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ESP deploys Coda Audio system for New York Knicks homecoming celebration

When the New York Knicks basketball team ended a fifty-three year wait for an NBA championship by winning game five of the 2026 Finals against San Antonio Spurs, a spectacular and triumphant return to the team’s home city was mandatory. An estimated two million people took to the streets to welcome their team along the Canyon of Heroes parade route, which saw scenes of celebration culminate in a symbolic presentation of the keys to New York at City Hall.

Eastern Stage Productions of New York (ESP) was entrusted with the task of delivering audio production for this occasion - which featured a live performance from Alicia Keys - and supplied a Coda Audio system to meet the requirements. For the wide stage and audience area in front of City Hall, ESP deployed a Coda Audio system comprising ground-stacked and flown elements.

The system was based around Coda’s flagship compact AiRay line array. The two main hangs combined four AiRay and six CiRay units each, with two SCP-F sensor-controlled 2 x 18’’ subwoofers per side. These were complemented by further seven ground stacks of three AiRay with a single SC2-F sensor-controlled 2 x 15’’ bass extension each.

Completing the system were four Hops8T (high-output point source) as fills for the dais, two Hops8 as backstage fills, two Hops12 as center fills, eight ultra-compact Coda N-Ray line array units to cover the side seating area, with a further ten SCP-F deployed for low end coverage. Onstage monitoring was catered for with six Cue Four 3-way stage monitors, and the whole system was powered by twelve Coda Audio Linus14D 4-channel DSP amplifiers.

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