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Italy - Link has announced the first multi-protocol digital snake system to implement Dante into their DGlink Stage Box system. Audinate's Dante solution provides a self-configuring, plug-and-play digital audio network that uses standard Internet protocols. Dante is a scalable solution that works on both 100Mbits and 1Gigabit Ethernet and coupled with Link's unique hybrid approach, "offers the end user a distribution system that will improve audio quality and simplify setup," says the company.

"The addition of Dante significantly enhances the audio transport capabilitie

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UK - After a year of substantial growth across European markets, TOA Europe has a host of innovative products to demonstrate at PLASA 2010, all of which are being seen at the show for the first time.

Sure to attract attention is the Type H line array loudspeaker, the most compact, aesthetically pleasing and affordable line array TOA has ever built, which barely a year after its release is already finding favour in large, reflective public spaces where intelligibility is difficult to achieve and hanging space is at a premium.

Also on display is TOA's modular audio-mixing system, the

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UK - At PLASA 2010, Harting is featuring its range of connectivity solutions specially tailored to communication and control applications in lighting, sound and automation systems for the theatre, concert and indoor/outdoor event sectors. In addition to new additions to its industrial connector family, Harting is also featuring a new Ethernet-based switching technology known as Fast Track Switching.

A key product is the Harting Han(R) family of heavy-duty connectors, which are increasingly being used on concert stages and in theatres. At PLASA, two new products within the Han(R) famil

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USA - The largest Optocore single ring network ever installed is currently in use in the Cirque du Soleil's Viva ELVIS production at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.

Optocore's president, Marc Brunke, and North American director, Bill Coons, originally demonstrated the Optocore system to Cirque du Soleil sound designer Jonathan Deans and Matthew Ezold, Auerbach Pollock Friedlander's audio video systems consultant for Viva ELVIS. Based on feedback given during the demonstration, Optocore accelerated development of a server-based topology allowing simultaneous contro

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UK - Network Rail, which runs, develops and maintains rail tracks, signaling and other infrastructure such as tunnels and bridges - together with18 of the country's biggest and busiest stations - has chosen fire telephones and induction loop systems produced by Current Thinking for inclusion in its St Pancras Thameslink Box project.

Many rail stations on the East Coast Main line are already equipped with fire telephones and induction loop systems produced at Current Thinking's Sunderland factory and managing director Tony Smith says Network Rail's (PADS) endorsement follows installati

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UK - If you are an acoustic consultant, facilities manager, architect or anyone involved in the manufacture, specification or installation of voice alarm systems, you will have heard of EN54 part 16, the new European standard covering voice alarm systems, including control and indicating equipment (VACIE), along with amplifiers, processors and similar hardware, and EN54 Part 24, which covers loudspeakers.

Its introduction is causing headaches - and considerable expense - for the UK and European manufacturing sector. The UK is one of only three of the EU's 27 member states where EN54 i

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Norway - First opened in 1878, the Byscenen in Trondheim is as much a part of the cultural landscape of Norway as the fjords are of its coastline. The latest round of refurbishments saw the standing room capacity of the theatre actually reduced from 1,500 to 600.

The sound reinforcement system newly installed by avon a|s: is based around a XLD compact line-array system from Electro-Voice. It features six EV XLD281, 10 EV XLD291 and four EV XCS312 (subs) as well as four Xsubs, driven by 10 EV TG7 amplifiers and controlled using IRISNet software.

"I love the versatility of the XL

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Italy/Sweden - Mid-July saw health & lifestyle products company Herbalife hold four-day Extravaganzas in Italy and Sweden, with up to 13,000 delegates at each. Featuring high production values, Yamaha digital mixing consoles controlled the audio.

Staged as part of the company's lavish 30th anniversary world tour, the events took place in Turin's Palaisozaki Arena and the Stockholm Globe Arena. Each was a mixture of conference, training sessions, team meetings, awards presentations, live entertainment and high profile 'geeing-up' for the delegates, a highlight being the company's own v

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Singapore - Featuring live performances by several of the region's best known musical acts, giant screen broadcasts of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, and an outdoor bazaar, the recently completed Beerfest Asia 2010 was a resounding success. The celebration provided festival attendees the opportunity to find and enjoy beers from around the world. Live music was a key attraction and to ensure the audiences would be treated to the most robust and musical sound available, the live sound reinforcement setup consisted of a substantial loudspeaker system from D.A.S. Audio.

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UK - Herwin Acoustics has recently completed the installation of a PA and lighting system, along with a 3.5mwide- screen electric screen and projector at Pioneer Youth Centre in St Albans.

The youth centre, founded in 1965, is run by Youth Connexions Hertfordshire in conjuntion with a management committee and has a long history of association with music -n The 60's band The Zombies formed there and current post-hardcore band Enter Shikari played many of their early gigs here in the noughties.

Herwin Acoustics is run by Paul Herwin who, with a previous life as a performing musician,

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UK- Flare Audio and Lab.gruppen have agreed to be strategic partners ahead of Flare Audio's launch at PLASA 2010 on stand 1-G21. Davies Roberts MD of Flare Audio comments, "We are thrilled to have struck such a wonderful relationship with Lab.gruppen even before we officially launch, their range of class leading amps coupled with our new Stealth Array speaker enclosures will really shake the Pro Audio market up and improve audio at all types of events. We have been amazed at the commitment we received from Lab.gruppen and their understanding of where we are going and what our needs

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UK - Void Acoustics, designer and manufacturer of advanced professional audio systems for the installed and live sound markets, has launched a new range of four-channel amplifiers - the Infinite QX - in response to the market demand for greater power in smaller, lighter weight equipment. The new range, comprising three models, is manufactured at Void's new facility at its headquarters in Poole, UK.

Based on the Infinite X architecture, the Infinite QX amplifiers are designed to provide significantly enhanced performance, deploying a newly developed advanced MOSFET output stage for the

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UK - As the central mosque in Bolton, Zakariyya Jame Masjid plays an important role in uniting and serving all Muslims in the town. In addition to having space for up to 3,000 worshippers, it acts as a meeting place for many groups, agencies and local authorities involved in various issues in the borough, and provides Islamic education for children and adults from the surrounding areas.

As speech is of pivotal importance during prayer sessions, it was recently decided to find a way of enhancing speech quality and audibility in the prayer hall. At the same time it made sense to upgrade

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India Harman Professional has announced the creation of three new sales teams positions in India and the appointments of Kaushal Garg, Robin Ghose, and Vibhor Khanna to fill the roles. The new additions will serve as the national sales manager and the regional sales managers for North and West India, respectively, and will be directed by Harman Professional's senior director of sales for Asia, David McKinney.

Garg comes to Harman with 22 years of experience at Bhartia Cutler Hammer, a switchgear company, and most recently Bose India, where he was the head of the Professional Division

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Germany - A total of around 32,000 people attended the five sold-out concerts that comprised the 19th edition of the Classic Open Air event in Berlin from 15-19 July 2010. The first night was inaugurated by German TV personality, Herbert Feuerstein, who hosted a spectacular 'musical request' night complete with lights, lasers and fireworks.

The following evenings were filled with Verdi and Tchaikovsky performed by some of the biggest names in classical music, as well as a swing night. The event culminated with The big night of film music performed by Mousse T. and his ba

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Italy - QVC, the home-shopping channel broadcaster owned by Liberty Media Corp, will start a service in Italy for on-air launch at the beginning of October.

Experienced Berkshire-based broadcast integrators, TSL, won a competitive tender to design and install a highly sophisticated broadcast system, with audio mixing based around two Studer Vista 5 32-fader production consoles with SCore Live and D21 I/O extension frames installed in the two identically-configured live studio control rooms and central technical area.

TSL has a long history of specifying Studer Vista consoles, and th

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UK - Save Our Sound UK has issued its reaction to the Ofcom statement on PSME funding:

As we know, the Government and Ofcom have decided to clear TV bands 31-37 and 61-69 of all wireless microphones and similar technologies that operate on these frequencies. At the end of July, Communications Minister Ed Vaizey announced that the Government would be making a "significant contribution" to the replacement cost, but only for equipment that tunes to channel 69. Following on from this, Ofcom published a statement providing details on the compensation package, including eligibilit

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Turkey - Established in 1939, TÜDEMSA? (Turkish Railway Machines Industry Inc.) repairs freight and passenger wagons and manufactures freight wagons and spare parts. Its factory in Sivas, Turkey has a total area of 287,467sq.m with an additional indoor area of 96,000 m2. The factory employs 1,500 people, making TÜDEMSA? one of the biggest industrial groups for the international railway market in the Balkans and the Middle East.

Between January and April 2010, solutions supplier and Bosch dealer Entegre Electronics from Istanbul designed and installed a public address and voice evacu

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USA - Four years ago, principles at Full Sail University commenced planning to create a multi-purpose, live performance venue. The award-winning school located in Winter Park Florida was created more than 30 years ago as a private learning hub catering to arts design and entertainment media. Over the past three decades, Full Sail has flourished to offer a broad spectrum of accredited, degree programmes encompassing music and sound, as well as film, design, show production, games, animation, web design, and music business.

After a year-plus of construction, Full Sail Live is fin

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UK - EAW is exhibiting its new QX Series loudspeakers at PLASA 2010, optimised for installed system applications that require precise directivity in a powerful low-profile form. Engineered and manufactured at EAW's Whitinsville, Massachusetts facility, the QX Series provides size-efficient yet very high output point source clusters. The series is particularly geared toward medium-to-large-sized spaces including sports arenas but is also designed for a wide range of other venues requiring high power and consistent coverage in a compact housing, including houses of worship, outdoor stadiu

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UK - PLASA 2010 will provide the first major public showcase for Ateis International's new integrated public address (PA) and voice alarm (VA) system, the IDA8. Combining digital audio signal processing, matrix control, message play-out and microphone capability, the unit is the latest and most advanced step in the development of Ateis' PA/VA products.

The IDA8 is based on the successful IDA4, which is well established in the market. Over the five years since IDA4 was launched, tens of thousands of units have been sold internationally. But technology and what users expect from equipme

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Germany / China - Kling & Freitag has confirmed the appointment of Shanghai MYC Technology Company as its exclusive distributor for mainland China, Macao and Hong Kong. With headquarters in Shanghai, MYC also has regional offices in Beijing, Guangzhou and Hong Kong.

"MYC team has a solid competence technically as they often work with top artists and loudspeaker engineers in Asia. With the assistance from MYC, we will fully develop business in China and focus on both the installation and touring sectors," says Jürgen Freitag, managing director of Kling & Freitag.

"We

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USA / Europe - Crosby, Stills & Nash are mid-way through an extensive tour, which has taken in a wide variety of venues and festivals throughout the US and Europe. Front of House engineer Kevin Madigan is mixing with his DiGiCo D5.

"The D5 is my console of choice, I've been using DiGiCo for about five years and there's still no better digital console in my opinion," says Madigan. "I sometimes have to use other consoles on a one-off basis, but I always come back to my favourite because of its excellent sound quality and layout."

The tour is using a d&b J Line main

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Australia / Germany - With a growing requirement for networked audio solutions in Australia's broadcast and live sectors, Optocore has appointed Professional Audio Technology as its exclusive territorial distributor.The experienced Sydney-based operation headed by Patrick Salloch takes up its role with immediate effect.

Speaking of the appointment, Optocore sales and marketing director, Tine Helmle stated, "I feel we have found the perfect partner in Australia. PAT will concentrate its activities on Optocore's core markets, namely broadcast, permanent and live sound. We look forw

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