Warsaw is home to the new Karova Club and its advanced technology infrastructure including CDD and BlacklineX loudspeakers to fulfil the owner’s request for the Martin Audio brand cachet.

A central component of the A/V fit-out, Phono Media – Martin Audio’s recently-appointed distributor for Poland – supplied systems to integrator, LFX.

‘The owner approached them for a quotation, believing that Martin Audio would be a perfect solution for the club sound,’ says Phono Media Director, Jacek Stanislawski. ‘The owner, Marcin, has a lot of knowledge and passion for sound and he demands the same high quality as he would expect at home. His goal was to provide hi-fi quality to achieve the same result with classic club music.

‘Once LFX had made a presentation, showing references of installations at the Ministry of Sound and fabric – and we had carried out a listening demo with CDD – they were sold.’

The 400-capacity venue is divided into two DJ booths and four other music zones – including a VIP area, Patio Smoking Room. To achieve even coverage throughout they proposed four CCD12 and four CSX118 subwoofers as the main dancefloor sound. For stage sound they provided four Blackline X8 and Blackline X210 sub.

Project managing the installation were Jacek Stanislawski and LFX owner, Maciek Karczynski. Lukasz Rybinski was responsible for tuning the system, using Martin Audio’s proprietary VU-Net, along with Smaart software. ‘The CDD speakers offer great transparency and fulfil the client’s requirements 100 per cent,’ says Stanislawski. ‘In the short time we have been distributing Martin Audio we have carried out a number of installations with their systems, including Club 54.’