Introducing versatile audio for divisible rooms

Flexibility for changes in usage has increasingly become a requirement for large meeting rooms and classrooms. In keeping with this trend is a growing demand for divisible room solutions. A divisible room is a large space that can be divided into two or more smaller rooms.

Typically, it has movable partition walls that are extended to divide the space and retracted to open it up.

Nureva® audio systems provide a convenient and cost-effective way to equip divisible rooms. An HDL310 system is used in each divided space, and then two HDL310 systems are quickly converted to a single HDL410 system to cover the combined space.

Microphone Mist™ technology — at the core of each Nureva system — contains all the acoustic modeling and optimization algorithms required for when room setups change, so no retuning is needed. The audio system adapts to divided or combined rooms by recalibrating the virtual microphone matrix to fit the room configurations.

Divisible room size limits

For full-room microphone pickup, maximum room sizes are recommended for each Nureva system. When the room is divisible, the recommended maximum dimensions of the combined space differ slightly from those for a standard room.

When the two microphone and speaker bars in an HDL410 system are working separately in a divisible room (as two HDL310 systems), the recommended maximum room dimensions take into consideration the two divided spaces. Therefore, the recommended maximum combined room size is 30' x 55' - (9.1 x 16.8 m).

However, it’s worth considering whether full-room microphone pickup is required. Sometimes, Nureva systems are used in slightly larger spaces than recommended and still provide mic coverage to the main meeting or presenting areas.