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Background
Anytime Fitness wanted their gym floor to feel like an experience, not just a room full of equipment. That meant screens members could see from anywhere, music that carried evenly across a large space, and instructors able to run their own audio in the studios without touching the main system.
Focus AV was engaged to design and install the lot as one integrated system — LED, signage, audio, video distribution and control.
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The challenge
The building fought us on nearly every front.
- Very high ceilings over the main floor, dropping to standard height in the studios — one speaker type was never going to cover both.
- Sightlines from every corner of the gym floor, so no member is left looking at the back of a screen.
- A 6m × 3m LED screen to install in a working gym, with structural constraints and no room for scaffold.
- The gym had to stay open. Members training, classes running, revenue unaffected.
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The solution
A 6m × 3m Aurora LED screen at 3.91mm pitch anchors the main floor, on Aurora's own mounting system. Six CHiQ 75" screens fill the gaps — three facing east across the weights area, one in each studio and functional fitness room.
Audio is split by ceiling height: Sonance 8" pendants where the roof is high, EV pendants where it drops. The team tuned it on site across multiple passes until coverage was even everywhere, not just under the speakers.
A Blustream Pro matrix pushes any of four 4K sources to any screen in the building. Staff drive the whole thing from an iPad — audio level and input per zone, video routing, all on a layout built around how they actually work.
Each studio also runs a standalone Fitness Audio Aeromic system with its own mixer and wall speakers, so instructors can connect their own music over Bluetooth without involving the main system.
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The outcome
The gym never shut. Installation was planned around class timetables and executed with scissor lifts in the quiet windows.
Members now get a genuinely immersive floor — a wall-sized screen visible from anywhere, sound that holds up wherever you train, and studios that run themselves. Staff control it from one iPad instead of a rack of remotes.
The LED carries local support, warranty and repair with next-business-day technician response under a Gold support package, so dead pixels or a power supply fault never become a long outage.
