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Public Records

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Public Records brings music, design and hospitality together across several Brooklyn listening spaces. The indoor sound room and listening lounge offer different settings, while the Nursery takes live performances and DJ events outdoors. Exploring the venue means moving between distinct musical environments.

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Public Records has several distinct installations. The indoor Sound Room combines Void Nexus XL subwoofers, OJAS quad-15 slot-loaded midbass cabinets, Altec 1505B multicell horns and Faital supertweeters. Void and BGW amplification works with BSS processing; four Technics SL-1200MK2s and four Pioneer CDJ-2000NXS2s accompany a custom Isonoe mixer.

The Bar Room uses replica Altec 816 midbass cabinets, OJAS cabinets with 500 Hz horns and Altec high-frequency drivers, plus Void Venu 115 subwoofers. Crown and BGW amplification accompanies analogue crossovers, with two SL-1200MK2s, two CDJ-2000NXS2s and an Isonoe mixer at the booth.

The outdoor Nursery has an OJAS × NNNN fully horn-loaded four-way installation. A later Atrium installation uses six OJAS × NNNN ON M I assemblies and eight TL18 subwoofers. These room-specific systems represent different chapters and spaces, rather than components of one signal chain.

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ComponentManufacturerEquipment / detailsGet the Sound
Outdoor loudspeaker systemOJAS × NNNN OJAS (Devon Turnbull) · NNNNCustom, fully horn-loaded four-way installation
Sound Room subwoofersVoidNexus XL — two per corner stack in the published installation
Sound Room midbassOJASCustom Quad 15 slot-loaded enclosures
Sound Room horns / tweetersAltec / Faital Altec Lansing (vintage Voice of the Theatre / Altec) · Faital / FaitalPROAltec 1505B multi-cell horns; Faital super-tweeters
Sound Room amplification / processingVoid / BGW / BSS Void Acoustics · BGW Systems (historic) · BSS Audio (Harman)Bias V9, Q2 and D1; pair of BGW VXi3.3; BSS processing
Sound Room playbackTechnics / Pioneer / Isonoe Technics (Panasonic) · Isonoe · AlphaTheta / Pioneer DJ4 × SL-1200MK2; 4 × CDJ-2000NXS2; custom Isonoe mixer
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Bar Room loudspeakersOJAS / Altec / Void OJAS (Devon Turnbull) · Altec Lansing (vintage Voice of the Theatre / Altec) · Void AcousticsReplica Altec 816 midbass cabinets; OJAS cabinets with 500 Hz horns and Altec HF drivers; Void Venu 115 subs
Bar Room amplificationCrown / BGW BGW Systems (historic) · Crown Audio (Harman)Macro-Tech 5002; BGW 750G and 100B; analogue crossovers
Bar Room playbackTechnics / Pioneer / Isonoe Technics (Panasonic) · Isonoe · AlphaTheta / Pioneer DJ2 × SL-1200MK2; 2 × CDJ-2000NXS2; Isonoe mixer
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Booth monitoringVoidStasys 4 and Venu 215

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System builders & design

OJAS / Devon Turnbull — Custom systems across the venue; Nursery collaboration with NNNN.

Global Audio Systems / Jason Ojeda — Indoor system design and installation.

NNNN / Rune Skramstad — Four-way horn-system collaboration for the outdoor Nursery.

Room & tuning

Studio Kos and Arup contributed to the Sound Room’s perforated-plywood acoustic treatment. The Upstairs listening lounge incorporates OJAS subwoofer cabinets into the walls.

Further reading: NNNN · the Nursery system ↗

Live set / Planet of Nhii

Nhii - Live @ Public Records Brooklyn | Dawless Live Set (Sounds of Khemit 2025)

A hardware live set from Nhii at Public Records.

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