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Friday, May 20, 2011
PSW Staff 05/20/11 10:46 AM, 0 CommentsMore than 15,000 fans recently packed the Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima of Buenos Aires (GEBA) to hear Andrea Bocelli and special guest Chenoa perform with a large choir and orchestra on the Latin leg of his Incanto tour. To ensure that every subtle detail of the famous tenor’s performance was clearly heard by all, São Paulo-based concert sound provider Loudness Sonorização specified the deployment of an L-Acoustics K1 loudspeaker system. Fourteen K1 enclosures were flown per side, each with… View this story
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Tony Andrews 05/20/11 10:19 AM, 2 CommentsWe “Men of Audio,” as my friend Clifford Henricksen put it in one of his frequent moments of levity, fight either the good fight for good sound or high fidelity. But let’s just take a look at the words high fidelity, or hi-fi. Taken literally hi-fi large quantities of faithfulness to the original sound; in other words we’re talking truth, or purity. Accordingly, the next concern is how shall you judge fidelity, and how do you maximize it? Criteria for… View this story
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PSW Staff 05/20/11 09:35 AM, 0 CommentsAmerican Idol is the country’s most-watched TV series, and has been the number one show for six years in a row. For American Idol’s 2011 season, wrapping up this week, the main house PA and dialogue system has included a total of 300 JBL Professional loudspeakers, including VerTec line arrays and Control Contractor loudspeakers, ensuring the contestants and judges are clearly heard no matter how loudly the audience cheers the performers. The system has been installed in Stage 36 at… View this story
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PSW Staff 05/20/11 09:20 AM, 0 CommentsdBTechnologies is pleased to announce a the recent installation of a full DVA line array system at Resurrection Power Church in Ohio, which has has significantly improved the audio quality in their auditorium. Specified by local company Metro Audio Video, the system consists of two DVA dBTechnologies powered line arrays, each one including a DVA S10 single 18” bandpass subwoofer flown at the top, with three T4 three-way elements below. Metro Audio’s Ed Whitney wanted to ensure that the sound… View this story
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
PSW Staff 05/18/11 09:38 AM, 0 CommentsCountry music star Jason McCoy marked the recent release of his fifth studio album, Everything, with a cross-country headlining tour across twenty-six Canadian cities. For its audio backbone, the tour featured Sennheiser wireless transmitters and receivers, as well as K-array loudspeakers, which are distributed by Sennheiser. This one-man retrospective, which started in Kamloops on March 4th and finished in Halifax on April 21st, celebrated McCoy’s return to his legendary roots as a soloist after five years spent with the popular… View this story
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
PSW Staff 05/17/11 03:39 PM, 0 CommentsStarlite Productions, in Moorestown, New Jersey has announced they will host Yamaha and NEXO demonstrations featuring the NEXO S12 line array, PS15 speakers, the new 45 N-12 line monitors, and Yamaha Installation Series speakers. The event will take place on Tuesday, May 24 from 11:00 am – 5:00 pm and feature presenters from Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems, Inc. The Yamaha Commercial Audio Rolling Showroom housing all the latest in Yamaha digital products will be making an appearance at the event.… View this story
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PSW Staff 05/17/11 08:10 AM, 0 CommentsAkustika Bahun is pleased to announce that it has purchased the first L-Acoustics KARA WST line source system in Slovenia. The system’s first job was a corporate event in Slovenia’s largest and most acoustically challenging arena, Stožice, which has an nine second reverberation time when empty. The complete front of house/front fill system consists of 36 KARA cabinets configured as 12 per side as left/right hands and 12 as a delay line, eight SB28 subwoofers in cardioid mode, two 108P… View this story
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Monday, May 16, 2011
Live Sound Staff 05/16/11 03:16 PM, 0 CommentsIt was acoustical pioneer Harry Olson who first demonstrated the line array effect of the narrowing of the beam with increasing frequency. This approach was published in Olson’s book, “Acoustical Engineering,” in 1957, and these concepts were used to develop column loudspeakers comprised of vertically aligned drivers in a single enclosure that teamed up to produce mid-range output in a wide horizontal and narrow vertical pattern. These column loudspeakers proved popular in the 1960s and 1970s, primarily for spoken word… View this story
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PSW Staff 05/16/11 02:07 PM, 0 CommentsYamaha Commercial Audio Systems along with Yamaha Corporation of America, Shure, ProPresenter, and Elation Lighting have announced they will hold the next Worship Arts Technology Summit (WATS) at the Cathedral of Faith Church, July 14-16, in San Jose, California. The success of the WATS Seminars continues to grow with an outpouring of response from attendees. As in past seminars, several ‘track’s will take place including Musician, Audio, Vocal, Lighting, and Media. For complete description of the tracks, visit the WATS… View this story
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PSW Staff 05/16/11 10:30 AM, 0 CommentsCommunity Professional Loudspeakers has announced they are now offering their popular R.5 weather-resistant loudspeakers in both standard black and white finishes. All R.5 models, including the short throw, two-way R.5Z, the medium throw, three-way R.5HP, the full range, two-way R.5COAX and the R.5SUB 12-inch subwoofer, can now be ordered in black, white or the original neutral light gray finish. Community’s R.5 loudspeakers offer excellent music and speech reproduction in a compact, highly weather-resistant design. All R.5 systems are covered by… View this story
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