AV Install: The Bridge, Church in Chino, CA

As part of the audio system installations at The Bridge, the team at TechArts recommended a set of Dante-ready audio amplifiers to be installed within the church café area, outdoor meeting area, green room, and cry room areas. Lucky for us, our Dante CONNECTSERIES fit the bill perfectly making another killer LEA Professional install!

According to Christian Spurlock, Operations Manager, for TechArts, they were previously specifying amplifiers from a different manufacturer, but they weren’t happy with the performance. Our amplifiers just happened to have the right specifications at the right price point, and the team decided to give us a try.

“The LEA amps have network capabilities, and that is what initially attracted us. We have been making the move to all network-based products and the fact that LEA will soon be releasing a cloud system as well, was very appealing to us,” said Jason Vandergrist, Designer/Programmer, TechArts. “We looked at the amp at ISE, and it looked great. The ability to log in and change settings remotely and not have to go to a job site is significant for us. We have the capability on most of our systems to log in remotely and monitor everything. Not only is it great for us, but it is great for the clients that we can address problems much faster.”

The team has had such bad experiences in the past with other amplifiers, they wanted to try something new that fit the budget, had the needed networking capabilities, and the long-term reliability that is critical for house of worship facilities.

“We knew we needed Dante, and one thing that is nice is the density of the amps because we can do so many channels at a single rack space,” added Spurlock. “In the long run, this helps a lot; if we had done normal, two-spaced amplifiers, it wouldn’t have had enough room.”