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Thursday, March 26, 2009
PSW Staff
03/26/09 09:17 AM,
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Presenting myriad angled planes and asymmetrical layout, St. Laurence Catholic Church in Sugar Land, Texas has been recently enlarged and furnished with glass and stone surfaces, but the visually striking sanctuary also carried the potential of jumbling words and music in multiple uncontrolled reflections. The solution was discreet acoustical treatments working hand-in-hand with a precision-calibrated Meyer Sound line arrays to provide markedly improved clarity along with a greater sense of intimacy. Mary Thompson, the music director at St. Laurence, has…
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
PSW Staff
03/24/09 02:20 PM,
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With a price of $3,500, admission to Elton John’s Oscars party this year was far from the cheapest seat in town when it came to finding a place to watch the awards show. But with the proceeds going to the Elton John AIDS Foundation, the soiree at the Pacific Design Center was still considered the best place to see and be seen on Oscars night by some 650 celebrities not attending the ceremony itself. Feted to a cocktail reception and…
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Mark Frink
03/24/09 07:16 AM,
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This installment of Real World Gear presents a look at “Medium Format,” defined as modular enclosures designed around 8- and 10-inch low-frequency drivers. The use of line arrays in smaller venues is often limited by weight and height. Compact enclosures are not only less expensive, but also weigh less and can bend more rapidly without breaking their coupling, due to the smaller diameter of their woofers. The physics of coupling dictates a limit to the angle from one enclosure to…
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