HOMER, MI — Crookston Audio designed and installed a new sound reinforcement system for the new chapel and remodeled rooms within the new Craig K. Kempf Funeral Home here. The installation includes an Ashly Pema 4125.70 integrated processor with four-channel amplifier and Ashly RD-8C and WR-2 user controls.
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NORTHRIDGE, CA — Harman’s JBL Professional division, based here, recently reported on the growing momentum behind the use of its VTX V20 line array loudspeaker system introduced earlier this year. Delicate Productions, Sound Image and CTS Audio have provided V20 systems for, respectively, the BottleRock Napa Valley Festival (pictured here), performances by Crosby Stills and Nash, and the 2014 K-Love Fan Awards honoring artists in the Christian music genre at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry House.
Read More »LAS VEGAS — Women in AV (WAVE) announced that Theresa Hahn, director of marketing & business development of Verrex, has been selected to receive WAVE’s 2014 Mentoring Award. The award was presented June 18 at the Hard Rock Hotel here during an event that coincided with InfoComm 2014. WAVE also honored Cory Schaeffer, Listen Co-Founder & Vice President of Business Development Worldwide, with a Women in AV Award.
Read More »MORRISON, CO — A police search following a parking lot shooting incident that injured three members of rapper Schoolboy Q’s entourage led to a lockdown of all roads leading to the Red Rocks Amphitheatre here late on June 19 while police tried to find the shooter. Although Schoolboy Q had been in the car at the time of the shooting, he was uninjured. The shooting occurred at about 10:30, as the concert featuring Nas and Lotus along with Schoolboy Q came to and end. The shooter remained at large despite a roadblock and car-by-car search of exiting concertgoers that continued until about 3 a.m.
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Luminex Network Intelligence announced the introduction of GigaCore firmware V2, which ushers in a new core system for the GigaCore family of Ethernet switches. V2 firmware features support of precision time protocol (PTP v2), development for the support of AES67, new modules for future adoption of AVB, new group web interface, and enhanced PoE and Multicast media support.
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ROME — Pope Francis’ address to the 37th National Convocation of the Renewal of the Spirit at Rome’s Olympic Stadium drew a crowd of more than 50,000. The event took place June 1 and 2 and included a variety of speakers, including Pope Francis and cardinals Angelo Comastri, Agostino Vallini and Stanislaw Rylko. The speeches were heard via 84 RCF loudspeaker elements.
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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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