The Celebrity Cruises' vessel boasts a casino, library, theatre, golf course, and several swimming pools. Equally lavish are the sound systems on board. Like its sister ship the Celebrity Solstice, which launched in the fall of 2008, the Equinox relies on Dynacord Promatrix 4000 systems. FUNA Nachrichtentechnik of Emden installed and networked no fewer than four of these reference electro-acoustic systems on board the cruise ship.
FUNA Nachrichtentechnik's senior manager Andreas Köhler comments: "The Promatrix 4000 has already proved itself to us one hundred percent, which is why we are installing it in all the liners in the Celebrity series."
The installation in the new cruise liner provides 53,000 W of amplification. More than 350 loudspeaker lines linking more than 8,000 loudspeakers are employed on the luxury liner, including 350 Electro-Voice 309-8A coaxial systems, 520 EV EVID C 4.2 ceiling speakers, 30 EVID C 8.2s, and 70 EV Sx80PIX units. The EV system is supported by 16 Promatrix DPC keypanels and various other Electro-Voice loudspeaker systems that function in rooms and entertainment areas.
(Jim Evans)
