the 2006 original  room acoustic system, constallation, was in the autumn 2023 upgraded to VICELLO 4

Farnes Church

Many churches in Norway are built of wood or brick, which can lead to poor acoustic properties in the church space. The priest's voice carries poorly, congregational singing becomes difficult, and above all, the organ and choir do not receive the acoustic enhancement they deserve—an auditory environment typically associated with churches that have good acoustics.

Farnes Church was completed on April 12, 1970.

In 1995, organist Bert Brons began exploring options to improve the church's acoustics. The brick walls made the acoustics very "dry" and unsuitable for congregational singing. The organ also did not receive any acoustic "lift" from the space. At the beginning of the new millennium, the municipality allocated funds for physical improvements. These improvements would increase the reverberation time from about 1.5 seconds to just over 2 seconds, but this would come at the expense of speech intelligibility, which was estimated to fall below an STI of 0.5—an unacceptable level! Instead, they chose to invest in an electroacoustic sound system.

In the summer of 2006, Panpot AS installed the system. The result was very successful, and the reverberation time is now at the highest preset levels of up to 6 seconds without the speech intelligibility dropping below 0.5 STI!

—"Farnes Church is now 'complete' after 36 years" —Chaplain Olav Nese

—"The invisible has come to life" —Cantor Bert Brons