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PHOENIX – Nearly 10 years ago, Xavier College Preparatory High School invested in a new, 1,000-seat auditorium for musical productions, assemblies, concerts and fundraisers. Since the beginning, the all-female Catholic high school has relied on Sennheiser for the auditorium's wireless audio infrastructure.

LONG BEACH, CA – The 1,074-seat Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center, located on the campus of California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), has presented a diverse array of productions to audiences over the past 15 years, and its audio system was ready for an upgrade.

NEW YORK – They may lack the visual prominence of a Manhattan skyscraper or a 74-foot-high Norway spruced decked out with 30,000 LED lights. But the subcompact JBL VerTec line arrays that PRG provided for the annual Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony still played an important role at the event, which featured performances by Mariah Carey, Josh Groban and Susan Boyle and an appearance by the Rockettes from nearby Radio City Music Hall.

DIMMITT, TX – The congregation of the First Baptist Church is partial to the sanctuary's handcrafted walnut accents, and to the efforts undertaken by Troubadour Solutions and Bag End to get an exact match between the old wood trim and the appearance of the new Gem Series speakers being installed.

PEORIA, IL – Advanced Audio and Lighting Systems, Inc. is using one of the first Dante MY16-AUD cards developed by Audinate for Yamaha with an M7CL-48 digital audio console at the CEFCU Center Stage at The Landing in Peoria. The amphitheatre, which seats 2,500, has hosted MOE, Government Mule, REO Speedwagon, The Doobie Brothers, Allison Krauss, Bela Fleck and others.

CLEVELAND, OH – The second staging of the teen musical, 13, at Fairmount Performing Arts Conservatory, proved lucky for both the teens involved in the show and the gear-makers involved in the production, who used the three-week run as a hands-on open house opportunity for engineers from community theatres, schools and houses of worship in the area.

BOSTON – Comics Come Home, an annual comedy benefit show that has been staged for 16 years, was presented at the Agannis Arena on Nov. 13, 2010. Rainbow Productions Services / New England Audio Tech of Atkinson, N.H. provided an all-Meyer Sound system for the fund-raising event, which benefits the Cam Neely Foundation for Cancer Care.

MORRISON, CO – Ryan Knutson, co-founder of Brown Note Productions, Inc., can claim the iconic Red Rocks Amphitheatre as his local venue – and recently capped off his sixth year supporting Sound Tribe Sector Nine (STS9) as FOH engineer with a final show for the band's most recent tour at the iconic outdoor venue.

NORTHRIDGE, CA – Providing the greater Los Angeles area with a unique twist on the late night movie, Hollywood Outdoor Movies (HOM) relies on JBL VRX loudspeakers to entertain thousands by displaying feature films on a giant portable outdoor movie screen.

VALENCIA, CA – ATK Audiotek recently instituted a new system design approach revolving around a single type of power amplifier to drive all types and brands of speakers, and purchased 450 Powersoft DIGAM K10 AESOP-equipped amplifiers to drive its inventory of JBL VerTec speaker systems along with other brands of speakers.