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Ashly NX Series amplifiers with Dante Connectivity provide a system refresh Crossroad Baptist Church.
The Crossroad Baptist Church in Ames, Iowa was at a crossroads. The sound system it had relied on to deliver spirited services in its 450-seat auditorium had never possessed the kind of intelligibility the church members and staff had hoped for and age wasn’t helping matters. Originally called in with the hope that improved acoustics could do the job by itself, Communication Innovators properly diagnosed the issues. The church’s new Dante-connected digital system relies on a bank of high-value, high-reliability Ashly Audio nX-Series multichannel amplifiers with optional Dante I/O. The main element worth keeping was a relatively new Midas M32 digital console. Eric Bishop, AVLI engineer with Communication Innovators, replaced the
analogue snake they were using with a new Midas digital snake and he outfitted the console with a Dante expansion card. The card feeds a BSS Blu-DAN Dante bridge and BSS BLU-Link so that system processing and preset control can be run from a BSS BLU-50 processor. Dante output from the BSS system feeds the Dante inputs on the Ashly amplifiers. “When we’re dealing with a digital board, we like to keep things in the digital domain all the way to the multi-mode amps,” Eric said. “Getting the Dante system configured via the Ashly software was straightforward and quick.” He continued: “We went with Ashly because of its value and reliability and because we knew that if there were any issues, Ashly’s support is fantastic. Ashly
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