PLATANIAS, Greece – The Mylos club, which opened in this western village on the island of Crete in 1993, has long hosted top DJs from around the world. Owners George and Stelios Varouxakis upgraded with Adamson gear provided by local distributor/installer DNA.
The new equipment replaced used gear that had been in use for 10 years – ever since an earlier system caught fire in 2001.
Alexios Ganas, installations technician at DNA, said support from Adamson was a key factor clinching the Varouxakis brothers' decision to go with the Adamson gear. Aris Issaris of DNA and David Dohrmann, an Adamson applications specialist based in Hamburg, Germany, for example, visited the club to fine-tune the new gear.
The system includes eight SX18 (4 clusters of 2 enclosures) as the main system. The SX 18, with a dispersion of 60° x 40° for each enclosure, covers the main area of the club. The SX 18 features an efficient 18" Kevlar woofer, and it is a 3-way box that also has a single 10" mid-range driver and a 1.5" exit HF driver resulting in an SPL (with Xover preset) of 133dB.
A single Adamson T21 Sub provides low-end for the area, with the two 21" Kevlar drivers easily reaching the club's remote areas and garnering plaudits for both control and punch.
For under-balcony fills – the club renovation included two new metal balconies – there are four Point 8s. For monitoring in the DJ booth, an Adamson MH-121.5 is used, right and left, on stands.
Along with the new gear for the main Mylos room, the adjacent space, called Ellinadiko, is using Adamson M12s as ceiling speakers. Strategic positioning helped eliminate some problematic reflections in the room, and the low-profile M12s, which feature a symmetrical dispersion (65°x65°), has been praised for providing solid SPL and clean and balanced sound with a great frequency response.
The M12s helped bypass the need to dismantle the insulated roof and all its sound-absorbing materials. Instead, the M12s are buckled up into "nests" on the ceiling, previously used for a distributed system. Two Renkus Heinz subs are used in conjunction with the M12s
"As for the amplifiers that drive the systems, we used Lab.gruppen across the board," Ganas said. "Specifically, four PLM 10000Qs, which are four-channel (4 x 2300W with an integrated DSP/controller). Three of them drive all the speakers of the main club, and one powers the six M12 in the Ellinadiko space.
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