Mioli is the mountain county in central Taiwan, where 80% of the population speaks Hakka.

The Mioli County Assembly has been renovated twice in last ten years to correct extreme echo, reverberation and howling. Taisheng Trading, Martin Audio’s Taiwan distributor, assisted the sound contractor, Yangming Pro-audio Inc, of Taipei, to achieve the best possible solution by flying a central speaker cluster with eight Martin Blackline F12 enclosures, to provide the shortest direct sound transmission (four of these are used by the councillors and four by the county officers).

A further 16 of Martin Audio’s elegant C115 surface-mount loudspeakers have been installed on the second floor, facing the audience. The result is a smooth and clear sound, with both the chairman and councillors expressing their satisfaction at the beautiful speaker cluster ‘chandelier’.

Just 20 minutes south from central Taipei the 8,000-seat domed County Stadium is now the most important event venue in northern Taiwan.

A new Blackline system has been installed by the local Kailay Engineering Co., Ltd under the technical supervision of Taisheng Trading Corporation, with acoustic analysis conducted by Peter Child, senior application engineer at Martin Audio.

Four main clusters point north, south, east and west, from the huge central LED screen gantry, with four H2’s and an S218 complemented by two F15’s (underneath the cluster). Augmenting the clusters are a total of 16 x H2’s, 16 x S218’s and eight F15’s. Providing the delays are 18 x F15’s (for the far rear surround seats), four F15’s (for north and south) and five F15’s (for east and west).

Vichai Trading of Bangkok have hung a cluster of Blackline F12’s and groundstacked S18 subs at the Dynasty Tyetop Company. Although Dynasty are a ceramic manufacturer they needed a separate space in which to entertain their own clients.

The size of the room is around 20m x 25m — which presents little problem for the F12’s and S18’s — more than adequate to reinforce a small band.

“We won this project because our competitors were unwilling to arrange a speaker demonstration — or perhaps they were simply too afraid to compete with Martin Audio,” reasons Vichai Trading director, Suthichai Sopchokchai.

Dynasty have a second Karaoke room at their facility, where they now intend to reinvest by replacing their old unbranded speakers.