LAS VEGAS — Harman’s JBL Commercial Series announced that its amplifiers, and mixer-amplifiers have earned the Energy Star label. The Energy Star program, sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), provides consumers and businesses with guidance for making purchases that save them money and help protect the climate by increasing energy efficiency.
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BATON ROUGE, LA — PreSonus is acquiring loudspeaker manufacturer WorxAudio Technologies, Inc., of Greensboro, NC. WorxAudio was founded in 1979 by Hugh Sarvis, its CEO and director of engineering. Pictured here, from left, is PreSonus chairman Kevin Kouhig, WorxAudio’s Sarvis and PreSonus CEO Jim Mack.
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LAS VEGAS – Luminex Network Intelligence has introduced the latest member of its product family, the GigaCore 16RFO Ethernet switch specially tailored for touring applications and designed with the input of key industry players. The unit brings all the advanced functionalities of the GigaCore Ethernet switch range to a custom touring package. The 2U-high device offers rugged optical connector options, including OpticalCon, which can be set at the front or rear of the unit, for a very flexible solution.
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PORT PERRY, Ontario — Adamson will debut the new E219 subwoofer at InfoComm, booth #C11101 in Las Vegas this year. The new addition to the Energia family – which consists of the E15, E12 and E218 – is designed to bolster low-end and complete the Energia line.
Read More »LAS VEGAS — Riedel Communications announced a number of new products that will be on display at the InfoComm 2014 trade show here June 18-20, including MediorNet 2.0, MediorNet MetroN Core Router, Virtual Key Panel App for Artist Intercom System. Also on display: Performer, Artist, and Acrobat communications systems and Riedel’s RockNet 100 and 300 low-latency audio distribution networks and console interfaces.
Read More »LAS VEGAS – The OCA Alliance, a global consortium of companies developing the Open Control Architecture (OCA) as a media networking system, will demonstrate its standards-based open control of devices for the first time at this year’s InfoComm, set for June 18-20 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. In booth C11547, the Alliance will exhibit some of the first products implementing OCA from its member companies with technical experts on hand to explain and present the technology.
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UTRECHT, The Netherlands — Ampco-Flashlight, based here, has updated its rental stock with 24 ME-1 personal monitor mixers and two ME-U hubs with a MADI option card along with four Qu-16 rackmount digital mixers, all from Allen & Heath. Pictured here are Ampco’s racked Qu-16s and ME-1s, in use at the most recent Top 2000 event.
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LOS ANGELES — Tim Boot, production music mixer for the film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical, Jersey Boys, which hits the big screen June 20, relied primarily on DPA’s d:vote 4099 Instrument Microphones and d:screet 4061 Omnidirectional Miniature Microphones to capture the live instruments on set.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland — For the SBB/CFF Swiss Railway exhibition at Lausane Station here, K-array’s Swiss distributor, ZAP audio, provided 16 K-Array KAN200 (Anakonda) speakers, four K-Array KU36 sub-basses and two K-Array KV50s. The latter were installed on top of the two large LCD screens seen by the audience.
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WASHINGTON, DC — For the 25th annual National Memorial Day Concert, broadcast live May 25 from the U.S. Capitol’s West Lawn, PRG deployed one of the two recently-purchased L-Acoustics K2 systems. The event was hosted by Joe Mantegna and Gary Sinise and performers including the National Symphony Orchestra, Jennifer Nettles, Megan Hilty, the U.S. Army Chorus and Air Force Singing Sergeants.
Read More »HANOI – Salzbrenner Stagetec Mediagroup Audio Video Mediensysteme GmbH’s system contractor department in Buttenheim (Germany) has been selected to equip the all-new Vietnamese parliament complex with cutting-edge conference and audio gear. The total investment for the new building facing the mausoleum of Ho Chi Minh is thought to be a nine-figure amount.
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LAS VEGAS – Outline will introduce the iP24, a multi-purpose 2-input/4-output DSP loudspeaker controller in a single rack space design. It combines all the features associated with the iMode platform with the ability to control external amplifiers and passive sound reinforcement systems. It also features Warped Frequency Finite Impulse Response filtering technology, which distributes the frequency resolution over a semi-logarithmic scale and produces a more natural auditory response.
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