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Eminence D-Fend

Eminence D-Fend Speaker Protector/Attenuator

Eminence Speaker LLC intros D-fend™ SA300, a fully programmable stand-alone unit designed to protect passive loudspeakers from excessive power conditions. A patent-pending technology, D-fend™ allows maximum driver performance while ensuring damage-free operation. D-fend eliminates worries about blown speakers, HF drivers or crossovers. Or even worse: fire caused by excessive heat, protecting both your system  as well as your venue and audience

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Cardioid Sub app

Ray-End Cardioid Sub iOS App

Ray-End Acoustical Simulation Software, makers of the popular Acoustical Calculator iPhone app, has expanded its offerings of useful software tools for sound reinforcement pros. Cardioid Sub for iOS is a quick analysis tool for this popular kind of subwoofer array, and is designed to predict how the coverage will be depending on distance between sources, delay, gain and polarity. The app displays the frequency response in front and rear, as well as a graph of the polar pattern. The user simply has to change parameters, such as distance from source to source, gain, delay and polarity.

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dbx PS6 Power Supply for PMC16 PM Controller

dbx PS6 Power Supply for PMC16 PM Controller

dbx introduced its PS6 power supply for the dbx PMC16 Personal Monitor Controller. The PS6 power supply can supply AC power for up to six separate PMC16 units. The PMC16 can be used for applications ranging from house of worship systems with a single compact mixing console to large-scale orchestra installations of up to 60 PMC16 units.

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Bag End CD-15 Loudspeaker

Bag End CD-15 Loudspeaker

Bag End’s CD-15, the company’s first loudspeaker in its new Venus series, was launched at  Winter NAMM 2013. Bagend touts the CD-15 as compact, powerful and faithful in sound reproduction, “especially for complex transient sound.”

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FOH Buyers Guide, March 2013, Double-18 Subwoofers

Double-18 Subwoofers

When you start talking about big sound, ground-stacked double-18 subwoofers are pretty much the standard of the industry. And whenever you’re on that topic, the subject soon turns to “How many do you need?” This isn’t to say that there are other variants that can do the job — ranging from double- and quad-15 boxes to massive systems with one, two or more 21-inch drivers, but if anything defines the foundation of large event product today, it’s the double-18 sub. And one of the easiest ways to upgrade an existing sound rig is to add a couple — or more — ground-stacked subs.

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