Group Lotus are delighted to confirm a brand new ‘LOTUS ORIGINALS’ flagship store will be opening in London’s prestigious Regent Street – 52 Regent Street to be exact!

Situated in London’s Piccadilly, from Spring/Summer 2012 the building will host a brand new Lotus experience: a 4,800 sq ft store situated in a Grade II-listed former ‘Café Royal’ with exciting displays and a full stock of apparel, accessories, gifts, toys, and limited edition collectables, it’s one for Lotus fans and shopaholics alike.

Designed by tsg media’s Senior Project Manager Brett Lynch the flagship store music system will have Bose speakers and amplification throughout. Music programming is provided by a promedia music management system. “This is an iconic brand, in an iconic location and the system design had to reflect this.  The Bose sound system is discrete and of the quality that befits a retail store of this stature ” said Brett

Music  specifically for Lotus has been programmed by our in house team to reflect the heritage, location and brand of this Group Lotus store.

Harman UK the suppliers of BSS Soundweb London DSP and Crown amplification have published a press release which discusses the project we carried out at the MeadowHall Food Court.

tsg media would also like to thank Bose  for their work along with our hardworking installation engineers Andy Hilton and Rob Holmes

Experienced end-to-end content and systems providers, tsg Media are increasingly finding the combination of BSS Soundweb London DSP and Crown amplification a winning one, as they seek packaged audio solutions that are both dependable and intuitive for their customers in the bar, restaurant, retail and leisure sectors. The Midlands based company recently completed a prestigious fit-out, aided by these premium audio tools, supplied by Harman Professional’s UK and Eire distributors, Sound Technology Ltd.

As part of a £7m redevelopment of the food court at Meadowhall Centre, Sheffield, into the rebranded Oasis Dining Quarter, tsg Media were introduced to help the operators accommodate a greater number of dining experiences tied into a branded integrated design, around the main central circular area.The brief to tsg Media Operations Director, Ivan Marsden, was to vastly improve the existing sound, since it had been tied to the PA/VA, and was attempting to play music through a system essentially designed for voice messages. As part of the new fit out, the operators also wanted the old large format video screen removed and a new mezzanine level added.

Given full music system autonomy with the new specification, and faced with an inherently high reverberation time in the open, circular food court, Marsden knew that deployment of BSS Soundweb London DSP would provide much of the solution. As a trained acoustician, with vast experience of working with several generations of Soundweb devices, he knew that judicious programming of the system gain structure and delays would do much to tame the building’s reverberance once the RT calculations were applied.

Tasked with providing evenly distributed sound across three zones (the general area, the portable stage and the mezzanine) he specified a pair of cost-effective Soundweb London BLU-100 devices, with fixed 12-in/8-out configuration, adding remote BLU-8 touch controllers in both the control room and at the stage, with a simple BLU-3 wall panel for level and source select at mezzanine level. For his power he opted for a combination of Crown CTs 2000, 1200 and 600 amps.

With different EQ/delay parameters preset for the respective zones, music pumped out from their own tsg promedia ams system and tsg ProMedia TLF solid state music player, programmed over the internet, has resulted in a remarkable upgrade that has already received many plaudits.

“BSS and Crown tools are part of my armoury — and what I go into battle with every day,” he summarised. “Individually they are great but they work particularly well together.“

We were working on a tight budget and by using BSS Audio’s BLU-Link [a 256-channel, fault-tolerant bus] and standard, inexpensive Cat5 cable, we were also able to save around £12K on conventional cabling alone. As for Crown, I know it will go on working forever and a day … it’s totally reliable.’

Shoe Zone is a multiple footwear retailer, currently trading from over 550 locations throughout the UK and Republic of Ireland. They sell approximately 30 million pairs of footwear per annum – on average 57 pairs for every minute of the year! They like to keep thier prices keen, with an average price point at 40% of the national average of £20.

As a value retailer in a fast moving and competitive market they required a solution which was practical, flexible and in tune with their wide customer base. The music system had to offer good sound reproduction and good value, tsg media delivers just that across all 550 locations.

“TSG enables us to tailor our music and messages to suit our customer profile as well as our sales trends on a daily and seasonal basis. This fantastic tool helps us provide the ideal shopping environment in which both our customers and staff are happy. TSG deal with many installations for us every year and provide an efficient service along with advice and ideas to continually improve the music and message offering. tsg provides an excellent service, taking much care and attention to ensure that all of our stores have the music we want all of the time, often having to deliver fast results for a fast moving retailer!”

Marketing and Property Director – The Shoe Zone Group

Shoe zone have resigned an agreement for tsg media to supply music and media for a further five years

Where would we be without the good old BBC to explain things?

As part of a £7m in the redevelopment of the food court at Meadowhall Sheffield tsg media have been awarded the contract to design, install and provide music for this exciting project.

The aim is to bring you an even bigger choice of great restaurants and cafes. Improvements are being made to the entire Oasis layout along with the addition of larger and more comfortable dining areas. A chic new interior design incorporating slate and wood with accents of bright colour along with a great sound will create a contemporary and relaxing space that combines food with style. The Oasis Dining Quarter will offer something for all customers whether you’re looking for a place to grab a snack, enjoy a leisurely lunch or have an atmospheric evening meal.

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