TIRANA, Albania – Prosound Shpk, EAW's Albanian distributor, designed and installed the sound system for a 600-capacity nightclub that reopened recently. Catering to the needs of DJs and live bands, the club, Mumja, has been equipped with eight EAW JFL210 Compact Line Array Modules and four EAW LA400 Subwoofers.
The JFL210s are configured in two arrays of four speakers each, buttressed by the LA400 Bent Horn Subwoofers under the stage. Visiting DJs can hear themselves via a pair of EAW FR129z Compact Full-Range Loudspeakers used as stage monitors.
The owners of the two-story, 4,000-square-foot nightclub were looking for a high-energy sound system using speakers placed as fills throughout the club. Kliton Gjika, sales manager for Prosound Shpk, recommended the EAW JFL210 line array instead.
"The JFL210 has an amazing sound, it's very easy to rig, and has wide horizontal coverage that can fill the entire club and with vertical coverage to reach all the way to the front of the club and to the balcony, which is 50 feet away," he noted. "It was the perfect solution."
Gjika added that visiting DJs and bands have been surprised by the quality and coverage of the sound system from a line array in a dance club. "They all ask, ‘how its possible just these few speakers to cover the entire club?'" he said. "But when they hear it, they believe it."
Gjika chose the EAW LA400 sub for its punchy bass and consistent medium throw, well-suited for the bass-heavy house music favored by the international DJs and live bands that perform at Mumja.
"Sometimes we have to turn down the sub," he said. "It has 500 watts RMS, and the output is comparable to using double 18-inch subs. That means we don't have to push the power amplifiers as hard, so the sound stays clear."
Prosound introduced EAW to the Albanian installed-sound market several years ago, initially with the KF730 Compact Line Array Module as rental items. Demand and inventory have grown since then, and Prosound added the EAW Avalon Series and EAW's SMS Surface Mount Series of loudspeakers.
"The EAW brand has become well respected in Albania," Gjika said. "It offers great overall clarity at all frequencies, clear highs, warm midrange and amazing low-frequency response, even at high SPLs. They're just great speakers."
