Fabric London replaced the sound systems in Room 2 (unchanged since 2016) and Room 3 (since 2018) with bespoke rigs co-designed in-house with Norwegian specialists NNNN Audio, installed in five days ahead of a reopening event.
Music Room, opening 1 July on Church Street, is Belfast's first dedicated listening bar, a custom hi-fi room built for sitting down and actually hearing records, and the latest sign that the global listening-bar movement is still growing.
For its 22nd birthday, Cologne club Bootshaus turned its main floor into a permanent L-Acoustics system that splits a DJ's ordinary stereo mix into a moving, three-dimensional field, billed as a world first for the format.
The travelling sound system that helped trigger Britain’s anti-rave law will show its archive at REinsTate in Silvertown from 16 to 19 September 2026, closing with an SP23 rave.
On Saturday 13 June the Tekno Anti Rep collective rolled sound systems through about 30 French cities against the Ripost bill, which would jail rave organisers for up to two years and fine them 30,000 euros.
Washington DC's Echostage, the highest-ranked club in North America, has installed an L-Acoustics L2 system, the kind of line array built for arenas, in one of the first permanent US installs of the box.
