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Mount Aloysius College Installs Bose RoomMatch System

Mount Aloysius College Installs Bose RoomMatch System

Mount Aloysius College Installs Bose RoomMatch System

CRESSON, PA — For a new convocation center at Mount Aloysius College here, the Sextant Group specified a Bose RoomMatch system. It includes 17 RoomMatch loudspeakers divided into one five-speaker array (RM5505, RM7010, RM9010, RM9020, and RM12040 modules) that covers the main floor and six separate two-module RM7040/RM9020 arrays covering the bleacher seating on both sides of the floor. The speaker arrays are all powered by five PowerMatch PM8500N amplifiers. The Pittsburgh office of Cleveland, OH-based SoundCom Systems installed the gear.

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Pictured L-R: Doug Swan, Audio-Technica National Director of Sales & Marketing, Professional Markets; David Marsh, Audio-Technica Director of Sales, Professional Markets; Vince Mancuso, Audio-Technica National Sales Manager, Professional Markets; Matthew Jensen, Alliance Audio Visual Group General Manager, Account Executive; Jim Chase, Alliance Audio Visual Group Account Executive; Kenny Andrews, Alliance Audio Visual Group Account Executive; Andrew Pernetti, Audio-Technica Sales Manager, Professional Markets; and Philip Cajka, Audio-Technica President & C.E.O.

Audio-Technica Names Alliance Audio Visual Group Rep of the Year

STOW, OH — Audio-Technica named Los Alamitos, CA-based Alliance Audio Visual Group as its Rep of the Year for 2013/2014. Audio-Technica honored the rep firm in a ceremony held in Las Vegas during InfoComm 2014. Pictured here, from left, are Audio-Technica’s Doug Swan, David Marsh and Vince Mancuso; Alliance’s Matthew Jensen, Jim Chase, Kenny Andrews; and, at right, Audio-Technica’s Andrew Pernetti and Philip Cajka.

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Yamaha Commercial Expands Marketing and Technical Teams

BUENA PARK, CA — Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems recently appointed Steve Armstrong as Speaker Systems Application Engineer, Chad Cooper as Applications Manager, Patrick Killianey as Network Systems Applications Engineer and Marcel Mauceri as NUAGE Technical Marketing Specialist. “We are extremely fortunate to have these four gentlemen join the YCAS “A” team, where they will contribute greatly to our growing, dedicated, team,” said Marc Lopez, Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems’ marketing manager.

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2014 Hometown Hero Nominations: A Sneak Peek

Don’t Miss Out: Nominate a Hometown Hero Sound Company This Week

LAS VEGAS — This year’s window of opportunity to nominate companies worthy of receiving a Parnelli Award for Hometown Hero Sound Company of the Year hasn’t slammed shut yet; the deadline is July 31, 2014. But while the annual FRONT of HOUSE newsletter alert informing readers that they only have scant days before the nominations period closes is still a week away, there’s no reason to wait until that final reminder. Do a worthy company proud by taking a minute to nominate them for the honor today.

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Harman Provides Sound For Kopparberg Urban Forest Festival

LONDON  – The Kopparberg Urban Forest Festival will feature a complete sound reinforcement system composed of Harman AKG microphones, Crown amplifiers, JBL loudspeakers and Soundcraft mixing consoles. The main PA features eight JBL VTX V20 loudspeakers, four S25 subwoofers, complemented by two VTX F15s plus VTX F12, VTX F18S and STX812M stage monitors. The system is powered with two Crown VRack 4×3500 HD systems and an I-Tech 5000 HD amplifier.

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Yamaha CL V2.0 Software Update

The latest software update for Yamaha CL Series Digital Audio Consoles incudes mix-minus capabilities for the broadcast market and discovery and head amp control for the QL Series that also inherits CL Series features and performance. A QL console can function as both monitor mixer and I/O rack, for example, while a front-of-house CL console can remotely control the head amp gain of the QL console’s I/O.

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Thunder Audio's Tony Villarreal (left) and Paul Owen with a few of their new L-ACOUSTICS K1 enclosures

Thunder Audio Expands its L-Acoustics Inventory

LIVONIA, MI — Thunder Audio, Inc., based here, recently expanded its inventory with a large-format K1 system and other gear from L-Acoustics. Thunder Audio is currently taking delivery of 48 K1 enclosures. The rental company’s other L-Acoustics components now also include 36 K2 and 24 KARA elements, 18 K1-SB and 34 SB28 subs, and six ARCS II and 22 LA-RAK, each loaded with three LA8 amplified controllers. An additional 48 K2 are also on order for the first quarter of 2015. Pictured here are Thunder Audio’s Tony Villarreal (left) and Paul Owen with a few of their new L-Acoustics K1 enclosures

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University Christian Church in Fort Worth, TX Equipped with Tannoy Loudspeakers

University Christian Church in Fort Worth, TX Equipped with Tannoy Loudspeakers

FORT WORTH, TX – University Christian Church (UCC), located on the campus of Texas Christian University here, recently upgraded with Tannoy column line array loudspeakers. The new installation uses a Tannoy QFlex 48 column line array and a Tannoy VLS 15 loudspeaker. Curt Taipale, owner of Taipale Media Systems (TMS), headquartered in Allen, TX, designed the system. He worked closely with SAV, a Plano, TX-based system integration company that handled the installation.

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Community Launches New Brand Identity

Community Launches New Brand Identity

CHESTER, PA – Community Professional Loudspeakers unveiled its new corporate brand identity at InfoComm. CEO Steve Johnson said, “Community’s brand has always been highly respected throughout the pro audio industry.  With this new corporate brand identity, we’re modernizing the way we present our company to the world while building on our past strengths and renewing our commitment to our customers.”

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Columbia Performing Arts Centre Opts for Ashly’s nX-Series Amps

COLUMBIA, MO – As part of a major addition including four new studios, The Columbia Performing Arts Centre added a sound system centered on the Ashly nXp8002 two-channel Network Amplifier. “Of course the built-in DSP is one of the first features that drew us to the nXp line, we needed smooth compression and limiting to protect the system as well as a good EQ to fine tune the speaker response to each space. The fail-over functionality was huge, as was the unit’s super low power consumption at idle. That kind of intelligent power management is great in a situation like this,” said said Chris Howe, manager at Sound Concepts Inc.

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