Ministry of Sound has put the six-stack Martin Audio soundsystem that powered The Box for almost 20 years up for private-enquiry auction via Wax Poetics, months after retiring it for a new KV2 rig as part of the club's 35th-anniversary refurbishment.
Bootshaus Cologne has installed a new L-Acoustics 8.1.7 A Series system that wraps its main dancefloor in 360-degree spatial audio, marking the club's 22nd anniversary.
Notting Hill Carnival marks 60 years on August 30-31 with 36 free static sound systems, including decades-old rigs King Tubby's and Aba Shanti-I, after London's mayor stepped in with 4.66 million pounds in extra funding to secure the event.
K Urban Beach Club, on Lisbon's Tagus riverside, has rebuilt its main-room sound around a KV2 Audio rig of four SL412 loudspeakers in a quad double-stereo array and twelve independently amplified ES1.8 subwoofers, chasing the standard set by Ibiza's Amnesia.
ReelWorks Denver has installed L-Acoustics DJ, a real-time spatial audio system that splits a DJ's stereo mix into moving stems, making it only the second venue in the Americas to run the tech permanently.
BASSBOSS is debuting the Sublim8, its NAMM 2026 Best in Show-winning column loudspeaker, plus a new single-12-inch Attuned12, at DJX 2026 in Atlantic City this week, per Pro Sound Web.
RCF is using DJX 2026 in Atlantic City to expand its EVOX portable PA range with the three-way EVOX J9, J11 and JMIX9, systems built to push up to 132 dB SPL from gear one person can carry and set up alone.
Ultra Super Club, a 1,000-capacity venue on Makassar's Tanjung Bunga waterfront that opened in December 2025, has installed a full L-Acoustics A Series system, per E-Tech Asia.
Allen & Heath has folded its flagship dLive effects engine, RackUltra FX, into the SQ5+, SQ6+ and SQ7+ consoles and pushed it to existing Avantis desks via a 2.0 firmware update, meaning the mixers that run sound at clubs and mid-size venues worldwide no longer need an outboard rack for vocal tuning, harmonizing or saturation.
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.
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.
Funktion-One has thrown its weight behind object-based spatial audio, adopting the Holophonix platform and proving it in a Dutch venue, while insisting raw sound quality comes before any immersive trickery.
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.
L-Acoustics and d&b audiotechnik, the two firms that almost never agree, have co-launched SDE with SoundPLAN: a shared file that makes festival noise predictions comparable across rival rigs for the first time.
For its 35th anniversary, [[venue:ministry-of-sound|Ministry of Sound]] replaced The Box's sound system for the first time in 15 years, picking [[label:kv2-audio|KV2 Audio]] after auditioning six brands and installing two finalists in the room for a week each.
