Owner Aria Ariantalab has spent close on £1 million fulfilling his dream to create Bar Sequence, a 75-capacity environment (with separate pavement seating) in which everyone from media creatives to the gamer generation can interact in a social environment.
A former electronic engineering lecturer and technology consultant, Ariantalab says: "Anyone can come in with a memory stick and plug into one of our laptops. "Media artists, graphic designers, photographers and photographic agents can show off their work - and as for DJ's and VJ's, we can assess these at our Wednesday 'Open Deck' nights."
Ariantalab, who is also a DJ, provided his own playback equipment for the DJ booth but contacted Sound Division Group to handle the integrated AV design. "Their owner David Graham was very focused, recommending the Martin Audio loudspeakers, which proved to be a great choice," he says.
In fact Sound Division specified six wall-mounted Martin Audio AQ8 on rotatable brackets, set in pairs down the length of the rectangular room, with an AQ210 2 x 10" ultra compact bass speaker, processed by a BSS Soundweb BLU-16 8 x 8 digital processor.
These are designed into three separate, locally-controlled sound zones, so with a pair of AQ8's in the front lounge area run at low level to allow conversation, while those at the rear over the dancefloor deliver high octane dance levels, with the sub providing bass extension.
For the video system Sound Division provided seven ceiling-mounted Optoma 2500 ANSI lumens short-throw projectors, with Denon DVD/CD inputs and Kramer switching.
(Jim Evans)
