Dome in Güstrow

The Barlach town Güstrow impresses with its old town of half-timbered and brick Gothic. Apart from imposing town houses, magnificent Renaissance buildings and the classicistic town hall, its cathedral, consecrated in 1335, which still has Romanesque features, is particularly worthy of mention. Worldwide famous is the figure "Der Schwebende" ("The Floating One") by Ernst Barlach, a memorial for the victims of World War I, which is located in the north nave of the cathedral. The insufficient speech intelligibility for church visitors was now the reason for the responsible persons to deal in detail with the renewal of the transmission technology. The specifications for the new system technology in the cathedral were provided by an acoustic room expertise carried out by a team from Siusi's Acoustics Department on behalf of the cathedral parish. The subsequent simulation carried out with the "EASE" program provided the specifications for the loudspeaker types to be used. Project manager Frank Simon from Seis Akustik convinced the cathedral parish with a test run of a digital audio system developed and manufactured in-house. As the price-performance ratio was also convincing, the decision for the new system was made quickly. The newly developed SDA290pro DSP matrix amplifier, high-quality K9 condenser microphones and line array speakers from the CX series were used. Listeners with hearing aids can participate in the service "barrier-free" via an inductive hearing system.