PHOENIX AT THE FAIR
The Koinè 2017 in Vicenza/Italy, one of the world’s leading fairs for church architecture, religious art and church acoustics is over – and could achieve new record levels: this year, the fair attracted more than 13.500 visitors, including notably representatives of European churches, and 300 exhibitors from 70 countries.
During this year’s church fair Koinè taking place from 11 to 14 March 2017 in the fair center Fiera di Vicenza of course also Phoenix Professional Audio presented its wide range of pioneering audio technology, innovative audio solutions for the perfect acoustics in churches.
At the booth of Phoenix PA and its representative for South Tyrol DamaSystem, shared with the bell foundry Pracownia Ludwisarska Jana Felczynskiego and Rduch Bells & Clocks the numerous fair visitors had the chance to actively experience the professional microphone and amplifier systems and the high-quality digital DSP sound columns of one of the leading audio specialists for church acoustics: Phoenix PA.
Besides new products of the power mixer and speaker portfolio, on booth 7F01 in pavilion 7 Phoenix PA for the first time presented to the fair visitors also its brand new Phoenix LED gooseneck microphones with integrated touch sensor. For switching the light source on and off simply the touch point is touched. Best speech intelligibility and optimal illumination of the reading area merge hereby to an ideal help for the daily church life: the 12 white LEDs are integrated into the upper part of the gooseneck and directly fed through the phantom voltage min. 20VDC, max. 52VDC).
The LED microphone has especially been developed for the installation into talk consoles, ambos and conference tables. An excellent sound, elegant design and an extremely simple operation by the touch sensor make the LED microphone be the perfect choice for the use in worships.
Also during this year’s Koinè, visitors could experience the future of church acoustics with Phoenix PA: the public address system specialist presented in Vicenza its Beam Steering Technology program – including the digital DSP controlled column speakers DIGIVOICE. The slim column speakers provide a continuous electronic controllability of sound opening angle and inclination angle in the vertical direction in real time – completely without mechanical alignment of the speaker system.
Besides this, the digitally controllable active speaker systems are also equipped with a RJ45 jack for connection with a media control and as computer interface to operate the control software. The DIGIVOICE series includes diverse variations with up to 24 x 3.5“ neodymium chassis and 16 DSP channels.
A further highlight at the booth of Phoenix also was the new fully automatic power mixer PV-DSP-4ACD.9.4300. With the new mixer, Phoenix Professional Audio brings the new „all-purpose miracle“ for church acoustics to the market: the new member of the well-known POWERVOICE series is assembled with DSP, 4 fully digital power amplifiers (4 x 300 Watt/100V), 9 inputs and 5 outputs, phantom power, HPF filter, DIGITAL SIGNAL DELAY FIELD, audio matrix, conference configuration, priority, compressor / expander, DeEsser, MP3 player and many more features.
All fully automatic amplifiers of the Phoenix POWERVOICE series provide a perfect room equalization and optimal adaption to the room acoustics.
A strong visitor magnet also was the ZP-40 SLIM procession system, which provides an excellent mobile sound experience and convinces with a battery life of up to 6 hours and a system range of up to 100 m. Two separate power channels (2 x 20 W sine) based on digital Class-T PWM power amps are used as drives. The two power channels in turn each drive two powerful ultralight 3.3“ neodymium speaker chassis. Also usable as stationary public address system in the church.
At the Phoenix booth, the fair visitors were particularly interested in Phoenix’ newly developed transformerless, multi-channel digital power amplifier DBA-4600D. The innovative power amplifier impresses with its brilliant sound characteristics and impressive characteristics: 1 U, 4 x 600W/100V Class-T PWM power amps and an astonishingly low weight of only 5 kg.
On the first day of the fair, during the ceremony there was the event „A PRESENT FOR A CHURCH REBUILT AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE“ , a big fundraising in connection with the devastating earthquake 2016 in the surrounding area of Amatrice in Italy. In addition to a series of past charity initiatives in this coherence, which directly referred to the Pope and the involved dioceses, also numerous exhibitors of the church fair Koinè 2017 wanted to do something special for the local churches in this time of extreme needs: together with the exhibitors, the fair organizer decided to meet a representative from one of the dioceses affected by the earthquake, to express the solidarity of the whole industry on Saturday, 11 March 2017, at Koinè fair.
The fair organizers collected many material donations for this matter of the heart with support of the fair exhibitors. Also for Phoenix Professional Audio it was a great honour, to donate various audio products for the churches, rebuilt after the earthquake in Italy.
As in previous years, the Phoenix team could welcome many visitors at the fair booth at Koinè 2017 and could establish interesting contacts.
The whole Phoenix team sincerely says „thank you“ to all visitors for the many nice and constructive discussions and is already looking forward to the next Koinè 2019!
In the following images we compiled some impressions of the Koinè 2017 for you in the gallery.
