Community delivers call to prayer in Iraq
Published: MEA
IRAQ: Local audio specialist, Farasout Negar, has recently completed the design and installation of a PA system for calling Muslims to prayer at the Imam Mousa Kazim Holy Shrine in Kazmein in Iraq. The system installed was based on Community Professional horn speakers.
To achieve 360-degree coverage and very high SPLs required by the Shrine, Farasout Negar designed a system based on 16 Community RSH-462 exponential FocusedArray horn systems. Each voice-range RSH-462 uses four Community M200 ferrofluid-cooled compression drivers mounted to a hand laminated, reinforced composite fiberglass horn-array with a 60-degree horizontal and 20-degree vertical coverage pattern.
Coverage was achieved by mounting four RSH-462 in each of the Shrine’s four minarets, at a height of 33m. Four Lab.gruppen C28:4 four-channel power amplifiers are used to drive the Community loudspeakers and system management is handled by an XTA DP446.
Although the loudspeakers are mounted in the minarets, they are open to the full environmental conditions of Kazmein, so their all-weather capability was another important consideration for Farasout Negar. The one-piece, non-metallic diaphragm of the RSH-462 faces forward, isolating the voice coil and magnetic structure of each driver from the environment, providing the resistance to the effects of humidity and dust needed.
‘We are very pleased with the sound levels, high intelligibility and coverage we have achieved with the RSH-462 loudspeakers,’ commented Milad GhorbanNejad, commercial manager of Farasout Negar. ‘The combination of Community, Lab.gruppen and XTA has provided a system that ensures quality and long term reliability.’