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Built on existing networking protocols and standards, Audinate's Dante is a plug-and-play networking solution which delivers ultra-low latency and tightly synchronized media, while simplifying installation and configuration of digital media networks.

ESI has been making professional audio products for over a decade which are manufactured and distributed worldwide by ESI Audiotechnik GmbH, located in Leonberg, Germany. Their ESI branded and various OEM products are well known and used daily by hundreds of thousands of customers all over the world.

"We believe that Dante is the solution to provide affordable and competitive networking

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Hosted at the BBC's Mermaid Theatre, the event was presented by Ken Bruce, and featured performances from singers Louise Dearman (Wicked) and John Owen-Jones (Phantom, Les Miserables), top West End vocal group Capital Voices, readings and poetry from Samantha Bond and Kenneth Cranham, and the BBC Concert Orchestra.

The BBC also owns an iLive-R72 rackmount surface, which was purchased in preparation for Wimbledon this year, and has subsequently been used on several BBC shows.

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"Industry reaction to the arrival of SSL in live sound has been extremely encouraging," states Antony David, managing director at SSL. "Much of the initial attention has centred on the superb sound of the console and the excellent ergonomics it offers to engineers, but the console also delivers from a technical integration perspective.

"The combination of versatile inbuilt and remote connectivity, generous processing capability and extremely flexible console configuration and routing and powerful output matrix make Live the perfect product for installed environments. We are very excited to be exhibiting at ISE for the first time and looking forward to meeting the unique partner and user community that attend the show."

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It might have seemed difficult to meet all of these goals, but a RoomMatch loudspeaker system from Bose Professional Systems was just the right solution.

Covenant Communications, an AV systems designer and integrator in Houston, used two RM12020 modules, one RM12010 module and an RMS215 subwoofer in each of two L/R arrays, all powered by three Bose PowerMatch PM8500N eight-channel amplifiers. That was all it took to fulfil all of the needs of this complex acoustical space.<

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"Throughout my career, I have worked to create technology that brings audiences closer to musicians in a transparent way," Meyer says. "There are products designed specifically to make art, but my interest has always been to create a high-quality listening experience without interfering with the artist's creation. By providing these tools, we strive to enhance the shared entertainment experience that will surely remain a way of life for genera

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"This new concept of column loudspeaker with line array shape provides many advantages for integrators: controlled beamwidth for almost all frequencies reproduced by the column which leads not only to minimise undesirable effects induced by walls and ceiling reflections (reverbs and echoes) but also to excellent results in reverberant acoustic conditions and a perfect music and speech intelligibility," says the company.

Another attractive launch prepared for Amsterdam will be the new series of active and passive subwoofers Z15 and Z18. This new series is composed of four models, Z15 (single 15"), Z18 (single 18") that can be co

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CCI church relations director Duke DeJong said the client put a premium on the audio portion of the project. "From the very start, the church was very intentional about making sure the new sound system would be more than a home run; it had to be a home run with fireworks," he says. "They were very specific in saying that the audio needed to be intelligible, powerful and flexible - spectacular in every sense."

With this as their directive, CCI senior systems consultant Mark Pearson and his team turned to three l

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The company recorded a 62% year-on-year (YOY) increase in gross profit in the region owing to a number of project wins in the education and hospitality sectors and a notably strong performance in the consumer electronics segment in which the company saw revenues increase by 52% in 2013.

Mig Cardamone, sales and marketing manager at Sennheiser Middle East believes that the fresh wave of spending in the region presents a huge opportunity for the company. "There is no doubt

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This year's celebrations at the 'Crossroads of the World' also marked the debut of MSI's new proprietary BB30 subwoofer, which incorporates Powersoft's revolutionary, patented M-Force linear motor technology and delivers a frequency response that is flat to 20Hz, the company says. Each stack of BB30s was topped by a pair of MSI's new side-fills.

This was the sixteenth year that MSI has provided production sound for the New Year celebrations in Times Square. According to Bob Goldstein, owner, MSI: "One of the many reasons we use P

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To convey the epic story of its construction and to raise additional funds for Milan Cathedral's costly upkeep, the Cathedral Museum opened in 1953. In keeping with the long timescale of the cathedral's construction, the museum closed for five years and only recently re-opened, completely refurbished and ready to accommodate contemporary revenue streams. Among its new offerings, the museum added a conference room that can be rented for meetings and dinners. To keep costs low, but functionality and fidelity high, the conference AV system uses an Ashly Pema 4125.10 100V out

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Taking cues from the sound and proprietary design of the company's ATH-M50 professional monitor headphones, the new ATH-M20x, ATH-M30x and ATH-M40x deliver accurate audio and outstanding comfort, perfect for long listening sessions. The ATH-M20x, ATH-M30x and ATH-M40x all feature 40mm drivers with rare earth magnets and copper-clad aluminium voice coils, as well as a circumaural design that contours around the ears for excellent sound isolation in loud environments. The ATH-M50x (featuring 45mm

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Tom Back, managing director of Alcons Audio comments: "Over the last few years the international expansion of Alcons Audio with factory-owned subsidiaries in the US, India and Germany and Partners in over 30 countries, have shown that as a manufacturer, we have our hands full on supply and support on an international level.

"Up until now, we supported the Dutch market directly from our headquarters in Zwaag, but with our structure, couldn't fully "work&q

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"As lighting designer for the very first edition of Varekai, it's great to be working on it again as it evolves. With the new arena tour, Varekai is hosted at a different location each week and presents its own lighting challenges allowing me to adapt the lighting to 'the arena' of each new environment," said van Genuchten.

"We introduced BlackTrax as an operational efficiency and cost saving tool as well as a way of calibrating lighting highlights to track performers on the stage area. Blac

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Lindsay-Johnson's previous roles have included international sales and marketing manager for Duran Audio BV, and managing director of Harman Pro UK.

"I am thrilled to be joining the Community team at such an incredible time of innovation and growth within the company," said Lindsay-Johnson. "Community is a world leader in outdoor loudspeaker technology and its engineering excellence continues to drive expansion in its established position in the installed/engineered sound market. I look forward to bei

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"The Standard has a small, powerful, and flexible system that offers excellent dispersion and reproduces sound perfectly," says Anders J°rgensen, project manager and sound designer for Stouenborg.

The installation in the 68-seat club combines two UPJ-1P VariO and three UPM-1P loudspeakers with one UMS-1P subwoofer. Performances are mixed on a Roland V-Mixer mixing console, and musicians use DPA microphones.

"We considered a number of options, but the combination of UPJ-1P and UPM-1P loudspeakers best provided the necessary audio fidelity and visual unobtrusiveness," says J°rgens

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"We faced a real challenge," said Alexander Evstratov, AE Consulting director general. "In our line of work we focus on quality rather than quantity, so to neutralise the reverberation of the room and other unwanted acoustic artefacts, required the lightest of touches architecturally speaking. To complete the fifti

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Based in Bremen, Germany, Weingaertner brings more than 26 years of sales and marketing experience in pro audio to the role - covering all aspects of MI, rental and fixed installations.

"After all this time in pro audio I remain excited by the possibilities, and this has enabled me to constantly learn, not only about new products but also the changing needs of distributors and end-users," said Andreas.

"I had been approached in recent years by other loudspeaker manufacturers, but the opportunity to work for such a pioneering manufacturer as Martin Audio, was a prospect too good to pass by. They really are leading their field, with the likes of MLA.

"I'm looking forward to meeting the network of EMEA distributors at Integ

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Hosted by DiGiCo's Dan Page, the new video tutorials provide a quick and easy resource that takes you through the main points of each software extension, demonstrating that the T and B versions of the SD range are as simple to use as the original live versions.

DiGiCo's proprietary Stealth Digital Processing already gives SD console users a huge advantage in the real world. DiGiCo's T and B application specific software extensions provide additional set of tools, for theatre and broadcast respectively, that are normally reserved for much more expensive consoles.

T software is available on the flagship SD7, SD10 and SD9 consoles, making the same powerful functions that are used in the West End and on Broadway accessible

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MST Horns will play a crucial role in the sound reinforcement for the forthcoming Russian Winter Olympics in Sochi which commence the day after ISE closes. Sochi's Olympic Bobsleigh Track picked up Permanent Installation Project of the Year at the Pro Sound Awards 2013 and the Bolshoy Ice Dome, home to the Ice Hockey competition, features the largest MST deployment to date.

The large format MST loudspeaker range, which has been expanded to include different dispersion options, will be on show at ISE, togethe

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Highlights from the evening included a number of Grammys presented to Shure endorsers. From Imagine Dragons' victory in the "Best Rock Performance" category and Kacey Musgraves' double win for "Best Country Song" and "Best Country Album" to Black Sabbath's success in the "Best Metal Performance" category, Shure endorsers were celebrated throughout the night by The Recording Academy.

In addition to the exclusive in-ear use of PSM 1000 for live performances, a combination of Shure SM58, BETA 58A, and KSM9 microphones were also selected by artists for their performances.

"It's always great to see so much Shure equipment on a big production like the

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The 2014 total of 952 exhibiting companies represents an increase of more than 6% on last year's figure, and over 200 of those companies are completely new to ISE, giving visitors a wealth of new business opportunities in every technology sector served by the event. The show will occupy more than 36,000 net square metres for the first time, while pre-registration also reached record levels.

Yet Mike Blackman, the event's managing director, believes the real story of ISE 2014 lies behind these impressive numbers. "This week we'

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Convened and hosted by Pastor Paul Adefarasin, the event featured some of today's best-known musical talents, such as Sammie Okposo, Freke Umoh, Frank Edwards, Eben, Donnie McClurkin, Glowreeyah Braimah, Tye Tribbett, Yolanda Adams, Don Moen and Midnight Crew, among others.

The Experience - a colossal 11 hours of non-stop prayer and live music - has become known as the largest concert in Africa, with over 500,000 worshippers.

Quality audio is obviously the key factor for the success of such a large-scale event. Sound production was handled by Nigeria-based Cytech World Communication which is also the country's Outline distributor. In fact, in Novemb

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The new AES67 standard provides interoperability recommendations for professional quality audio networking in the areas of synchronization, media clock identification, network transport, encoding and streaming and session description. The AES67 standard was published by the Audio Engineering Society in September 2013.

Dante is a complete media networking solution designed for high quality AV streaming. The A/V industry has embraced Dante because it is easy to set-up, delivers a broad and robust feature set and is the most interoperable networking solution available.

"Audinate does not see networking protocols as competing technologi

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"We needed a higher channel count for the mixers installed on our mobile AV racks. We were looking around the analogue market as we couldn't believe there would be a digital mixer to fit a 19" rack, and then I saw the Qu-16 at Infocomm, where it won a Best In Show award," explains AV production manager, Derek Chalmers. "Qu-16 has everything we needed - 16 channels, built in processing, and recording facilities as we record all of our events. We've had them now for two months and they've been fantastic."

The mixers were supplied by Hertfordshire-based Mercury A