Zetor Bar, Finland

Venue: Zetor Bar
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Venue-type: Bar / restaurant
Loudspeaker system:
3 x TCS-59
2 x TCS-118
24 x Impact 50

The Zetor Bar and restaurant in Helsinki is hailed as the most distinctive in the city, certainly because of the decor.

Zetor is decked out using farm machinery as furniture - tractors for tables, old buckets and cheese graters for lampshades, not to mention the array of decorative extras from milk bottles to milking machines. The inimitable design is that of Malto Valtonen, lead singer of Finnish rock giants, Leningrad Cowboys.

Since Zetor was first established in 1992, its unique style has guaranteed its place as one of the most popular nightclubs in Helsinki -as well as being a tourist attraction in its own right! After eight years of Finnish and International Rock 'n' Roll from the 70's and 80's, the barn floor is still solid and going strong, but the time had come for a new sound system worthy of the music and prestige of the place.

Restaurant manager, Sakari Ellila, put a number of systems to the test, and opted for Turbosound's punchy sound, good reputation and impressive price to quality ratio. Finnish Turbosound distributors, Noretron Audio Ltd, designed and installed the PA specification, which was based around the TCS and Impact series.

Around the dancefloor three TCS-59 mid/high cabinets, with two TCS-118 sub bass units, powered by Lab Gruppen LAB 1600 and LAB 2000 amplifiers, were placed to flood the area with Turbosound's inimitable and energetic sound.

The rest of the space - grouped into five areas comprised of two bar areas, two restaurant areas and the tractor tables - benefited from 24 Impact 50 cabinets, chosen for their compact size but powerful sound.

Veli Eronen of Noretron Audio commented, "As the decoration in Zetor is of prime importance to its character, the sound system had to take second place, visually, to the other aesthetics. Fortunately, the sound is intelligible and powerful enough from the speakers, even the smallest ones, to counteract any obstacles in its directional path."