RG Jones is the Club's sole provider of audio equipment and services. As well as providing equipment on hire to the Club, it also manages the Club's ever increasing inventory of audio equipment.
"We deploy services on to all of Championship Courts, the hospitality marquees, the famous Queue Lane and for the Aorangi Terrace Large Screen system," explains RG Jones project manager Tim Speight Tim. "We are also responsible for a large comms installation, and this year we rolled out 42 Riedel Panels across the complex."
The presentation from Centre Court after the Men's Final is heard by one of the largest annual global television audiences and the audio has to be perfect. So when Sennheiser UK suggested RG Jones try the new 9000 system, they jumped at the chance.
"By some margin, 9000 was the very best sounding radio mic system I have ever used, it really is as good as they say," says Speight. "We only need two channels for The Championships - a main and a backup - so we didn't really explore the multi-channel flexibility of the 9000 system, nor most of the other features. We did, however, make use of the multiple audio output options; we took a signal directly from one output and the BBC picked up an identical signal from another output on the device.
"The requirement for The Championships is to deliver a high quality and reliable audio signal from the centre of the court. It is only required for approximately 30 minutes across the duration of the tournament, but it is heard by a worldwide television audience. Thank you Sennheiser, the 9000 system did exactly what was required."
(Jim Evans)
