The L3 Harris Technologies Theatre at Florida’s King Center has undergone an audio upgrade to install JBL VTX loudspeakers.
Located in Central Florida, the King Center an essential cultural hub for the region. The heart of the multi-venue facility, the 2,016-seat L3 Harris Technologies Theatre, is an acoustically live space with a wide fan shape and a spacious mezzanine level, designed to host a wide variety of events.
By 2024, the previous JBL Professional sound system, now 20 years old, had served its time, so the decision was made to upgrade the sound system.
The variety of events, including Broadway shows, rock concerts, ballets, and more, demands a system capable of delivering sound for anything. The King Center turned to APAV Solutions for the upgrade.
The three-year project, overseen by Rob Adams, director of facilities, and the venue's dedicated technicians, including Ed Guilbeau, house audio technician at the King Center, involved upgrading amplifiers and engineering a new steel beam to support the load of JBL VTX Series loudspeakers.
The main system consists of two flown arrays, each constituted of eight VTX A12 Dual 12-inch line arrays and two VTX A12W 12-in line arrays. Six VTX B28 arrayable dual-18-in subwoofers are flown in a centre array that has two cabinets reversed in order to produce a cardioid dispersion pattern. The system is powered by 28 Crown I-Tech 12000HD amplifiers, plus four Crown I-Tech 4x3500HD amps. The addition of more high-power amplifiers necessitated adding some capacity to the electrical service.
The width of the room had previously been addressed by situating three VTX A8 Dual 8-in line arrays with 110º Dispersion stacked on top of a B18 18-in subwoofers on each side of the stage. The addition of the VTX A12W cabinets provided much greater wide coverage than had been previously delivered, but the A8 cabinets were kept to ensure the best possible coverage out to the sides.