Adding the JX EDM Live to its nightclub chain, China’s JX Investment Group has chosen Alcons Audio pro-ribbon audio systems to deliver the dance music at two new clubs – one in Yulin, Shaanxi Province and the other in Wúzhōu, Guangxi Province. The Guangzhou office of Hong Kong-based distributor EAD was called in to design audio systems, which were were installed by Donbn Audio.
‘In China, the EDM club market is very competitive,’ says EAD Marketing Manager, Locky Deng. ‘They are using high-end speakers because customers want the best quality music experience. After tests with two other leading loudspeaker brands, they chose Alcons because the pro-ribbon technology met their demand for the best sound and coverage.’
Both are large venues, with a floor area of 640m2 and a height of 18m. EAD Project Design Engineer Mr Kanon chose an Alcons pro-ribbon system of eight LR28 large format three-way double 14-inch line-array modules, installed as LR main clusters, with seven VR12 mid-size versatile 12-inch pro-ribbon monitors covering the space behind the LR28 arrays, as well as for DJ monitors.
Fifteen BF362 high-output double 18-inch subwoofers are installed, four as a main central bass cluster at the DJ booth and the rest in a symmetrical arrangement throughout each club. A BQ211 compact high-output 21-inch quarter-wave subwoofer is also included in the main bass array. Each system is powered and controlled by nine Sentinel10 amplified loudspeaker controllers and features Alcons SIS pre-wiring for system damping, reducing distortion and keeping the output quality of each element as consistent as possible.
‘EDM needs clean ultra-low frequencies. Combining the LR28, VR12, BF362 and BQ211 in the systems perfectly reproduces the music in hi-fi quality at concert sound pressure levels,’ says Mr Kanon. ‘The Alcons ALControl remote control software also makes setting up and monitoring the systems very straightforward.’
‘Alcons pro-ribbon audio systems have overcome the difficulty of delivering consistent sound in large spaces, achieving HiFi quality at high sound pressure levels. They are very impressive,’ JX Investment Group VP, Mr Luo,/
JX Investment Group is currently planning further JX EDM Live venues across China.
