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L-Acoustics A15 Wide carries Moyo Drymades from beachfront wellness to late-night DJ sets
Part restaurant, part wellness retreat, part beach club, Moyo Drymades - located on the ivory stone shores of Dhermi, Albania - spends its days as a place to eat, swim and slow down, then turns its beachfront over to international DJ sets, live performances and large-scale events after dark.
That double life set the brief for Moyo’s audio upgrade. One system had to sit low, warm and unobtrusive across the restaurant, loungers and wellness areas through the middle of the day, then find full-range weight and headroom for a Saturday night on the same stretch of sand, on an open-air site with almost no walls to contain it and salt air working on it all year round. An L-Acoustics system, designed and installed by Albania-based systems integrator and L-Acoustics Certified Partner Prosound, now does both.
Prosound supported Moyo from acoustic design through to installation, commissioning and system optimisation, with Endrit Veleshnja leading the system design and Henri Balla the installation. “Moyo wanted powerful, impactful low frequencies and consistent coverage throughout the venue”, says Veleshnja, project lead at Prosound. “The system needed to perform equally well for background music and DJ programming throughout the week before stepping up to substantially higher SPL and headroom demands during Moyo’s weekend events.”
“The system also had to withstand years of exposure to sea spray, salt air, humidity and rain”, Veleshnja continues. “Weather resistance came as standard rather than as something we had to engineer around. L-Acoustics’ A15 Wide, KS21 and SB18 IIi are rated IP55, and that gave us the protection a coastal site demands.”
Dancefloor, dining, lounge and perimeter areas all had to be covered at once, from positions dictated by a beach rather than by a building. “Soundvision enabled us to model SPL distribution, system angles and audience areas across all of Moyo’s different spaces before committing to a position on site”, says Veleshnja. “The finished project file aims each of the eight X12 at its own site and azimuth angle, tailored fixture by fixture to the shape of the venue rather than repeated around it. That let us balance the main dancefloor against the out-fill and front-fill zones, and catch coverage inconsistencies on screen rather than by ear once the system was live.”
The main system centres on two hangs of two A15 Wide, flown either side of the performance area, with four KS21 subwoofers split two per side groundstacked below. The A series delivers the definition and the directivity the brief called for while carrying the low-frequency impact Moyo wanted for its electronic programming, and KS21 supplies the headroom to push that impact across an open-air site.
Coverage extends out to eight X12 working as satellite and fill loudspeakers across the dining, lounge and perimeter areas, alongside six SB18 IIi to keep low-frequency energy consistent well beyond the main dancefloor. In the DJ booth, two X15 HiQ and two SB18 IIi sit either side of the console. Two LA12X and three LA4X amplified controllers power and process the system from purpose-built enclosures that Prosound designed to keep them clear of rain, direct moisture and the beach environment.
“We engineered headroom into the system for the big nights while keeping the directional control that everyday programming depends on, so the venue can move between registers without affecting coverage at either end”, Veleshnja concludes.
(Photos: L-Acoustics)
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