Germany - An increasing number of modern sound reinforcement systems require real-time monitoring of the loudspeaker lines. This is especially true in the context of evacuation systems, in which long loudspeaker circuits comprising many smaller, high-impedance boxes are often required. The Electro-Voice CPS series and Dynacord DSA series multichannel amplifiers already provide 100-volt-line direct drive operation for these types of loudspeaker circuits but in the past supervision of such Hi-Z lines was not practical due to the high impedance characteristics of the load.

The LML-1 (Loudspeaker Measuring Load) allows the real-time monitoring of loudspeaker lines in Hi-Z sound reinforcement systems. With the LML-1 module, it is now possible, even in large installations - such as those in stadiums or shopping centres - for smaller 100-volt loudspeakers, in entrance areas, lobbies or

The Netherlands - Responding to an increasing demand in an evolving marketplace, loudspeaker manufacturer Tannoy is introducing a number of EN 54 compliant variants of its existing commercial install products.

EN 54 is the European Standard for voice alarm and fire alarm system applications, and this announcement will see specific versions of Tannoy's CVS and DVS Series models being made available which are fully tested for compliance with EN 54 standards, for specification in the increasing number of projects that require this.

The new EN 54 versions of the in-ceiling CVS 4 Micro, CVS 4, CVS 6, and the wall mounted DVS 4t and the DVS 6t take advantage of the latest technologies available to comply with the latest legislation, as well as maintaining the hallmark of build quality and sonic performance that customers have come to expect from Tannoy loudspeaker systems.

While b

The Netherlands - LED screen designer and manufacturer Pixled is showcasing its latest products and innovations at the ISE 2013 exhibition in Amsterdam ... on booth in HALL 11 at Booth D41.

Showing alongside the 'standard' rectangular tile based Pixled screens - which will include F-4, F-6 and F-10 - new floor based modules will be on display plus the popular transparent and flexible Linx curtain modules - available in 9, 12, 18, 25, 30 and 37 mm pixel pitches.

Also highlighted are the inventive LED surface strips including the newly launched F-24 strip.

Lastly - but by no means least - Pixled demonstrates its 'bread-and-butter' LED surfaces - high definition screens producing accurate and vivid colours, impressive output and high contrast ratios ... available in in 4mm, 6mm and 10mm versions.

(Jim Evans)

USA - At NAMM 2013, Bugera, best known for their handcrafted tube guitar amplifiers, introduced two high-power bass cabinets, the 4 x 10" BN410T and the 1 x 15" BN115T. BUGERA turned to sister company, Turbosound for the powerful custom-engineered low-frequency drivers used in the BN410T and BN115T cabinets.

The BN410T is a high performance, lightweight 1,000-Watt cabinet with four 10" Turbosound LF drivers and a 1" HF horn driver. The BN115T is a 600-Watt cabinet that features a single 15" Turbosound LF driver and 1" horn driver. Professional-grade twist-lock and ¼" TS connectors ensure a tight, dependable transfer of power to the enclosure from the amp. Both models are ideal mates for BUGERA bass amplifiers including the 3,800-Watt BTX36000 true bi-amping stereo bass head, as well as the BVP5500 and BVV3000 tube amps.

Both enclosures are b

USA - At the 2013 NAMM Show, Yamaha debuted the latest models in its lineup of STAGEPAS portable PA systems - the STAGEPAS 400i and 600i - successors of the STAGEPAS 300 and 500.

The new STAGEPAS models deliver a significant increase in power output with substantial improvements in sound quality and reliability, says the company. Complementing the boost in performance, the addition of iPod/iPhone connectivity, SPX digital reverbs, an onboard feedback suppressor and more versatile EQ has improved functionality and ease of use, allowing STAGEPAS to meet the demands of a much wider range of applications and users.

The STAGEPAS 400i and STAGEPAS 600i feature two sleek, lightweight speakers and a detachable powered mixer, along with a pair of speaker cables and power cord for a complete portable sound solution that can be set up quickly and easily in a variety of configurations and

USA - Continuing an ongoing research and development cycle, the new ADA8200 features Midas mic preamps, as well as a host of other new and powerful features.

The ADA8200 is a state-of-the-art, eight-channel A/D and D/A converter with eight onboard Midas-designed mic preamps. Users can connect their favourite mics, including studio-grade condensers thanks to built-in true +48 V power, and record directly to a multi-track or computer-based recorder via the built-in ADAT interface. Digital to analog and analog to digital conversion takes place accurately and instantaneously via reference-class Cirrus Logic 24-bit converters, with the user's choice of either 44.1 or 48 kHz resolution.

Connections are provided for balanced XLR and ¼" TRS, as well as unbalanced ¼" TS inputs. Line Out connectors provide either balanced or unbalanced connectivity. Digital I/O is handled vi

Denmark - Martin Professional's new M6 is a lighting console that functions as a highly advanced visual control surface. Designed to control everything from conventional and moving lights to the most advanced media server, the M6 has been designed for today's demanding multimedia shows and tomorrow's challenges, says the company.

Incorporating the latest available technologies with an industrial multi-core processor, solid-state drives and custom-designed high-brightness touch screens, the M6 is capable of delivering up to 64 DMX universes directly from the console's network ports without using costly external processors.

With advanced features like a LiveBlender T-Bar, FastDial rotary encoders, Paired Playback buttons and BriteTouch display, the M6 is Martin's most advanced console design ever. It offers a total of 44 playbacks, including dual Main Go sections, 10 motorized f

France - Robert Juliat will be exhibiting at SIEL 2013, occupying the space familiar to last year's visitors (Stand C88) next to the 'Forum des Innovations'. The company will introduce Creative Concept Light by Robert Juliat, a new concept in lighting formulated to illustrate its forthcoming range of unique TIBO luminaires. The full TIBO range will be previewed at SIEL.

Robert Juliat's new TIBO family is now complete and presents a fully interchangeable range of modular fixtures which provides a complete solution to any lighting need.

"This is where Robert Juliat's Creative Concept Light comes in," explains sales director Claus Spreyer. "Imagine seven notes of music - how many ways they can be combined to obtain different variations of style and rhythm to generate a plethora of different emotions. Similarly, the Tibo range provides a wide range of component opti

The Netherlands - On stand 1P18 in Hall 1 at ISE 2013 in Amsterdam, Meyer Sound will showcase new audio technology that "will transform live events for both listeners and audio professionals".

Meyer Sound's new CAL column array loudspeaker provides precise coverage control and exceptional speech clarity while minimizing unwanted reflections, says the company. Live demonstrations of CAL and its beam steering capabilities will show visitors "the remarkable intelligibility it provides for audiences in stadiums and other acoustically challenging environments".

The CAL demo at ISE will be controlled using an iPad interface and driven by the D-Mitri digital platform on an AVB (audio video bridging) network - the new non-proprietary networking standard for low-latency audio and video data transport.

Users of Meyer Sound M Series loudspeakers will be pleased to l

The Netherlands - As a founding ISE exhibitor, Christie will again occupy a large, and intuitive multi-zone site at ISE 2013. Marking the exhibition's tenth anniversary the Christie production 'village' will combine stands H40, H46 and H50 inside Hall 1 into an ergonomically presented product showcase. The display boasts a brand new projection mapping façade created especially for the show.

There will be a heavy focus on market education and the stand will incorporate a dedicated technical service meeting space, manned by Christie certified engineers, where free consultation will be offered to all delegates, who will be apprised of the full extent of Christie's pro AV support services. This will be boosted by a dedicated seminar theatre, surrounded by videowall and MicroTiles Interactive zones, the presentation space for a new outdoor LCD flat panel LCD and a 1-chip DLP gallery

UK - PR Lighting has produced a fully-featured, compact and light weight LED moving Spot to add to its successful XLED range. The new PR XLED 250 Spot has been designed for club and bar use.

The fixture houses a Luminus PhlatLight CBT-90-W Big Chip white LED source - designed for demanding applications that require maximum lumen density, efficiency and reliability. With a 6500K colour system, power consumption is just 120W at 220V.

Features include a colour wheel comprising eight colours (plus white) and a gobo wheel (with 11 gobos plus white). The head movement offers adjustable speed 540° (pan) and 190° (tilt), with pan, tilt, swap and invert function, auto position correction and magnetic sensor positioning.

Other features include 0-100% linearly adjustable dimmer, electronic strobe (with 0.3-20fps) and standard beam angle of 20°. Control is via DMX512 (11 cha

The Netherlands - Crestron will introduce the European market to its Integrated by Design solutions in Amsterdam during ISE 2013. Crestron solutions enable global monitoring, management and control of AV, energy, voice & data, lighting, security, room scheduling, and HVAC on a single platform to maximise energy savings, lower operational costs and increase productivity. ISE attendees will have the opportunity to experience the fully-functional integrated building environment live at the show.

"No one is building schools, hospitals, hotels or office spaces that aren't energy efficient, networked and digital," says Robin van Meeuwen, VP of sales and marketing at Crestron International. "While the various technologies and systems may be on the network, they all run separately. Our clients want and expect all systems on the network to work together in an intelligent w

USA - Audinate has announced the newest member of the Dante product family: Ultimo. Ultimo is a complete, fully-featured, ready-to-use Dante interface for networked audio products, integrated into a single 13 x 13mm chip. By providing an integrated, cost-effective networked audio solution over a 100Mbps Ethernet interface, Ultimo extends the benefits of Dante networking to a wide new range of audio devices.

As with Audinate's other networked products, Ultimo uses high-quality, low-jitter clocks with ±1?s time alignment between networked devices. Ultimo does not require specialised switches, and works with existing network infrastructure.

Ultimo includes well-established Dante features like automatic device discovery, plug-and-play networking, network-based firmware updates, and customization of device names and channel labels.

"The Ultimo integrated chip solution accel

The Netherlands - Visualization expert Barco will demonstrate three new features for its ClickShare meeting room presentation system during this week's ISE trade show. Launched in September 2012 and an overwhelming success already, ClickShare will soon offer dual-display functionality, be iPad compatible and integrate audio. The new features, available from end March 2013, tie in with the ClickShare concept: they add to the system's user-friendliness and help boost meeting room productivity.

ClickShare's new dual display functionality may well be the most exciting of the new features: when two displays are connected to the ClickShare Base Unit, the latter will automatically activate 'Dual display mode' and show the content on both screens. This is especially useful for businesses with a video conferencing system: when they don't use the video conferencing mode, they can now pres

Hong Kong - LED screen manufacturer Lighthouse Technologies has announced the launch of X3, the latest product in its indoor portfolio of large-scale LED video displays.

Boasting a stunning 3.9mm pixel pitch, X3 is Lighthouse's highest resolution LED screen to date and opens up a new world of creative possibilities for the indoor rental and staging market. X3 addresses the needs of a variety of disciplines including set and stage designers, concert touring and television shows producers and shows design specialists and is destined to become the preferred choice for the market, says the company.

Developed in conjunction with XL Video, a leading player in the AV rental and staging business, X3 combines Lighthouse's processing and a sophisticated mechanical design developed by XL Video, resulting in a unique curable and flexible joint structure that allows the screen to be shape

The Netherlands - Magenta Research will utilise ISE 2013 (booth #11-C84) to introduce new additions to its Voyager, MultiView and HD-One core product ranges as part of a complete, end-to-end solution for fibre and UTP-based signal switching and distribution.

Magenta's fully digital Voyager Series of fibre-optic based products, which began shipping in 2011, extend, switch and distribute video (including HDCP protected content) and auxiliary signals digitally over fibre-optic cable.

The new Voyager 4-port core (now shipping) can serve as the heart of any transmitter or receiver and opens up an additional sphere of distribution options - use as a 1x4 distribution amplifier, as a 4x1 switch or as a daisy-chainable receiver with the ability to route signals in four different directions. The Voyager four-port core is also a key component in enabling Voyager matrix switching solution

UK - From riggers and tradesmen to specialist stunt teams, Dirty Rigger's new Secutor Utility Belt has drawn much interest from end users and distributors around the world.

The new belt has been designed and engineered with comfort and versatility being paramount. The Secutor Belt features a 5-inch wide padded back, lined with specially selected foam and a breathable mesh for exceptional all-day comfort.

The belt also boasts four fully adjustable and re-positionable D-rings for securing additional attachments and a 2-inch outer belt, designed to work with all Dirty Rigger tool pouches and accessories.

Dirty Rigger's designer Steve Marshall said, "This belt has been months in the making, testing materials and construction variations to enable us to maintain the renowned Dirty Rigger quality and performance.

"From Finland and Austria all the way over to Korea, pre-

UK - Entertainment lighting specialist White Light is headed to the Event Production Show next week at Olympia, London to showcase the latest energy saving innovations for event production from CORE Lighting and PR Lighting on Stand B38.

CORE Lighting specialises in battery-powered, wirelessly controlled LED lighting fixtures designed for instant illumination anywhere - events, parties and any other production where lighting fixtures need to be distributed over a wide area, and unsightly power and data cabling must be kept to an absolute minimum. On show will the Point15, Point20 and Point30 fixtures, all RGB-W, and the high-output Flood30, a white LED equivalent to a 750W tungsten spotlight, IP65 rated for outdoor use.

Visitors to the White Light Stand will also get a look at new products from PR Lighting, including the XLED336, a small and super bright LED moving light. The

France - Clay Paky will show a spread of established and new products at SIEL 2013.

Sharpy Wash 330 is a compact, lightweight 330 W washlight, with the luminous efficiency, graphic and optical performance of a 1000W fixture. It is extremely silent and quick, and fitted with a complete CMY color system, special colors, 6.5°-48° zoom, mechanical dimmer, beam shaping filter and motorized top-hat. It is an eco-friendly light, allowing considerable running and consumption cost savings.

A.LEDA, the new Clay Paky RGBW-LED moving head range have a library of pre-set graphic effects customizable by the operator, electronic linear dimmer, stop/strobe effect and a dedicated channel for color temperature setting. Each LED colour can be dinamically and individually controlled.

The Alpha Profile 800 ST is billed as "the most modern moving beam shaper in existence today for us

The Netherlands - At ISE, Tannoy launched a new flagship digital beam steering loudspeaker array, the QFlex 64.

Extending the performance capabilities of the QFlex range, QFlex 64 complements the six existing models in this product line, with QFlex 48 previously being the largest column available, offering new possibilities for the product in particularly demanding applications.

Tannoy's QFlex is a range of digitally steerable, self-powered column array loudspeakers aimed at the high performance installation market. Purpose-designed for applications with problematic acoustics (where good intelligibility is required), QFlex technology gives the system designer a unique set of tools for controlling sound in large, acoustically challenging, highly reverberant spaces - typically involving expanses of reflective surfaces such as glass, metal, concrete or stone.

The QFlex 64 is no

The Netherlands - The focus of d&b's eight demonstrations staged over the three days of the ISE show was the latest software Version 7 of the d&b ArrayCalc calculator that predicts the physical, acoustical and safety performance of its systems.

Janko Ramuscak from the d&b education and application support department who conducted these demos commented, "To demonstrate the ease with which users can now map coverage on all projects the ArrayCalc V7 software was used to model point source products from the d&b White range in both light and sound. That is, the software predicted SPL coverage patterns that were projected onto the floor of the demo room using light; then the audience was invited to walk into the pattern, listen to audio projected from these same calculations, and ask themselves, is what I see and hear the same?"

As well as the ability to now perform acoust

UK - MP Event Trailers has partnered with Spanish manufacturer Capotex to launch a new temporary or permanent structure solution for the UK events market. The product, called Tubbo, is a modular, design gallery, transparent pod, which is billed as "ideal for outdoor events no matter what the weather".

The modular design of Tubbo makes it quick and easy to assemble and its streamline design and hi-tech material content comply with regulations meaning no structure licensing is needed.

Rhod Howcroft, rental fleet manager, MP Event Trailers comments, "The engaging design and aesthetics of Tubbo mean it will be an instant source of conversation between guests, as nothing like this has previously been available in the world of events. Visitors get the best of both worlds, a heated or air conditioned event space whilst still remaining and watching part of their surroun

France - L-Acoustics reports that new modules are now available for third party software including CATT-Acoustics (Dynamic Link Library - DLL), EASE (Generic Loudspeaker Library - GLL), ODEON and LARA.

Sound designers and acousticians can now simulate the L-Acoustics line source arrays via specific GLL or DLL files respectively for the electro-acoustic software EASE and CATT-Acoustics. L-Acoustics coaxial speakers can also be simulated using the dedicated GLL file in EASE and the Common Loudspeaker Format (CLF) file for CATT-Acoustics, ODEON and LARA.

Each third party software can be used in parallel with Soundvision to simulate additional parameters such as total sound pressure level (taking into account the reverberation field), intelligibility and clarity factor thanks to the fact that they include room acoustics properties.

Germain Simon, application engineer at L-Acoust

UK - Such has been the interest in Martin Audio's Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array (MLA) that the company has now created an MLA dedicated web portal, in order to "share the secrets of its advanced control technology with the growing community of users and potential customers".

This will be represented in two hierarchical modules. The public portal has now gone live and is available to everyone, while the private portal will be confined to MLA rental companies and trained technicians, allowing them to access more in-depth information and engage in discussion forums. This is scheduled to go live in the near future.

Running hand in hand is a new personal Certified Training Programme which complements the online resource, where technical information is hosted alongside an open forum. This gives MLA technical users the opportunity to share knowledge and experience, both

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