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Genelec provides soundtrack to Vietnamese street food in Berlin

Monsieur Vuong is a restaurant in Berlin, Germany, specializing in authentic Vietnamese cuisine. To upgrade their sound system, Monsieur Vuong’s management team turned to Genelec, a brand they were already familiar with.

“The system is running non-stop for twelve hours every day”, explains Andreas Bodenstein, who runs the restaurant alongside brothers Dat and Tan Vuong. “That’s why we decided early on to get rid of traditional amplifiers, analogue cabling and passive loudspeakers. One broken amplifier means the sound in the whole venue will be down.”

Bodenstein could also see the flexibility that networked audio would bring to the restaurant, so decided to investigate further. “To find the right solution, we visited Genelec’s Berlin Experience Centre for an extensive listening test”, he continues. “We focused our planning on loudspeaker positioning, signal distribution, and the ability to control the sound in an environment where background noise is constantly fluctuating.”

After evaluating several options, Tan Vuong and Bodenstein concluded that the Genelec 4420 Smart IP loudspeakers offered a solution for their needs. “A big selling point for us was the single-cable PoE technology of these networked loudspeakers, meaning that installing and configuring the system was far less complicated than a traditional solution”, notes Bodenstein.

“We installed eight 4420 loudspeakers around the dining space, all configured using Genelec’s Smart IP Manager software, and we have two Windows music servers - one main, one backup - to distribute the audio through Dante Virtual Soundcards to the network”, he adds. “The daily scheduling is controlled by MairList software which is also used by radio stations, and this is particularly useful in the restaurant as we wanted different programming for daytime and nighttime. We use Dante Controller for the loudspeaker matrix. Finally, we have a little Axon TCP/IP controller which enables staff to adjust the volume as required, depending on customer traffic.”

(Photos: Marcel Schechter)

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