All Brit sound system takes US club award An all-British audio system has won Best Sound System in the Club World Awards, presented in Miami in March. The system features Funktion One loudspeakers, MC2 Audio amplification and XTA system control. Ice is the newest stand-alone nightclub in Las Vegas and is the result of a collaboration between Dan Agne (Sound Investment), Steve Lieberman (SJ Lighting) and Alejandro Gonzalez (Kryogenifex) and comes from an idea by Agne's longtime friend and Ice owner, Ed Williams. Ice has been described as a 'meta club consisting of micro-environments' but its aim is simple: 'To give Las Vegas a club that's as fabulous and well appointed as the others but decidedly more music-centred.' With this principle in mind, the 30' x 30' main floor features a 4-point Funktion One Dance Stack speaker system with MC2 Audio T2000 and T1500 amplifiers. Agne says: "The transparency of the XTA processing and the MC2 amplification combine quite eloquently with the overall accuracy of the Funktion One speakers. The result of this marriage is an audio system that is very musical and dynamic, a high output system that offers audiophile quality." In control are XTA DP226 loudspeaker processors, a DP324 SiDD dynamics controller and XTA AudioCore software. Additionally, Lounges I and II and the VIP lounge also feature Funktion One loudspeakers, MC2 Audio T2000 amplifiers and XTA. The 2nd Annual Club World Awards ceremony took place Monday, March 8th, 2004, at the Nerve Lounge in Miami, FL during the Winter Music Conference. Dan Agne and Dean McNaughton of Sound Investment Audio comment: "We find it very rewarding to be recognised by industry professionals as having assembled the 'Best Sound System' in North America."
