Restland Chapel, Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas

A single-speaker solution covering 6000 square feet

Restland Chapel hosts memorial services in a main room built mostly in concrete. The brief was unforgiving: carry speech and music clearly across the whole space, keep the install simple, and let the room stay solemn and uncluttered. AxioTech Solutions answered it with a single ceiling-mounted Electro-Voice EVC-1122-VI driven by a Dynacord C1300 power amplifier.

Case Study

House of Worship

Electro-Voice

Dynacord

North America

Venue: Restland Chapel
Location: Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Install partner: AxioTech Solutions
Product highlights: Electro-Voice EVC-1122-VI · Dynacord C1300FDi

The venue

A long concrete room that fights its own sound

Restland Chapel is the main service room of a Dallas–Fort Worth funeral home, used for memorials and family gatherings. The space measures 100 feet long by 60 feet wide and is built largely from concrete, with five televisions positioned to keep every section of the room in view.

Hard parallel concrete surfaces and the rectangular footprint make an extremely challenging acoustic environment. Sound wants to bounce, build, and smear, so speech loses clarity at the back and music loses warmth at the edges — exactly the wrong outcome for a room where every word carries weight.

The challenge

Cover the whole room without filling the ceiling with speakers

A 100x60 ft. concrete rectangle is a textbook acoustic problem. Most designs answer it with a grid of loudspeakers, which means more boxes, more cabling, more visual clutter overhead, and more variation from seat to seat.

Restland needed even, intelligible coverage across the entire chapel while keeping the installation discreet and the room dignified.

A rectangular 100 by 60 foot footprint
Mostly concrete, hard reflective surfaces
Even coverage from front to back
Clear speech for memorial services
A discreet, uncluttered install

The solution

EVC-1122-VI, a problem-solver for acoustically challenging spaces

AxioTech Solutions covered the chapel with a single Electro-Voice EVC-1122-VI mounted at the center of the ceiling. The EVC-1122-VI uses a variable-intensity design — an asymmetrical waveguide and an angled 12-inch woofer — to spread level evenly across a rectangular floor, sending more energy to the far rows and easing it off the near ones.

A Dynacord C1300 power amplifier drives the system, with a robust power supply, a linear amplifier design, and protection circuitry built for steady, reliable operation. One box on the ceiling, one amplifier in the rack — the whole room covered.

Electro-Voice EVC-1122-VI loudspeaker
Variable-intensity asymmetrical waveguide
Angled 12-inch woofer for rectangular coverage
Dynacord C1300FDi power amplifier
Single ceiling-mounted point source

“This loudspeaker more than exceeded my expectations. When they said one loudspeaker could cover the entire chapel and make it sound great, I was skeptical. Call me converted. I wouldn’t choose anything else.”

Troy CantonPresident, AxioTech Solutions

The result

The whole chapel covered front to back with no bounce-back

After installation, the single loudspeaker covered the full room evenly, front to back. The hard concrete walls, the usual source of slap and smear, stayed quiet. The coverage reached the edges without the reflections that a rectangular concrete room normally throws back.

The result was clear, homogeneous sound across every seat from one discreet source, and a template AxioTech intends to repeat in Restland's other chapels.

Even coverage across the entire room
No bounce-back from the walls
Clear sound from a single source speaker
A discreet installation
A repeatable design for the other chapels

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