Attero Tech Dante Wall Plates in BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir

	BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Stafford, Texas

Built exactly 11 years ago, the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Stafford, Texas is the first of six traditional marble and limestone Hindu temples in North America. Its detailed iconography is very reminiscent of the finest stone temples built in India thousands of years ago.

As it is constructed of limestone and marble, the interior of the temple is very reverberant and has complex acoustical issues. Designing and installing a modern sound system that would last for many years was difficult. The system had to be visually unobtrusive yet deliver clear, intelligible sound everywhere. With a building that is an awe-inspiring work of art, it was imperative the speaker be as invisible as possible. Renkus-Heinz customized the paint to match the Italian marble of its surroundings. A pair of Renkus-Heinz IC16-R-II digitally steerable line array columns were selected to be the main speakers on either side of the central pedestal.

According to Yogesh Kanjee, audio engineer for BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, "Running multiple types of cable to every input and output location was a colossal challenge, so we searched for a solution that would allow signal to be transmitted over a single cable. To achieve this, Attero Tech's Dante input/output wall plates were essential in receiving microphone/line level signals and providing audio signal to the speakers. We also used Symetrix Radius digital signal processors as our backbone because of the interoperability between Attero Tech Dante products and Symetrix DSP configuration. Not only is there one protocol and one configuration application, but it is extremely stable and it just works."