Taniith
Active Member
I'm looking for suggestions for an inexpensive assistive listening system for our theatre. The original plan was to wait until our current construction project to make our building/theatre accessible was complete, and then fund-raise to hire a consultant and get a good quality system in place. Unfortunately the local accessibility board threw us a curve ball by saying that we must install an assistive listening system if we want them to approve the variances on our (physical) accessibility construction plans.
Our current thinking is to get something cheap that will meet the bare minimum of the requirements, and then replace with a better system down the road. Our band monitor system is also well beyond end-of-life (can't get replacement parts, etc), so I'm thinking a good approach may be to get something we can use as band monitors later when we get a better ALS.
From my understanding of the law we need 10-11 listening packs for our space (~260 seats*4%). We already have 16 Sennheiser sk100s split between their A and G bands, so I'm not sure how much more we can reasonably fit in those bands. I've seen a few cheapo IEM systems around in the low 900Mhz frequencies (like this and this), but I'm hesitant about buying things from companies I've never heard anything about.
Anyone have any thoughts on known low-end IEM manufacturers, or other ideas for a good way to handle this little curve ball?
Our current thinking is to get something cheap that will meet the bare minimum of the requirements, and then replace with a better system down the road. Our band monitor system is also well beyond end-of-life (can't get replacement parts, etc), so I'm thinking a good approach may be to get something we can use as band monitors later when we get a better ALS.
From my understanding of the law we need 10-11 listening packs for our space (~260 seats*4%). We already have 16 Sennheiser sk100s split between their A and G bands, so I'm not sure how much more we can reasonably fit in those bands. I've seen a few cheapo IEM systems around in the low 900Mhz frequencies (like this and this), but I'm hesitant about buying things from companies I've never heard anything about.
Anyone have any thoughts on known low-end IEM manufacturers, or other ideas for a good way to handle this little curve ball?