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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
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06/21/11 09:15 AM,
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Biamp Systems released Vocia 1.3 at InfoComm 2011. Designed for facilities where audio reliability and scalability are paramount, the EN 54- and ISO 9001:2008-compliant Vocia 1.3 adds increased functionality to its decentralized, network-based system architecture. With these new features Vocia 1.3 continues to be a solution for a critical paging system in North America and critical paging and life safety paging systems elsewhere in the world. Vocia 1.3 introduces four new amplifiers to the full family of paging product line.…
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
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07/21/10 11:30 AM,
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Digital Alert Systems has announced that it will provide a free firmware upgrade to support Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) compliance in all of its DASDEC EAS units. This upgrade, which will now be included as a standard part of all new DASDEC system, is available at no charge to existing customers, allowing them to fulfill the anticipated EAS CAP requirements in a single box. By offering this downloadable firmware update free of charge to its customers, DAS is further reducing…
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Monday, August 10, 2009
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08/10/09 07:56 AM,
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When planning the upgrade from analog to digital for its Studio 12 in Montreal, CBC/Radio-Canada, Canada’s national public broadcasters, found that a 48-channel Solid State Logic C200 HD digital console with two SSL MORSE Stage Boxes was just what they needed for the new all-digital mission of the network. The C200 HD will be used for live to Pro Tools production and post production for radio and television presentations of music performances. “We needed to replace our old analogue console,…
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009
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07/08/09 10:11 AM,
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Located in downtown Athens, Georgia, The Grand Hall at the Classic Center was built as a meeting, special events and performing arts venue, and recently, Technical Services Audio Visual (TSAV) of Athens installed NEXO GEO S12 line arrays at the 3,175-seat venue to upgrade sound reinforcement quality. “Until now, the only installed sound in the room was an overhead 70-volt system for background music and paging,” states TSAV’s Steve Gore. “Previously, they had to use a crew to rig a…
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
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06/24/09 08:41 AM,
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At 2009 InfoComm in Orlando, dbx Professional Products introduced the new SC 64 (System Core) and SC 32 digital matrix processors featuring intuitive Wizard-driven system configuration using Harman HiQnet System Architect. The SC 64 and SC 32 host a total of 64 and 32 analog I/O respectively, configurable in banks of eight. The flexibility of eight analog input cards and eight analog output cards easily facilitates many different fully loaded configurations, accommodating a wide range of standard sources via the…
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Monday, June 22, 2009
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06/22/09 11:17 AM,
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Denon Professional highlighted its DN-F300 and DN-F400 solid-state audio players at 2009 InfoComm, with both units able to read MP3 files and uncompressed WAV files from SD or SDHC cards (the DN-F300 reads from USB drives as well). Housed in a compact 1U-rackspace enclosure, the DN-F300 offers contractors and system integrators a versatile solid-state audio player at an extremely cost-effective price point. It also has IR control and a microphone input, making it a good selection for fitness and dance…
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009
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06/02/09 09:28 AM,
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A short drive north of Houston, Devasco International in Tomball, Texas specializes in customized welding and metalworking solutions. With a large staff, a 62,000-square-foot warehouse, and plenty of industrial-grade machinery, it’s not among the quietest of environments. Recently, the company installed a variety of Community Professional loudspeakers to handle a variety of sound reinforcement and paging needs throughout the facility. The loudspeakers were specified by Devasco Controller/Treasurer David Scott, who also holds a degree as an acoustical engineer. Fourteen Community…
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Monday, May 18, 2009
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05/18/09 07:55 AM,
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Cloud Electronics has introduced the CX261, a 1U rack-mounted zone mixer for applications needing simple control of high-quality background music combined with flexible paging options. The Cloud CX261 includes a front-panel 3.5mm jack input for easy connection to laptop, portable MP3 connection, or similar. Any one of six stereo line inputs can be mixed with one or two microphone inputs. Independent control of music and mic levels is provided and may be operated remotely. While the main output is stereo,…
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
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04/29/09 11:21 AM,
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In one of Asia’s most widely viewed events of the year, SOUND.COM of Mumbai provided JBL Professional VerTec line arrays for the Pantaloons Femina Miss India 2009 pageant in Mumbai. The event, which selects India’s three different finalists for participation in the Miss Universe, Miss World and Miss Earth international beauty pageants, was staged at the Andheri Sports Complex for a live audience of 4,000 fashion-industry and global media professionals. This year’s Miss India pageant was broadcast live to more…
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
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03/11/09 09:19 AM,
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To enhance the intelligibility of the paging systems within the 86-station Washington Metro rapid transit system in Washington, D.C., all paging announcement microphones have been upgraded to high-end, broadcast-quality Neumann TLM 103s. Washington Metro, or “Metro” for short, has one command and control center in downtown Washington D.C., and a second that is near completion in Hyattsville, Maryland. Within each center, four workstations permit the simultaneous pre-recording of separate pages or, more frequently, simultaneous real-time pages with different content sent…
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