Casino de Espinho has been one of the entertainment landmarks in the Portuguese town of Espinho since 1974. Its showpiece is the Salão Atlântico, a 550-capacity hall that hosts international headliners, gala banquets and conferences, with fashion shows, comedy nights, festivals and private functions in between. System integrator SLS has replaced the PA with L2 and L2D systems from L-Acoucstics.
The brief was to replace the PA outright and come back with greater clarity and speech intelligibility, uniform coverage and stronger impact, in every layout the hall can be set to. The casino brought in
L-Acoustics Certified Provider SLS, whose record with L-Acoustics systems in technically demanding venues and whose Soundvision expertise won it the project. SLS presented the proposal in January and had the system installed and commissioned by
its own technical team in February.
The hall changes shape constantly, and the system had to sound the same in all of it. L2D covers the whole room from a single compact flown array
each side of the stage, with uniform horizontal and vertical coverage that holds wherever the seating lands. Fewer enclosures also means a cleaner installation and open sightlines to the stage. SLS modelled the design in
Soundvision, testing splay angles and rigging heights and validating SPL uniformity and speech intelligibility across every seat before a box was hung.
One L-Acoustics L2D flies left and right of the stage as the main
system. Four L-Acoustics KS28 subwoofers sit in a central ground stack along the stage front, and five L-Acoustics 5XT front-fills line the stage edge for the nearest tables. L-Acoustics LA7.16i, LA12X and LA2Xi amplified controllers
drive the system, with a P1 processor at the head of a native Milan-AVB network that keeps latency ultra-low and calls for no format converters.
Predictability is what the room trades on. Layouts change
constantly, so the system has to be quick to reset and sound the same once it is. The casino’s technical team stayed involved through the whole implementation and moved to the new workflow quickly. Engineers
and performers have singled out clarity, consistency of coverage and low-frequency impact, while management has picked out versatility and reliability across the full range of events the hall books. The platform scales as production demands grow.