“Venue managers talk to each other all the time, about everything,” says Clay Stockton, Assistant General Manager for the City of Wichita Falls’ Multi-Purpose Events Center (MPEC), which includes the newly-updated Kay Yeager Coliseum. “We talk about shows, we talk about technology. A colleague at another Texas venue told me about the L-Acoustics A Series sound system, and I’m glad we talked, because it’s been quite an amazing transformation.”
Kay Yeager Coliseum first opened in 2003 and seats as many as 10,000 for events ranging from the local Wichita Falls Flyers FC of the US Arena Pro Soccer League to concerts, trade shows, conventions, hockey, basketball, arena football, Professional Bull Riding, tractor pulls, and more. With the venue’s original sound system surpassing two decades of service, Stockton notes that its audio quality was clearly less than what contemporary events demand. Once the new system’s installation was completed, in February by Houston-based LD Systems, the...
