The venue, formerly a small art-house/repertory cinema, has recently been upgraded with a new t&mSystems audio system, designed and installed by Muenster-based Prosound Eventservice.
Bernd Arends has performed in large musical productions across Europe for over 20 years, including Beauty and the Beast, Jesus Christ Superstar, My Fair Lady and many others. This has given him a wide experience of the audio system quality he wanted to achieve, but budgets were also an important consideration, as he explained, "to open a private theatre these days is a substantial undertaking, particularly with funding. That has made it very important for us always consider the best possible price-to-performance ratio in every area, including the audio system."
Mr Arends set the budget and t&mSystems participated in listening tests together with Thorsten Brinkmann of Prosound Eventservice, to evaluate the best solution for this application in the given price range.
"Intelligibility was a major requirement, of course, but also full range music reproduction" explained Mr Brinkmann. "The Unity series of t&mSystems really stood out from the crowd during the tests. I really couldn't believe the price, given the excellent standard of construction and high-quality components used, like European-manufactured drive units. The sound quality was outstanding."
The Katielli Theater FOH system comprises two t&mSystems Unity 12 loudspeakers left and right, two t&mSystems XS115T subwoofers, and one t&mSystems Unity 10 for centre-fill. Four active t&mSystems FG101A were supplied as floor monitors.
(Jim Evans)
