Reopening after being closed for four years, Sydney’s former Bristol Arms Hotel encompasses five storeys including restaurants, bars, a nightclub, rooftop and event spaces. Retaining much of its nightclub roots, the Calypso nightclub – its ceiling adorned with 300 mirror balls – is now armed with Martin Audio’s CDD coaxial differential dispersion series.
A completely reimagined multi-concept venue, called The Bristol in the city’s Central Business District the Calypso floor features soft furnishings and with a carpet extending across the dancefloor, giving it a classy New York club feel. The main room features six CDD15 distributed around the dancefloor a pair of SX118s under the booth and further pair for delay.
The CDDs provide audio playback from the ground up, with more than 60 enclosures across the series visible throughout, purpose mounted in their dedicated yoke assemblies and maximised for wide dispersion. Anthony Russo, Technical Director at Total Audio Group (TAG), Martin Audio’s Australia distributor, worked with system integrator Pro Sound and Lighting (Wollongong) on the deployment at the express wish of the client _ for whom TAG had previously supplied Martin Audio for previous operations.
‘CDD’s wide dispersion really lent itself to the low ceiling, and its throw onto the dancefloor,’ Russo says. ‘Being coaxial it is a true point source, whether on or off axis, with great time alignment.’
Each booth seating area is also served by its own CDD10, while a separate annexe can either function as a separate breakout room, equipped with CDD10 and SX212 subwoofers, or as an annexe to the main room.
Elsewhere, on the Rooftop, where the popular Sunday sessions overlook the harbour, the doors are opened up and DJs play out under the stars through weatherised CDD10-WRs. The muscularity of the CDD enclosures can also be felt in the main Bristol Sports Bar, where patrons congregate in front of an 11m screen, while the other spaces include Ela Ela, a Greek restaurant on the ground floor, and Midtown Bar & Lounge piano bar and cocktail lounge.,
‘We have completed a brand-new Martin Audio speaker installation which brings world-class sound to one of the region’s favourite venues,’ says Claude Spinelli, General Manager of Pro Sound and Lighting. ‘This upgrade delivers crystal clear vocals, warm, full low-end and even coverage across the entire room – perfect audio for DJs, bands, functions and weekend parties. Guests will enjoy a richer, more immersive sound experience – no dead spots, no harsh highs, just beautiful balanced audio everywhere you stand.’
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