Kobe Port Museum in Japan is a new cultural complex offering an aquarium, food hall and bridal desk. The space on the ground floor is a ‘next-generation’ food hall, where Kobe restaurant brand, Tooth Tooth has installed a Martin Audio system with background music produced by Fish Four.

‘High-quality BGM is an indispensable element for restaurants and cafes,’ says company President Yutaka Okano. ‘We choose music suitable for both day time and night time, and develop the atmosphere of the place. We have enjoyed a long relationship with Martin Audio and have used the brand in several facilities to date. With confidence in the quality of Martin Audio’s loudspeakers, we again requested them without hesitation.’

In all, 29 CDD6TX cabinets have been installed on the room’s pillars, covering a wide area of the food hall. In addition, Adorn series loudspeakers have been placed in the aisles with ACP-55T pendant and ASC-55T ceiling speakers. Including the outdoor terrace, 52 Martin Audio speakers feature in total.

At night, DJs come in and play live. In addition, there is an event space in the hall, and if necessary, a portable Blackline X10 can be set up.

Since there are three places in the building where DJ booths may be located, it was necessary to devise ways to smoothly transfer the signal inputs from these locations, and this was accomplished via a mobile input DSP rack, with the input signal delivered to the system via Dante. Switching between the ‘Start DJ’ and ‘Return to BGM’ sources is therefore straightforward.

‘There is an aquarium above the bar counter in the centre of the food hall, and this is visible from beneath,’ Okano says. ‘We’ve created an amazing atmosphere which is well worth experiencing when visiting Kobe.’

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