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Rooftop lounge / bar — discreet background music, 14 x 9 m

Problem. A compact rooftop lounge wants warm, even background music that sets a mood without dominating conversation, from cabinets that read as architectural trim rather than obvious loudspeakers. The target is presence at a low level with wide, gap-free coverage across a small footprint.

Answer. This preset configures the planner for a 14 x 9 m lounge at a background-music target, a ~5 m listener distance and 45% power, using an ultra-slim wide-dispersion line source (here a K-array Vyper KV25) as the coverage unit. The planner reports SPL at the listener and the coverage half-width that sets cabinet spacing along the perimeter.

02 / In depth

How this preset reads — the engineering view.

Lounge audio is a hospitality decision before an audio one: music should be felt everywhere and noticed nowhere. The standard is an even, low background level held across the whole seating area against a noise floor of conversation, service and open-air ambience, from cabinets that disappear into the interior.

The preset assumes a 14 x 9 m lounge, a restaurant-BGM target, a listener distance of about 5 m and a 45% power setting for background headroom rather than peak. The cabinet shown is a K-array Vyper KV25, an ultra-slim wide-dispersion line source TechnoGuru works with where the application fits; other compact point sources and slim line sources produce the same input shape, so compare in the dropdown.

Read the SPL at the listener against the low target (the planner flags excess headroom as wasteful in a background application) and the coverage half-width, then step cabinets along the lounge perimeter so their wide horizontal spread overlaps and leaves no quiet corners. The suggested quantity is an angular baseline — the room's width subtend over the cabinet's horizontal dispersion — that a real design refines around bars, obstructions and open edges.

This preset does not model the open-air roll-off and wind of a rooftop, the zoning between bar, seating and any DJ position that usually sits on separate amplifier channels, weatherisation for exposed cabinets, or the low-end support a slim line source needs from a discreet subwoofer. Final make, model and quantity are selected after drawings and site conditions are reviewed and remain subject to project requirement, consultant or client approval and availability. Use the brief wizard or /contact to route a safe enquiry summary to TechnoGuru's hospitality-audio scope.

What this preset deliberately does not solve

  • Open-air roll-off, wind and weatherisation for a rooftop are not modelled here.
  • Zoning (bar vs seating vs DJ) and subwoofer support are separate amplifier-channel decisions.
  • Cabinet count is a coverage baseline; final placement follows drawings and a site review.

How this preset differs from its siblings

The gym and live-event presets target high, energetic music across large floors, and the auditorium presets prioritise speech dispersion. This preset is the smallest-room, lowest-level end of the calculator: a slim, near-invisible wide-dispersion cabinet at a low background target across a compact lounge, where gap-free perimeter coverage, not loudness, is the goal. It also differs from the hotel-lobby BGM preset by working a much smaller footprint with a slim line source rather than a lobby point source.

02 / What that means, drawn

Plan view, drawn to one scale in both directions. The room is 14.00 m deep by 9.00 m wide, with the cabinet on the front wall and the listener 5.00 m down the axis. K-array Vyper-KV25 II has a nominal horizontal pattern of 140°, so the covered shape is a wedge whose apex is at the CABINET, not a circle around the listener. The wedge is drawn at half that angle either side of the axis. At the listener's distance that wedge is 27.47 m across — 13.74 m either side of the axis. That width is the published figure, and it is the only coverage quantity this tool establishes. The room is 9.00 m wide there, so one cabinet covers the full width with 18.47 m to spare across the two edges combined. The wedge is the nominal beamwidth drawn with straight edges. It is not a measured -6 dB contour, and it is a HORIZONTAL quantity only: no vertical coverage, and no covered area, is claimed here. This cabinet's vertical pattern is 25°, and the difference between the two is exactly why a single circular figure would misstate the covered patch.

This preset’s geometry, drawn to one scale in both directions from the same derivation the calculator below uses. The wedge is K-array Vyper-KV25 II’s nominal 140° horizontal pattern, not a measured contour, and no vertical coverage or covered area is claimed. Move the controls below to change it.

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