John Lyons’ JET Takes Off With Avalon
Design/build firm John Lyons Systems recently announced the completion of a custom sound installation – featuring EAW Avalon Series club loudspeakers - at the newly opened JET Nightclub at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas.
Within a modest 15,000 square foot space, JET features state-of-the-art entertainment technology in each of its three distinct rooms that play hip hop, rock and house music. Unique to the project is the Avalon DCX loudspeaker, a hybrid custom product built to John Lyons’ specification by EAW.
Lyons worked with EAW’s engineering and product development teams to produce the DCX, a box that incorporates EAW’s AX Series CSA technology as well as sonic elements from the Avalon series DC1 and DC2 loudspeakers. The DCX also offers a new enclosure shape and grill design made specifically for Lyons and JET.
A total of six DCX boxes run alongside the dance floor complemented by a total of eight EAW Avalon DCS2 subwoofers built into soffits, each arranged in banks of four on each side of the dance floor.
Off the dance floor, 36 EAW custom JL12 custom 12-inch coaxial ceiling speakers are installed over the two bar areas in the main room and used as the main PA in both side rooms. The main room’s DJ booth uses two Avalon DC4s and an EAW SB250 subwoofer for the monitor system, as well as a new Mackie d.2 DJ mixer.