Tuk Tuk, Ibiza

The relaxed exterior is entirely genuine and slightly misleading. Behind the beach shack is a second venue, a full indoor club room with palm-trunk columns, teal tiling, LED strips running the length of the ceiling, a long bar and a proper DJ position. Tuk Tuk does lunch, it does live music, and then it does the thing every venue on this strip eventually does: the lights go down and it becomes a club.

Two rooms with almost nothing in common, and one system brief.

The two halves of the venue want opposite things. Outside is an open beach space with a sand floor, a thatched roof and no boundaries, acoustically the most absorbent environment an installer can be handed, where everything produced simply disappears into the air and the sea. Inside is a hard, enclosed room where the energy has nowhere to go. The two cannot be solved with the same thinking.

The terrace calls for distributed compact cabinets working close to the guests: even coverage, low level, nothing thrown across the site, nothing reaching the neighbours. The indoor room calls for the opposite discipline, flown cabinets with tightly controlled dispersion aimed into the floor to keep energy where the dancers are rather than letting it build up against tiled walls and a low ceiling.

What the inside room needs above all is a system that stays clean when it is working hard. A small hard room is where poor systems reveal themselves fastest. The low-mid builds up, the top gets aggressive, and after an hour people leave without being able to say why. Controlled dispersion and genuine dynamic range solve that, and they are exactly what KV2 designs for.

That is the argument the company makes for its whole range. The emphasis on analogue signal integrity, on transducers designed together with the electronics driving them, and on maintaining definition over distance is usually explained through large systems in large rooms. In a low, hard club room, the same design shows up as something more immediate: it does not get tiring. The venue can run its music policy properly for six hours instead of gradually turning it down because the room has become unpleasant.

Flown cabinets are positioned around the perimeter of the indoor room and over the DJ area, with further cabinets under the thatched terrace roof outside.

Tuk Tuk is not trying to be a superclub. There are two of those within a few minutes' walk and they do it better than anybody. What the venue wanted was for the music to be genuinely good all day, at lunch, at sunset and at two in the morning. People come here because it is relaxed. They come back because it sounds right.

Playa d'en Bossa has room for exactly one kind of venue that is not trying to be the biggest thing on the beach. Tuk Tuk has that position, and now it has a system that can hold it from midday to close.

KV2 Audio System:

• 6x ESD12
• 1x VHD2.18