{"id":3052,"date":"2021-02-18T11:04:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T10:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.l-acoustics.com\/?post_type=customer-stories&p=3052"},"modified":"2025-09-26T17:41:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T15:41:02","slug":"wells-fargo-center","status":"publish","type":"customer-stories","link":"https:\/\/www.l-acoustics.com\/fr\/customer-stories\/wells-fargo-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Xfinity Mobile Arena"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Only Concert-Grade Sound Will Do for Xfinity Mobile Arena’s (Wells Fargo Center) $265M Transformation<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Home to the NBA Philadelphia 76ers, NHL Philadelphia Flyers, and AFL Philadelphia Soul, Xfinity Mobile Arena is one of the busiest arenas, hosting 250-plus events and welcoming more than 2.6 million fans each year. The venue was a few years into their $265 million upgrade initiative to re-invent their live event experience, including the world’s first Kinetic 4K Center-Hung Entertainment System with TAIT. That mission also required another key element\u2014delivering concert-grade sound to every seat in the house.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Challenge<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To give fans more incentive to leave their living rooms and come to the arena, Xfinity Mobile Arena, along with the Flyers and 76ers organizations, aimed to set themselves apart with an acoustic experience that matched the excitement on the ice, court, and stage. The sound system also had to maintain sightlines while still delivering powerful, precise, and complete coverage. An added challenge was that the design, integration, and calibration would all have to be achieved without interfering with the venue\u2019s 365-day schedule.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Solution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Because the venue is multi-use and requires frequent configuration changes, arena management based their audio system choice on the same criteria as that of concert touring\u2014full-range musicality and clear intelligibility. Through the guidance of Diversified, they decided on the compact, lightweight, yet incredibly powerful L-Acoustics K2\/K1-SB system because it addressed the top issues today\u2019s fans demand from sports venues\u2014to experience world-class audio no matter where they’re sitting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another solution was to fly the K2 and K1-SB arrays on custom rigging with motorized hoists. This way, individual groups of speakers could be quickly flown out to the grid, moved to out-of-sight for concert events, or dropped back into gameplay position with improved sightlines – unlike the arena\u2019s previous dead-hung clusters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Result<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The K2 System has been a massive win for the Xfinity Mobile Arena. Fans are leaving great reviews online about the world-class sound and “pumped-up” energy at games and events. The arena’s audio engineers love how flexible and easy K2 is to use for different events. “The L-Acoustics K2 system is truly a concert sound system, and that’s what venue operators are looking for now,” says Justo Gutierrez, Director of AV and Sound, Sports and Live Events at Diversified. Another insider on the project said that “everyone wants to look good with installations of this size. Whether it’s for choosing a manufacturer or if you’re the designer, integrator, engineer, or owner – L-Acoustics made that easy.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xfinity Mobile Arena landed at No. 9 on Pollstar\u2019s 2018 Year End Top 200 Arenas Chart based on ticket sales, with 843,744 tickets reported sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With the K2 system, L-Acoustics was able to provide the power, coverage, and performance this installation needed within the project\u2019s budget guidelines. But just as importantly, L-Acoustics was also the choice of the exceptionally knowledgeable Xfinity Mobile Arena operations staff.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Justo Gutierrez<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Director of AV and Sound, Sports and Live Events, Diversified<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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