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The interior of Spencer Theater in Alto, NM, featuring a RoomMatch® loudspeaker system from Bose Professional.

The interior of Spencer Theater in Alto, NM, featuring a RoomMatch® loudspeaker system from Bose Professional.

The interior of Spencer Theater in Alto, NM, featuring a RoomMatch® loudspeaker system from Bose Professional.

The exterior of Spencer Theater in Alto, NM, featuring a RoomMatch® loudspeaker system from Bose Professional.



For Immediate Release

Bose Professional RoomMatch® System Helps Tame the
Sound in the Spencer Theater for the Performing Arts


The Spencer Theater evokes the design of classic European concert halls, but serving a wide range of music types and genres was a challenge, until the Bose® RoomMatch® system arrived


Framingham, MA, July 12, 2017 – Located in between Albuquerque and El Paso, the Spencer Theater for the Performing Arts, in Alto, NM, is a gem of the Southwest. Opened in October of 1997, it established a year-round program for world-class performances in theater, music and dance. The $22-million structure is splendid and elegant, yet inviting and welcoming, with intimate seating for just 514 guests. Its architectural and acoustical design, with most seating on the floor and with galleries along the sides, evoked the best of the famed European concert halls; however, making that design work for a wide range of music types and genres had been a challenge for much of the Spencer’s two decades. The problem was solved with an upgrade to a RoomMatch® loudspeaker system from Bose Professional.

Moyers Group was the AV systems integrator brought on to design and install the new sound system, in coordination with Bose engineers. The system, a stereo configuration, consists of four RoomMatch enclosures hanging per side, powered by three Bose® PowerMatch® PM8500N networked amplifiers. The Bose RMSHAD gain shading kit was also used to smooth out the throw to the upper levels of the balcony, assuring even, consistent coverage throughout the seating areas. “We demoed a number of other systems, and we also tried applying some beam-steering technologies, but these didn’t offer the full range sound that the RoomMatch did while it covered all the seating areas,” explains Caleb Howe, Design and Sales Associate with Moyers Group. “The RoomMatch loudspeakers are the solution they’ve been looking for here.”

Adding to the ongoing acoustical issues, the hall’s original sound system was no longer able to meet the expectations of a wide range of performances in the modern era. “We’re talking about bluegrass to Broadway and everything in between,” observes Bob Phaup, the Spencer Theater’s Technical Director. “From classical concerts and Broadway shows to Led Zeppelin- and New Age-style bands, the need for full-range versatility with all the essential coverage and frequency response was a tough match for some brands on the market today, but Bose was able to offer a real solution.”

Phaup says a number of leading brands did computer modeling of the venue, offering their product-based solutions, but he also realized that this venue needed more than that. “In my opinion, many computer models don’t look at the sound from the audience’s point of view,” he says. “I’m pretty old school — I want to know how the sound is going to be in every part of the room, and so did the Moyers and Bose engineers: where everyone else sent print-outs of models, they sent their engineers here, three times, to establish a relationship with the physicality of the room to inform their powerful modeling. I think that’s how you should approach system design, and Moyers Group along with Bose delivered on that promise. They took the time to visit the hall and accounted for all the venue’s unique physical personalities to decide what setup was best suited to meet the broad spectrum of audio needs. As a result, the Bose RoomMatch system fit the Spencer Theater like a glove.”

Howe fully agrees: “The Bose engineers really took the time to make sure that the right RoomMatch enclosures were chosen and configured for this room’s exact needs.”

Bob Phaup feels that the combination of great technology and engineers who care about sound quality is unbeatable: “That’s what Bose offered — the RoomMatch speaker and a willingness to make sure we had a perfect fit,” he says. “They put the human touch on a great system to make sure that a great performance hall stays that way.”

For more information, please visit http://pro.Bose.com/.



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Photo caption 1: The interior of Spencer Theater in Alto, NM, featuring a RoomMatch® loudspeaker system from Bose Professional.

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Photo caption 2: The interior of Spencer Theater in Alto, NM, featuring a RoomMatch® loudspeaker system from Bose Professional.

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Photo caption 3: The interior of Spencer Theater in Alto, NM, featuring a RoomMatch® loudspeaker system from Bose Professional.

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Photo caption 4: The exterior of Spencer Theater in Alto, NM, featuring a RoomMatch® loudspeaker system from Bose Professional.

About Bose Corporation
Bose Corporation was founded in 1964 by Dr. Amar G. Bose, then a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Today, the company is driven by its founding principles, investing in long-term research with one fundamental goal: to develop new technologies with real customer benefits.  Bose innovations have spanned decades and industries, creating and transforming categories in audio and beyond. Bose products for the home, in the car, on the go and in public spaces have become iconic, changing the way people listen to music.

Bose Corporation is privately held. The company’s spirit of invention, passion for excellence, and commitment to extraordinary customer experiences can be found around the world – everywhere Bose does business.


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