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K-array audio system installed at Dali Edition resort in Western China

K-array has delivered a concealed, zone-tuned audio system for the Dali Edition resort in Yunnan, China. K-array and Kgear loudspeakers provide consistent sound across the resort’s dining, ballroom and outdoor spaces without disruption to its restrained, nature-led design.

The Dali Edition is the third Edition hotel in Greater China and the first in Western China. Designed by CCD, the property has 151 guest rooms, suites and private pool villas, each at least sixty square meters, alongside four dining venues, a banquet and meeting space, a spa, a fitness center, semi-open terraces for casual drinks and outdoor lawns used for weddings and private events.

The project was sourced through an audio consultant, with K-array selected for how closely its loudspeakers could integrate visually with CCD’s interior design. Shanghai Jeta, K-array’s distributor in China, provided technical support throughout, from component selection after CCD’s architectural and interior schemes were finalized through to on-site tuning.

Jason Zhao, director of sales and operations at K-array.CN Ltd, worked with the consultant to match speaker models, mounting solutions and coverage patterns to each zone’s function and site conditions, coordinating with the architecture, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and hotel operations teams as the design developed.

As the hotel’s dining rooms, lobby and pool areas rely on exposed timber and stone with minimal visual clutter, these zones use Tornado KT2 point sources and KT2C ceiling speakers, chosen for their small footprint and even distribution of background music across large, open floor plans.

The ballroom, which hosts conferences, weddings and live performances and can be partitioned for smaller events, runs on KY102 line arrays paired with recessed KS2P I subwoofers that extend response down to 35 Hz while remaining hidden within the wall structure. This gives the room the dynamic headroom a live band or DJ set requires.

The terrace lounge and outdoor bar use weatherproof Kgear GF82 I line arrays with GU210 subwoofers, sized to shift between soft daytime background music and higher-energy evening events, with external DJ input ports reserved for parties and cocktail functions.

Signal for background music, banquets and events runs through an audio matrix and zoning processor before reaching dedicated amplifier channels for each zone’s K-array and Kgear loudspeakers. Each space has independently adjustable volume and playlists, while the ballroom has its own digital mixing console linked to the matrix for live events.

The main technical challenge was concealing a full audio system inside an interior built around exposed natural materials. The solution also had to meet very different acoustic demands from zone to zone, from quiet, uniform background sound in the dining and lobby areas to the higher dynamic range and low-frequency output needed in the ballroom and outdoor bar.

K-array’s team worked with the fit-out and low-voltage contractors during early design reviews to fix speaker locations, mounting depth and cabling routes, then returned on-site to recheck placement and to tune each zone once installation was complete.

The equipment list comprises four KU44 I compact subwoofers, seventy KT2C ceiling loudspeakers, and sixteen KT2 point source speakers for all-day dining, the lobby, the pool, and the Chinese restaurant areas; four KY102 line array loudspeakers and two KS2P I recessed subwoofers for the ballroom; as well as eight Kgear GF82 I weatherproof line array loudspeakers and four Kgear GU210 subwoofers for the terrace lounge and the outdoor bar.

(Photos: Marriott)

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