"These little speakers have a great design, they're trendy and they look good, but they also sound fantastic; they're amazingly good value for what they do," says Knight, who has fitted eight EViD 6.2s throughout the Vanilla Bar, even installing smaller 3.2s in the toilets, to ensure coherency of sound throughout the venue. For the VIP bar, an awkward shaped room with tricky acoustics, he's chosen Electro-Voice S-40 compact monitors: "If there's a better-sounding small box, I haven't heard it," he says. "I've got these speakers in my studio and even in my car!" Both types of speaker are powered by EV amplifiers.
And so into the nightclub element of the Vanilla Bar, where Ascot Audio has fitted an EV Rx 112/75 plus Rx 118s combination for the main dancefloor. Each of the Rx 112/75 has a P1200 amplifier channel to itself, and each of the Rx 118s subs is running off a bridged P2000 amplifier. "We've put twice as much amplification on the system as anyone will ever need, to ensure optimum frequency response and performance - it sounds fantastic," says Knight.
At the DJ station, next to an Allen & Heath zone mixer, are two Denon DN-S1000 CD players, alongside Technics turntables and an EV Sx 100 DJ monitor.
(Lee Baldock)
