BOSTON — The Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers, a landmark since the Roaring Twenties, has been inducted as a member of the Historic Hotels of America. But the sound system used for its six sizable ballrooms was a source of frustration to the hotel staff.
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PHILADELPHIA — Lincoln Financial Field, home of the Philadelphia Eagles, recently enhanced its sound system with custom loudspeakers from EAW. Coffeen Fricke and Associates, Inc. chose the EAW gear, which was sold by Audio Associates. The Large Projects Group of the A/V integration company AVI-SPL performed the installation.
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HELSINKI, Finland — Systems contractor Pertti Krautsuk of Workland specified eight of JBL Professional’s CBT100LA column enclosures as part of the sound system for the Latokartano Sports Hall.
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BELFAST — Lisburn-based Zest Audio has recently completed the installation of a Community sound system for the demonstration facilities of Lightstep Technologies at their Belfast headquarters. Lightstep works to simulate life-threatening situations so people have a better chance of surviving if they are unfortunate enough to ever face the real thing.
Read More »OLD LYME, CT — Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG announced that it would be moving its Klein + Hummel branded products under the Sennheiser and Neumann brands by the end of the year, effectively phasing out the K + H brand. Volker Bartels, a spokesman for the Sennheiser executive team, made the announcement.
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ATLANTA — For nearly a decade, The Catalyst Conference has been inspiring and guiding the next generation of church leaders. From 1,500 attendees in its first year, the annual event has grown, and a capacity crowd of over 13,000 packed the Gwinnett Arena for this year’s two-day event.
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MOUNTAINAIR, NM — Land-based artworks are usually installed on the land, but rarely in it. Such was the case, however, for part of a conceptual art performance where, for almost two hours, the amplified sounds of the artist’s heartbeat and breathing were heard in real time throughout the gallery where the performance occurred—using to wireless technology from Lectrosonics.
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NAPERVILLE, IL —North Central College was looking to ensure a satisfactory audio experience for both audiences and visiting artists at the Wentz Concert Hall, part of the college’s new Fine Arts Center. Talaske, an acoustic audio, and video design firm based in Oak Park, Ill., used Bag End subwoofers for the project.
Read More »WINTER PARK, FL — Full Sail University was recently named a “Veteran-Friendly School” by Purple Heart Services and the school was also the first recipient of the official Purple Heart Services Seal.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden — The 120 year-old Berns Salonger restaurant and entertainment venue has been updated with three separate Alcons Audio sound reinforcement systems. Club 2.35:1 is located in the Berns Salonger basement and features video screens behind black glass. To match the visuals, local audio specialists Electrosound chose a 7.1+1 surround Alcons system.
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ORLANDO — It was overstuffed, in attendance (a complete sellout), humor and agenda, and there was plenty of good-natured roasting going on, but the 2009 Parnelli Awards program was no turkey. Dennis DeYoung hosted the annual gala that honored lifetime achiever Jake Berry, audio innovator Stan Miller and FOH Mixer of the Year Big Mick Hughes, pictured here. The ceremony also included the Indispensable Technology “IT” Parnelli honors for the first time.
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PUTNAM, CT —Rational Acoustics LLC recently completed the purchase of the Smaart brand product line from Eastern Acoustic Works (EAW). The purchase, in the works for nine months, leaves Rational Acoustics as the sole owner of the Smaart brand, with title to all names, trademarks, code bases and assets for the complete suite of past, current and future versions of Smaart software.
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