Merger creates ‘Martin Audio Supermarket’

For almost two decades, sound companies, Phlippo Audio and D-Rent have been the principal Martin Audio users in Belgium. Since both are located near Antwerp, Tom Phlippo and Pieter Nys (D-Rent) had met several times to standardise their Martin Audio inventory in order to simplify cross-hiring. Because of this success, and to meet future challenges, they sensed that the optimum solution would be to bring all equipment into one warehouse and continue their activities from a single operational office.

Thus since the beginning of the year, the offices and warehouse have been centralised in Lier, making the merger of Phlippo Audio and D-Rent the largest Martin Audio rental and production facility in the Benelux, stocking more than 400 Martin Audio cabinets in their hire fleet. This includes the complete family of line array products (W8L/LC/LM), the W8C series, WT2, WSX, LE400, LE12JB, WT15 and some Blackline. As a result, Phlippo Audio and D-Rent have developed into a kind of Martin Audio supermarket covering the centre of Europe, and offering sub-hiring capacity beyond the Benelux countries.