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Friday, April 29, 2011
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04/29/11 10:29 AM,
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Ryan Field is home to the Northwestern University Wildcats football team and, despite the team’s underdog reputation, the stadium is usually filled to a capacity crowd of over 47,000 fans. The team and the stadium are steeped in tradition – quite similar to the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field. Founding member of the Midwest’s celebrated Big Ten Conference. The university completed Ryan Field in 1926, making it one of the oldest college football stadiums still in use. Though not quite…
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
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02/17/11 09:15 AM,
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Tannoy An Lab.Gruppen Collaborate On New VX Series Tannoy has unveiled their most significant new product range in several years, in the form of VX Series. The VX Series includes a number of advances in Tannoy’s core offering to the pro sound reinforcement market as well as marking the dawn of a ground-breaking collaboration with Lab.gruppen on the self-powered ‘VXP’ versions – the first product of its type to feature both Tannoy and Lab.gruppen technologies. VX represents a major step…
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Friday, January 07, 2011
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01/07/11 01:08 PM,
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L-ACOUSTICS is ringing in the New Year with two days of exclusive presentations and demos at New World Stages in Manhattan’s Theatre District on January 18 and 19. The loudspeaker manufacturer will be showcasing its new SB18 subwoofer extension enclosure and KARA modular line source system, A/B-ing it in comparative listening tests against its venerable predecessor, dV-DOSC. “This is a fantastic opportunity for our rental network and system integrators on the East Coast to personally experience the significant improvement that…
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010
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12/21/10 09:15 AM,
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With approximately 800 undergraduate and graduate students in dance, drama, and music, The Juilliard School is recognized as one of the most prestigious performing arts conservatories in the world. Notable alumni include singer/actress Patti LuPone, pianist Van Cliburn, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, and composer/conductor Henry Mancini. As for ensembles, the resident Juilliard String Quartet is legendary. It’s all about performance at The Juilliard School and, when the performance requires live sound reinforcement, Earthworks microphones are a staple of the setup. Marc…
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Thursday, December 16, 2010
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12/16/10 07:20 AM,
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Located on the strip in Miami Beach, the Gansevoort Miami Beach hotel, spa and resort exudes luxury and high living, with a 55,000 square-foot beach club, an infinity pool, and an eighteen-story rooftop oasis and lounge. Gansevoort Miami Beach is also surrounded by businesses and homes, and there has long been a tension between the parties on the roof and consideration for the neighbors. Three years ago, Systems Design & Integration (SDI) built a sound system for the hotel commensurate…
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Monday, December 13, 2010
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12/13/10 07:25 AM,
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Aldine Independent School District serves some 13,000 high school students in portions of Houston, as well as in neighboring unincorporated areas. Even the youngest of its high schools recently pushed past the thirty-year-old mark, and in order to maintain its facilities, the school board has been regularly renovating its aging infrastructure. Because they are heavily used by the choir, drama, and band departments, each school’s auditorium recently benefitted from a complete overhaul of its sound reinforcement system. PGF Integrations, of…
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Monday, December 06, 2010
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12/06/10 09:30 AM,
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Soundcraft Studer has promoted Alan Wright, previously UK R&D Manager, to the role of Quality and Continuous Improvement Manager. Wright will report directly to Andy Trott, Vice President & General Manager of HARMAN’s Mixing and Microphones & Headphones Business Unit. Trott says, “We pride ourselves on the levels of quality and ingenuity across our businesses but we also have a mantra of continuously improving everything we do; however large or small that improvement might be.” “It is Alan’s role to…
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Monday, November 29, 2010
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11/29/10 10:59 AM,
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Linkin Park recently accepted an award for ‘Best Live Act’ at the 2010 European Music Awards held in Madrid, Spain on November 7, 2010. The band has been touring on a large Adamson systems arena rig on their two previous two world tours, ‘Minutes to Midnight’ and ‘Project Revolution’. The ‘Best Live Act’ award was accompanied by a live performance of ‘Waiting for the end’ at the Award ceremonies. The award was accepted by the ever band who not only…
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
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07/21/10 01:16 PM,
“My father died when I was 11,” says Mac Kerr, “but one of the things I remember him teaching me was to find a job that you like.” “Don’t do a job you don’t like just for money because you’ll never be happy.” The lesson stuck, he says, and has since served him well. The New York City-born, Connecticut-bred designer/engineer has worked in virtually every facet of audio production - designing and implementing systems for hundreds of corporate events worldwide…
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