Adventure Cinema, the UK’s biggest open-air touring cinema company, has invested in expanding its inventory to include HK Audio’s COSMO line array. The company took delivery of 26 x HK COSMO C10 line array modules and 6 x HK Audio CS218 subs, complete with wheel boards and rigging. 6 x Lab Gruppen PLM12K44 amplifiers completed the investment.
Founded in 2019, Adventure Cinema delivers movies in 70 venues, including medieval castles and picturesque country estates. Since its inception, Adventure Cinema has invested exclusively in HK Audio systems, and recently contacted UK distributor POLAR to add the COSMO audio.
The motivation for the new investment was the growing size of audiences, with more than 200,000 tickets sold at venues across the UK in 2024. In order to meet the requirements of larger events with bigger audiences, the company’s technical team needed a more powerful system to obtain the necessary coverage.
Andy Plunkett, head of professional audio, POLAR, said: “Adventure Cinema has had great experience with HK Audio for a number of years now, so they asked us for some options. We looked at the powerful new CX210LT long-throw point source and some COSMO line array systems.
“The COSMO was preferred, so we set up a demo at a rugby ground near their Bishop’s Castle HQ. I’d heard COSMO previously, so was very confident it would perform – one of HK’s mantras is ‘the demo sells the system’ and they’re not wrong. It’s fair to say that the guys at Adventure Cinema were blown away – we were able to easily reach their stated furthest distances for coverage with just three COSMO C10 modules.”
Jon O’Neill, head of sound at Adventure Cinema, added: “Our HK Audio Linear 5 system has served us brilliantly since we started but we really needed to up our game for much bigger events… When I heard the system on the day there was no doubt that COSMO was the way forward. The performance was amazing and the really competitive pricing meant that we’ve been able to upgrade our three key teams’ systems.”
