Community a Clear Choice for Torun Stadium in Poland A new sports arena, designed primarily for athletics and football, has recently been completed in the beautiful city of Torun, on the Wisla River in Northern Poland. The city stadium currently seats about 5,000, but with the future capacity anticipated to be around 12,000. The objective for the stadium was to have a fully mobile system to drive the permanently installed Community R and WET Series loudspeakers. This provides for operating the system from two locations: the jury tower and from the ground level of the arena. The system was designed and commissioned in-time and on-budget by Wojciech Zielinski and his Warsaw-based company, Tommex, with in-house loudspeaker system simulation using EASE 4.1 by Elisabeth Zielinski. Meeting the architect's specification for the project, all cables for the loudspeaker system had to be hidden inside the structural components of the stadium and all loudspeakers and connections also had to be totally weatherproof. The loudspeaker system is a combination of central and distributed solutions. The central system uses two Community R2-52 long throw devices that are equipped with two 12-inch woofers, two 2-inch exit compression MF drivers, and one 1-inch exit compression HF driver. These are supplemented by two Community R.5-HPT, which provide side fill. "Those four loudspeakers cover all open parts of the stadium, with an average SPL of almost 92dB, theoretical and measured," explained Zielinski. "Thanks to DSP, used for separate management of every loudspeaker group, the four 12-inch woofers in the R2s also provide an effective subwoofer function for the main stand." The distributed system for the covered main stand is mounted under the roof and consists of six WET 2W8T wide dispersion loudspeakers, with six R.25-94 ZT loudspeakers for the upper part. The installation was prepared to coincide with the building of the roof. "Scheduling was done with the general contractor and subcontractor who handled electrical works," said Zielinski. "This significantly lowered installation costs as all wiring for loudspeakers and mountings were processed in conjunction with other building processes - using the same workers and equipment but under my supervision." Zielinski concludes, "Once more Community has proved its position as market leader for loudspeaker systems for sport facilities; a specialised product is always far better and more economical than something just adapted for the application. What is especially important for me, as the systems designer, is Community's honest and accurate specifications; knowing that the results of the simulation will always correspond precisely to the measurements of the completed system. For all-weather applications with complete reliability, Community is outstanding".

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