We spoke with the workforce behind the bold enterprise, KV2 Audio, whose new system was praised as “pure perfection” by Amnesia proprietor Martín Ferrer Vega.
Have you ever ever heard an audio engineering love story?
One has been unfolding all summer time at Amnesia, the storied Ibiza clubbing establishment that has witnessed extra musical epiphanies than a parrot who realized the lyrics to Fatboy Slim’s “Reward You.” After launching means again in 1976, the venue will have fun its fiftieth anniversary subsequent 12 months, however not earlier than an bold overhaul of its total audio setup.
You don’t casually redesign the sound system at Amnesia. So when KV2 Audio acquired the decision to fully reimagine the acoustics of this hallowed floor, the stakes couldn’t have been greater.
Recent off their acclaimed work rebuilding the sound in Amnesia’s Principal Room in 2022, KV2’s engineers set their sights on the membership’s crown jewel: its legendary Terrace. With a aim to “set a recent world benchmark,” their resolution was putting in a dizzying array of wide-dispersion loudspeakers, mid-bass models, amplifiers and subwoofers that would most likely register on earthquake measurement gadgets.
“A 50-year legacy places Amnesia on a very world stage, so ‘adequate’ wasn’t an choice,” KV2 explains to EDM.com.
The problem was architectural as a lot as acoustic, since each floor of Amnesia displays sound in a different way and each nook presents its personal puzzle. The KV2 crew had to make sure that whether or not you’re tenting out in entrance of the DJ sales space or nursing a drink by the bar, you expertise the identical crystalline sound.
“[The Terrace] is big, roofed with glass and crammed with 4,000 individuals at dawn. Acoustically, it’s a problem,” KV2 explains. “The KV2 resolution—SL412 loudspeakers, VHD mid-bass models and 16 VHD2.18J subs—covers each nook with out distortion. Even the bar and VIP areas have their very own completely tuned techniques. The problem that we needed to overcome was to make sure that wherever you stand, you hear the identical stability of energy and readability.”
Longtime Amnesia resident CAAL, who has been DJing on the venue for over 10 years, describes the outcome as “music in its purest state.” Behind this poetic language, nevertheless, lies critical engineering muscle.
KV2’s proprietary Tremendous Reside Audio expertise delivers what they declare are the bottom distortion charges and highest sampling frequencies in skilled audio. In non-music nerd phrases, meaning you’ll be able to dance till the Mediterranean solar burns your retinas with out worrying about ear harm.
Visiting Amnesia on the peak of Ibiza’s summer time season in July, the EDM.com workforce witnessed firsthand that ocean-deep sound. On the time, CAAL informed us he’d by no means been extra excited to DJ there.
For CAAL and the numerous different illustrious DJs commanding the stage at this bastion of Ibiza nightlife, KV2 wanted to realize a excessive degree of flexibility. The end result, the workforce mentioned, is that DJs hear precisely what the gang hears so the “connection between sales space and dancefloor feels seamless.”
“The brand new system adapts to totally different sales space positions and efficiency kinds with easy configuration adjustments,” they defined. “DJs get reference-quality monitoring from ESD312s and ESR models, letting them combine with audiophile precision.”
Stéphane Schweitzer, companion at Amnesia, cuts by means of the technical jargon: “It doesn’t matter what headlining skills you’ve, in the event you can’t hearken to their music the appropriate means, it gained’t be value it.” The membership’s proprietor and CEO, Martín Ferrer Vega, put it in even less complicated phrases, praising the Terrace’s new sound system as “pure perfection.”
As Ibiza’s 2025 season reaches its crescendo, so too does Amnesia. The membership is poised for an enormous two-day closing social gathering October 10-11, with performances by Amelie Lens, Deborah De Luca, Nina Kraviz, 999999999, Ben Hemsley and extra. Tickets can be found right here.
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