Pioneer PRO AUDIO XPRS System Offers Versatile Plug and Play Options for Broxbourne School

	Broxbourne School invested in a Pioneer PRO AUDIO PA system to meet the needs of the students in its Music Department, as well as assemblies, speeches, presentations and drama performances.

The Broxbourne School is a co-educational 11-18 comprehensive school in Hertfordshire. In April 2021, after years of hard work by the school governors in collaboration with local and national government, Chase New Homes and MidGroup, the school moved into a brand new building. Featuring a new sports center, 3G football pitch, and incorporating the Broxbourne Music School, the building won the 2021 Education Business Award judged on build quality, technical provision, energy efficiency and consideration for environmental factors. The School's facilities are made available to the wider community, consistent with its policy of proactive extracurricular engagement.

In keeping with a drive towards technical excellence, the School recently invested in a Pioneer PRO AUDIO PA system, not only to meet the needs of the students in its highly regarded Music Department, but also for a number of other applications throughout the school, including assemblies, speeches, presentations and drama performances. The Broxbourne required a high quality system that was modular, portable, user-friendly, and as is always the case in an education setting, rugged and robust. Clarity in Sound Light and Vision, Broxbourne's technical partner for AV, supplied a Pioneer PRO AUDIO XPRS system comprising 2 x XPRS-12 compact powered loudspeakers, supplemented by 2 x XPRS 115S reflex loaded active subwoofers. Clarity is the UK's leading supplier of high-quality sound, lighting, and audio-visual solutions to the education sector.

Keith Parris, deputy head at Broxbourne is impressed with the system: "Used as a full PA for music and drama performances, the XPRS delivers real power and clarity with plenty of headroom, and more than meets the needs of our larger productions. What's also great is that it can be broken down into its component parts for a wide range of uses. We might use just one or both the XPRS-12 for spoken word presentations in a classroom setting or as floor monitors for music rehearsals. The presets on the back of the speakers work well, and once the staff and students are familiar with their use, it's a simple matter of plugging and playing.

"Given the fact that the speakers allow us such flexibility, they are in great demand throughout the school and are in pretty much constant use. Toughness and reliability are essential in an environment like ours and the XPRS build quality is exactly what we need."

Driven by Powersoft Class D amplifiers The Pioneer PRO AUDIO XPRS Series enclosures are manufactured from hard-wearing birch plywood making them the ideal choice for settings where high quality audio needs to be matched by durability. A long history and rich heritage has seen Pioneer PRO AUDIO loudspeakers become a watchword for quality -- the XPRS range is supported by a seven-year warranty, underlining the manufacturers confidence in this highly versatile series, the company says.

Federico Sidero, marketing executive at Pioneer PRO AUDIO comments: "We are pleased that the leadership team at Broxbourne are very happy with their system. The staff and students are comfortable deploying the loudspeakers for a wide range of applications without the need for technical support beyond initially demonstrating a simple setup process. Plug and play saves them time, and the presets enable users to intuitively select the one most appropriate to their requirement. Technical equipment in schools and colleges is always subject to heavy use, but that shouldn't mean any compromise on quality -- the XPRS boxes will deliver clear, powerful sound, day in day out, whatever the challenges."