Roccaraso is a well known mountain resort in central Italy, inside the Abruzzo National Park.
Its ice arena had to be restored and the municipality assigned the works to HIFI Di Prinzio, one of Italy's leading companies in domestic high-end audio, who is investing and rapidly growing also as a professional audio contractor.

Exhibo, the Italian distributor for EAW, accepted the hard challenge to design the PA system for this hall. The arena had all the possible acoustic problems: high reverberation time, due to the ice surface, concave ceilings and last but not least, glass walls on the short sides. Plus, these halls will not only serve as a hockey stadium but also as a disco on ice.

Mino Di Prinzio, owner of HIFI Di Prinzio and Exhibo took on the challenge of presenting the project to the municipality by referencing a huge list of EAW developed athletic venues.

Guido Diamanti – system designer in Exhibo – explains: “from our side, we concentrated in splitting all the problems, thus privileging the best speech intelligibility on the stands and the high and band-wide sound pressure level on the ice rink, so we proposed a distributed system, made with MK8126 and MK8196 installed close to the stands and a row of MK5394 and SB250 aligned on the ceiling, just to cover the ice surface and decrease reflections on the glass sidewalls. Then, with the help of the versatile EAW DX810, we prepared some presets for the different kind of activity, with different time alignments and levels.”

Exhibo used (6) EAW MK8126 (4) EAW MK8196 (4) EAW5394 (2) EAW SB250 (1) EAW DX810 with remote panels (2) Ecler amps DPA2000 (2) Ecler amps DPA2500T (1) Ecler am DPA4000T and (2) Sennheiser wireless mics to complete this project.