Wakin Chau “The Younger Me” Concerts Tour 3.0 · Nanchang Stop × REYN AUDIO: Night Rain over Hongcheng, the Boy Never Grows Old

November 10, 2026

On 7 November 2026, Wakin Chau brought his 2026 “The Younger Me” Concerts Tour 3.0 to the Nanchang International Sports Centre Gymnasium. It was his first time back on a Nanchang stage in more than two years. Sound reinforcement for the night was handled end to end by REYN AUDIO: RL15 and RL2 line arrays, GS218 subwoofers, RX12 front fill, M1 stage monitors, and the matching RA1 digital amplifier racks.

A Thousand Rivers Later, Still a Boy

This edition of “The Younger Me” splits the boy in two. One is the Wakin Chau of the folk-song restaurant years — guitar in his arms, wanting nothing more than to sing well. The other is us, in the seats: the ones who cycled to school, wrote letters, sat up all night and hid our secrets on cassette tapes. Thirty-odd years on, he has sung across a thousand rivers and we have each climbed our own hills; but the moment the intro starts and the tape begins to spin, everyone in the room is that boy again.

Rain fell on Nanchang that night — cold and damp outside, molten inside. For REYN AUDIO, the evening was a footnote to the word “return” as well: when a voice that has crossed a thousand rivers reaches the very last row of the stands, it still has to be the boy’s voice that came off the tape. To protect the sound of youth is to protect the youth in every one of us.

The design for this stop was built on the TURANDOT acoustic system platform, which handled global sound-field control. The platform supports offline field modelling, simulation-based optimisation and parameter presets; the wrap-around stand structure of the Nanchang International Sports Centre Gymnasium was modelled and planned ahead of time, and during the show every signal path was monitored and adjusted in real time. SPL stayed full and stable throughout, the tone stayed clean and transparent — able to take the drum impact of “Sword Like a Dream” and just as able to hold the whispered lines of “Friends”.

TURANDOT Acoustic System Report

Site Structure Report

Sound Field Layout Plan

Main Arrays: A Thunderous Opening

The main system pairs 28 RL15 (RAFALE15) cabinets with 8 RL2 (RAFALE2). The RL15 is REYN AUDIO’s flagship large-format line array, built around a symmetrical dipole layout of dual 15-inch neodymium woofers. With forceful low-frequency dynamics, stable vocal reproduction and very high SPL output, it throws a clear, full sound field into the mid-to-rear floor and the main stand facing the stage. The moment the intro of “Sword Like a Dream” begins, the hard-edged groove of drums and bass is let loose; the whole hall sings along, and that one voice is still unmistakable, still clearly layered. The RL2 is valued for high-frequency projection and fine resolution: as a main-array extension it dovetails seamlessly with the RL15, filling in mid and high detail and restoring the razor sharpness in the rapid-fire diction of “A Hard Scripture to Read”.

Side Fill Arrays

The stands of the Nanchang International Sports Centre Gymnasium wrap around the arena, and the deep flanking and diagonal zones are the hardest places for a main system to reach. This stop therefore deployed 32 RL2 (RAFALE2) cabinets as side fill — 24 on Side 1 and 8 on Side 2 — to extend the top end and reinforce near-field detail. They fill the gaps the main arrays leave at the sides precisely, so that listeners on both flanks of the floor get a balanced, richly detailed experience.

Low-End Storm: Bedding In the Groove

The low-frequency system ran a dual-matrix layout, flown subs paired with ground subs: 12 GS218 (CANNON218) cabinets flown as Fly Sub, spreading low frequency evenly across the mid and rear stands; and 30 GS218 (CANNON218) ground-stacked as Ground Sub in front of the stage, topping up the low-frequency energy in the near-stage zone. Every hammer blow in the chorus of “A Hard Scripture to Read” lands square in the chest.

Front Fill: Immersion at Zero Distance

Along the stage lip, eight RX12 (COBRA12) cabinets serve as front fill. These high-performance three-way point-source loudspeakers are spaced to cover the front of the floor evenly, making up the main system’s near-field shortfall and keeping SPL from bunching up in the centre of the arena — a precise fill for the listening blind spot in the front rows. Even in the very first row, you can hear the friction of a fingertip sliding across a guitar string, and the trace of a smile in the tail of a spoken line.

Stage Monitors: The Nerve to Sing Live

Thirteen M1 (ABRAMS) professional stage monitors were placed across the performance area, giving the artist and the band a clean, transparent monitoring field. Across nearly three hours of non-stop singing, both the switches between styles and the on-the-spot interplay stayed composed and steady.

Amplification: Driving the Whole Show

The whole rig was driven by RA1 digital amplifier racks. Through hours of high-intensity performance they held stable operating conditions, with even SPL and consistent tone from start to finish — a solid rhythmic foundation for this rainy-night reunion.

From the first drum hit of “Sword Like a Dream” to the last chorus of “Friends”, he did not drop a key once in nearly three hours. A sixty-six-year-old voice came through the rain of Nanchang and sang the martial world, the old stories, and all the midlife heartache that never gets said, line by line, back to the audience. A truly fine sound system never makes a show of itself; it lets the performance be the only thing in focus. On this night, all REYN AUDIO had to do was deliver every note to the audience exactly as it was — nothing added, nothing missing.

Beyond Sound: Light Working in Step

On top of the professional audio system, the show was paired with ACME stage lighting and tuned as one integrated sound-and-light system. Layers of light unfolded with the tempo of each song, lighting movement answered the audio curves closely, and the two ran in sync beat for beat — an immersive audiovisual experience for the audience.