Relocating to a refurbished commercial bakery in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, Burn Fitness wanted to raise its audio game with a proven system for its Spinning Room.
With sound quality essential, the fitness centre owners selected AV integrator, AVLux. The brief was to deliver an audio system with a simple user experience for the spinning instructors, in addition to energy and atmosphere in the room. AVLux chose the Optimal Audio ecosystem.
Adopting the old bakery’s original layout, the fitness machines dominate what was the storage room, the hand equipment occupies the old oven room whilst the spinning room utilises an adjoining space. The compact room features a low roof at the front – where the instructors' platform and the video screen are positioned – that slopes upwards to give more headroom at the back.
To accommodate the sloping roof in the spinning room, AVLux specified four Optimal Audio Cuboid 8 loudspeakers, positioning two at the front, either side of the large screen and instructor platform, and two further back to fill the back half of the room.
An Optimal Audio Zone 8P provided the necessary multi-channel amplification. The channels were bridged strategically to power the left and right front speakers, the rearfills, and a Martin Audio SX110 low-profile subwoofer tucked beneath the instructor’s stage.
Conveniently situated by the instructor’s lead bike, a wall-mounted Optimal Audio ZonePad 1 hands control of the system to the instructor. An Audio Technica wireless headset microphone is plugged in via the local control panel which allows the instructor to balance voice and music levels in real time.
The control system features Optimal Audio’s WebApp, enabling sound management directly from the instructor bike. Music playback comes via an Argon Audio streaming box, while HDMI connection from the wall-mounted screen delivers immersive ambient audio – including virtual cycling routes with road and environmental sounds – straight through the system.