A relentless pursuit of fun, food and quality
Lulu’s restaurant represents great food and great music in a fun, family atmosphere. A quality experience is what they deliver day after day, so when they got tired of their old sound system, they gave us a call. They wanted the best sounding restaurant on the Gulf Coast, yet simple enough to control that anyone on staff could adjust the music or TV’s with minimal training. We went to work, and the results speak for themselves.
I could write pages about this particular installation, as it brought some great new challenges for us. But it has been said a picture is worth a thousand words, so let me hit you with some photos and a quick synopses of the system.
The new music and video system is one of the best sounding, most versatile and easiest-to-control systems we have ever built, and it features some statics we are pretty proud of:
> An estimated four miles of low voltage wire was pulled for the installation.
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>An estimated 15,000 watts of power are fed to about 80 speakers and subwoofers around the property, all in true stereo.
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>The speakers are divided up into 16 individually controllable stereo zones. Even the beach and parking lot are filled with music!
>10 new high definition TV’s were installed with an HD switcher, so any TV can watch DirecTV, Blu-ray or camera feeds for special events. We went to great lengths to hide as many wires as possible.
>Custom BSUN Media/Episode speaker clusters were fabricated and installed to give smooth, full range sound all over the property.
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>Two music stages were fully wired so bands can play inside or out, depending on the weather, and we can feed the live music to the 80 speakers all over the property.
>A 16 channel live sound board was hidden behind a picture in the wall. Guests don’t even know it is there until it is opened just before the band plays.
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>The entire system is operated from a Crestron touchscreen, with a simple Graphical User Interface (GUI) that anyone with very basic training can operate. Additionally, we have an astronomical clock that starts the music every morning at 10:30 am. Many more preset parameters can and will be added as the needs and requests arise.
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>A Crestron lighting system is being added this next week, which will allow 9 zones of lighting to be controlled from the touchscreen and/or the processor’s astronomical clock. This will save them many dollars by shutting off the lights when they are not needed.
>A custom virtual fireplace/aquarium was installed featuring a 65″ plasma TV floating in a wall built from 100 year old New Orleans wood. The response in this alone has been huge.
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Pictures can only tell part of the story. Lulu’s must be experienced in person to appreciate the food, ambiance and quality that makes it so popular. I am proud of the work BSUN Media Systems brought to this Gulf Coast institution, and appreciate Johnny Fisher and Lucy Buffett giving us freedom to create an audio and video system of this caliber.
Go to Lulu’s and see and hear for yourself why I am so proud to be associated with them. And keep us in mind if you know of someone that needs our help.
From home theater and whole-house music systems to restaurant or church sound and video systems, BSUN Media Systems has the experience, imagination and drive to get the job done right the first time. No excuses, just quality work.
Thanks for checking out our system, and I look forward to working on your upcoming projects.
Brad Sundberg, owner
BSUN Media Systems
251.990.6599
