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24 October 2025

Europe - Harman Professional Solutions has announced leadership appointments across its global sales organisation.

Amar Subash has been appointed to lead the Professional Solutions sales organisation across the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region, while continuing to oversee sales leadership responsibilities for India. In this expanded role, Amar will set a strategic direction for both regions, focusing on ‘accelerating growth and delivering on Harman’s commitments to customers’.

Over the past nine years at Harman, Amar has held a variety of leadership roles. Most recently, he led Harman Professional sales efforts across the APAC region and India. Prior to that, Amar served solely as director of sales and operations for the Asia Pacific region (APAC) from 2019 to 2021, and as finance director for APAC from 2017 to 2018. Amar will be b

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23 October 2025

UK - PLASA and The Headliner Group are joining forces to launch CRE8, a new flagship event for DJs, producers and self-producing artists, in partnership with Tileyard and supported by Sonical, Bop DJ, SoundOn and TikTok LIVE.

Tileyard North, located opposite The Hepworth in Wakefield, is one of the UK’s fastest-growing creative clusters and the northern home of Tileyard London, Europe’s largest creative community and music industry hub. The venue will host CRE8 on 7 March 2026, welcoming internationally renowned DJs, artists, and producers for a full day of performances and educational panels. It will also showcase the latest equipment from leading brands, giving attendees the opportunity to get hands-on with professional gear, and aims to put Wakefield and the wider northern music scene firmly on the national stage.

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23 October 2025

Canada - For Glass Life – a multi-screen video installation by artist Sara Cwynar – Branch Audiovisual partnered with 1 Sound to design an audio system that matched the depth and scale of the artwork. The exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada, which examines how images influence perception and value, immerses viewers through layered moving visuals, text, and sound.

The installation features a Cannon C8i, three C5is, two Tower LCC44s, and a SUB310, powered by Powersoft amplifiers. Each speaker was mounted and aimed using custom colour C-Clamps for Cannons, allowing precise positioning that blended with the exhibition’s visual composition.

Branch AV built the audio and video rack, outfitted with an Allen & Heath AH-AHM-16 Processing Matrix, Powersoft Q2404 and Q4804 amplifiers, and Blackmagic Design broadcast decks and convert

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23 October 2025

UK - For more than three decades Chalset Sound has been an event production and installation specialist across the UK, Europe and Turkey, supplying PA systems, stage lighting, and special effects. For the last 10 years, Midas consoles have been a mainstay of the business, with the Midas M32 and Midas Pro1 prominent in much of its work.

Recently, Chalset decided to invest in the brand’s flagship HD96. Belchin Sirakov of Chalset Sound comments: “We invested in the HD96 last year and, as with our other Midas consoles, have been happy from the off. It’s a robust feature-rich unit with great pre-amps, and is extremely user-friendly. The console has already seen a lot of use, including on a number of high-profile shows across Europe.”

One such recent prestigious show saw Chalset Sound deploy the HD96 on monitors at the Royal Albert Hall for Turkish

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23 October 2025

Germany - After more than a decade of shared responsibility as co-CEOs, Daniel and Dr. Andreas Sennheiser will take on different roles within the Sennheiser Group. Effective 1 January, 2026, Daniel Sennheiser will become chairman of the board of directors, while his brother Andreas Sennheiser will continue as CEO, overseeing the operational business of the family-owned company.

In his new role, Daniel Sennheiser will focus on the strategic direction of the Sennheiser Group. "By joining the board of directors, I will concentrate more on the long-term development of the company and on continuously strengthening key customer relationships. I will continue to work closely with my brother Andreas in his role as CEO and with the existing executive management board," says Daniel Sennheiser.

Andreas Sennheiser will continue to lead the company as CEO and, to

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22 October 2025

Belgium - The 2,150-seat Henry Le Bœuf Hall at Brussels' Palais des Beaux-Arts –  known by locals as Bozar – now boasts its first ever permanent sound system: a L-Acoustics L-ISA Hyperreal Sound installation featuring the L Series. The inauguration of the new system took place on 2 September, led by Nicolas Bernus, technical production manager at Bozar. On this occasion, Syla and the Belgian National Orchestra performed, with both specialised and general press in attendance.

For decades, amplified performances in the iconic hall relied on rented systems that could never quite match the venue's artistic ambitions. Now, with artists like Sigur Rós, Bob Dylan, Kae Tempest, and Zaho de Sagazan playing its stage this autumn, Bozar has equipped itself with technology that matches its status.

"The new sound system is specifically designed to support

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22 October 2025

France - Known as the Black Pearl of the Mediterranean due to the basalt rock it is built on, Agde is one of the oldest cities in France.

In October 2025, residents celebrated a new development in their community with the inauguration of the Palais des Festivités, a modern and versatile facility designed to host a wide variety of arts, community, and festive events.

Replacing the city’s old festival hall, demolished as part of a wider redevelopment of the area, the main hall at the new venue has a seating capacity of 600 and can accommodate up to 2.5 times that number standing. It features acoustics designed for artistic performances and modular spaces, enabling it to adapt easily to the needs of each event.

With modularity at the heart of the brief for the sound system at Palais des Festivités, the AV and event technology specia

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22 October 2025

USA - Brent Washburn's first experience working in sound was mixing punk shows in his basement around 15 years ago. "I had an old analogue console with full D-sub output to a computer for recording," he recalled. "I met a lot of great artists from that experience, and started touring with a few of them."

After touring for a while, Washburn started looking for a more consistent experience at each venue. "I got tired of the console du jour, and having to dial in IEM mixes each time," he explained. "It left me less time to work on my front-of-house mix before we actually hit the stage."

Seeing influential engineers like Drew Thornton mix big acts on compact control surfaces inspired his next move. "That seemed to make a lot of sense," he recalled. "I heard how great their mixes sounded, and started seeing more and more people go that route."

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22 October 2025

South Korea - The 4,000-seat Manna Methodist Church in Bundang New City offers five services a week and has expanded its output to include performances, attracting thousands of congregation members to the church and large audiences online. To maximise flexibility and accommodate their expanding channel count, the Manna Church team made the decision to replace their existing SD7 with two DiGiCo Quantum 852, one in the church for live performances and another in their broadcast suite to manage online audio.

Overseeing the purchase and installation was DiGiCo’s South Korean distributor, Soundus Corporation. Soundus also commissioned and completed the original installation in 2012 and sales engineer Sean Kim is a regular visitor to the church. For him, DiGiCo’s stability was a large part of the decision process.

“The initial choice to use DiGiCo co

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21 October 2025

France - On 15 April 2019, a world-famous religious building was engulfed in flames, destroying its spire and roof and causing significant damage to the cathedral's altar, pipe organs, 13th-century rose windows and many religious relics. Five years later, on 7 December 2024, after what is described as one of the most ambitious and extensive house of worship reconstruction projects in modern history, the Notre-Dame de Paris officially reopened.

Appointed as the lead integrator for this momentous job, Novelty Paris handled the vast majority of the integration work, seeking critical support from its sister company De Préférence for fine-tuning and acoustic optimisation, and the wider Groupe Novelty companies to undertake the challenge of equipping the religious monument with a sophisticated and fully integrated audiovisual infrastructure.

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21 October 2025

Australia - The Chandler Theatre, originally constructed for the 1982 Commonwealth Games, has long served as one of Brisbane’s most versatile performance spaces. With its original loudspeaker system reaching the end of life, the 1,500-seat venue required a modern upgrade capable of handling a wide range of programming, from school productions and orchestral concerts to national touring acts.

After a competitive design process, a new sound system based on JBL Professional’s VTX A6 subcompact line array was installed by High Noon Stage Productions, with system consultation by XConnect Professional Services and support from Australian distributor MadisonAV. The result is a powerful yet discreet audio solution that balances performance with architectural and operational requirements.

The final design features three hangs of eight JBL VTX A6 loudspeak

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21 October 2025

Bahrain - Egyptian superstar Tamer Hosny delivered a crowd-pleasing performance at the Beyon Al Dana Amphitheatre at the Exhibition World Bahrain in September, supported by an Adamson Systems Engineering sound system deployed by Showtech Productions Bahrain.

The Adamson E-Series serves as one of the company’s flagship large-format line arrays and has supported international tours and stadium-scale productions across the globe.

Producing a concert for Tamer Hosny requires great attention to detail, especially when delivering sound to a large, open amphitheatre. The production team needed a system that could provide both consistency and efficiency while maintaining clarity across the venue.

The E-Series presented the balance of power and practicality. Its lightning-fast rigging system and efficient truck pack design not only reduced set-up ti

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21 October 2025

Poland - The Municipal Culture Centre in the central Polish town of Gostynin was founded in 1993, and for more than three decades has been the community’s base for musical and theatre performances, social activities, and cinema screenings. More than two years ago, its management took the decision to modernise and refurbish the Centre, since which it has undergone a significant transformation.

Upgrading the venue’s technology was an important part of the project and audio specialist Tommex was engaged to design, supply, and install a quality sound system to cater for a demanding programme of theatre shows and concerts.

Tommex chose Coda Audio’s N-APS compact arrayable point source for the 250-seat auditorium.

The flown system installed at the Centre comprised three N-APS and two N-SUB per side supplemented by a single, centrally mounted

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21 October 2025

Germany - One of the country's most acoustically revered concert halls has been transformed. Originally built in 1926 as a planetarium, Tonhalle Düsseldorf was converted into a concert hall during the 1970s and has since earned worldwide recognition for its exceptional natural acoustics.

Today, the venue serves as home to the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra while hosting an eclectic mix of classical, rock, pop, comedy and cabaret performances. But when the hall's aging sound system began experiencing critical failures, Tonhalle faced the urgent challenge of installing an audio system worthy of a venue approaching its centennial without compromising its acoustic integrity. 

The solution came through a competitive EU-wide public tender won by integrator Thomann Audio Professional. Following a system design developed by consultancy firm Bühnenplanung

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21 October 2025

Czech Republic - KV2 Audio has announced the latest addition to its VHD Series with the VHD7000D subwoofer amplifier. Engineered to drive all VHD, ES, and SL subwoofer elements, the VHD7000D is aimed at large-scale events. Its advanced setup options allow for effortless integration into any KV2 Audio system. 

This universal bass amplifier is fully compatible with third-party subwoofers – a first for KV2. An innovative power management system enables the VHD7000D to deliver short-term power of 7kW, with peak output up to 14kW, while operating at a modest consumption of only 3.6kW from a 16A circuit. The peak output power extends far beyond the capacity of the mains supply and outperforms comparable amplifiers.

A standout is the integrated RMS limiter, which provides long-term protection for loudspeaker components by monitoring average power over ti

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21 October 2025

USA - Renkus-Heinz has announced the launch of third-party control plugin modules for Crestron and Q-SYS, developed in partnership with Control Concepts – specialists in AV software development and API integration.

“We are pleased to offer the first of our new series of third-party plugins, specifically for Q-SYS and Crestron Series 4,” says product manager Brandon Heinz. “These plugins have been widely requested by our customers, and we are excited to announce that they are now available to download for use on your next project. Designed to streamline control and monitoring for large-scale projects, the plugins aim to simplify the work of our customers out in the field.”

Beyond workflow improvements, the plugins are backed by Control Concepts’ official supported product programme. Control Concepts’ ongoing support of the plugins empowe

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20 October 2025

USA - DiGiCo’s Quantum112 compact flypack mixer – previously codenamed Pufferfish – is already being put through its paces by Ed Sheeran’s FOH engineer, Simon Kemp, and production manager, Chris Marsh.

Appropriately, the tiny desk had its first official deployment on National Public Radio’s Tiny Desk Concerts video series, recorded live at NPR Music’s office in Washington, DC. The very next day, the ‘still-secret digital mixer’ was in Williamsburg’s Domino Park in Brooklyn, New York for an exclusive TikTok LIVE performance promoting Sheeran’s eighth and latest album, Play.

DiGiCo has enjoyed a long history with Sheeran, tracing back to 2011, when Chris Marsh began mixing the artist’s early solo tours on a compact SD11. In 2017, to accommodate an ever-increasing need for more busses, Marsh stepped up to

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20 October 2025

Italy - One of the best-known spiritual destinations in the world, the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi recently underwent a major audio and control system upgrade to enhance the worship and visitor experience for millions of annual pilgrims. The project brought together JBL Intellivox loudspeakers, BSS signal processing, and AMX control systems to deliver precise coverage, intuitive operation, and seamless integration across the site’s 10,000sq.m outdoor space.

The Basilica of St. Francis holds deep cultural and spiritual significance as the birthplace of the Franciscan movement, characterized by humility, poverty, and devotion to all creation. With two adjoining churches, frescoes by Giotto, and an expansive piazza that hosts large gatherings of worshippers and tourists, the site presents challenges for sound reinforcement.

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20 October 2025

World - Prog rock musician Steven Wilson is currently on his The Overview Tour, for which tour manager, Dave Salt has chosen Britannia Row Productions to provide sound reinforcement. The crew toured the UK, Ireland, and Europe and are currently in North America before they close out the year in Australia.

“Touring only happens when Steven feels its right to do it,” says Dave. “It’s never rushed. Steven had not toured as a solo artist for over six years, and we had to up the game for this tour and make sure we had the best available people and PA system to deliver the results to his audience.”

FOH engineer Alessandro Melchior describes the project as something “designed to be truly immersive, engaging multiple senses to create a deeper connection with the audience.”

Alongside a well-executed visual design, fans were imme

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20 October 2025

USA - Casa Mañana Theatre is both a landmark and an engine of creativity for Fort Worth’s cultural landscape. For resident sound designer and engineer Allan Branson, Casa Mañana is a place where ‘precision audio and heartfelt storytelling intersect’.

Branson first joined the company in 2021, after years of designing sound for Arkansas Repertory Theatre and Pioneer Theatre Company. “We stay busy pretty much year-round,” he says regarding Casa Mañana’s schedule. “Between our Broadway season, the Theatre for Youth series, cabarets and summer camps, there’s always something happening here. Our mission is to bring professional-level theatre to Fort Worth. For many of the kids who come through our doors, our shows are their very first experience with live performance. It’s amazing to watch their faces when the lights go down and the m

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20 October 2025

USA - After performing a hundred shows across two Las Vegas residencies from 2021 to 2023 plus 2024’s Super Bowl halftime spectacular, Usher opted to record his ninth studio album, Coming Home, and announced a supporting global arena tour, Past Present Future.

Overwhelming fan demand for the eight-time Grammy Award-winner prompted the tour’s expansion to 83 dates across the world. At all stops, Usher’s performances, featuring dozens of songs from across his three-decade career, were backed by a robust Cohesion PA.

The three-stage show used 16 Cohesion CO12 on each of the mains, side-hangs, and 270° hangs. The line lengths were extended to 18 for certain larger venues in Europe. At each performance, a special VIP seating section between the main stage and B stage received an array of four Cohesion CO10 flown directly above as

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17 October 2025

Japan - Loudspeaker manufacturer Funktion-One has appointed Audio Gears Co as its distributor for Japan and Taiwan, building on the company’s successful presence in Thailand and Vietnam.

Audio Gears Japan will be headed by CEO Osamu Satoh and Audio Gears Taiwan by CEO Joyun Huang. With offices in their respective countries, both executives and their teams bring deep industry knowledge, local market expertise and a shared commitment to delivering exceptional audio experiences.

Parent company Audio Gears Co is led by founder Jesada ‘Jack’ Pattanatabut (CEO), owner of Production Company and a respected live sound engineer, together with Bob Siripremanant (COO), owner of After Miracle Plus Company. Between them, they bring more than 60 years of combined experience in pro audio rental, live sound and concert production management.

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17 October 2025

Europe - Adam Hall Integrated Systems continues to expand its international dealer network. With immediate effect, installation solutions from LD Systems, Palmer, Gravity, Adam Hall Cables und Adam Hall 19” parts are available in Belgium via DigiNet.

Paul Nijsen, product manager live power, DigiNet, comments, “We are delighted to add Adam Hall Integrated Systems' high-quality installation solutions to our portfolio. The one-stop solution approach with matching brands complements our range in many ways. Our goal is to work with Adam Hall Integrated Systems to implement customised solutions for our customers in order to make a long-term impact on the market in Belgium.”

Leon Vissers, account manager Benelux, Adam Hall Group, adds, “DigiNet combines in-depth market knowledge with technical consulting expertise, making it an important strategic p

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17 October 2025

Estonia - HK Audio has named Rock Distribution as its new official distribution partner for Estonia. The company is now the exclusive distributor for HK Audio in the country, offering the German manufacturer’s products to the local market. 

"I am very pleased to announce that we have taken over the distribution of HK Audio in Estonia,” says Edijs Rudzis, CEO of Rock Distribution. “HK Audio is a strong and recognised player in the field of professional audio technology, and we firmly believe in its innovative strength and quality. This partnership strengthens our position in the market and enables us to bring first-class sound solutions even closer to our Estonian customers. We look forward to a successful future together."

“We are delighted to have gained an experienced and committed partner for Estonia in Rock Distribution,” adds Christia