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Martin Audio CDD specified for New York City’s Obvio cocktail bar

Under his company Ear Networks, New York City-based Kurt Schlossberg has been specifying exclusively Martin Audio sound systems in Time Out Markets around the world for a number of years. But recently he undertook his first project for Chilean-born restaurateur Juan Santa Cruz, as Obvio joined the operator’s other upmarket establishments, including two in Central London’s Mayfair and Notting Hill areas.

His latest modern supper club and cocktail bar - named Obvio - is right on his own Manhattan doorstep, and again it is an exclusive Martin Audio house, taking advantage of the CDD series’ coaxial differential dispersion technology. “Juan only does super exclusive places, and over Zoom he told me about this little jewel box that he was creating in New York”, says Schlossberg, who has four decades in audio (analogue-into-digital), architecture, planning and playlist curating under his belt. 

“He wanted the most discreet high performing system that could be colour matched, and which could double as triple A background as well as triple A foreground”, Schlossberg adds. Once again the installer recommended CDD as he has for many venues since first discovering them on a visit to the ISE Show in Amsterdam, soon after the series was launched in 2015.

Matching the speakers to the lighter tone of the wall panelling, four CDD6s are wall-mounted towards the front of the building, with eight CDD8 at the front, where punchier sound is focused over the dance area. Softer background music during the daytime trading is followed by a substantial hike in SPL after dark, when DJs take to the Pioneer CDJs. This is enhanced by a single SXC115 “which lives above the amoebic shape over the bar, and completely out of sight”, as Schlossberg puts it.

(Photos: Jason Varney)

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