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Friday, May 24, 2013
PSW Staff 05/24/13 01:02 PM,The sound is ear-splitting: the howl of race tuned engines vying with each other to strip paint by SPL alone from the concrete walls of the long U-shaped arena at Tierp, purpose-built on an old military airfield in central Sweden. The brainchild of Lief Andréasson, this derelict patch of perfectly level wasteland has been turned into one of the most modern drag racing arenas in the world - with a host of other purposes planned - 2.51km (1.56 miles) of… View this story
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Monday, March 04, 2013
PSW Staff 03/04/13 01:38 PM,Owned by CapitaMall Trust, JCube is an ice rink located in Jurong East, a neighborhood of Singapore. JCube differentiates itself from the usual shopping and dining mall experience with the ice rink in the center of the building. The 60 x 30 meter rink has a 460-seat gallery and is used for community skating and for more competitive sporting events including speed or figure skating and ice hockey. The space is also equipped to host live streaming events and concerts.… View this story
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Monday, February 25, 2013
PSW Staff 02/25/13 12:21 PM,Beaver Stadium, home to Penn State University’s Nittany Lions football team, is one of the largest in the country with a capacity of almost 107,000. In fact, it is the second-largest stadium in the Western Hemisphere. The stadium has expanded six times in its history and recently, systems contractor Clair Brothers upgraded Beaver Stadium’s sound system with the installation of more than 140 Harman JBL loudspeakers to improve its performance in a number of coverage areas. “We had already replaced… View this story
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Monday, February 18, 2013
PSW Staff 02/18/13 10:28 AM,Stade Francois Coty, a French football stadium in the Corsican city of Ajaccio, France, has completed audio upgrades compliant to league standards, with seven Technomad advanced audio loudspeakers covering the entire venue. Home club AC Ajaccio recently transitioned to Ligue 2, also known as Division 2 in the LFP French professional football league. The league-imposed audio upgrades required a higher measure of intelligibility and audio coverage throughout the stadium — a quality the previous audio system lacked. Systems integration company… View this story
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Thursday, December 13, 2012
PSW Staff 12/13/12 03:23 PM,The Musketeers men’s basketball team is the standout athletic program at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Musketeers play at the 10,500-seat Cintas Center at Xavier University, which was built in 2000. Xavier University recently asked consultant Anthony James Partners and local integrator ICB Audio & Video to update the sound system with increased coverage of seating areas that were poorly covered by the original system. The solution centered on lightweight Danley loudspeakers and subwoofers in part because no additional… View this story
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PSW Staff 12/13/12 03:19 PM,Quality Sound of Stockton, California recently installed One Systems 108IM/70 speakers in O.co Coliseum in Oakland, California, the home of the NFL’s Oakland Raiders and MLB’s Oakland Athletics. O.co Coliseum houses 6,300 club seats, 143 luxury suites and accommodates seating of up to 63,026 patrons depending on the event. This facility is a high-noise sports and live music venue that required exceptionally intelligible speakers that delivered both music and spoken word program material flawlessly. Quality Sound chose One Systems speakers… View this story
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Monday, December 03, 2012
PSW Staff 12/03/12 12:06 PM,Nationwide Arena is home to the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League and is host to most of the popular musical acts that travel through Ohio’s capital city. Depending on its configuration, Nationwide Arena can accommodate between 17,000 and 21,000 people. Unfortunately, since opening its doors in 2000, poor sound system coverage had been the arena’s little secret. Fortunately the owners were unwilling to rest on their laurels. Recently, as part of a project that included a massive… View this story
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
PSW Staff 11/13/12 09:23 AM,Ricketts Field has always been more than just a local ball park for this city near America’s Four Corners. Since opening its doors in 1965, the stadium, located in Farmington, New Mexico has been the home of one of Little League Baseball’s signature events, the Connie Mack World Series. The venerable 6,100-seat venue was recently treated to a large-scale audio makeover, upgrading their aging horn-based system to Community’s R-Series all-weather loudspeakers. According to William Hartley of Albuquerque-based Sound & Signal… View this story
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
PSW Staff 09/26/12 01:36 PM,The Wells Fargo Arena is the home of Arizona State University’s basketball, volleyball, gymnastics, and wrestling teams. At six stories high and with over 10,000 seats, it also hosts concerts, graduation ceremonies, and other events. Over its nearly forty years of service, the Wells Fargo Arena has had several sound reinforcement systems, all of which lacked power and were unintelligible to one degree or another. Recently that changed when the school raised funds for a whirlwind renovation project that resulted… View this story
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
PSW Staff 04/24/12 12:34 PM,When North Carolina State University’s athletic administration decided to build the Dail Outdoor Tennis Stadium and renovate its Paul Derr Track and Soccer Field; they needed to install new sound systems as well. For their new facilities, they chose speakers from One Systems, a leading manufacturer of high-intelligibility, high-output, direct weather loudspeakers. Davidson Audio Visual, Inc. of Winston-Salem, NC designed and installed the new audio systems. The installations include a number of One Systems’ CrossField Array (CFA) speakers, a high… View this story
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