KV2 Audio

08/10/2026

04/10/2026

Hear the Lion Roar. 🦁 25 years of THE LION KING in Hamburg – now with KV2 point source, specified by Tony Award winner John Shivers. See us at LEaT con 6–8 Oct: Technical Tour Thu 8 Oct, live demos in Demo Room A1.4. Full story → link in bio.

📷 Alessandro Pinna · Stage Entertainment · Music: Timeless Africa – Geoff Harvey (Purple Planet Music), CC BY 4.0

02/10/2026

Hear the Lion Roar.

The Lion King - Musical has played the Stage Theater im Hafen in Hamburg since December 2001 – Germany's most successful musical, over 700,000 spectators a year. For its 25th anniversary, Entertainment upgraded the sound system to carry the show forward for the next twenty-five years and chose KV2 Audio point source, specified by sound designer and Tony Award winner John Shivers.

"Vocal intelligibility was a critical consideration for such a globally recognised story and soundtrack. Each member of the 2,030 seat theatre should experience every word or musical note without compromise. KV2 point-source loudspeakers deliver exceptionally natural, detailed sound at any level, with superb coverage and minimal listener fatigue," says Shivers.

Meet us at LEaT con, Hamburg, 6–8 October: Technical Tour behind the scenes of THE LION KING with Stage Entertainment and KV2 Audio on Thursday 8 October, and live demos in Demo Room A1.4 (Hall A1) every day. Booth A4-C03, Hall A4.

Programme, demo times and Technical Tour details: https://www.kv2audio.com/news/kv2-audio-at-leat-con-26-6-8-october-2026-hamburg.html

Read the full story: https://www.kv2audio.com/news/kv2-audio-plays-a-starring-role-in-the-25th-anniversary-of-the-lion-king-in-hamburg.html

📷 Alessandro Pinna · Stage Entertainment

16/09/2026

From cinema to theatre. 🎭

Divadlo Poprad, Slovakia, is a former cinema in the city's second-oldest quarter, reborn by Architekti zerozero as an independent theatre with three stages: a 164-seat Main Auditorium, a 76-capacity Studio and an outdoor Summer Stage. There is a tailored KV2 Audio system in every one of them – 27 loudspeakers from the ESR, VHD, ESD and EX series, specified for one thing above all: the same clarity in every seat.

Main Auditorium: 2× ESR215MkII with ESR3000D, 4× VHD4.18 with VHD3200D, 3× EX26 front fills, 2× ESD10 side fills. Studio and Summer Stage: a portable set of EX12 and EX1.8. Eight EX10s serve as monitors and fills across all three stages.

"The sound is precise and articulate, with every instrument clearly defined, vocals sitting right up at the forefront, and excellent dynamics throughout the performance. KV2 has not simply met my expectations – it has exceeded them by a considerable margin." — Eduard Fertáľ, Sound Consultant, Poprad Theatre

Full story: https://www.kv2audio.com/news/kv2-audio-completes-the-transformation-of-a-former-cinema-into-a-striking-new-theatre-in-slovakia.html

Distribution: Audio Production s.r.o. · Installation: Art Lighting Production s.r.o. · Architecture: Architekti zerozero ·

📷 Matej Hakár

06/09/2026

KV2 Audio at PLASA Show 2026 — Olympia London, 6–8 September.

Two places to find us this year:

Stand B9 — the latest from the KV2 portfolio and the people who design and use it.
Gallery Level — our dedicated demo room, open all three days. Walk-in listening sessions with the ES1.0, ESD Cube, ESD8, EX28 and the ESR215 paired with VHD2.18J subwoofers.

Since last year's show, KV2’s projects have included powering the reopened Box at Ministry of Sound in London, bringing new clarity to the University of Bradford’s Great Hall, and taking on the acoustics of Leangen Arena in Trondheim. The demo room is where you can hear what those venues heard.

"We always enjoy returning to the PLASA Show and inviting attendees to experience KV2 products in our demo room. There's no substitute for hearing the systems first-hand." — Jonathan Reece, Managing Director, KV2 Audio UK

Registration is free: https://www.plasashow.com

Full story: https://www.kv2audio.com/news/kv2-audio-to-demonstrate-the-power-of-point-source-at-plasa-2026.html

25/08/2026

Ice rinks are brutal rooms for sound. Concrete, steel, glass and a sheet of ice — every surface throws the sound straight back at you, and announcements turn to mush.

Leangen Arena in Trondheim, home to hockey side Nidaros, now runs 26 KV2 ESD12 loudspeakers around the rink with eight VHD4.18 subwoofers overhead. Every seat sits close to a loudspeaker, so what you hear is the sound aimed at you rather than the sound bouncing off the roof. Announcements land. Music has weight behind it.

The subwoofers were the interesting part. The best position for them was already taken by the arena's media cube, so integrator Avonlyd AS built a new steel structure around it and let the array follow the oval of the room.

Behind the loudspeakers sits a full Dante network on Netgear switches, NST Audio processing, Yamaha control and paging, Soleux power management and Sennheiser wireless — plus Auracast for assistive listening. Good systems are always a team effort.

Full six-page feature in MONDO | STADIA #49:
https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/mdst47_digitallr_dcba693f9d2c4f/54

KV2 website: https://www.kv2audio.com/news/kv2-audio-enhances-control-and-intelligibility-at-norways-leangen-arena.html

System design, engineering and integration: Avonlyd AS
Consulting engineers: COWI
Photo credit: Endre Forbord

20/08/2026

🇬🇧 See you at PLASA Show 2026 — Olympia London, 6–8 September.

Our demo room is back on the Gallery Level, with walk-in listening sessions running across all three days. Hear the difference point source makes for yourself.

On demo: ES1.0, ESR215 with VHD2.18J subs, EX28, ESD8 and the ultra-compact ESD Cube.

"There's no substitute for hearing the systems first-hand. It's incredibly rewarding to see people's reactions and to demonstrate what our systems can deliver across such a wide range of applications." — Jonathan Reece, Managing Director, KV2 UK

Find the team on Stand B9 and on the Gallery Level

👉 https://www.kv2audio.com/news/kv2-audio-to-demonstrate-the-power-of-point-source-at-plasa-2026.html

14/08/2026

🇵🇹 Lisbon's K Urban Beach Club has a new voice.

Set on the banks of the Tagus River, this restaurant, cocktail bar and nightclub wanted the kind of sound you'd expect from the world's most iconic dance venues — so they rebuilt the main dance floor around KV2.

Four SL412 in a quad double-stereo main PA, four ESD15 on the sides, four ESD8 and eight ESD6 across the peripheral areas, and twelve ES1.8 subwoofers driven by VHD3200 amplification. Two more SL412 went into the second room as phase one of a wider upgrade.

"Guests already recognised the club as a go-to venue in Lisbon for exclusive, high-energy nightlife, so it was important that the audio quality reflected this." — Alessandro Pagliani, KV2 EMEA & Latin America Sales Director

Full story 👉 https://www.kv2audio.com/news/kv2-audio-powers-major-upgrade-at-lisbons-k-urban-beach-club.html

15/07/2026

Willkommen to Valencia. 🎭

The immersive Cabaret — the show that turns the room into Berlin's Kit Kat Klub — is touring Spain before its return to Madrid this September, and its latest stop was one of the most striking buildings on the circuit: the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia.

Part of Santiago Calatrava's City of Arts and Sciences and opened in 2005, the Palau is normally home to grand opera. For Cabaret, its Sala Principal was transformed into a decadent 1930s cabaret, with the band and cast performing in the round and the audience seated at tables in the thick of the action.

That staging is a sound designer's puzzle — and once again it fell to Poti Martin, who reached for KV2 Audio to solve it. The PA paired two ESR215 as stalls left and right with an EX15 centre, backed by four EX1.8 subs for low-end weight and two SL412 covering the upper level. On stage, four EX26 handled the band's foldback — a compact, point-source rig delivering clarity and coverage to an audience seated on every side.

The result? Intelligible, immersive sound in a space that demands it — and another beautiful venue added to Poti's KV2 story.

"KV2 Audio always delivers incredibly clear sound, which is crucial for theatre performances," says Martin. "Their loudspeakers are among my favourites in the world."

🔗 Read the full story behind Poti Martin's Cabaret, Cinderella and Tootsie: https://www.kv2audio.com/news/kv2-audio-delivers-world-class-sound-to-three-major-musicals-across-madrid-and-barcelona.html