Genelec brings its audio technology to the headquarters of the Finnish law firm Castrén & Snellman

The audiovisual integrator 4Business Oy has based its project on the smart active speakers and subwoofers of this manufacturer, that have been installed throughout the building.

Castrén & Snellman is one of the leading law firms in Helsinki, with more than 130 years of activity and a solid reputation in mergers, acquisitions and other specialized fields of business law, as well as a pioneer in the practice of sustainable business in the legal services industry and the first in Finland to join the United Nations Global Compact initiative.

Recently, This company has carried out a renovation project of its customer areas and the work spaces of its staff, for which they have had the Finnish audiovisual integrator 4Business Oy, with a solution based on loudspeakers Genelec to deliver optimal audio quality throughout the building.

Best Janne Lankinen, COO de 4Business Oy, “Genelec was simply an ideal choice for this project. In addition to the quality of its products, its visual appearance and neutral sound reproduction, “The company’s values ​​and commitment to sustainable development fit perfectly into the original report.”.

The objective of renovating the Castrén offices & Snellman included “lobby areas, meeting rooms, conference and training facilities, with the requirement that technological solutions be as reliable and future-proof as possible - adds this directive -. Thanks to its sophisticated design and in-room calibration capabilities, Genelec products also reproduce the human voice in a very natural way, which makes them an excellent option for video conferencing and voice reproduction systems”.

For this project, 4Business Oy installed a wide variety of Genelec speakers throughout the space depending on function: from a pair of powerful 8351 smart active speakers complemented by two 7360 subwoofers in the event space (with capacity for one hundred people), to compact installation speakers 4010 y 4020 for the wide variety of conference and board rooms.

Mikko Kurhela, specialist in ICT of Castren & Snellman, worked closely with 4Business and Genelec throughout the project. “The solution we chose for music, speech and multimedia consists of two smart active speakers 8351 carefully tuned, with two smart active subwoofers 7360 and an automatic mixer, all integrated into one easy-to-use AV system”.

For this event space, rectangular format, “We needed wide-angle speakers to ensure that speech was reproduced throughout the space with clarity and intelligibility,” adds Kurhela.. We also wanted high quality sound at low frequencies for music and multimedia, What we achieve by adding the two subwoofers 7360, and everything was adjusted with Genelec GLM calibration software”.

The gym area Straw It has four speakers 4020 Mounted to the ceiling and connected to a Sonos Port player for wireless music playback, while the coffee music and voice sound system Tori, which has a company library connected directly to this space, uses four IP speakers 8430.

“Castrén & Snellman uses this installation both in a multipurpose way for separate areas and in a unique way for a large business meeting -explains Lankinen-. The main challenge was to provide the flexibility for the client to realign the layout without compromising reliability and ease of use., which we solve by using mobile display stands with custom built-in speaker stands, with built-in AV-over-IP technologies for audio and video distribution combined with IP speakers 8430 and ability to streaming AES67”.

For Kurhela, the choice of Genelec technology was, ultimately, a natural choice: “elegant and uniform design language, audio quality, The versatility and long life cycle of the speakers were key values ​​for us. As a company we are committed to the search for sustainable solutions, and this is a perfect option. The fact that they are an internationally renowned Finnish speaker manufacturer was also a plus”.

From a workflow perspective, Janne Lankinen points out that “they are very familiar to our technical staff and quick to install.”. Everything always works out of the box and we receive first class support from the Genelec factory in Iisalmi. We are capable of delivering high quality solutions, visually aesthetic and reliable that last for years”.