Just 450km south of the Arctic Circle, the Siberian city of Yakutsk is an unlikely place for a new entertainment complex…
Known as Europe, the complex is set over five floors and has a technical infrastructure designed and installed by MS-Max — drawing heavily on components from the EAW catalogue.
Above the ground floor pub and sports bar, are an Italian restaurant, billiards room and café. The Striptease nightclub spans floors three and four (along with a karaoke bar), and on the top floor are bowling lanes.
Serving the nightclub, MS-Max has installed an EAW dance system in the form of the purpose-designed Avalon Series. This consists of a pair of DC1 (three-way 4 x 15-inch) LF enclosures, complemented by ten UB82s, eight BH760 bent horn subwoofers, four LA212 monitor speakers, four FR129z LF and four SM129z compact speakers. EAW’s CAZ Series amplifiers and UX8800 and DX1208 rackmount digital processors are prominent among the control devices.
Elsewhere in the complex, MS-Max provided ten EAW NTL720 three-way active line array elements, a pair of SB1000 subs and 24 SMS4 rear speakers. Monitoring calls on four SM129z and two SM159z compact floor wedges, while EAW CAZ Series amps and UX8800 and DX1208 rackmount DSP processors help to optimise the system.
In Striptease, a pair of EAW FR129z cabinets provide the main playback, along with three MicroSubs, eight JF60z and six JF80z, with CAZ Series amplification and DX1208 digital control.
Sound reinforcement in the Karaoke room uses a pair each of self-powered NT29 (offering 90° horizontal dispersion) and matched NTS22 subs, with a FR129z providing further fill. All of these are powered by EAW CAZ series amplifiers.
Further EAW FR129z, FR250z, CIS300, CIS400, CIS65, SMS4 and CAZ Series amplification serve the bowling lanes, sports bars, billiard rooms and other areas such as the brewery and other premises.
With a hotel also under construction as part of the development, a new power station has had to be brought in to run all the operations.
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