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"SF Marketing is honoured to have been chosen as the Canadian Distributor for Telex Communications Headsets, Radiocom, Telex Legacy, and Audiocom product groups," says company founder Sol Fleising. "The Telex product mix fits in perfectly with our professional audio portfolio, and our company cultures are very similar, which will make our goal of achieving total customer satisfaction an easy one."

"SF Marketing has a superlative record of customer service and

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Chris Gunton of CGA Integration observes a distinct trend in the city's fine dining rooms: "We've recently worked at several venues where the traditionally high standards applied to cuisine, service and décor have now been transferred to audio-visual aspirations: AV is no longer the poor relation in a prestige hotel or restaurant project, but has come of age with the benefits it offers both the finished venue and its bottom line."

After successfully installing EV-based background music systems in China Tang and The Cryst

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The sanctuary rejects both rectangular organisation and symmetry, similar to the Berlin Philharmonic hall. Its concrete finished wall was influenced by the Opera house in Sidney. This abstract design makes achieving crisp, clear sound very difficult.

The church's staff closely reviewed proposals with the top 5 industry leading sound companies designs for matching its architecture and decided that Adamson's SpekTrix line source array sys

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Primacoustics offers comparatively priced acoustic-treatment solutions in packages designed around common room sizes and audio applications. Their acoustic treatments have taken various factors that are often overlooked - expense, room logistics and the perception of acoustic design, say the company.

Dennis Harburn, managing director of Shure Distribution commented: "We are delighted to be working with Primacoustics. They make an excellent addition to our studio portfolio which already includes products from Shure, Phonic and Radial. They have over 30 years experience in studio and live sound equipment and are a perfect match for the Shure bra

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New to the show is the iDR0 2U rack processing unit, which provides all the processing features of the company's iLive digital mixing system for networked audio. It is billed as a cost effective and compact solution for users who wish to mix common sources for different applications such as FOH and Monitor, or need an additional mix for broadcast or recording that allows full processing and mix capability with the source material.

The unit will be shown as part of a comprehensive iLive system, comprising an iDR10 mixrack and iLive-112 control surface. Also on show will be an iDR DSP system for installed audio distribution.

Allen & Heath will also be demonstrating the 4 bus ZED-428 from the new ZED range of compact USB-equipped mixers

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Simon Yapp, head of audio visual and sound at Glyndebourne and his colleague Keith Benson, head of lighting, needed to find a solution to replace the Glyndebourne's old paging system, which had become unsupportable. The solution was required to not only replace the original paging system with 16 zones but also offer increased flexibility without throwing away the existing cable infra-structure and speaker system, all of which were still serv

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Situated 300km east of Tokyo, the city of Iwaki is in the southern part of the Hamadori coastal region of Fukushima, Tohoku. Iwaki is the industrial hub for the region, and is also very popular with tourists - around 7.6 million visit each year.

The main hall of Iwaki Alios seats up to 1,700, and although it was mainly designed to stage classical concerts, musicals and classic Japanese theatre productions, careful consideration was given during the design stage so that all types of performances could be staged. The recently opened complex also comprises a 230-seater theatre as well as four band rehea

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"Each decade has its great stars and big hits," says the company. "The majority were produced using Neumann products". This has inspired the company to bring music history back to life with a special series of illustrations. From the swinging 50s, all through the colourful 70s and into modern times, Neumann has consistently represented innovation, reliability and quality."

Wolfgang Fraissinet, president marketing/sales at Neumann Berlin says, "Those who want to put their knowledge about music history to the test have the opportunity to do so at www.80yearsneumann.com. The main prizes are three brand new TLM 67s."

(Jim Evans)

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The unusual décor of the venue, which consists of a restaurant and a club, suggests the interior of an Irish church - complete with a mock organ, statues of angels, choir stalls, and a mock pulpit. Klein opted for a decentralized sound reinforcement concept, in accordance with the wishes of the Doyle family, who now run a total of seven Irish Pubs throughout Europe.

After careful testing, Klein opted for a mixture of different VariLine loudspeakers (VL62, VL262 and VL122) from Dynacord, plus FX20 subwoofer

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Scheunemann reports: "Soon after the first tests, it became clear what a remarkable resolution a pro-ribbon system has, as well as how exact the dispersion of the QR's really is. The refined architecture of the venue does not allow for every sound system design, as the ground floor seating needs to be covered without any interference. The QR's seemed to be the perfect fit."

Scheunemann continues: "Absolutely convincing, however, was the throw of the brilliant ribbon highs, that made a delay line obsolete. For a further system extension, we hav

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The track encircled the main city center with the finish line in front of the historic Bragernes Church. Two large video displays enabled the crowds to follow the action while a Sound MICA and M3D line array loudspeaker system provided by Oslo-based AVAB CAC ensured that the attendees could hear the event clearly from anywhere along the route.

The nature of the outdoor event presented multifaceted challenges, each of which was tackled using a seamlessly integrated Meyer Sound system. "The Cr

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The ISO 9001:2000 standard demonstrates Cirrus Research's commitment to customer service and quality, says the company. In Cirrus' case it applies to the design, manufacture, supply, service and re-calibration of a wide range of sound and noise measuring and monitoring instrumentation for a worldwide market. It focuses particularly on the assessment, management and continuous improvement of Cirrus' business processes.

"We are particularly pleased to have achieved ISO 9001:2000 certification as it underlin

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The club became by-word on the international club scene thanks to the far-sighted management between 1970 and 2001 of Gianni Fabbri - son of Mirti Fabbri, who had the original idea of converting her country villa into a top class venue in 1957. Now the venue has again undergone a substantial renovation and technical upgrade before reopening its doors again to a

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"Despite the development of the AES 42 interface, there wasn't any easy way to directly connect Neumann digital series microphones to a console," explains Sennheiser's senior applications engineer, Mike Pappas. "Now, with DiGiCo directly supporting AES 42, we have a digital path from microphone to speaker."

The latest Neumann product on show at NAB will be the TLM 103 D, the next classic microphone to enter the digital realm. Its integrated, fast peak limiter promises optimal recording levels at all times and the Neumann A/D converter built into the microphone eliminates the necessity of tedious experimentation with external converters and preamps, says th

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The event included a host of local and national R&B and Hip Hop artists, including Ray Lavender, ACE with DJ Khaled, and Urban Mystic, to name a few. The event was hosted by radio personality Mike B (99 Jamz WEDR) and DBS' VP of marketing and development, Tangela Cummings, AKA 'Lady DBS'. The banging bass and sounds were spun by Miami DJ's, DJ Ice and DJ Greo from WEDR 99 Jamz.

"It's a good thing when the only complaint you get for a two day event is that your system is too loud," says Harold Cu

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"The infinitely variable pick-up pattern enables sound engineers and recordists to try out new settings with minimum effort and to optimise the sound at the mixing console," explains Sebastian Schmitz, Sennheiser's product manager for microphones. "Any intermediate stage between the indiv

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The sessions will be chaired by experts from leading companies as well engineers with international experience in the field. These include Eberhard Müller of Neumann & Müller, Wolfgang Feß from Klotz-a.i.s., Norbert Nachbauer from Neutrik, Jürgen Wilhelm from Yamaha, Gregor Zielinsky from Sennheiser and Ralf Zuleeg from d&b audiotechnik, all of whom have actively collaborated on the programme.

The Live Sound Workshop on Saturday 17 Mayopens with two sessions presented by Ralf Zuleeg, Head of d&b's education and application support. Demystifying Audio will describe the principles of acoustics

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Raf Orlowski, director at Arup Acoustics, says, "Around 15 years ago, Arup Acoustics carried out a survey of music facilities in schools for the then DfES and found inadequate conditions in many instances; pupils practicing in corridors, music classes blighted by extraneous noise and band rehearsals in totally inappropriate acoustic environments. This survey led eventually to the publication in 2004 of a government directive, Building Bulletin 93, which has resulted in a massive change in the acoustic quality of new music facilities and school buildings in general.

"The new Watford Music Centre at Watford Grammar School epitomises the best intentions

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Brennan states that the new company will sell exclusively to dealers, not to end-users. "PRG Distribution gives North American dealers and their customers access to state-of-the-art lighting equipment and other entertainment products that have been hugely popular with customers outside the US but difficult if not impossible to purchase in this country," he says. "Buyers can purchase this equipment from their regional dealers, fully confident that they will be able to get any parts and service they need

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The L-Acoustics FOH manifest consisted of 24 V-Dosc elements completed by 16 SB218 Subwoofers. 16 ARCS elements were used as side-fills, while four dV-Dosc were deployed for the FOH centre-fill.

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Yan Stile, Canegreen's managing director comments: "The Mica array was really the obvious choice for the Sugababes' tour. It's got the power to deliver the mix, and great articulation and imaging to handle the vocals. And it's lightweight and quick to rig and tune; you just hang it and you're ready."

Two hangs of 12 Mica line array loudspeakers serve as the main system. Low frequency conten

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UEP's Steve Butcher comments: "We had bits of kit here collecting dust for ages which we always meant to sell on, but never got around to doing anything about it for a variety of reasons ......and I kept encountering people in this exact same situation. A major reason no-one was selling their unwanted kit was that they didn't have the time to get it together - it was always last on the agenda and something that no-one ever got around to. Also, until now, EBAY was the only serious option to reach a wide audience."

Butcher has decided to take advantage of this gap in the market with Audiovisualbay, making

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Kensington Palace was originally built in the early seventeenth century and has been a residence of the British royal family since 1689. The Palace was the home of Diana, Princess of Wales until 1997, which made it the perfect location for the exhibition Diana: a Princess Remembered which was open to the public between July 2007 and March 2008.

SYSCO supplied a total of five Sennheiser 2020-D Tourguide systems, consisting of five HDE 2020-D headphone/receivers and five SK 2020-D mini-transmitters, along with two HSP-2-EW-3 headset mics and an EZL2020-20L combined storage case and charging station.

"We used the