Wyke Sixth Form College, Hull: 163 inch LED Wall in the Atrium

A 163 inch ViewSonic all-in-one LED wall with JBL line array speakers and Extron control, installed in the atrium at Wyke Sixth Form College in Hull.

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Completed July 2026

Quick reference: One 163 inch ViewSonic all-in-one LED wall (1920 x 1080, 1.88 mm pitch), two JBL CBT 70J line array speakers on a Crown XLi 3500 amplifier, a Cleverlive signage player, two ViewSonic wireless casting dongles and an Extron MLC Plus 100 control panel, installed in the atrium at Wyke Sixth Form College, Hull, in summer 2026.

An LED wall for the Wyke atrium

Wyke Sixth Form College is on Bricknell Avenue in Hull. Ofsted rated it Outstanding at its October 2023 inspection, and it has close to 2,500 students. The atrium is the open space between the main staircase and the library. Strive AV designed and installed a 163 inch direct view LED wall on the atrium's main wall, with a pair of JBL line array speakers either side, so the college has one large screen for signage, presentations and live content in its busiest shared space. Strive AV had already worked at Wyke on a Microsoft Teams Rooms conference room and a summer 2025 digital signage project.

163 inch ViewSonic LED wall with two JBL column speakers in the atrium at Wyke Sixth Form College, Hull

Wide view of the Wyke Sixth Form College atrium with the LED wall above the college display boards

The atrium LED wall seen from the main staircase, next to the library entrance at Wyke Sixth Form College

Angled view of the 163 inch LED wall and JBL CBT line array speakers in the Wyke atrium

Close view of the ViewSonic all-in-one LED wall and wall-mounted JBL speakers at Wyke Sixth Form College

Detail of the ViewSonic direct view LED wall in the Wyke Sixth Form College atrium

The challenge: a big, hard-surfaced space

The atrium is a tall, open circulation space with a tiled floor and painted walls, and it runs straight into the library and the main staircase. A screen there has to be readable from across the floor and from the stairs, and a standard flat panel would look small on a wall of that height. Hard surfaces also make sound hard to control. Ordinary box speakers in a room like this spray sound at the ceiling and floor, and the reflections make speech hard to follow, which matters whenever the wall is used for anything with a voice track. Day to day, the system needed to run signage on its own, take a laptop or a phone without fuss, and be switched on and off by staff from one simple panel.

Key Requirements

•One large display readable across a tall atrium and from the main staircase
•Seamless picture with no tile bezels across signage or presentation content
•Speech-focused audio in a hard, reflective space
•Digital signage by default, with wireless casting and a wired laptop input
•Simple one-panel control for college staff

One LED canvas, focused speakers and simple control

The centrepiece is a ViewSonic LDE163-183, an all-in-one direct view LED display with a 163 inch diagonal (about 3.6 m by 2.0 m), a 1.88 mm pixel pitch and a native 1920 x 1080 resolution. It is a single bezel-free canvas rather than a tiled video wall of flat panels, so there are no seams across content, and its glue-on-board LED surface is built to stand up to knocks in a busy corridor. Audio comes from two JBL CBT 70J-1 line array column speakers mounted either side of the screen and driven by a Crown XLi 3500 power amplifier through a rack mixer. JBL's constant beamwidth design keeps the sound aimed at the floor area rather than the ceiling, which helps speech intelligibility in a reflective space. Sources are switched through two 4x1 4K HDMI switchers. A Cleverlive ProTect signage player runs the college's everyday content, two ViewSonic WPD-900 dongles let staff cast wirelessly to the wall, and an HDMI wall plate with HDBaseT extension (Kramer and Extron DTP) takes a wired laptop. Analogue audio inputs come in through MuxLab baluns. Everything is run from an Extron MLC Plus 100 control panel in a custom 3U wall panel, so staff can change source, set the volume and turn the system on or off without touching the equipment rack.

What went into the atrium
Function	Equipment	Qty
Display	ViewSonic LDE163-183 163 inch all-in-one direct view LED	1
Speakers	JBL CBT 70J-1 line array column speakers (white)	2
Amplification	Crown XLi 3500 two-channel power amplifier, 1U rack mixer	1 each
Signage	Cleverlive ProTect signage player (Windows)	1
Wireless casting	ViewSonic WPD-900 casting dongles	2
Switching and extension	SY HDS41 4x1 4K HDMI switchers, Kramer and Extron DTP HDBaseT	2 switchers
Control	Extron MLC Plus 100 in a custom 3U wall panel	1

Featured Solution

163 inch all-in-one LED wall

ViewSonic LDE163-183: 1920 x 1080, 1.88 mm pitch, bezel-free and glue-on-board protected.

Focused line array audio

Two JBL CBT 70J-1 column speakers on a Crown XLi 3500 amplifier, aimed at the floor, not the ceiling.

Signage, casting and laptop

Cleverlive signage player, two ViewSonic WPD-900 casting dongles and an HDBaseT wall plate input.

One-panel control

Extron MLC Plus 100 in a custom wall panel for power, source and volume.

Products used

ViewSonic LDE163-183
ViewSonic WPD-900
JBL CBT 70J-1
Crown XLi 3500
Extron MLC Plus 100
Extron DTP HDMI 4K 230
Kramer WP-789T
Kramer TP-789R
Cleverlive ProTect Signage Player

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SY HDS41-18G

The result

What the college has now

A 163 inch seamless LED wall on the main atrium wall, visible from the staircase and the library entrance
Signage running by default from a dedicated player
Wireless casting and a wired laptop input for talks and events
Line array speakers either side of the screen for clearer speech in a hard space
Power, source and volume from one Extron panel

Questions about the Wyke atrium LED wall

What is an all-in-one LED wall, and how is it different from a video wall of screens?

An all-in-one direct view LED display ships as a complete screen with its own processing, so it installs more like a very large TV than a custom LED build. At Wyke, the ViewSonic LDE163-183 gives a 163 inch picture (about 3.6 m by 2.0 m) with no bezels, unlike a video wall built from tiled flat panels, which always shows thin seams between screens.

Which pixel pitch suits a school or college atrium?

Pixel pitch is the gap between LEDs; the smaller it is, the closer people can stand before they see individual pixels. The Wyke wall uses a 1.88 mm pitch, which suits viewers a few metres away on the atrium floor as well as those further back on the stairs. For more on choosing displays for shared spaces, see our digital signage page.

Why use line array speakers in an atrium instead of ceiling speakers?

Atriums are tall and hard-surfaced, so sound bounces and speech blurs. Column line arrays such as the JBL CBT 70J-1 direct sound towards the listening area and away from the ceiling, which improves clarity. Wyke has two either side of the LED wall, driven by a Crown XLi 3500 amplifier. Read more about audio systems.

Can staff use an atrium LED wall without AV support?

Yes, if the control is kept simple. At Wyke, the wall shows signage by default, staff can cast wirelessly with a ViewSonic WPD-900 dongle or plug a laptop into the wall plate, and an Extron MLC Plus 100 panel handles power, source and volume. See how we approach AV for schools and colleges.