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Italy - FaitalPRO has re-launched "a significantly improved woofer model already present on catalogue" and unveiled a new mid-woofer.

Flavio Naggi, overseas sales manager of FaitalPRO states: "Knowing how to transform the research of our internal R&D department into concrete economic value applied on both new products, as well as on continuous improvements in already existing ones, is a real priority for us: That is why we never stop, not even when we are satisfied with what we have created."

Improvements have been made to the FaitalPRO 18" woofer model 18FH500. The result is that now this woofer is able to sustain a 100W more than the previously declared power, climbing from 500 to 600W of nominal power.

The new FaitalPRO 10HP1020 mid-woofer boasts two spiders, and a small sized membrane compared to the classic subs, with a 4" voice coil.

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USA - City Theatrical's new SHoW DMX wireless DMX received the "Live Design Lighting Product of the Year Award" from Live Design Magazine at the Broadway Lighting Master Classes on May 20, 2008 in New York City.

SHoW DMX was a nearly unanimous first draft pick by the judges in the Wireless Networking category. One judge noted: "I find City Theatrical's product innovative in the multiple ways that it seeks to attain higher levels of data fidelity and create ways to peacefully coexist with other radio signals in the 2.4GHz band - adjustable power output, limited bandwidth mode, and limited burst mode."

Another judge noted, referring to SHoW DMX's reliability: "The SHoW DMX system was no different than using wires - first time I could ever say that."

CTI's SHoW DMX system utilizes a patent pending method that synchronizes the hopping pattern of the

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USA - Pennsylvania-based Anderson Audio recently augmented its existing inventory of Lab.gruppen amplifiers with the purchase of 12 PLM 10000 Q Powered Loudspeaker Management systems. According to Anderson Audio owner Chris Anderson, the new PLM units - each of which incorporates two full modules of Dolby Lake Controller processing along with four channels of amplification - will afford greater flexibility in reconfiguring his largest touring system as well as a more compact form factor.

"The flexibility is the biggest thing that attracted us," states Anderson. "The cool thing about the PLM 10000Qs is that basically every one of the channels drives a speaker, so four channels of the amp covers the four channels that the speaker system needs. All you do is dial in the PLM to whatever you want that speaker to do."

Anderson notes that a further benefit of his

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USA - Highland Baptist Church in Meridian, Mississippi contacted several nationally-known audio consultants and contractors to help solve their sound reinforcement problems.

Will Roland of local firm Gracenote Consulting recognised and praised the sanctuary's unadorned sound and proposed to improve the reinforcement situation by designing a system with excellent pattern control to avoid over-energizing the walls and ceiling in the first place. The tight, low-frequency pattern control of the full range Danley SH-50 and the rich subsonic response of the Danley TH-50 proved integral to his success.

MS Audio, LLC of Jackson, Mississippi installed the system from Gracenote Consulting's design drawings. As the room has two aisle's with a centre seating section and two side sections, Roland used two Danley SH-50s powered by Lab Gruppen C48:4 amplifiers to cover each seating section w

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UAE - Triangle Entertainment Services unveiled at the recent PALME exhibition in Dubai d&b audiotechnik's recent additions to their renowned E-Series range, four new loudspeakers the E8, E12 and E12-D as well as the E15X subwoofer and the new lightweight D6 amplifier.

Lightness and power typifies the new additions to d&b's multipurpose E-Series; thoroughly modern loudspeakers, the E8, E12 and E12-D combine astutely engineered polyurethane hard foam cabinets, with highly efficient coaxial LF/HF drivers at their heart. Designed for use as stand-alone full-range loudspeakers, any of these models can be integrated into larger systems with the seamless homogeneity that has become a d&b convention. All three models have rotatable horns, with patterns of 90° x 50°, 80° x 50° and 110° x 50° (h x v) respectively, high power ratings of 129 dB, 134 dB, 133 dB SPL, a

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Italy - FBT Elettronica S.p.A. announces the appointment of Mr. Luigi Paoloni as export manager for Central-South America, Africa (except north), East Europe extra EEC countries.Luigi Paoloni has spent seventeen years at Proel S.p.A. where he experienced the international sales department management, witnessing the whole company's history.

Paoloni comments: "I am looking forward to developing our brands in Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe where Italian made products are very much aimed. FBT manufactures almost all its entire production in Italy, covering the complete production cycles at our plant in Recanati, near Ancona. FBT's organisation includes total product design, engineering and manufacturing in Italy and I am looking forward to bring my contribution to the future success."

Luigi Paoloni joins forces with the FBT's export managers Roberto Mataloni, h

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Germany - Beyerdynamic has reported that Fred R. Beyer, the shareholder and long-time managing director of beyerdynamic GmbH & Co KG, died on 5 June 2008 in Heilbronn, Germany.

The company's statement says: "Beyer will be best remembered as a man who did not bow to convention yet still maintained a strong sense of traditionalism. After his father's death in 1959, he took over as Managing Director at the age of 26 of the still family owned manufacturing business and held that position until his retirement in 2002.

"He gave up a very promising career with the US Army and with it his great dream of a military life, although anyone visiting him at the factory could be forgiven for thinking that they had landed in the army because of his impressive collection of military vehicles and his management style.

"He led beyerdynamic for over 40 years and was instrumental

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Venezuela - Corporacion Dynaco provided concert sound rental services for two of the largest events held during Festival Movistar Musica 2008. Movistar, a division of the Spanish telecommunications company, Telefonica sponsored the festival.

More than 25,000 people were attracted to the production sites, which each featured eight major international artists from Venezuela, Spain, Argentina, and Colombia like Los Amigos Invisibles, Caramelos de Cianuro, Chino y Nacho, Diego Torres, and David Bisbal. The 8 May event was held at the Zulia State capitol of Maracaibo's baseball stadium, and the 10 May 10 event took place in Caracas, at the Universidad de Venezuela's baseball stadium.

Dynaco deployed 36 JBL Professional VT4888DP-AN midsized powered line array elements equipped with JBL DrivePack technology for the main left/right arrays and four VT4888DP-AN elements as near- fills.

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Portugal - Void Acoustics reports an unusual installation in Portugal, involving a club in a tunnel. Porto's newly opened Gare Club features an all-Void system, installed by T2 Produção e Eventos, designed to deliver high impact sound throughout the club. The club's main room occupies a 35m tunnel, with a ceiling height of 10m and just 6m wide, with the system incorporating Void's signature design, the triple-horn Air Motion speakers, as well as the Stasys 8 dual 18" horn loaded enclosures.

Gare Club's owners, DJs Freshkitos, were keen to match their unusual venue with an eye-catching system, capable of delivering a top quality sound throughout the club. They approached local and international sound company, T2 Produção e Eventos, on the basis of its reputation for high profile installations across clubs, venues and theatres. T2's Raul Ribeiro, a sound engineer and prod

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UK - Roland Systems Group (RSG) has recruited SFL Group to its group of RSS dealers in the UK. Reading-based SFL is actively involved with system installation and live event production all over the UK, and is taking the RSS M-400 mixing console and S-4000 Digital Snake into its own rental inventory as well as accepting dealer status.

SFL managing director Mark Payne has already identified several market opportunities for RSS' new digital mixing system. "I see one of its strengths in the provision of end-to-end audio networking at low cost. It offers the ability to plug into a PC and record everything you are doing with ease, and very inexpensively. And of course the integration of the Digital Snake in audio networks makes the V-Mixing System a very interesting proposition."

SFL offers an extensive range of short training seminars for live production engineers, and wi

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UK - One of the first V-Mixing Systems from RSS by Roland has been bought by The Bedford Corn Exchange, which has snapped up the digital console plus snake package to use as a portable system, shuttling between four local venues.

The Bedford Corn Exchange has much in common with civic theatres in towns all over the UK, featuring a 1000-capacity main auditorium which hosts a huge variety of repertory productions and one-off shows. The sound team also sallies forth into other venues owned and operated by the Borough Council, and have therefore invested in a new V-Mixing System from RSS by Roland which gives them 48-channel digital mixing capability on the move.

Pro-audio dealer JAP Sound fulfilled the Corn Exchange order, supplying the M-400 16-bus digital console and two S-1608 Digital Snakes with remote controllers. This compact digital system can be moved around the Corn Exch

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Greece - L-AcousticsS DOSC systems were chosen to supply the Concert Against Global Warming in Athens, featuring Nikos Aliagas & Friends. Presented by renowned Greek TV show host Nikos Aliagas, this concert was the first act of a European Tour supported by the EU.

Greek sound providers Ypsilon & Audiosound provided L-Acoustics sound systems for this concert featuring left and right main PA arrays each comprised of nine V-DOSC enclosures with three dV-DOSC hung below, completed by two dV-DOSC per side for the stereo in-fills. Far left and right crowd areas were addressed by two additional outer-fill hangs each featuring six KUDO.

Sound designer John Moine de Russy reports: "I was in charge of the sound design aspects and system specifcation for this project. Thanks to the L-Acoustics Soundivision 3D simulation software, I was able to configure the complete system ah

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Good News - The Association of British Theatre Technicians reports that the 30th anniversary ABTT Theatre Show staged in London's Royal Horticultural Halls last week was considered another triumph. Year on year the Show has expanded from both exhibitor and visitor perspectives. With over 100 participating companies, the organisers say that, despite the current uncertain economic climate, the visitor numbers were maintained and were slightly up on 2007.

Company News - In the entertainment technology industry's latest high-profile acquisition, Barco has announced that it has bought High End Systems Inc, the well-known manufacturer of automated luminaires, digital lighting and lighting controls, for a total value of USD 55 million. "With the merging of two strong industry players, this acquisition reinforces Barco's leadership position in the fast converging video and lighting segmen

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New Zealand - The Rippon Festival,staged at Lake Wanaka, a National Park area on the South Island, celebrates the talents of Nw Zealand bands and musicians.

Rich Green was front of house system engineer for the festival and explained why the festival is so popular: "I have worked the last three Rippon Festivals, and while there are larger festivals in New Zealand, Rippon would have to be one of the most successful outdoor shows in the country. It consistently sells out a couple of months before the show, approximately 5,000 and is very well organized by a dedicated local committee. It used to run annually but the last few shows have been every second year and I think this formula has worked well, perhaps making it just that much more special.

"The festival offers a diverse range of music; rock, dub, drum and bass, indie, you name it. Sonically this poses its own chal

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UK - Leisuretec Distribution Ltd has secured the first shipment of the newly launched Cloud DCM-1 eight channel digitally controlled mixer.

The DCM-1 is Cloud's first ever microprocessor controlled multi zoner, providing space-conscious sound installations with a high level of flexibility without the need of a PC. Leisuretec Distribution received the first shipment to leave the production line of the Sheffield based manufacturer this month.

"As with all Cloud products initial demand for the DCM-1 is expected to be high," said Leisuretec CEO Mike Henden. "Leisuretec customers want innovative products on demand and we have taken action by further increasing our Cloud stock to ensure Leisuretec can continue to deliver Cloud products with speed and efficiency."

Leisuretec has a policy of in house training, with experienced Cloud products specialist Brian Payn

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Spain - Following the technological and commercial expansion of D.A.S. Audio, the company recently expanded its woodworking facilities. An additional 1,200sq.m, fitted with the latest CNC equipment has now become part of the 3000sq.m woodworking facility which is manned by a team of 12, with José Antonio Vercher as manager.

In addition to the pre-existing cutting equipment, sanding machines and painting booth, two new milling and perforation machining centres have been acquired for processing wood panels, press board, MDF, plastic and light metals such as aluminum or brass. The new machines are equipped with the latest computer software, which allows the cabinet designs to be sent from other locations at the plant directly to the new equipment.

More than 1,500 wooden acoustic cabinets are now made at this production line each month, fully satisfying factory needs.

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UK - When the Cottesloe Theatre was ready to retire its trusty d&b sound system after more than a decade of hard labour, Rich Walsh, Sound supervisor for the Cottesloe, was in do doubt that he wanted to remain with the same brand.

Technology has advanced in leaps and bounds since the original d&b system was installed, and now Walsh knew he could take advantage of a more compct and energy efficient footprint - specifying a system that could be remotely set-up, monitored and healthchecked over Ethernet.

He contacted the Theatre's regular audio suppliers, Orbital Sound, who delivered eight d&b E8 two-way multipurpose loudspeakers with a further eight E12-Ds providing bass extension via a long-excursion 12" driver. The rotatable 90° x 50° dispersion he knew would provide all the coverage he needed in the reconfigurable, 300-seat (maximum) studio theatre - whether set

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UK - Barry Haywood has joined Monacor UK as Scotland/North of England sales manager. The move marks a reunion with Damon Crisp, Monacor UK's managing director, with whom he previously worked at Numark UK. Haywood spent five-and-a-half years with Numark - the same length of service which he had previously devoted to drum manufacturer, Pearl.

Joining Monacor UK from Peavey, Haywood said that the vast range of products represented in the company's catalogue provided a tremendous challenge in all market sectors - from MI retail to pro rental and install.The broad range of LED lighting was particularly exciting he said.

Commented Damon Crisp: "This move reinforces our willingness to compete in a professional marketplace; with Barry's experience we are confident we will be able to deliver a continually-improving service which is fully-supported."

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USA - JBL has added five new models to its premium Control Contractor 40 Series at InfoComm 08 (18020 June, Las Vegas). The new Control Contractor 40 Series premium in-ceiling specialty loudspeakers incorporate JBL's conical Radiation Boundary Integrator (RBI) technology, adapted from JBL's groundbreaking Vertec series line array loudspeakers, and providing "exceptionally broad and consistent pattern control with superior sonic performance".

Three of the new models - the Control 47C/T, Control 47LP and Control 47HC - incorporate RBI, which combines a large-diameter, high-frequency waveguide and low-frequency projection apertures that work together to provide "extremely consistent pattern control and coverage", say JBL. The other two models are the Control 40CS/T, a subwoofer with built-in passive crossover, and the Control 42C, an ultra-compact, in-ceiling sa

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UK - Park Audio was commissioned by promoters PLM to supply systems for the beach-side dance music festival in Portrush, Northern Ireland, featuring DJs such as Fedde Le Grand, Utah Saints and Eric Prydz, and headlined by The Chemical Brothers.

Park Audio's systems engineer Mark Morrison described the set-up. "The plot was 16 XLC DVX a side, six X-Subs (stacked six-high) a side, and centre- fill of six XLC215s plus two XLC DVX. For monitors, we used EV ZX5s and side- fills were X-Array cabinets. The system was overseen by Iris-Net control software to ensure we had adequate headroom throughout the event."

Park's decision to buy Electro-Voice's XLC compact line array was taken just as EV launched its DVX upgrade - the incorporation of new EV 12-inch low-frequency/mid-bass woofers into the XLC127 cabinets, giving greater high-SPL stability and full-bandwidth intelligibi

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The Netherlands - Techno producer, Jochem Paap alias Speedy J, has adopted a new set- up for his live performances based around Allen & Heath's new Xone:1D MIDI controller.

"My new set- up consists of two laptops, a Xone:92 and two Xone:1Ds, which combine the best of both worlds - the analogue sound of the 92 and the 1D's hands-on MIDI control for Traktor and Ableton software. Plus, the 1Ds match the design and feel of the 92, so it really feels like one big performance workstation," Jochem explains.

"Sculpting my sound is now more flexible and transparent than ever before. The 1Ds have a very clear layout, which makes them really comfortable to operate on stage. Although all sound in my sets is coming from laptops, I never have to touch the mouse and rarely have to look at the screens. I have mapped the controllers to all the functions I need, and they modify

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UK - Trantec, the wireless mic systems designer and manufacturer, has launched its new 2008 Product Catalogue - its most comprehensive to date, comprising over 250 products, demonstrating the wide scope of Trantec's wireless range.

Trantec's head of sales and marketing, Mark Parkhouse, says: "Each year Trantec offers new ideas and inspiration enabling more and more users to benefit from our expertise. Our 2008 catalogue showcases cost effective solutions for every application across broadcast, film, music and theatre, and users can now take advantage of our tradition of producing affordable and well designed systems that represent great value for money.

"I'm confident the new catalogue will help inform users of our extensive portfolio, particularly the new digital SD7000 system which is again pushing boundaries in the world of wireless mics."

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Denmark Loudspeaker manufacturer Artcoustic will host a number of live jazz sessions during this year's Copenhagen Jazz Festival at their showroom.

This event will give audiences a chance to indulge their passion and ears to some of the best jazz music in the world and listen to the music they enjoy in a luxurious setting over Artcoustic's superior audio systems, says the company.

The concept behind these sessions is to give audiences a chance to listen to music that has influenced and inspired the festival's artists over a dynamic sound system as well as allow them to here a true representation of the artists' music. "It is very satisfying to feel that we can contribute to an outstanding experience for music fans at one of the world's best festivals", stated Sture Svensson, sales manager in Copenhagen.

Throughout Friday, the 4 July to Sunday 13 July, Artcoustic's

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Japan - Yamaha Corporation has announced that its Board of Directors, at their meeting held on 19 June, has decided to make an offer to the founders of French loudspeaker manufacturer Nexo S.A. to acquire all of their shares of Nexo at 51.542 Euro per share - bringing Yamaha's share holding to 74.9% of the share capital.

Yamaha intends to seek to acquire 100% of the shares of Nexo through the launching of a tender offer process for the acquisition of the remaining shares.

In June 2005, Yamaha purchased a 10.22% interest in Nexo and entered into a strategic alliance with the company (which resulted in the development of the NXAMP Powered Digital TD controller) and joined forces to strengthen their capabilities for providing better system solutions for their clients. Yamaha says it came to the conclusion that its joint activities with Nexo would generate results at a substantial

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