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USA - QSC confirms that several key components of its Q-Sys networked audio management platform, and all of the models in the CX amplifier line, have achieved IEC60945 certification. This is the final stage in the process of rendering them eligible for use at sea under the internationally recognised maritime safety conventions known collectively as SOLAS (Safety of Life at Sea).

The QSC Core 1000, 3000 and 4000 processors, together with their associated Page Stations, I/O Frame audio interfaces and CX amplifiers achieved IEC60945 certification (SOLAS) by conforming to an extremely str

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UK - Pro Audio Stash (PAS) has launched the first in a new range of power distribution units.

The British manufactured Octopus is an entry level racking product featuring eight IEC distribution outlets, surge protection and EMI (electromagnetic interference) filters and is built to PAS's rigorous standards of quality engineering.

Suitable for all pro AV and audio applications and especially for domestic and commercial installations where reliable power supplies are vital for protecting all types of electronic equipment, the Octopus brings the consistency of British manufacturing to

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USA - Chauvet Professional has added the Nexus Aw 7x7, a versatile warm white LED panel, to its Parnelli Award-winning series of Nexus LED displays. Emitting bright, narrow beams from 49 powerful 3-watt 2,800K CREE LEDs, the Nexus Aw 7x7 offers the flexibility to generate high-impact aerial effects, produce warm white washes, project outward as an audience blinder, or create vibrant text and animated graphics displays.

Designed for use in arrays, Nexus Aw 7x7 panels feature a quick rigging system with integrated alignment and load-rated interlocking hardware for easy construction of d

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Germany - Astera LED-Technology has unveiled its new wireless spotlight, the SpotMax (AX10). This enhanced spotlight is now Astera's biggest and most powerful spotlight, surpassing their previous high-power LED spotlight (the AL7-XXL) by than more than 30% in total LED power and brightness. The SpotMax has a myriad of new features and upgrades, including the addition of TruColor Calibration, amber LEDs, long-life Samsung batteries, Khatod lenses, and high-quality Philips LEDs, plus many other benefits.

The SpotMax produces a narrow, perfect 13° beam from its nine RGBAW LEDs, but t

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USA - ETC's Source Four Mini - a compact, 23 cm version of the legendary Source Four spotlight - picked up a PLASA Members Choice Award in the Gadget category at the LDI show. It earned the award due to its crisp optics, crystal-clear image projection and outstanding efficiency.

"We're thrilled that PLASA recognised the Source Four Mini," says ETC fixtures product manager Jim Uphoff. "It was a big draw at LDI, and is becoming a popular choice for lighting professionals, because it's so versatile, going where larger fixtures can't. It may be cute, but it's a powerful too

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Germany - Riedel Communications has released a new universal video I/O card for the company's MediorNet Modular real-time network. Supporting a variety of small form-factor pluggable (SFP) optical transceivers, the MediorNet MN-C-OPT-HDMI and MN-HDO-4IO universal video cards enable the flexible configuration of MediorNet systems for bidirectional transport of analog composite video, HDMI, DVI, and optical or coaxial SDI signals.

Designed for environments including theatres, houses of worship, hotels, convention centres, and stadiums, the MediorNet bidirectional video cards bring added

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Sweden - LumenRadio reports that SuperNova 3 is now available for download on their website. The release is the culmination of almost a year's worth of development work, field and beta trials.

SuperNova 3 was awarded the PLASA Award for Innovation during the PLASA Show in London in October - the third Innovation Award given to LumenRadio since 2009.

To celebrate all the new functions, and to get the software into the hands of as many customers as possible, LumenRadio are pleased to announce that they will be unlocking two ports of Art-Net RDM functionality for free.

LumenRadio hav

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UK - Sony has announced that the PCM-D100, a portable linear PCM recorder with built-in 32 GB flash memory will be available for purchase in Europe from early 2014. The recorder reproduces high sound quality, live instrumental performances and outdoor capture with a close likeness to organic sound. The PCM-D100 is designed for live music events, theatrical performances, and electronic news gathering.

The PCM-D100 is compatible with 2.8 MHz /1-bit direct stream digital DSD, a format that records source sounds using digital signals, but in a format that closely resembles analogue wavefo

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UK - London-based moving light specialist Richard Martin Lighting has made a major investment in Showline's SL Nitro 510 LED strobes.

The company - which recently celebrated 30 years of working on projects including Top of the Pops, Children in Need, and Comic Relief - says it purchased the SL Nitro 510 luminaires predominantly to meet demand for a versatile fixture designed to create a striking visual impact for TV and rock and roll.

"The output that the SL Nitro 510 can achieve means they can create dynamic and dramatic lighting for applications such as l

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USA - Bandit Lites is making it easier than ever for access to all things lighting, including quotes, concerts and photos with its new mobile app.

For those looking for buy new or used gear, the app allows users to purchase everything from fixtures, gobos, consoles and even set pieces. Additionally, those looking for a rental, sales or touring quote will have direct access on the app.

Other features include access to press, photos and social media. Users will also be able to submit photos of concerts in addition to finding events and venues near them.

Users will also have the abil

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USA - Prolyte has introduced a new TwinPin feature for its H series truss, in response to specific feedback from the North American marketplace.

Prolyte partner A.C. Lighting Inc. was instrumental in examining the market and identifying the advantages of developing the TwinPin format.

TwinPin offers build-up benefits whilst capitalising on the exceptional speed and performance of the internationally renowned conical coupler truss format pioneered by Prolyte in the early Nineties.

The TwinPin format enables truss grids to be built on the floor as one set of the holes sits horizonta

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Germany - DVM, the new loudspeakers from German manufacturer Cardinal cover most applications in the daily installation business. A special emphasis was placed on high-grade wooden cabinets, an optimised driver selection and crossover design plus good accessories. All loudspeakers can be used directly on the amplifier without a controller. With only three different performance types a very large range of applications can be covered, no matter if for retail or catering installations, community halls or lecture theatres, school halls, a live club or conference and seminar rooms.

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UK - Le Maitre has launched a new range of Comets - Tracer Comets, which are much faster and brighter than conventional comets.

They project a single star to a specified height of 20ft, 30ft or 40ft and leave the image of a coloured streak. Tracer Comets can be shot on various angles with no noticeable variation in direction. They are available in several colours, with and without tail.

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Sweden - Wireless Solution Sweden's award-winning W-DMX technology is now available in the new moving head range of products by PR Lighting, adding to an already widely adopted array of fixtures featuring Wireless DMX capabilities.

W-DMX comes standard in the XRLED line, which includes the 300-W Spot, 500 Spot, 1200 Spot, 1037 (already in mass production), 1061 and XR 800 Spot. In addition, W-DMX is OEM installed in the PR Lighting LED Series of automated 'double headed' fixtures, including the ARC LED 3216M and the outdoor waterproof rated ARC LED 3216 and ARC LED 3108. With the addi

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USA - Live performance reinforcement company Alto Professional has announced the availability of its much-anticipated Black Series - an all-new line of top-level loudspeakers and subwoofers with wireless capability and impressive inbuilt power.

Alto Professional's all-new active Black Series collectively comprises three two-way loudspeaker models - namely, the Black 10, Black 12, and Black 15 (which, as implied by name, feature 10-, 12-, and 15-inch low-frequency drivers, respectively, alongside a 1.75-inch high-frequency driver, and are optimised with a 90° x 60° coverage fie

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UK - Studiomaster and Carlsbro have issued new dealer pricelists with significant cost reductions across both brand portfolios. With the new pricelists the companies say they are passing on the benefits of increasing economies of scale in production to the market place.

Commenting on the introduction of the new pricing, international business development, sales and marketing director, Paul Brewis, said: "We are achieving major productivity gains at our Ningbo facility, for both Studiomaster and Carlsbro lines. Improved production capacity coming on-stream is delivering significan

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USA - Building on the outstanding reception enjoyed by its Nexus COB RGB LED display panels, Chauvet Professional has added two new models to the series: the Nexus 2x2, a square-shaped panel configured with two rows of two COB LED cells; and the Nexus 4x1, a linear unit with one row of four COB LED cells.

The two product additions join the original, larger Nexus 4x4 panel (four rows of four LED cells), which soared to industry pre-eminence after receiving the Parnelli Award for Indispensable Technology in the Lighting Category at the 2013 LDI Show and, immediately following, appearing

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Seven PLASA standards up for reaffirmation are posted for public review on the PLASA TSP website http://tsp.plasa.org/tsp/documents/public_review_docs.php. No changes are planned at this time for the requirements in the standards. Any changes would be limited to changing "ESTA" to "PLASA," updating the PLASA office address and copyright date, and so on. However, this public review period is a time when the public is invited to tell PLASA if they think changes are needed.

All the documents ar

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USA / The Netherlands - The Blizzard and Cyclone enclosures from Tempest (ISE 2014, hall 4, stand V28) are designed to protect digital projectors outdoors from dust, sand, salt, oil, water, snow, sleet and smoke, and from impact and theft. Through its innovative Goldilocks system, Tempest enclosures eliminate overheating and condensation - the real enemy of delicate equipment outside - and are available in sizes for projectors from 3,000 to 40,000 lumens.

Tempest HUSH enclosures make it possible to use even the largest - and noisiest - cinema projectors inside, in complete silence. Wh

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UK / USA - Peavey Electronics has announced that version 1.7 of their powerful MediaMatrix NWare software suite is now available in general release. Control MediaMatrix NWare projects from anywhere via any smart device.

NWare version 1.7 introduces Kiosk2Go, the latest addition to NWare's impressive control capabilities. Kiosk2Go allows designers and integrators to extend the custom kiosk control interfaces they create in NWare to any mobile device via the platform's web browser component and HTML5. This provides the end user custom control interfaces that they can then control from t

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USA - Elation Professional has launched the Volt Q3 and Volt Q5 - two versatile RGBW LED washlights that run on a rechargeable lithium-ion battery. Their go-anywhere portability, combined with an in-built DMX receiver and all-weather IP65 housing, means the Volt Q3 and Q5 can be used for a large variety of indoor or outdoor applications, say Elation.

Battery life is 8-12 hours between charges, and the units are compact, at only 11 inches high (approx. 28cm. Three (Volt Q3) and five (Volt Q5) 100,000-hour, 15W, quad-color LEDs provide full color mixing capability. Field angle range is

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The Netherlands - Christie has achieved best-in-class 1-chip DLP brightness with the new Christie Q Series that debuts at the Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) show in Amsterdam from 4-6 February. The Christie Q Series 1-chip DLP platform has brightness options ranging from 8500 to 10,000 lumens and XGA, WXGA and WUXGA resolutions.

For rental staging applications including concerts, conventions and other events where visuals are a vital component, end users will see the Q Series' difference when blending and warping images from multiple projectors onto flat, curved, hexagonal, or spheri

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The Netherlands - With a larger presence than ever before, TC Group's install and tour brands - Tannoy, Lab.gruppen and Lake - are bringing their extensive range of commercial install and performance audio products to ISE 2014 in February, showcasing their integrated audio systems for the installation market.

ISE 2014 will see the first major European debut of Lab.gruppen's Lucia amplifier, which offers consultants and installers a decentralised solution without compromise, presented here alongside the complementary loudspeaker products from Tannoy.

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USA/UK - Peavey Electronics has announced the immediate availability of the new Peavey FX2 Series mixers. With twice the processing power of the original FX Series, these mixers feature new, Peavey-exclusive technology to enhance live sound reproduction and project studio recording.

Stocked with all the features for pro mixing, the affordable FX2 series includes essentials like Silencer mic preamps, which allow very high gain with low noise and distortion for crystal-clear signal reproduction. The four pre-fader auxes per channel provide four monitor mixes, while the two post-fader au

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