Martin/QSC Enter The Ozone At Kassam Stadium's New Nine-Screen Multiplex

05.03.2004 -- A new nine-screen multiplex cinema has opened at The Kassam Stadium, home to Oxford United Football Club.

With two showcase screening rooms (and four of the nine screens running full digital formats), the cinema forms part of the major Ozone Leisure and Entertainment Park, developed at a cost in excess of £25 million by owner Firoz Kassam, and also featuring bingo, bowling lanes, health and fitness centre and restaurant facilities.

 

The Park is operated by the stadium's owners, Firoka Leisure Group, and the work was completed in just 12 weeks by designers and architects, NBDA Ltd.

 

The audio and projection infrastructure was designed and fitted by cinema specialists, Sound Associates, who chose Cinemecanica projection and a combination of Martin Audio's purpose-designed Screen 4 and Screen 2 loudspeakers, both biamped, Martin Effect 3R's (for surround sound) and Screen Sub 1A for the low frequencies throughout the complex.

 

The Screen series is built to accommodate the various digital formats of modern film, providing the essentials of low distortion, wide bandwidth and uniform coverage.

 

The system is powered by a combination of QSC ISA 750 and 450 low impedance power amplifiers, with a quantity of DCM's, QSC's Digital Cinema Monitors providing signal processing and monitor functions in a single integrated system.

 

Sound Associates' sales and marketing manager, Jerry Murdoch, says that the Martin Audio/QSC combination has proven it's worth time and time again. "We have been using Martin cinema speakers since they started trailblazing in the cinema market and QSC cinema amplifiers even longer than that."

 

"What we are looking for is high-reliability, high output and lower power. In terms of bucks for the pound Martin provides a far better solution than any of the other providers, and as for back-up and support they are exemplary."

 

The company were recommended to this latest project on the strength of their reputation and specifically work they had carried out for the Odeon chain.

 

Firoka Leisure project manager, Nilu Kanani, confirmed that the Ozone had always been part of the long term development strategy when the new stadium was built three years ago. "There's no other multiplex in the city - the nearest is in either Wycombe or Swindon."

 

"Although we initially had talks with other cinema companies, we decided to take the independent route and operate it ourselves."


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