RCI Sound Systems' Engineers provide state-of-the-art engineering and project management for the hotel industry, houses of worship, restaurants, sports arenas, shopping malls, schools, theaters, board rooms, conference rooms, and all your communication needs.

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RCI Sound Systems redesigned the entire sound system for the one-year-old, 80,000 seat, open-air stadium.  RCISS performed an analysis of the existing sound system to determine the causes and effects of the existing audio problems, including TEF analysis and 3-D computer modeling for the evaluation of the existing sound system. Once the problems were isolated, a study to determine the causes of the problems was conducted.  From this study, RCISS determined the best approach to solve the sound system problems.

RCISS redesigned the entire sound system, utilizing all of the existing hardware, and added additional equipment to provide smooth coverage throughout the seating bowl with a peak level of 101 dB spl + 2 db in the main seating area. 

RCISS added 160 custom EAW speakers to improve coverage and intelligibility along with 50 power amplifiers.  A new amplifier room was created to house the additional amplifiers.  RCISS added complete computer control capability of the speakers and amplifiers.  The delivery date was approximately four weeks to reconfigure the old system and install the additional components to meet the mid-season deadline.  With the newly installed sound system, overall speech intelligibility was improved considerably, music impact is now significant and the computer control of the sound system provides the balancing capability for even coverage from seat to seat.  More pics...

The Comcast Center is an athletic arena with a seating capacity of 17,950, designed by Ellerbe Becket, Kansas City, Missouri, and Design Collective, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, which opened in the fall of 2002; Comcast replaced Cole Field House as the College Park venue for Maryland basketball.  The Center also houses the university's athletics administration. In its first season, a school-record 281,057 fans witnessed Terrapin men's basketball games for a per-game average of 17,566; this figure ranked fifth in the nation for the 2002-2003 season.

RCI Sound Systems personnel installed the sound system consisting of over 68 thousand watts of amplifier power and 43 miles of cable.  We also installed the MATV/DBS distribution and broadcast cabling systems.   More pics...