Sound Leisure will launch two new Digital Classic jukebox models at EAG 2016, which opens today at the ExCeL London.
The Digital New Yorker and the Digital Rocket are floor-standing, design-led jukeboxes created specifically for the pub environment.
“The new jukeboxes will bring much-needed theatre back into the jukebox sector, which has been dominated by wall boxes for years now,” said Chris Black, managing director. “We know from site tests that floor-standing models can be exceptionally attractive to customers. It is also a myth that wall-mounted jukeboxes save space in the pub, as the area below is often never utilised.”
The new models represent a real landmark for Sound Leisure, in that they have been developed entirely by company founder Alan Black and his original R&D team of Dave Boardman and Phil Patterson. “We really felt there was a need to bring some showmanship back to the jukebox, because everything is starting to look very similar in venues,” Alan Black said. “Sound Leisure is now one of only a few jukebox manufacturers left in the world still able to develop from scratch and then produce in-house, traditional floor-standing phonograph products.”
With over 140 years of combined jukebox design experience, over a period of 40 years, they have produced over 50 jukebox designs and a dozen jukebox technologies, many of which are still in use today, on Sound Leisure machines dotted around the world. They were also responsible for the design and production of Sound Leisure’s 21st century CD mechanism, which led to the company becoming a major player on the international jukebox scene in the 1980s.
Sound Leisure will be exhibiting at EAG International 2016 on stand 335. The picture shows the original Sound Leisure design team of Dave Boardman, Alan Black and Phil Patterson.
