RIMINI, ITALY - One of the few clubs in the world able to boast a 50-year history, the stylish Paradiso club offers clients a breathtaking view from its unbeatable vantage point overlooking the Adriatic Riviera.
The legendary venue recently became front-page news when the new owners, Luca De Simone and Alessandro Volta, announced their intention to reopen the legendary Italian venue exactly 50 years after its original inauguration, undertaking to restore it to its role as one of Europe's leading clubs with a new sound system.
De Simone and Volta called in Riccione architect Marco Lucchi, designer of some of the country's key venues, and his stylish black and white décor and extensive use of glass and mirrors has produced a spacious minimal look. The club is already hosting high profile meetings, product launches, and other exclusive events by top companies, who also make use of Paradiso Dream Club's two restaurants and conference room, as well as its capacity to cater receptions for up to 1,000 people.
Particularly striking is its first-floor VIP zone, with a huge window overlooking the lights of the towns along the coastline. Here, nights begin with a restaurant and sushi bar format with background music. At midnight, staffers remove part of the seating and tables, revealing a dance floor for live bands and top DJs, opposite the huge bar.
The task of designing and installing a sound system up to management's demanding standards was entrusted to Max DeLux of San Marino's Titansound & Light, who chose Martin Aduio for the sound system. Since the room is long and rectangular, DeLux specified 12 Blackline F10 enclosures and six S15 subs; the latter were chosen for their fast frequency response and installed at strategic points on the floor around the perimeter of the dance area.
The speakers are ideally suited to room aesthetics, due to their custom white livery and unobtrusive rectangular format; their rotatable HF horn enables them to be installed vertically or horizontally, as in the Paradiso. The F10 ensures uniform quality coverage over the entire area and DeLux adds, "Although they're compact units, they've a frequency range that goes down to 65Hz and a rated power of 300W."
The compact vented S15 sub-bass system is an ideal partner for the F10 enclosures, extending and increasing the total low frequency output power, thanks to the long-excursion 15" woofer and 4" voice coil driver. It packs a hefty punch too, notes DeLux, with 500W of rated power.
Behind the console DJs can also take advantage of Blackline's sonic quality with a pair of F15s and two S15s on monitor duties. Their colleagues mixing sounds for clients on the main dance floor downstairs are also ensured leading edge monitoring with an identical setup.
