UK - The first six pre-production prototype Components Co SMART:e fixtures have not sat still for long, no sooner had they been assembled and bench tested they were straight out of the door and on their way to London to be used at Ghost the Musical's press night party at the Corinthia Hotel.

Ghost associate LD, Tim Lutkin, got his first glimpse of the SMART:e whilst chatting to one of the product's designers recently and offered to give them their first real test.

"They're a fantastic bit of kit," says Lutkin. "I just can't get over how small and light they are, the battery life is great, the colour mix is brilliant, especially all the pastel shades you can get by adding the white in. But the best bit for me is their look, they are just so smart, they don't

UK - LD Systems has launched the DP2400X, the newest member of the DEEP family of power amplifiers. The key specifications are 2 x 1200 W at 2 ohms, 2 x 950 W at 4 ohms and 2 x 600 W at 8 ohms RMS power. Like the other power amplifiers in the DEEP series, the DP2400X uses class H circuitry powered by a conventional power supply.

The protective circuitry is also identical with that used in the DEEP2 series. It also follows the DEEP2 design in its integration of two temperature-dependent two step cooling fans. One special feature is a switchable 12 dB low-cut and/or 12 dB low-pass filte

USA / Europe - Renkus-Heinz has announced the appointment of Swedish-born Håkan Sjöö as the company's new European sales manager.

Håkan has been the regional manager for Renkus-Heinz in India for the past two years, where he built up an extensive dealer network, assisted with the progress of several major sales and installations, and through this work acquired extensive knowledge of Renkus-Heinz and its products.

After spending three years in New Delhi with his wife and two sons, the family moved back to their home on the outskirts of Stockholm this summer. Says Karl Brunvoll, V

UK - One weekend in Hackney's Victoria Park presented Martin Audio's Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array (MLA) with three separate festivals to contend with.

Promoted by Eat Your Own Ears, Underage, Field Day and Apple Cart saw Capital Sound Hire return to the park with the same system they had fielded for the LED Festival a few weeks earlier - working alongside Loud Sound, the event management company, and LarMac LIVE, the production company.

This increasingly popular festival site is bordered on one side by trees, a canal and high-tariff residential properties. Thus environmental Aco

Nicolas Kyvernitis Electronics Enterprises, distributors of Shure microphones and audio electronics in the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar and Oman have supplied MBC with 18 channels of the Shure UHF-R system. The sale also includes the new UR1H bodypack transmitter in addition to the dual channel receivers.

"MBC have been using the Shure UHF Premium series for many years now," commented Shajahan K K, Shure product manager. "After demonstrating all the new features and benefits with the UHF-R, it was only common sense for them to consider the new wireless system."

(Jim Evans)

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