. For Wycombe Wanderers, it is a long-term investment in the match-day experience at Adams Park.
Specified speech and music quality in every area
Simple control from 28 TPC-1 touch panels
Emergency messages at the highest priority
One infrastructure ready for future digital services
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