USA - Production Resource Group, LLC (PRG) and High End Systems, (HES) have announced a joint licensing agreement regarding their patent portfolios of lighting and control technology. The agreement goes into effect immediately.
Both PRG and HES have been innovators in developing digital and analogue lighting fixtures, systems and controls for the entertainment industry. Both companies hold extensive catalogues of patents in the United States and abroad. Under the agreement, PRG will be able to offer licensees a single license that covers both the PRG and the HES patents.
"This means that manufacturers who develop products can conveniently access both PRG and HES patents with a single license from PRG," says Jere Harris, chairman and founder of PRG. "We expect that this agreement will make it easier for manufacturers to utilise the innovations developed by PRG and HES to extend the range of lighting products available to our industry."
"Innovation is the lifeblood of our industry, and this agreement opens the door for creative people to build on what has come before," agrees Richard Belliveau, founder and chief technology officer of High End Systems. "It makes sense that our companies have come together to make that happen."
(Jim Evans)
UK - The annual St Patrick's Day celebration took place in London on 17 March 2007. A major part of the action took place in the Capital's iconic landmark Trafalgar Square, where the fountains turned green, large amounts of Guinness were drunk and the action was relayed by Lighthouse LED screens.
The free event, organised by Mean Fiddler for the Mayor of London, featured the best of contemporary and traditional Irish music on the main stage in Trafalgar Square, with video specialist The Picture Works supplying all the visual elements for the show.
Two 5 x 5 panels of Lighthouse R16 16mm LED screens, each measuring 5.08m (w) x 3.85m (h), were positioned stage left and right, with a further 4 x 3 panels of Lighthouse R16 measuring 4.05m (w) by 2.8m (h) placed centre stage.
"We've done this particular job for six consecutive years," says The Picture Works owner Robin Wealleans. "It's technically challenging because there's so little space available. The stage has to be right next to Nelson's Column and there needs to be as much space available for the public in the Square as possible."
The Picture Works came up with an ingenious solution to the problem. "We had to custom-make the support structures for the screens to reduce their overall footprint," continues Wealleans. "So we came up with a way of taking off the front legs that would normally counterbalance the screens and put big water ballast tanks behind them instead. This meant there was absolutely no footprint at the front and the structure was entirely self-standing.&quo
South Africa - The Durban International Conference Centre in KwaZulu-Natal has celebrated its 10th anniversary with the launch of the new ICC Durban Arena - a sub-divisible 32,000sq.m space that will be used for show space and exhibitions. Midas consoles and Klark Teknik signal processing equipment were used extensively for the new venue's launch, supplied by South African distributor Prosound Pty, which was contracted to provide the audio and production management for the event including overseeing the design and set-up of the audio system.
The opening of the arena coincided with George Benson and Al Jarreau's South African leg of their Giving It Up tour, so it was decided to host the Durban show at the new venue as part of the opening ceremony. The launch also featured a speciality show, The Power of Durban, devised and produced by Durban ICC's technical production manager John Bevan. This featured a host of local artist including Malaika and the Afro Tenors.
Separate FOH and monitor set-ups were used for each show. For the George Benson and Al Jarreau show, 56 channel Midas Heritage 3000s were used for both front of house and stage monitoring. For FOH processing Klark Teknik DN514 Plus multi gates, DN504 Plus quad compressors and Square ONE Dynamics were used, with all stage EQ provided by Klark Teknik DN360 and DN370 graphic EQs. Extensive use was also made of Klark Teknik DN100 DI boxes on stage.
For The Power of Durban a 56 channel Midas Legend 3000 console was at front of house with a Midas Venice 32 channel as sub-mixer, and a Midas
Italy - Traxon Technologies is set to showcase three LED developments at Euroluce 2007 which takes place from 18-23 Aprilat the New Milan Fairgrounds.
Traxon's booth will feature a complete overview of its colour changing and white LED lighting systems - Panels, Luminaires, XB Luminaires and Modules - along with their latest product line enhancements in all categories: 16PXL Board and Module, high brightness Luminaires with 1W, 3W and K2 Luxeon LEDs and a preview of its Tile 64PXL Outdoor panel.
(Jim Evans)
UK - Over the past few years, use of Rosco's range of dance floors has steadily and quietly increased across Europe and the UK, thanks almost entirely to the diversity, quality and reliability of the products. Traditionally there has been little in the way of marketing to support the range, but for the first time last year Rosco attended a number of trade shows specifically to promote dance floors and the interest was extraordinary.
So much so in fact, that Rosco has now brought a dance floor specialist onto the sales team with the specific remit to provide product information and advice to customers and to take the range into markets and venues previously untapped.
Lee Payne joins Rosco straight from performing on the Riverdance tour. He is looking forward to hanging up his tap shoes and taking on the challenge of growing Rosco's floor business.
Says Payne: "It's a pleasure to be part of a wonderful company that provides performers with an exceptional range of dance floor and sub floor. Improving the longevity of a dancer is so important. Fewer injuries are what is needed to do this and I believe with Rosco's products the world of dance is about to get better, grow and performers' careers last longer."
(Jim Evans)
USA - Clear-Com has released a number of upgrades to its FreeSpeak Digital Wireless Intercom System, including a software upgrade, improved electronics with internal silent vibrator alert and a new multi-way battery charger.
With the release of version 1.5.6 of FreeSpeak software, users will benefit from improvements in the software that makes it easy to restore factory default settings, says the company.
Version 1.5.6 will be delivered installed on new FreeSpeak belt-pack purchases, and is available for installation on existing FreeSpeak units as a purchasable upgrade. The software is installed from a PC via a serial connection to the belt-pack.
(Jim Evans)
UK - Harman Pro UK has announced the judges for the final of the AKG Unsigned Heroes battle of the bands competition, which is taking place at Camden's Koko on 26 April. The Summer festivals at which the winning group will play later in the year have also been confirmed. The lucky band will take the stage at both the prestigious Isle Of Wight festival at the start of June (headlining on the Platform 1 stage), and also on the Brit Bus stage at the Kent Festival, with headliners the Feeling, the Ordinary Boys and the Ghosts, from 29 June to 1 July.
With this and other prizes (such as an AKG sponsorship deal and PA equipment worth £10,000) riding on how the bands perform at Koko on the night of the final, it's important that the competition judges have plenty of music-business experience.
Harman Pro UK's five choices fit the bill nicely: Jez Coad is a renowned film composer and record producer, with credits including movie smash Austin Powers and production duties on Simple Minds' last album; Independent A&R woman Kelly Maxwell runs her own events, band management and PR company; DJ Kris, enigmatically also known as The Werewolf, is a DJ best known for his savage nights of indie, rock and metal at London club nights for Rockscene, Lockdown and The Animosity Unit; Koko's own Daveid Phillips is a former booker for live acts at the Reading and Tribal Gathering festivals, and is now Koko's Head Of Music. And finally, AKG's Toni Scherrenberg has played in bands all over Europe and is now the microphone manufacturer's Director of European Sales.
(Jim Evans)
USA - Two public institutions in the USA have recently been the recipient of new Merging digital audio workstations. The Washington-based Library of Congress has recently acquired several Pyramix DAWs, each built around a Merging Mykerinos MB5 card with an AES-EBU digital output daughterboard.
The DAWs are being installed in the Library's new facilities at the National Audio Visual Conservation Centre in Culpeper, Virginia, where staff will be using them primarily to digitise the Library's audio collections, creating high-quality preservation files. The Pyramix systems were assembled by Merging Technologies' US distributor Independent Audio and supplied to the Library of Congress by Massachusetts dealer Parsons Audio.
In a separate sale, Washington's National Gallery of Art has also installed a Pyramix for use by the Gallery's audio-visual staff.
(Jim Evans)
UK - Located in Plaistow, east London, Glory House is a family-based, multi-racial and multi-cultural church where audio and visual technologies have been embraced to broadcast the church's message in the most effective way possible.Music is an integral part of Glory House: up to a 100-strong Gospel choir and musical director being complemented by an in-house technical sound team.
The venue now has a new sound system supplied and installed by South London-based Subfrantic Production Services. The Turbosound system comprises four TA-500 Aspect Wide mid-highs, four TSB-118 subs and six TXD-15M wedge monitors, all controlled by two LMS-D24s. Subfrantic also supplied amplifiers, mixing consoles, outboard equipment, microphones, a custom-designed multicore and an ASL communications system.
"The main factor dictating the specification was to get the best sound we could on a realistic budget for the church," says Subfrantic's Steve Davies. "The auditorium is around 30-40m long and 10-12m wide, with a ceiling height of around 5m. It is a lot of area to cover."
He continues, "The other main challenge was to meet the church's ever-evolving needs, which meant putting a system design together that could be as flexible as possible from the outset. The majority of the music is gospel, but the hall is also used for other concerts, which had to be factored into the system design.
"The Aspect Wide enclosures are well suited to the church as they sound great but are very cost-effective. Due to their dispersion we can also use fewer of them which m
UK - Summit Steel supplied four SmarTmasts to Britannia Row which were utilised to emulate a concert style set up for sound tests in the new Wembley Stadium. Two SmarTmast 4s were used to suspend speaker arrays that mimicked the height and positioning of PA wing hangs on a typical concert stage set up in the end-on position. The masts were picked for their 15m height, quick buildability and neat footprint.
The main object of the exercise was to integrate a show PA system with Wembley's house PA to provide full audio coverage throughout the stadium. They also took the opportunity to ensure that Emergency announcements could be heard in all locations around the venue.
Summit's Jon Bray was contacted by Brit Row's Bryan Grant to supply the necessary support structures for the tests. Bray and a team of three riggers erected a total of five masts, which stayed up for a two-day period while the tests were completed.
The two SmarTmast 4s carried the stage wing elements of a would-be show PA system, made up in this case from EV X-line elements, each weighing just under two Tonnes. Further down the field of play, three SmarTmast 1s were used for recreating the delay positions, which, audio-wise, were made up from Outline Butterfly speakers.
The sound system was actually reproduced using only half of the stadium and required PA, the results of which were digitally mirrored to produce accurate calculations. The tests were engineered by Sherif el Bashari.
The biggest challenge says Summit's Jay Call was, "Taking care of the grass ... We had to be exceedingly caref
UK - With so many broadcasters now considering IP as a viable and cost effective means of transporting audio, compression specialist APT has joined the debate by publishing a booklet entitled A Practical Guide To IP Audio Networking.
This guide draws on APT's extensive experience in the field of audio over IP networking and gives useful information on IP networks and their implications for real-time audio transfer. It also makes valuable recommendations for those specifying both networks and equipment for audio over IP broadcasting.
Jon McClintock, APT's commercial director, says: "In recent years we have supported many customers through the transition from synchronous to IP and have worked hard in standards bodies within the industry to ensure interoperability of audio codecs over IP networks. This booklet allows us to share our knowledge and experience with those broadcasters who are considering audio over IP as their way forward for the future. We hope that it will help them make the right choices and prevent them from making potentially costly mistakes."
(Jim Evans)
USA - Digidesign has announced a new family of bi-amplified, professional-grade studio reference monitors - the Reference Monitor Series (RMS). Developed jointly with PMC (the Professional Monitor Company, based in the UK), the new RMS monitors unite Digidesign's deep expertise in digital audio with PMC's legacy for fine, cutting-edge loudspeaker designs and meticulous manufacturing, says the company.
"For many years Digidesign's commitment to developing state-of-the-art professional recording technologies has helped artists, engineers, and producers alike create award-winning recordings with unrivalled audio purity," explains Gannon Kashiwa, market manager for Digidesign's professional products. "The new RMS monitors are a natural complement to our existing product line and a logical extension of our commitment to achieving consistent and pure sound from input to output."
Kashiwa continues, "PMC and Digidesign share similar philosophies, which made them the logical partner for us. Their technology portfolio is impressive, and PMC reference monitors continually receive accolades from those who credit the designs with helping them achieve better mixes. We are pleased to have worked with PMC on the development of our RMS monitors and we feel strongly that the results speak for themselves."
(Jim Evans)
USA - Los Angeles night club, the Temple Bar in Santa Monica, has installed Allen & Heath's iLive Digital Console, now providing mixing duties for the club's nightly live music schedule.
Based in LA's fashionable Santa Monica area, the Temple Bar is a unique music venue hosting local, national and international artists performing a spectrum of music covering the genres of jazz, electronica, indie, hip hop, soul, latin, reggae, and world music. There is also a house DJ performing between acts, and the venue regularly organises film screenings and poetry nights.
The Temple Bar's music director and chief mixing engineer, Swan, commented, "The sound of the console is magnificent, I've been mixing at the Temple Bar for five years, I have never hear the room sound like this before. It brought our sound system alive! Its compact footprint fit perfectly in our sound booth, and our mixing engineers have been overjoyed. The mic-pres are detailed and warm, and the iLive's mixes have excellent stereo imaging. People are really taking notice. I've done a lot of mixing on the other digital consoles and the sound of the iLive blows it away."
Comprising the iDR-10 stage rack and iLive-144 control surface, the Temple Bar is using 40 channels of audio. Four aux mixes are used for stage monitors. In addition, the there are three matrix feeds: mono sum for separate bar room feed and a stereo feed for recording. Swan is using onboard compression, reverbs, and delay effects, "The compressors sound fantastic; they are very musical on vocals.
(Jim Evans)
Singapore - Singapore's growing infrastructure - requiring the need for ever more professional staging services - is already having a positive effect on this year's Event 360º show, which makes its debut under the wing of the umbrella PALME Asia expo in July.
Some 1,000sq.m, a quarter of the overall capacity at Singapore Expo, will be set aside for Event 360º Asia. Heartened by the initial response, Davin Er, who is responsible for developing this sector, believes that interest has not only been stimulated by the support from the Singapore Tourism Board, but the building of the S$3.85bn Marina Bay Sands complex, housing casino, hotel and convention centre.
Event 360º Asia will also be working closely alongside Singapore-based UnUsUal Productions, who are among an increasing number of local companies that have the capability of offering world-renowned event staging technology in the form of smoke, pyrotechnics, sound and lighting.
"In addition," says Mr Er, "we also have the support of The Singapore Association of Convention and Exhibition Organisers and Suppliers (SACEOS); this means that Event 360º Asia will be able to offer a one-stop shop for event promoters and exhibition organisers looking for this expertise."
(Jim Evans)
USA - Element Labs has announced its entry into the film and video market with the debut of two new intelligent LED lighting products, the Kelvin series white light fixtures and the Versa BANK video-mapped lighting system.
Well-known in the live entertainment and architectural markets, Element Labs is now applying its technology to develop solutions for film and video. Both new products will debut on Element Labs' camera set at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Convention in Las Vegas.
The Kelvin series LED-based white light fixtures provide unlimited variable colour temperature settings, creating a new level of flexibility in lighting. Plus, Kelvin fixtures maintain a colour rendering index (CRI) of 95 between 3200 K and 6500 K, resulting in extremely high-quality light. And, unlike traditional lighting products, colour temperature remains consistent throughout the full range of intensity variation, says the company.
"We're creating a paradigm shift in the world of professional lighting," says Rich Pierceall, director of sales and marketing for Element Labs. "Our Kelvin series will do for film and video lighting what nonlinear editing did for post-production. It will provide an innovative platform for the development of new tools and more accurate control of the lighting environment."
Element Labs has announced the release of STEALTH 2.5 with several improvements over its predecessor, most notably: enhanced rigging options and a flatter viewing surface. After a dramatic debut on Madonna's Confessions Tour in 2006, the
UK - Dave Parry has joined the Avolites team as technical sales engineer. Parry brings a wealth of enthusiasm and experience, having worked as a technical project manager, lighting designer and specifier in the club and live entertainment sectors. Projects include high-profile installations at Fabric, Ministry of Sound, Camden Palace and Rehab in London, the Sub Club in Glasgow, Elevate in Delhi and the Wag Club in Paris. Perry is also an active LD with dance gurus Hybrid, and has some club projects which are on-going.
Avolites' Steve Warren says: "We're really delighted to be working with someone of Dave's calibre. His hands-on experience and industry-wide credibility is invaluable. He is also used to dealing first hand with all the challenges and demands of the live, touring and clubbing entertainment markets, and has a clear understanding of the requirements from both creative and production perspectives."
Parry will be focussing on expanding Avolite's connections with various media server technologies, and also on the development of future control techniques.
He says: "Having been a freelance for many years, it was a big move for me to commit to working for one brand, and something I would not do unless I totally believe in it. I have been an Avo user and advocate for many years and am really looking forward to being part of the company's future."
(Chris Henry)
UK - Live event lighting company, Essential Lighting Group, has made a significant investment to become the world's first lighting rental company stocking Barco MiTRIX and MiSTRIP Scenic LED fixtures.
MiTRIX is a lightweight, bright and highly transparent LED module with 16 by 8 pixels and a pixel pitch of 24mm. MiSTRIP, a linear pixel strip with 13.25mm inline pixel pitch, can be freely spaced to suit the resolution required, offering immense flexibility in a wide variety of applications, says the company.
Essentialís technical director Martin Lubach says, "The creative LED range uses video images which are accurately mapped to the chosen LED configuration using the powerful Director Toolkit software. There's no need for video clips to be pixel mapped into DMX512 signals with the resulting loss of image quality and low refresh rate. The system is easy to configure and control without the dedicated video crew usually associated with these kinds of products."
Essential's managing director Martin Locket adds, "We have always been focused on providing our clients with the equipment and services they need to make their event as visually stunning as possible. This new equipment takes this to the next level by blurring both the technical and affordability issues that surround video, placing these new capabilities firmly in the control of the lighting designer."
(Jim Evans)
UK - The convenience of a broadcast-quality Flash recorder with USB drag and drop file-transfer built into the body of a studio-quality condenser microphone is making HHB Communications' FlashMic the portable recording device ofchoice for a growing number of news organisations around the world, claims the company.
Broadcasters including the BBC, BSkyB and Capital Radio in the UK; NHK Tokyo and SBS South Korea in Asia; Al Jazeera in the Middle East; AFTRS Sydney Radio and AAP in Australia and Danish Broadcasting, NRK Norway and Radio France in Europe are using HHB's all-in-one recording solution, with many citing sound quality and ease-of-use as the FlashMic's principal advantages over conventional portable recorders.
HHB managing director Ian Jones says, "FlashMic is conceived as dependable, convenient and easy to operate, providingbroadcast and press journalists with a truly professional alternative to the consumer devices or separate recorder/microphone systems often used for interviewing."
(Jim Evans)
Switzerland - Soundweb London digital signal processing from BSS Audio was recently specified in the fourth biggest ice hockey stadium in the country, with a capacity of 8,000. Built in 1995 the Resega Ice Arena in Lugano is home to the Hockey Club Lugano HCL, which has won the Swiss National Hockey Championship seven times within the last 20 years.
As a result, their home games are packed, with all matches accompanied by a continuous cacophony of crowd noise. This, coupled with a critical reverberation, explains why two different installed sound systems have both been replaced within the last ten years after being deemed unsatisfactory.
In spring last year, the town of Lugano issued a tender for a new sound system which needed to fulfil the sound reinforcement requirements of a wide range of events and also meet the EN 60849 regulation for evacuation purposes.
The concept of linking a HiQnet pro audio system with a 100V evacuation set-up has already been successfully proven in the Stade de Suisse soccer arena in Bern - quoted by the locally- based branch of Tyco Fire & Integrated Solutions. Together all technical criteria were met, and the Lugano likewise approved this solution at the end of June 2006.
The Soundweb London BLU-80 is configured for 12 analogue inputs and four analogue outputs, the inputs processed before being transmitted to Crown CTs amplifiers, fitted with USP3/CN modules, via CobraNet. The integration also features multiples of distributed JBL PD 5212WRC enclosures and a Soundcraft M12 mixer for the stadium announcer.
(Jim Evans)
Denmark - It was ten years ago that Martin Professional launched the MAC 600 washlight, a fixture destined to become one of the most successful automated moving heads in the history of the lighting industry. From the first delivery to Hamburg-based PROCON Event Engineering in early 1997, the 575 W Fresnel luminaire went on to become an industry favourite with over 30,000 units sold to date.
The MAC 600 certainly lived up to the company's slogan at the time, 'Tougher than the rest'. Marketed as the 'MACnificent Team' along with the MAC 500, which launched later that same year, the MAC 600 gained a loyal following that changed Martin's reputation forever, says the company.
With their purchase of 300 units in 1997, PROCON was the first to bring the MAC 600 to the rental market, a transaction that other rental houses would soon copy. In honour of that first purchase Martin recently presented PROCON with a gold-plated MAC 600.
Morten Carlsson, PROCON CEO, accepted the fixture on behalf of the company. He commented, "The MAC 600 has been our workhorse for 10 years now. In 1997, we bought the first 300 fixtures which was a real adventure for us because we had only seen a prototype and at that time had no idea what to expect from it. But we said to ourselves: 'Let's give it a try!' At that time we didn't expect that the MAC 600 would be the most profitable fixture we ever owned. Meanwhile, we have used each of them on over 2000 shows - and it's still continuing. The MAC 600 changed the market - it allowed the designers to spec large amounts of daylight washlights
UK - When chirpy pop-rockers Guillemots winged their way around the UK on a bill-topping 10-date tour in February, the flying visits to venues from Aberdeen to Bristol were characterised by a sound which always soared but, thanks to XTA processors, a sound crew who never got in a flap, says the avian-styled press release.
Supplied by audio hire company Concert Sound, six XTA DP226s using AudioCore via a WISER wireless network took care of system control for the tour's Adamson Y-10 / Spektrix line array PA.
"The combination of the Adamson PA and XTA processors was really good," says Concert Sound system tech Aron Ross. "It was a system that looked complex on paper, but it was very straightforward. We could make physical changes to the system very easily. In some venues, for the more awkward balconies we needed to both fly and ground stack the Y-10,"
Two DP226s were used for each side of the main system, one set up for the ground stack and one for the flown elements, while a fifth was used for the Spektrix cabinets used for in-fill or out-fill as needed. The sixth DP226 was plugged into the laptop for controlling the wireless network.
Ross did most of the system EQ within AudioCore, although he also had an analogue graphic for FOH engineer Jonnie Lucas to grab if necessary. "It made it easier for him to make immediate adjustments rather than having to change it on the laptop or ask me," says Ross.
However, it wasn't long before the XTAs proved their worth, as Jonnie Lucas points out: "After the first few shows, the EQ on the
USA - The second annual Behind the Scenes Tony Awards Party is set for Sunday 10 June in New York City. Continuing a long-standing tradition, the shops that work on Broadway gather together for an evening of food and drink to cheer on their Tony-nominated shows. Last year over 125 professionals, a dazzling array of industry talent, had a fabulous evening while making sure their colleagues will be cared for in times of need.
Fred Gallo of PRG Scenic Technologies, one of the organisers of the original Tony parties and the new Behind the Scenes benefit, says, "The combination of attending the long-standing Tony night shop party with the opportunity to contribute to the Behind the Scenes programme that helps industry professionals is a win / win outcome for everyone. Plus, there is an open bar - so as I said last year, there is no excuse not to come."
(Jim Evans)
UK - Christie has introduced Christie ACT, a new theatre automation controller purpose-built to interface with the latest generation Digital Cinema technology. The system makes it easy to automate presentations by translating cues from connected devices to control most theatre equipment including lighting, curtains, sound, masking and projectors, says the company. The system offers a solution, enabling customisable control to suit the needs of a single screen, a multiplex facility or an entire theatre chain.
Manageable through a web interface, Christie ACT allows the user control and flexibility. It can be accessed from any web browser on a networked computer making it accessible from a portable handheld computer or laptop.
With an intuitive graphical user interface, even the novice can easily customise tasks and events to suit specific needs, says the company. Featuring pre-defined scripts for supporting known devices and eight user programmable buttons on the front panel, customisation is simple and quick. Optimised for the Digital Cinema environment, the Christie ACT features a powerful open architecture that can integrate fully with any end user application. It can be configured to control sequencing of all devices that it is connected to, as well as listen for server cues and perform user-specified actions. With general input and output attachments, RS-232, RS-422, USB, and Ethernet connections on the front and back, Christie ACT can adapt to any installation environment. An expansion port for future device support provides flexibility.
"The Christie
Germany - Electro-Voice has launched the ZxA5 powered two-way loudspeaker. At the heart of the ZxA5 are state-of-the-art transducers. To develop the DVX3150 15" high performance transducer, EV used advanced computer aided design techniques to create forced-air, directional voice coil cooling for high power and efficiency, says the company. Finite element analysis was used to optimise the suspension and magnetic structure for long, linear travel, providing low distortion and greater LF extension. Designed for a wide range of applications, the DVX3150 promises "the ultimate in lightweight reliability... but with a heavyweight 500W power rating".
Handling the HF is the ND2, a 2" voice coil compression driver based on a neodymium motor structure that allows maximum output while keeping size and weight to a minimum. The ND2's precision phasing plug and titanium diaphragm provide better HF performance, while the integral heatsink provides cooling for high power output.
ZxA5 features an integrated high output, lightweight digital amplifier that produces 1000W LF and 250W HF. The very low noise design includes a switchable 24 dB/octave 40Hz/100Hz high pass filter for use with a sub, the perfect match being the EV Plasma P2 18" powered subwoofer, says E-V.
ZxA5's high tech enclosure uses injection moulded high-impact polypropylene structural foam for incredible durability. The enclosure geometry elements have been carefully designed to provide maximum rigidity and bass response. By design, the ZxA5 is also a perfect solution for stage monitors,