Iceland - The Café Paris at the Kringlan shopping mall, a modern shopping and recreational centre situated close to Reykjavik City Theatre has a strong focus on providing a quality music environment for its clientele as well as outstanding coffee and hot chocolate.

"Owner Grétar Ingi Berndsen knows a lot about good audio," said Gudmundur Finnsson of Pfaff, Iceland who installed the audio. Berndsen is now carefully building the Café Paris brand of music bars. "The downtown site has been open for two years and is well used," said Gudmundur, "This new bar at Kringlan uses the exact same system based on Ci80 loudspeakers with a Ci7 subwoofer. The café has its own computer based music playback system, and visiting DJs obviously bring their input devices with them. That's one of the reasons Berndsen was attracted to d&b, the level of protection that is afforded by the inbuilt circuits of the d&b amplifiers, in this case D12 and E-PAC.

"It's also not unknown for live acts to appear here, though space is limited; capacity is 116, so this tends to be one person with a guitar type of acts; but that's another attraction, whatever the input source this system always sounds really musical."

(Jim Evans)


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