Sound equipment for the Final show

The final MA installation will have two sound tracks. One more general one which will provide an overall feeling for the space and another “directional” one providing detailed sound, mainly consisting of voice. The general soundtrack will be laid down on the same DVD as one of the side screens or potentially both side screen (If both I will use mixer pictured below to combine tracks to one set of speakers). The sound from the DVD/DVD’s will then be sent to an amplifier linked to two small Warfdale speakers, like the one pictured below. The second “directional” soundtrack will be laid down on the centre screen DVD and will be sent via an amplifier to one directional speaker if it’s to be suspended from the ceiling, or two directional speakers if they are wall mounted. I’m still not sure if the directional speaker will be like the one described in an earlier blog, totally self constructed, or an already manufactured small speaker/speaker set, made directional through an extra self constructed cone attachment. If it was a small computer speaker it would already contain an amplifier, negating the need for an additional larger amplifier, and therefore power. I am wary of the vulnerability of equipment to theft during exhibitions, so ways of minimising the amount used or its cost without compromising the work are appealing.