Opened in December 2023, the new Taipei Dome, located in the heart of the Taiwanese capital, is an indoor arena designed to accommodate baseball—beginning with Chinese Professional Baseball League matches during the 2024 season—and entertainment in an integrated mixed-use facility. Production specialist Ming Yang Lighting and Sound deployed CODA Audio’s flagship AiRAY system, supplied by CODA’s Taiwan distributor Orpheus Acoustics, to amp things up for 40,000 fans for baseball games and 58,000 concert goers at the venue.
The system proved to be a huge success in a high pressure environment. Strict safety protocols relating to the use of the arena’s field meant that the production team had to assemble the loudspeaker ground stacks between the conclusion of the game and the start of the concert. No equipment could be placed onto the field during the game, and no dollies or carts were permitted on the field during set-up in order to protect the playing surface. This gave the crew only fifteen minutes to manually handle all the loudspeaker ground stack units from storage areas into their precise positions.
