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The d&b audiotechnik E8 is a two-way multipurpose loudspeaker employing an integrated coaxial driver with neodymium magnet assemblies. The 1" exit HF compression driver and constant directivity horn are accommodated within the circumference of the 8" LF driver. It has either a 90° x 50° or 50° x 90° dispersion pattern (h x v), selected by rotating the horn through 90°. 

NASHVILLE — ATK/Audiotek of Valencia, Calif. supplied a multi-array JBL VerTec line array system for the 42nd Annual Country Music Association (CMA) Awards. The Awards were held at the Sommet Center in Nashville and broadcast live on ABC to a national audience. The CMA Awards is the premier annual event for the country music industry, and this year’s show was co-hosted by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood. Featured performers included Kenny Chesney, Brooks & Dunn, The Eagles, George Strait, Sugarland and Keith Urban, among others.
 

RED HOOK, N.Y. — Concert sound provider Firehouse Productions, known for its tours with Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails and Peter Gabriel among others, chose to deploy L-ACOUSTICS LA8-powered KUDO arrays for FOH on Sigur Ros' recent North American tour leg.

SUN VALLEY, Idaho — With its soaring 70-foot proscenium arch and swooping copper-clad roof, Sun Valley Pavilion heralds a new era for the performing arts at Idaho's premier mountain resort. Winter visitors usually come to ski, but after the snowmelt a full program of performances — notably by the acclaimed Sun Valley Summer Symphony — attracts warm season residents and vacationers who gather at the pavilion for an intimate entertainment experience. Designed by Mary Cook, senior consultant in the Audio & Video Systems Group at JaffeHolden Acoustics, the sound system is anchored by three clusters of five Meyer Sound MILO line array loudspeakers each. 

ENGLAND — For 25 years, Manchester’s School of Sound Recording (SSR) has delivered technical training and education for the music and A/V industries. It has a comprehensive set of courses on offer, the shortest being only an hour, the longest a three year BSc in Sound Engineering. The school has a number of the industry’s leading companies playing an active role in its development and recently saw DiGiCo join those ranks by opening the DiGiCo Room, equipped with a DS-00 console.
 

NEW YORK — A perennial holiday attraction, The Big Apple Circus has been delighting NYC children for over 30 years. The combination of clowns, acrobats, jugglers and equestrians is complimented by live music ranging from jazz to rock, disco to classical. This year, in addition to new performers, the show added RockNet 300, a 21st Century audio distribution system to the troop.

ATLANTA — Greater Atlanta’s 12Stone Church recently expanded their Lawrenceville campus with a new state-of-the-art, 2,600-seat worship center, a 600-seat high school worship center, a 300-seat middle school worship center and two additional 150-seat worship centers for grade school and pre-school. The stadium-style main auditorium features a thrust stage with seating that bends an astounding 220-degrees to accentuate 12Stone’s engaging services. In addition to expanding their facilities, 12Stone expanded its Sennheiser gear with 25 wireless microphone and 18 wireless personal monitoring channels.

CHICAGO — The world listened as President-elect Barack Obama delivered his historic acceptance speech to nearly a quarter million supporters at Chicago’s Grant Park. Thanks to a sound system design and deployment by CLAIR Chicago, every word was heard clearly via an Electro-Voice X-Line PA and Midas mixing consoles.

Yamaha’s TXn series amplifiers are designed to deliver sonic quality and two-ohm drive capability. The TXn series consists of the TX4n, TX5n and TX6n, which deliver 2,200, 2,500 and 3,000 watts per channel into two ohms. All three TXn models incorporate a 24-bit 96-kHz DSP engine that provides a range of control and processing capabilities. In addition to basic amplifier control and status monitoring, speaker processing capabilities are available that will make outboard equipment such as equalisers, delays and speaker processors unnecessary in most applications.