NASHVILLE — When it was ready to upgrade the Meyer Sound MSL-3 loudspeaker system that had served the 2,472-seat Andrew Jackson Hall for more than two decades, the Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC) here chose Meyer Sound again, this time a system based on the M’elodie line array loudspeaker.
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ABERDEEN, UK — SPE Offshore Europe, a biennial trade show for the oil and gas industry, recently drew about 1,500 exhibitors and 50,000 visitors to the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre. A PA system was required for close to 25,000 square meters (270,000 square feet) of temporary exhibition space. Taylored Sound designed and installed a system using Community R.25 loudspeakers.
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JELENIA GORA, Poland — Established in 1976 by the Wroclaw actor Andrzej Dziedziul, the Zdrojowy Teatr Animacji, used mainly for children’s productions, is part of the Spa Theatre, which dates back 1836. Also featuring plays for grown-ups, and with some productions staged outdoors, the 200-capacity venue was looking to improve its audio system. The venue’s management turned to M. Ostrowski and CF Series solutions from Renkus-Heinz.
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RALEIGH, NC — North Carolina State University’s athletic administration chose Davidson Audio Visual of Winston-Salem, NC to outfit the new Dail Outdoor Tennis Stadium and renovated Paul Derr Track and Soccer Field with audio gear. Davidson AV, in turn, chose speakers from One Systems.
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LONDON — The first U.K. rental company to purchase Martin Audio’s MLA (Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array), RG Jones Sound Engineering also found themselves the first to debut the scaled down version of this new technology, MLA Compact. Simon Honywill used the gear for the closing dates of the recent Chris Rea tour in Europe and the U.K.
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NEW YORK, NY — Edwin Diaz, owner of E&A Sound, recently upgraded the audio system at The Latin Quarter (i.e., LQ) with D.A.S. Audio’s Aero 12A powered, two-way, mid-high line array modules. Diaz said the compact speakers proved a good fit with the club’s space constraints and high SPL needs.
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CHICAGO — The 3,600-seat Lyric Opera of Chicago, which closed its season with Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein’s 1927 masterpiece, Show Boat, used a Meyer Sound system that included 10 M2D line array loudspeakers, 16 MM-4XP self-powered loudspeakers, two CQ-1 loudspeakers, one 700-HP subwoofer, a Galileo loudspeaker management system and two MPS-488HPe power supply units.
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CALABASAS, CA — Line 6 is shipping its new XD-V55 digital wireless handheld, lavalier and headset microphone systems.
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PORTLAND, OR AND RIO RANCHO, NM — Lectrosonics has developed the SPNDNT network processor to expand the ASPEN digital matrix processor family. More than a simple network interface, Lectrosonics calls it a full-featured DSP processor that can address both the ASPEN and Dante matrices and add mixing, gain and delay functions to the digital audio signals.
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CHICAGO — For more than two decades, Frost Chicago has served as one of the Windy City’s leading event services companies. Providing audio, video, lighting, staging and fabric design for large-scale private events, social gala functions and Fortune 500 client productions, the company recently made the decision to invest in a full L-Acoustics KARA system.
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TUNBRIDGE WELLS, UK — Trinity Theatre, originally built as a church the mid-1800s, was converted into a theatre around 1980. Stage Electrics recently upgraded the audio system with a DiGiCo SD9 console.
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ELKHART, IN — Crown Audio is now shipping its new I-Tech HD 4x3500HD DriveCore Series 4-channel power amplifier. The 4-channel I-Tech 4x3500HD incorporates Crown’s sixth-generation Class I engine with DriveCore technology to deliver 3,500W per channel burst into two ohms, and offers a host of features including a 4.3-inch TFT LCD with capacitive touchscreen, Harman HiQnet System Architect 2.0 control functionality and V5 DSP preset support for JBL Professional’s newly-launched VTX Series V25 plus VerTec Series line array loudspeakers.
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