Gare de Lyon, Paris
"What track?" "How many minutes late?" Announcements at train stations are often difficult to understand. No wonder, with the background noise of trains arriving and departing or people chatting.
Bustling activity at Paris-Gare-de-Lyon station, one of the largest railway stations in Europe and a popular tourist attraction in France's capital. The terminus station was once built for the World's Fair of 1900. Its architecture is characterized by a richly ornamented, over 100 meters long façade with seven entrances to the station concourse, which glass saddle roofs on top.
To achieve the best possible sound results, including perfect speech intelligibility, the Paris-Gare-de-Lyon station was equipped with active, digitally controllable line source loudspeakers from the Pan Beam series. Thanks to the DSP modules built into each Pan Beam model, each loudspeaker can be individually adjusted to the target area to meet the ideal needs for coverage angle and reverberation times.