The RIT Ritter Ice Arena was a facility plagued by poor acoustics and a dated audio system. The space is used for hockey, general skating, and when the ice is down, concerts from classical to rock and roll. AVL’s first goal was acoustical correction that had to withstand hockey pucks. The new treatments included some novel approaches to low frequency absorption and high impact wall panels from Ecophon that can even take direct hits from hockey pucks with no visible marring. The second was to design a flexible configurable sound system that allowed tie on to systems brought in by touring performance groups. These tie ins with appropriate delays are used to make what were previously poor seats good seats. Acoustically results exceeded design expectations. The acoustical corrections please even the professional orchestras that use the space. The sound system has been equally well received, and provides high intelligibility announcing and concert quality sound to expanded seating areas of the rink. Digital audio control and networking was utilized to allow multiple control locations. Media interfaces as well as campus feeds were integrated into the audio system to allow broadcast for hockey games with direct audio feeds for the announcers booth and rink side sound effects.