Bag End Loudspeakers has updated the core models of its TA Series of Time-Aligned full range loudspeakers with a new high-performance, high-frequency driver to improve high-frequency response with lower distortion at extreme levels. The new systems are compatible with previous models and are available at the same prices.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA – From Sept. 12-14, hundreds of technology entrepreneurs gathered for TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2011, a cyber-world forum and start-up competition. Presenters from Turntable.fm, LinkedIn, Quora, Intuit and Facebook were heard through 18 Meyer Sound MINA line array loudspeakers provided by Swank Audio Visuals of St. Louis, MO.
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GLIWICE, Poland – Stadion Piast, a newly constructed stadium built in compliance with UEFA regulations, is home to the Polish Ekstraklasa league club, Gliwicki Klub Sportowy Piast. The new 10,000-seat stadium is built on the site of the old stadium and incorporates a sound system designed and installed by Tommex Zebrowscy.
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AURORA, IL – The Philips Park Zoo has installed an audio system to deliver news, exhibit information and background music to its 200,000 annual visitors.
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MACHU PICCHU, Peru – In celebration of Machu Picchu's rediscovery by American explorer Hiram Bingham 100 years ago, a concert was held on-site featuring traditional, symphonic and popular music to spectators on the mountainside location.
Read More »Years ago, I was system engineer and audio crew chief for an outdoor Dan Fogelberg solo show at a winery. It was a beautiful show, but there was lightning across the valley that I could see and hear several seconds later from my mix position perch at the top of the hillside venue. With each flash, I could count: "One Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi, etc." to gauge the distance, and it was clearly approaching. As we all know, sound travels about 1/5 of a mile per second.
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Helen Folasade Adu is widely known by the same name as her band, Sade, and both are on a worldwide tour, on the heels of this year's Ultimate Collection. Last year's Soldier of Love – recorded at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios and only their sixth studio album in a quarter-century – debuted at number one and earned their fourth Grammy. It's been a decade since their last tour, but Sade is selling out arenas. The North American leg launched June 16 in Baltimore and winds up September 12 in Norfolk.
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Simply called Cropredy Festival for the first three decades, the annual folk-oriented fête is held each August in the fields just east of the village of Cropredy 50 miles south of Birmingham, England, attracts mostly campers to a single stage at the lower end of a sloping arena field flanked by a fabulous assortment of food vendors.
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To view the 2011 FOH Buyers Guide, CLICK HERE . (Please be patient; the PDF is 5.9MB – but the info is worth the wait!)
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"There is not a professional audio engineer out there today that doesn't touch something Kenton Forsythe is directly responsible for," says Terry Lowe, Parnelli Awards executive producer and publisher of FOH. "We are proud to honor him with the Audio Innovator Award at this year's Parnellis."
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We couldn't begin to fit Dave Fletcher's epic "Welcome to my Nightmare" submission in one issue. This is the second part of Fletcher's four-part saga of an escalating series of pranks and counter-pranks. The prankster's "two eyes for an eye" code of justice led to some mass destruction of hotel property, but, thankfully, the war games never degenerated into full-scale missile assaults or nuclear winter. -ed.
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