With Yamaha’s product offering growing almost as fast as Thomsun’s digital footprint recently, the distributor felt it was high time to introduce this growing portfolio to the UAE’s installation and rental community. With this in mind, Thomsun welcomed approximately 110 guests from a wide cross section of the industry to the Jumeirah Creekside Hotel.

The well-executed event was split into two distinct areas. On the ground floor, two separate, adjacent rooms offered listening demonstrations of Yamaha’s range of installation products. A selection of sound bars and smaller speaker systems were presented in one room, before attendees made their way next door to be greeted by Yamaha’s switching solutions and Dante-enabled speaker systems, all intended for use in boardroom environments. This was coupled with expert demonstrations and product knowledge offered throughout on behalf Yamaha and Thomsun staff.

Downstairs a range of Yamaha’s monitoring, headphone and smaller PA speaker ranges had been set-up. Here, a dedicated demonstration of the new Stagepas 1K was offered. Attendees appeared impressed by the solution’s quality of sound output together with its simplicity and flexibility of use.

Guests were then led into the hotel’s ballroom for the second half of the event where the manufacturer’s high-end 3-way DZR speaker range was introduced by Jan Crutelle, PA technical marketing supervisor at Yamaha. In addition to this and in order to demonstrate the qualities of the Stagepas1K and the older Stagepas600BT, coupled with DXS12 mkII, a ‘from the ground up’ demonstration detailed just how easy it is to set up these compact speaker solutions and explored the simplistic approach to linking the cabinets in order to produce a stereo signal capable of delivering enough sound pressure to adequately fill the large ballroom.

The third and final demonstration, presented by Crutelle, focused on the DZR series of Dante powered speakers, which included the DZR315D and DZR15D. Also on show was the CZR15 with PX10, DBR15, DXR12, DXS18, DXS18XLFD as well as the VXL24 line array, powered by a PX5 amplifier.