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The new Tequila Club at the Radisson Blu Hotel
in Sofia, Bulgaria features JBL VRX Constant Curvature loudspeakers and Crown amplification. |
NORTHRIDGE, California – The new Tequila Club at the Radisson
Blu Hotel in Sofia has become one of the new flagship destination venues in the
Bulgarian capital. Situated beneath ground level in two separate areas, the bar
/ nightclub has independent lounges, and is aimed at the city’s affluent and
VIP clientele, serving a variety of drinks and cocktails.
Owners, T.Q. Partners Ltd. Investment Group, wanted the quality of the
sound system to reflect the opulence of the environment, and HARMAN’s JBL was
one of their preferred brands. Having worked previously with Factor TC, who
have been distributing HARMAN Professional’s brand portfolio in the country for
nearly two decades, they were quickly in contact.
After a series of meetings and live product demonstrations with the
owners and architects, a JBL VRX Constant Curvature line array loudspeaker system
was adopted. “The owners were already well aware of the advantages of VRX and
we were also convinced that this was the best solution,” said Vesselin Todorov,
president of Factor TC.
The integrators were also conscious that they needed to preserve the
cachet of the new-look Tequila Club, since the original venue bearing that name—formerly
situated two blocks away — was a huge favorite in the 1990s with local
cutting-edge DJ’s and clubbers.
Factor
TC specified 12 JBL VRX932LA and eight VRX918S subwoofers as the main PA,
powered by five Crown XTi6002 amplifiers. Four Control® Contractor 24C ceiling
speakers and four black Control 25 enclosures were deployed for the peripheral
sound in the bar and ancillary areas, aided by a Crown 180MA
mixer/amplifier. The dance system is
under the control of a dbx DriveRack 260, which ensures that the performance is
fully optimized.
The
architects from design studio Idea of Sofia, in particular expressed their
delight with the 100-degree horizontal x 15-degree vertical coverage achieved
by placing the VRX enclosures above the bar areas.
“Given
a choice of several leading brands, it was the long-term relationship we have
with the client, their goodwill towards HARMAN products and the quality of JBL
sound they experienced at the live demo that proved conclusive,” Todorov
explained.
“We
are very happy to be working with Factor TC again,” responded Boris Stefanov,
manager of Tequila Club. “They always
offer us the best possible products, and for our luxury club I personally chose
JBL VRX as the best sounding compact system. Although we have installed
industry standard DJ equipment, there are no separate reference monitors for
the DJ because with the VRX system he doesn't need it.”
With the club open
seven nights a week the new sound system will certainly be put through its
paces in the coming months.
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