NEW ZEALAND: A subsidiary of the Hamilton City Council, New Zealand’s H3 Group manages four of Hamilton’s most prominent venues: Claudelands Event Centre, FMG Stadium Waikato, Seddon Park Cricket Ground, and Hamilton Gardens. And when the company decided to expand its audio arsenal, it looked no further than Meyer Sound’s newest powerhouse: the ULTRA-X80.

Supplied by long-time partner AV Solutions, the newly acquired ULTRA-X80s are already in use at Claudelands, while offering team H3 the flexibility of being deployed across all four venues whenever high-powered point source reinforcement is needed.

As the latest evolution of the ULTRA Series — following the ULTRA-X40 and ULTRA-X20 — the ULTRA-X80 packs two 12-inch neodymium cone drivers and a 4-inch compression driver into a compact enclosure, delivering an astonishing 140dB SPL linear peak output; with the ULTRA X82’s offering more focused coverage at a tighter 50° x 40° dispersion pattern. And the new ULTRA X80 additions strengthen an already impressive Meyer Sound portfolio at H3, which includes ULTRA-X40s, line arrays, subwoofers, and UPJ-1Ps acquired steadily over the last 20 years.

Alongside the ULTRA-X80s, H3 has also invested in a Galileo GALAXY processor, with its presets for the ULTRA range highly valued by their in-house audio team.

AV Solutions, who have been a long-time advocate of Meyer Sound’s self-powered loudspeaker designs, assert that the ULTRA series’ design and capabilities simplifies on-ground deployment thanks to the fact that all crucial processing, limiting, protection, etc happens within the box – wherein users simply need to run a network or analog audio cable and power to the box, while the box takes care of everything else.