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Germany / China - The biggest shipment of Cohedra and Cohedra Compact cabinets has left Germany at the end of May with a destination of China. Smart Target, exclusive distributor of HK Audio in China, will be applying more than 100 cabinets of the Coherent Dynamic Response Array in fixed installations.

"One and a half years ago, we started introducing Cohedra actively in China and we have been able to achieve great success already in this short time period. The high product quality of HK Audio as well as the scalability and last not least the excellent sound quality of Cohedra and Cohedra Compact convinced many of our customers to invest in this system," explains Mengxun Shen, co-owner of Smart Target. "The great feedback from our customers as well as the quick and reliable support of HK Audio make us feel optimistic to increase the popularity and the sales of Coh

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UK / Argentina - David Hopkins OBE, owner of ADSworldwide in Stockport - a firm that specialises in commercial sound systems - is leading the team behind an exchange visit of young professional men and women, organised by Rotary District 1050. The Rotary district covers from Central Manchester to Biddulph in the south, Tarporley in the west and to Glossop and Buxton in the east. The visiting team from Argentina will arrive in the area in October 2006 and a team from District 1050 will visit Buenos Aires in March 2007.

The visiting team comprises a dentist, an electronics engineer, an English teacher and a chemical engineer and Rotary is still looking for companies representing these disciplines to offer the opportunity for vocational visits. The outgoing team will be chosen from applicants who are UK citizens and either residing or living in the Rotary District. The whole trip w

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USA - D-Tools Inc, the specialist in system integration software, has announced that Gefen has joined the D-Tools Manufacturer Vantage Point (MVP) program. Gefen delivers advanced hardware with multi-platform extension, switching, distribution and conversion capabilities, and detailed information about its complete line of solutions is now available to users of D-Tools' award-winning System Integrator software.

"We are excited to partner with D-Tools," said Hagai Gefen, president and CEO of Gefen. "The MVP program provides a direct channel for us to get our product information to AV companies around the country so we can offer just-in-time solutions for their installations, ranging from the humble home theater to the most challenging presentation venue."

D-Tools' Manufacturer Vantage Point (MVP) program is designed to help provide system integrators with th

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UK - RF specialist Trantec was commissioned by Kingston based Plus 4 Audio to design and supply a bespoke version of its award-winning S6000 radio mic system for Celebrity Love Island.

Handling all the RF requirements of Love Island with the S6000 for the second time Plus 4 Audio needed a ground breaking systems solution that would push boundaries and further streamline operations on-site.

The TV show is filmed on a Fijian Island and with the celebrity stars diving in and out of water on a frequent basis, the system needed to be waterproof and able to cope with some testing operating conditions.

Trantec 's head of R&D Richard Ganley collaborated with Plus 4 Audio's Stewart Chaney to ensure that system met his exacting specifications. A powerful 'burner circuit' amplifier was added to a standard S6000 transmitter to boost output to 150mW, both were then packaged in a special

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UK - The Blitz Charter Group recently embarked upon a technical showcase tour starting at the BBC Studios in London, where it demonstrated the latest in hire technologies available from Charter Broadcast and Blitz Communications. The technical showcase focussed on HD acquisition, playback and display.

During the BBC showcase event, Blitz presented its new HD digital wireless camera systems; which provide a unique industry offering from the Blitz Charter Group. It also boasted the latest in HD graphics and caption generation as well as the most recent advances in hard drive playback/record devices and brand new HD video projectors. It extended its portfolio further as it demonstrated the latest digital audio mixing consoles for use in the broadcast and live events industries, as well as high resolution LED display technologies. The day presented a unique opportunity for customers

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UK / USA - PLASA, The Professional Lighting and Sound Association - has announced a number of appointments to strengthen both its UK and US operations.

Jon Petts, formerly with lighting manufacturer Pulsar, has been appointed to the newly-created position of Commercial Manager. He will act as the main point of contact with PLASA members, working alongside the existing team to ensure that members take full advantage of the expanding range of business services available. PLASA is also keen to ensure it has a good understanding of the day-to-day issues faced by members and the new role will be instrumental in further developing the lines of communication.

Petts has many years' experience in both sales and management roles, having worked for several major companies within the industry, including Martin Professional. His knowledge of both the industry and current trends in product

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UK / Germany - As part of a worldwide brand refocusing programme, Dynacord has appointed beyerdynamic UK to handle its products in Great Britain and Northern Ireland with effect from 1 August. The change in distribution, which follows similar successful refocusing exercises in North America, Asia and other European countries, is intended both to make use of beyerdynamic's proven abilities selling complementary product ranges in the UK and to free up Shuttlesound, Dynacord's previous UK distributor, to maximize its "already excellent" performance with Electro-Voice, Dynacord's sister brand.

Three years ago the company had identified the need to have separate teams working on - and even competing on - sales and marketing for Dynacord and Electro-Voice, in order that each brand, with different qualities and strengths, reached its potential. The results of that policy have

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UK - With less than six weeks to go before PLASA06 opens its doors at Earls Court, the finishing touches are being made to the show's biggest-ever line-up of features, seminars and star industry speakers.

The expansion comes as PLASA Show organisers Clarion Events report the highest ever number of pre-registered visitors - up by 13% on 2005, with technical and creative teams from major venues and high-profile projects among the first to register.

The show's track record of hosting major international product launches, and wide interest in this year's new features, have helped drive the pre-registration increases. The new features are led by the new Integrated Systems Area; a greatly expanded PLASA Seminar Programme with a dedicated Technologies for Worship programme; the first PLASA appearance of NEET (National Exhibition of Entertainment Technology); and new features for DJs.

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Estonia - UK sound rental company Major Tom Ltd. partnered with local sound hire company Eventech and Taylor, and Thunder Audio to provide a massive system of self-powered Meyer Sound loudspeakers for Metallica's recent appearance at the Song Festival Grounds in Talinn, Estonia. The concert was part of Metallica's tour through Europe and Asia, who are now rolling through their 26th year.

Thunder vice president Paul Owen - who also mixes monitors for the band - oversaw the rigging by Major Tom's system tech, Ali Viles, of the two main loudspeaker hangs, each consisting of 17 Milo high-power curvilinear array loudspeakers and one Milo 120 high-power expanded coverage curvilinear array loudspeaker. Two side hangs each comprised four Milo cabinets and one Milo 120 unit. Five delay towers housed six more Milo cabinets each.

The Milo arrays were supported with a truly earth-shaking

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UK - The UK went dance crazy on the night of 22 July when a number of world record attempts were made around the country during a TV and radio Dancing in the Streets extravaganza.

The resulting BBC TV special include highlights of events across the country, the winners of the Ballroom Blitz talent search and the Big Dance Class record attempt. Hosted by well known UK TV personalities Bruce Forsyth and Zoe Ball, the event finished with The Big Dance in London's Trafalgar Square, featuring around 800 dancers and over 45 different dance styles - all broadcast live.

Those who assembled in and around Trafalgar Square were able to hear the action from a Martin W8LC Compact line array fielded by System Sound. The PA company were contracted to BBC Documentaries and Specialist Features, and their sound designer, Simon Biddulph's line array of choice is the Martin W8LC.

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UK - Capital Sound Hire have added two Yamaha PM5D-RH mixing consoles to their rental stock, placing the order through dealers, Marquee Audio.

Capital Sound project manager Paul Timmins said that Shepperton-based suppliers have offered a preferred source over an extended period, not only for their competitive pricing but also their exemplary support and back-up.

"When we purchased a Yamaha M7CL a few months ago they came across with the desk and gave us a complete workshop and tutorial. This is the service we have come to expect from them."

Capital Sound Hire remains committed to retaining a cutting-edge inventory and stocks various digital alternatives. "But Yamaha, in particular, enables us to respond to the demands of American artists, and our policy is always that if people want it, we will buy it." The version configured with the recallable mic pream

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Germany - As a live music venue' Stuttgart's Die Röhre has been packing in the crowds since 1985. In 1993 Jan Drusche and Peter Reinhardt, along with Nanno Smeets, took over the running of what has now become one of the longest-standing clubs in Germany. Today it boasts around 100 concerts annually, and is the most active music club in Stuttgart.

Originally fitted with a Soundcraft Series 600 32/2/8, the club - which operates on three floors - has now been updated with a 40-channel version of a Soundcraft MH2.

"The MH2, with its four stereo channels and 40 mono channels, eight VCA subgroups and the highly impressive 4-band equaliser with semi parametric filters, 10 auxiliary sends and six mute groups, meets our requirements perfectly," says Jan Drusche. "We have not been able to find a product with these qualities for a similar price on the market."

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Poland - The Capitol Musical Theatre in Wroclaw is one of the most dynamic and thriving musical theatre stages in Poland. Both in artistic terms and in its rich history, it is an extraordinary institution, and for a year now has at its disposal a new sound reinforcement system.

The theatre has been operating without a break for fifty years mainly as an operetta house up until 2002. It was established thanks to the efforts of artists who moved to Wroclaw from all over Poland after the Second World War. The Lower-Silesian Operetta, the original name for the theatre, began its life with the staging of Johann Strauss' The Bat under the direction of Szymon Szurmiej, which was performed on 21 March 1965.

Up to the 1990s the repertoire mainly included classical operettas such as Offenbach, Abraham, Dostal and Strauss. In the 1990s Jan Szurmiej the artistic director and Marek R

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USA - Celestion, a designer and manufacturer of raw frame drivers for the professional audio and musical instrument industries, is pleased to announce the recruitment of Stan Burjek to the role of OEM sales manager (Central and Eastern USA).

Originally from Chicago, and currently based in Illinois, Burjek has a Degree in mechanical engineering and began his career as a design engineer for General Motors, later moving on to become a sales professional. He has worked in the automotive industry for more than 10 years.

Supporting OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) customers in the Central and Eastern part of the United States, Burjek joins established OEM sales manager Rick Skillman in a team headed up by Andy Farrow.

It's all part of a larger growth plan, according to general manager, Nigel Wood: "We are predicting strong growth, coming from a concentrated effort to dev

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USA - Gear-Source, Inc. and Rental-Source, LLC have taken on another key member to their sales and development team. Tony Perez joins both companies in a sales role following successful runs with both Coemar US and Robe America, the latter right up until last week. While at Robe, Perez worked as an eastern regional sales manager where he was responsible for the birth of the brand in much of the US market. He grew sales to a very respectable level, then went on to work in special projects. In that role, Perez primarily worked with lighting designers and specifiers, eventually getting Robe Products onto some major American shows.

President of Gear-Source, Marcel Fairbairn says: "Tony is a good friend of mine, and someone I respect for his ability to drive into new markets, and really take care of the customer. We're thrilled to be able to bring him in at this time and happily

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UK - This years Download festival held at the Donnington race track attracted 70,000 fans for three days of the heaviest music. For the first time all the sound stages were supplied by companies using L-Acoustics systems. SSE took care of the main stage with their new V-Dosc system, Skan the second stage, and Stage Audio Services supplied five other stages, all with L-Acoustics loudspeakers and amplifiers.

Paul Nicholson from L-Acoustics UK was heavily involved with the main stage design and was on site along with Paul Bauman the head of technical support to assist SSE with the installation of the system. Utilising Soundvision the site mapping was completed many weeks before the load in and all that was required on the day were a few minor trim adjustments once the undulating nature of the field had been taken into consideration.

L-Acoustics also supplied their Kudo demo rig f

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USA - L-Acoustics US has appointed Jim Kinkella to the newly created position of Engineering Services. The announcement comes from vice president of sales and marketing Paul Freudenberg, to whom he reports.

Kinkella's appointment allows the Oxnard-based distributor to effectively keep up with the increasing support demands of installations, which require CAD drawings, detailed signal diagrams, and expert Soundvision and Ease translations, among other things. He also serves as an additional technical resource for the sales team as well as for consultants, contractors, sound reinforcement companies and fixed installation clients.

Before joining L-Acoustics US, Kinkella most recently worked as a design engineer at Thomas Gregor Associates in El Segundo. Prior to that, he spent a year in the client service department of Signal Hill-based ATM Flyware, which followed five years of e

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France - As part of Innovason's ongoing celebration of ten years of making digital mixing consoles, the company has launched an initiative to take back your old console and replace it with a new one at an extremely preferential rate.

Innovason's sales and marketing director, Xavier Pion explains why: "We felt that it was an excellent way of marking ten years in the business. It is a great way of saying thank you to our existing customers who have supported us since the beginning, and also provides us with a unique opportunity to tempt those who haven't yet invested in Innovason but are thinking about updating their console. We are confident that they will be delighted with their choice, and the offer we are making today is just one more good reason to take the plunge. And of course, we benefit from having a modern fleet of consoles in circulation which requires less mainten

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Japan - Opened in 1989, Yokohama Arena has quickly become the standard of measure for all Japan's other arenas and convention centres, both in terms of its design and its business model. The arena is constantly booked with trade shows, corporate functions, sporting events, and concerts galore. It's so solidly booked, in fact, that when the old sound system was replaced by a brand new one from Meyer Sound, the installation crew was forced to work around normal arena operations and bookings, and could only remove the old system after the new one was up and completely operational.

Most facilities would close for a job of this nature, however, Yokohama Arena is not a typical arena. Accommodating up to 17,000 people, the arena has played host to such high-profile events as the Pride Fighting Championships and the Rolling Stones on tour. Amenities abound: a projection system with four

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UK - Since 1992 Marantz Professional has been one of the leaders in professional compact disc recorders/players. Now the CDR310 expands on the success of the company's innovative and popular portable digital recorder family. With the CDR310, Marantz has made fully-featured CD recording technology available in a portable format. The CDR310 offers convenient long-term recording in uncompressed and MP3 formats, and provides a long list of the features most demanded by the professional market, including optional battery operation for up to four hours.

The CDR310 is capable of handling a project from beginning to end, incorporating built-in microphone preamps with XLR connectors and 48V phantom power for use with external condenser microphones, a built-in high-quality microphone for maximum convenience and portability, and the ability to record for hours, then finish the final projec

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UK - The historic Coronet Cinema in South London's Elephant and Castle has undergone a multi-million pound refurbishment to create a stunning new live music and club venue. The 2,200 capacity Art Deco building, which began its life as a theatre in the early 19th Century before becoming a cinema in 1910, now houses regular live music gigs and club nights, with a newly-installed EV XLC line-array sound reinforcement system.

The team behind the Coronet re-launch includes Simon Parkes, the man who rescued the derelict Brixton Academy in the 1980s. Unsurprisingly, he has put live music at the core of the Coronet's new business plan, and wants to put the venue firmly on the touring circuit. So far, the club has hosted Franz Ferdinand, The Orb and Macy Gray, and is nurturing a commitment to showcasing new bands and avant-garde events.

Bernard Mani of Systems Etc has had a long relati

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UK - Next stop on D.A.S.'s trade show schedule is PLASA 2006 in London England, the only international show in this dateline that brings together this diverse industry in one single event. From the 10 - 13 of September, D.A.S. will be at Earls Court along with UK distributor Sennheiser, showing for first time in the UK, the latest D.A.S. products. The PLASA show is recognized as one of the world's most established professional technology trade events for the entertainment and installation industries.

From the 5 to the 8 of October D.A.S. will be at the 121st AES Convention at the Moscone Convention Center in the city of San Francisco. D.A.S. will be presenting some of it's newest products at this show including the bi-amplified Variant 25A linear array module specifically designed to be used in small and medium-sized installations, the new low-profile stage monitor systems: the

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UK - Leading UK-based amplifier manufacturer MC2 Audio is expanding its lightweight E Series with the introduction of the E4-75 power amplifier. This latest addition to the highly successful E Series further underscores MC2 Audio's commitment to providing high quality, high performance solutions to the fixed installation and touring sound markets.

Designed for use in a wide variety of applications, including touring monitor racks, the E4-75 is a 4-channel amplifier capable of producing 750W/channel into 4 or 8 ohms; it has automatic impedance sensing and changes the power accordingly. Inputs are via four XLR sockets, which can be linked to the next channel via a rear panel switch providing greater flexibility to supply more speakers with the same input signal. In addition, the E4-75 has five-segment LED metering for each channel and an indicator to signal 4 or 8 ohm load.

The

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Republic of China - Taiwanese-based Mipro has appointed Fuzion plc as its UK distributor, with effect from August, 2006.

During its 11 years in existence, the company has built up a healthy reputation internationally with the production of UHF wireless receivers and transmitters, as well as wireless microphones, amplifiers and portable PA's.

Eugene Chen, Mipro international sales director, said "Mipro is delighted to be to entering this partnership agreement with a top-notch firm like Fuzion. I believe with their excellent portfolio and technical expertise, strong dealer relationships and after sales services, our radio products will be in good hands."

Fuzion plc managing director, Tony Oates, says: "The arrival of Mipro among our distributed brands has further strengthened our product portfolio, and helped provide balance across the entire multimedia spectrum

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