LEA Professional ‘provides the sound’ to the University of Michigan

In the classrooms of the central campus, a sound solution has been installed consisting of 20 amplifiers LEA Professional Dante Connect Series, a combination of 354D systems, 704D, 84D y 702D.

When the University of Michigan decided to upgrade their new building central campus classroom building (Central Campus Classroom Building – CCCB) with an audio system the option focused on audio equipment LEA Professional. This facility has more than 1.400 seats per classroom and is designed to accommodate large classes, innovative and interactive. The building includes multiple learning spaces with 132, 150 y 162 seating, a circular classroom 190 seats and more 350 located throughout the building for students to study and collaborate with each other.

When the AV Engineering team at LSA Faculty (Literature, Science and art) realized that flexibility was key when deciding which way to go with their audio system, They remembered a project in which the University had used IoT and cloud solutions with professional audio amplifiers from LEA Professional. After seeing the performance and dynamism of the amplifiers in the School of Kinesiology building, They knew LEA would be a good option.

Jeremy Gerick y Christopher Elly, senior project AV project engineers, they installed 20 amplifiers LEA Professional Dante Connect Series for maximum coverage, a combination of 354D systems, 704D, 84D y 702D.

Designing an audio system based on Dante-connected devices offers many benefits, including almost unlimited system flexibility and scalability, allowing a small AV equipment to function as a much larger one, as well as the ability to decentralize system processing, configure multiple zones and presets. and reconfigure the system as necessary.

“This project was quite extensive., so we decided to install only Dante enabled components, including Connect series version”, comments Gerick. “This gave us maximum flexibility, ensuring that all elements of the system could 'communicate'’ each other, avoiding any connectivity problems”.

Regarding the installation of the amplifiers, LEA Professional's web UI was extremely helpful to the team, since it saved time and costs.

LEA Professional's web user interface allows local monitoring of each amplifier connected to the network from any mobile, tablet o PC. Besides, Users can view the status of each channel on any given amplifier. This allowed Gerick to constantly monitor the system during installation, so if there was a problem, could be flagged and resolved immediately.

Taking into account security protocols, The construction of any large audio system at the university should incorporate a fire alarm cut-out system. This ensures that when the fire alarm sounds, the amplifiers are turned off so that the announcements can be heard.

In this case, a fire inspector needed to evaluate that feature on the amplifiers before installing the rest of the system. To do this, the team used web user interface, rang the amplifier and then connected it to the relay control power supply to display the fire alarm cutting capacity. This feature saved the fire inspector an extra trip to the university after building the system and saved the team significant time during the installation process.

Outside the web UI, the amplifiers, which are used to control the public address system, as well as the main speakers for the content of the conferences, etc., They had many features that impressed Gerick and his team.

The University plans to install the Connect series in the conference room 2 of the modern languages ​​building of the University, which is being designed as a small cinematic experience with surround sound 5.1 and a DCI 4K projector Sony.