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Poland - Located in the heart of Warsaw, the InterContinental Warszawa hotel provides an architectural landmark as one of the highest buildings in the city. It has 326 guest rooms and suites, and 75 residential suites, all of which fully equipped with the latest technology. In addition, there are three restaurants and two bars, and eleven banqueting rooms with room for 700 guests.

The hotel has installed the Bosch Praesideo Voice Alarm System. Most of the installation work was carried out by local reseller, ANB which has been operating in Poland since 1992. A spokesman for Bosch said: "IEC60849 certification and compliance with the even more stringent Polish regulations underscore Praesideo's high standards.

Praesideo demonstrates flexibility and user-friendliness in several ways. It allows the hotel to route messages to one or more zones, depending on the emergency situa

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While Lake didn't have anything new to show product wise, the fact that it is now part of Dolby Labs is a significant announcement and underlines the respect its Contour product has garnered in the industry.

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Panphonics produces a patented flat panel electrostatic wave transducer. The sound from one of the panels is so focused that it is impossible to hear unless you are standing directly in-line with the source or, in the case of the stand's 'Sound Shower', directly underneath. Kari Mettälä, CEO of Panphonics, explained that the technology is now being employed across the global automotive and aircraft manufacturing markets for active noise cancellation, as well as in advertising systems in supermarkets, off-air monitoring at the BBC and anywhere that requires excellent speech intelligibility.

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Rolec Music provide tailored music and AV management systems for the leisure and retail market. Director of sales Mark Bracken explained that Rolec really exhibit at PLASA in order to meet all of its 120 dealers and installers. The company showed the new DJC DJ Controller Software that allows the integration of audio and video plus all of the features a DJ may need for control, such as varispeed, cross-fades and scrolls.

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PLASA 2005 was the first major trade show for Amber Sound, founded by Graham Paddon. Although just four months old, the company was discussing several major supply projects that it has already undertaken. The stand featured a range of the company's distributed products, including its exclusive UK distribution of Aviom personal monitor and digital snake systems. With the company also offering sound design and technical support, Paddon was pleased with the level of interest shown.

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Deco Leisure showed new products including the Pure system - a large, fixed install audio concept developed for two principal markets - large clubs and venues specializing in urban, rap, hip hop and R 'n' B artists. Available only in white, it's extremely quick to stack and robustly built. It sits in the audio market somewhere between the line array arena systems and older stacking systems, neither of which are great for DJ-orientated applications and performance in their own right. The enclosures consist of a physically small full-range box and an enormous sub.

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Community UK became its own entity on 1 July this year, making this the first time the company has exhibited at PLASA in its own right. On show was the expanded iBOX range of installation speakers, which has numerous array and dispersion pattern options, all in cabinets of identical size. The new iBOX HP3500 series, which are slightly larger than the existing 1200 and 1500 series, are a high performance 3-way system. Both the iHP3564 and iHP3594 are loaded with a 15" and 8" low- and mid-range drivers plus a 1.4" throated, edge-wound voice coil compression driver. Dispersion from the two boxes varies from 60° x 40° for the iHP3564 to 90° x 40° for the iHP3594, and both loudspeakers can operate in either passive or bi-amped modes.

To complement the range, two subs have also been released in the form of the i118S and i215LVS, and have the same physical dimensions as the

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TC Electronic, who recently acquired TC-Helicon, was proudly showing the high end vocal processor developed by the company, the VoicePro, released earlier this year. The ultra realistic processor, aimed at the studio, post and live markets, gives users up to eight voices that can be altered in a variety of ways including pitch and time shift, character, harmony, transducer, reverb, delay, EQ and dynamics. Also on the TC stand was version two of the EQ Station, with new features and improved latency.

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APB Dynasonics' Spectra C and Spectra T consoles are separated in their specification by EQ: the C variant boasts four band (two bands on the mid), with hi/lo switch; while T is sweepable on all four bands, hi/lo shelving (in boost mode is two-thirds of an octave wide, in cut just quarter octave) while the two mid bands have a wider boost of one octave, with a commensurately tighter one-third octave cut.

Consoles come in 24, 32, 40, 48 and 56 mono input, plus there's a 24-channel expander (stretch). The highly regarded Jensen transformers are used on all outputs.

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DJ audio specialist Numark released several new products. Probably the most eagerly awaited is the company's iDJ mixing console for Apple iPods. The system allows two iPods of any flavour, including the new Nano, to dock with the mixer. The familiar iPod controls are then mirrored on the console with the addition of a 3-band EQ and gain control on both channels. The iDJ can also act as a charger and docking station with the inclusion of an integral USB port.

Another, more familiar looking product, the HDX, was launched at the show and looks and operates like a vinyl turntable except the HDX is actually a tabletop HD/CD/MP3 player. The 12" platter is used as a normal turntable, but other controls allow any track from the removable 80Gb hard disk drive to be selected and mixed as if it were on vinyl. The HDX also boasts an ultra-high torque direct drive motor (for that real turntabl

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Although it seems to have been with us for some time now, this is in fact the first appearance at a UK trade show, on the Shuttlesound stand, of a Midas Sienna console. Midas were also happy to announce the 10th birthday of its flagship console, the XL4 - seems like only yesterday. Of greater significance, Midas announced its adoption of the AES50 standard interface for multi-channel digital audio, and that it has licensed the AES50 (SuperMAC) and HyperMAC technologies from Sony Pro-Audio Labs, Oxford, for implementation into Midas and Klark Teknik equipment.

Blue Microphones is a new brand to be seen under the wing of Electro-Voice. The retro appearance of the Cardinal and Raven mics is deceptive; these are derivatives of Blue's experience in producing high quality studio mics, but are aimed at live (but not high sound level) applications. A dual swivel on the yoke mount makes them es

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Forward-looking Digidesign presented several new augmentations for its digital desk, the Venue. D-Show 1.1 is a free update, giving a new Variable Group mode that permits operators to configure 24 discrete mix busses, in addition to main LCR bus. Drawmer TourBuss gives live sound engineers four plug-ins for the desk, noise gate, expander, comp/limiter and a bracketing filter. D-Show Script Tray is a simple flat transparent tray designed to fit above the console surface and roll across it without disturbing any controls, while supporting notes, cue sheets - even a Laptop, anything reasonable the operator needs to hand. Personal Q Monitoring software and hardware allows for remote mixes from the main desk transmitted over a four-pin XLR to PQ wired controllers.

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Equipson showed its new Studio Series loudspeakers. The new range is specifically aimed at providing high quality audio for short spaces that have high ceilings, such as shops, galleries and museums and are designed to minimize diffusion to maintain intelligibility.

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XLNT (a development arm of Flashlight/Ampco) launched a couple of clever audio products. Bass Creator is in may ways a problem-solving tool for club and bar owners, designed to filter out sensitive frequencies that 'grab' the harmonics of neighbour's walls and excite them. To compensate and keep the customers happy, Creator then works with higher tone harmonics that fool the ear into believing it is still receiving the same low bass energy. Tuned to the 20Hz to 150Hz frequency range, Creator can give level gains of 6-10dB once the offending frequency is eliminated. It also has a two-band limiter to avoid pumping effects, and an eight-band EQ if you need it.

In prototype form, the Engineer is a balancing tool, again designed primarily for pubs and clubs. The problem stems from the current fashion for mass storage MP3 file players, where the myriad compression techniques lead to wild var

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Funktion One, purple cabinets, Ann Andrews, Tony . . . Tony . . ? Anyone seen Tony? Of course not: Mr Andrews was in the demo room for most of the show blowing people away with his purple powers of persuasion and an updated version of the Resolution 1 of which, we were reliably informed, a self-powered version is imminent. As the year has progressed the company has seen its systems go out on another theatre musical tour, Seven Bridges, this time with Orbital and sound designer Glen Beckley.

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Another new range of ceiling speakers, this time from Martin Audio, all two way coaxial, 4" + 0.8", 6.5" + 0.8" offering 180° and 150° dispersion, with a larger 8" + 1" model at 90°; all at 16 ohms. These speakers come in installer kits - tile rails, template and paint mask are all included.

Augmenting the Martin line array range is the W8LMD, a small under-hang cabinet for the mini line array that will attach to the standard fly-frame for use as a near down-fill 120° by 20°, while the W8MX is a sub delivering 104dB at 1W/1m from a single 18" hybrid cabinet. The two boxes can also be used a compact stand-alone system, the top boxes capable of being stacked - MD above MX - or the MD can be pole-mounted to the sub; in this configuration there's a handy HF cut switch included, on the assumption you'll likely be playing a small room and won't want th

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With the entire team in evening dress and the stand decked out with a piano bar including live music, the Adam Hall stand certainly caught the eye. Probably best known for flightcase hardware, connectors, stands and tools, Adam Hall has shifted markets slightly by expanding into finished products. Rob Fricker, general and export sales manager, told L&SI that the influx of cheaper products from the Far East has meant that fewer people are building their own equipment - hence the company's new sales opportunities.

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With the Disability Discrimination Act meaning that retail and entertainment venues have to look far harder at their disabled facilities, Current Thinking is ideally placed to assist. The company was showing a range of its low-spill induction loops, call systems and voice alarms. Perhaps the simplest yet most ingenious is the Easy AX Customer Care Kit, which includes a portable clipboard induction loop, text magnifiers, pen holder and templates for writing cheques, forms and documents.

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The 00DJ is the latest release from Computer DJ, a product that any self respecting DJ and secret agent will want to get hold of. This state-of-the-art, all-in-one DJ module, housed in a stylish robust silver case contains touch screen, a digital soundcard and biometric (fingerprint) security with plenty of storage for your MP3s: the company says it's now being used by top DJs worldwide - goodbye record cases!

Of particular interest for bars and clubs as well as light and sound installers was the new Q-Play digital music systems. This touch screen unit incorporates bio-metric (fingerprint) security, ensuring that only those authorized to do so can change the music (or its volume). The system can be managed by venue staff or programmed remotely via an optional secure internet link.

Also attracting a stream of visitors was the new Screenfly, a software programme used to generate immedi

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Funktion One, purple cabinets, Ann Andrews, Tony . . . Tony . . ? Anyone seen Tony? Of course not: Mr Andrews was in the demo room for most of the show blowing people away with his purple powers of persuasion and an updated version of the Resolution 1 of which, we were reliably informed, a self-powered version is imminent. As the year has progressed the company has seen its systems go out on another theatre musical tour, Seven Bridges, this time with Orbital and sound designer Glen Beckley.

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The TCS contractor series from Turbosound comes in black or white as standard, but Turbo will paint it any colour you like. This install speaker range is intended for outdoor use, is IP54-rated with stainless steel front grilles, waterproof cable glands, and all driver voice coils are treated. Cabinets come with a range of mounting brackets, including Omni-mount for the US market. TCS comes in a range of eight speaker cabinets, four mid/highs, four subs.

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A fairly radical re-vamp of the product range from HK Audio: Con Tour is an upgrade of the T Series making it more suited to multi-purpose usage. These trapezoidal box speakers can be used as wedges or mirror pair PA cabinets, pole-mounted or flown (aero-quip fittings as standard). Three mid/high boxes, CT115, CT112 and CT108 sport respectively 15", 12" and 8" neodymium driven speakers from B&C, with 1.4" compression drivers on the 12 and 15, and a slightly smaller 1" on the 8. All work with the CT118 single 18" sub.

DSM2060 is a DSP controller for any system, not just Con Tour. 2 in, 6 out, it uses Hardman Filter technology, has 64 EQ bands, two shelving EQs on all inputs and outputs as well as delay and limiters.

The new Actor DX is a self-powered upgrade, previously rated at 2400W per stack, now handling 3200W from a pair of low-end boxes and a mid/hi

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Aside from its Award-winning COMPASS system (see Award Winners), Outline introduced the HARD45, a low profile wedge monitor (4x5" and 1x1"), self-powered with reflective waveguide giving 60° by 40° from a very shallow box.

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DMC - the worlds leading remix and megamix service, is a digital DJ supplier of download music, and will shortly also be a download site in October - 'The DMC Download Network' - for which there was keen interest at the show. Its website is one of the biggest online resources for DJs and one of the largest music sites. The DMC 'Buzz Chart' goes out live on Pete Tong's Friday night show.
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  5. Millbank Voice Alarm
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