The Atlanta Motor Speedway in suburban Hampton is a 125,000-seat NASCAR super-speedway. In 2005, a good portion of the stands ended up strewn over the track, along with a 50-foot high scoreboard tower, numerous lamp posts, and chunks of the adjoining office/condominium complex due to Hurricane Cindy.
The previous audio system had employed a number of older PA horns along the wheel fence, and these were widely regarded as a weak point of the system. “The old horns didn’t do well reaching the grandstands under the suite overhangs, and there was always a buildup of low frequencies there from the race cars,” Thompson recounts. The horns were replaced by a system centered around 76 of Biamp's Community R.5HP all-weather loudspeakers, augmented by 30 R.5 subwoofers.
It matched what was needed from a coverage standpoint, was weatherproof, and the fact that they could outboard the transformers and run a high-voltage distributed system made it a really good option.