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Wharfedale Twin 12’s for New Alcazar
Already operating successful venues in Rugby and Dunstable, Ricky Pipe’s RP Enterprises has converted the Loughborough Conservative Club into a new all-day music-oriented café bar to be known as Alcazar.
Once again he has turned to John Southee’s JPS Sound & Light to design and supply the audio and visual infrastructure.
JPS has specified 22 wall-mounted, co-axial design, Wharfedale Pro Twin 12’s as the main sound reinforcement system, evenly distributed throughout the 500-capacity venue. Two of the bass reflex enclosures have been deployed as reference monitors in the DJ booth (where the new Denon DN-S3000 tabletop CD player and Allen & Heath Xone:62 mixer provide the source material), and a further Twin 12 greets guests as they arrive at the front door.
The sub frequencies are handled by four of Wharfedale’s matched Twin 15 (single 15in) sub enclosures and the system is powered by a combination of Wharfedale MP Series amps — 1200’s driving the tops and 1800’s the subs.
EQ’d by Klark Teknik and processed via XTA the sound will be distributed to the four zones by a Cloud Z8.
As with all coaxial speakers, the coherence of the Wharfedale Twins is its strength, with good forward projection and excellent dynamic range — all attributes recognised by John Southee.
“The Twin 12’s meet the critieria for a compact enclosure, with great vocal projection and smooth, even coverage,” he appraised.“The other point is they provide a true, transparent delivery whether run at low level or driven hard — perfect for a chameleon venue such as this.”
In addition, JPS have provided mood lighting in the form of Pulsar LED Chroma Eyeballs, with six Martin Mini Macs and eight MX4 scanners — all run off a Light Jockey controller.
Ten 42in Vision plasmas and Hitachi 2500 ANSI lumens projectors form the heart of Alcazar’s video, which is fed by satellite, DVD and text generation sources, switched via an Extron router.
The new venue will have cost Ricky Pipe between £500,000-£600,000 to develop.
20th May 2004
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