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A new addition to the UltraSeries, the UPQ-1P exhibits high power (136 dB peak SPL at 1m), low distortion, and a wide coverage pattern of 80-degrees by 50-degrees. The UPQ-1P has already been widely embraced by installed sound professionals, with an order of 48 units going to Westfalen Sound for its corporate account, Skoda Auto. The UPQ-1P has also been selected as part of the audio upgrade for the Phantom of the Opera production on the West End.

The self-powered MM-4XP miniature loudspeaker will be shown in a variety of custom colours. The M'elodie line arr

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The Compact range, suitable for small to mid-sized venues, offers 250w from twin 8" drivers and a central tweeter in the full range 'top' speaker, with the subwoofer having an 18" 500w bass driver.

Providing sound quality for the larger venue, the Stadium system's top box is configured with two 12" 300w bass drivers, two 8" 200w mid-range drivers and two 50w tweeters, whilst the subwoofer packs a total of 1400w from two 18" bass drivers.

The hardware can be flown from a variety of rigging points and adjustable mounts allow top speakers to be shaped in the distinctive line array curve, further enhancing the rich sound. Alternati

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FogScreen is offering AV Rental companies a special incentive to purchase the FogScreen One projection screen. The PLASA 08 show offer is a 2 x One projection screen at a reduced cost, together with Partner Program Gold membership in a chosen territory. For integrators, FogScreen One is especially interesting since it enables the creation of l

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Theatre products include tiered audience seating, pit filler staging, make-up stations, costume racks and stage boxes. The performance equipment range embraces staging, orchestral chairs, choral risers, seated risers and conductors' equipment. Some of the music products on show will be from the Black Cat range of music stands and lights, posture chairs, instrument and sheet music storage, choral folders and piano accessories.

Black Cat Acoustics can offer a range of noise control treatments, acoustic shells such as Diva, as well as virtual acoustic environments and music practice rooms.

Black Cat Music is the exclusive representative of Wenger Corporation in the UK and Europe. European visitors to PLASA interest

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This new desk is designed for live use on both touring sound systems and in fixed installations and boasts intuitive operation and high input and bus count makes it a perfect choice for House of Worship sound systems. Theatre users will also find the Soundcraft Si3 very applicable in their area.

The Si3 comes in one chassis - console surface, all input and output connections, power supply - so it can literally drop in and replace an existing analogue desk as almost certainly no additional cabling would be required to install it. This compact footprint desk can directly handle 64 mono inputs, 4 stereo inputs and has full connectivity for all 35 output busses (24 Aux/Group, 8 Matrix and Left/Right/Centre mix buses), and also boasts four Lexicon ef

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The company will also launch Iconyx R, the new version of the successful Iconyx Digitally Beam Steerable installation line, with purpose-designed coaxial transducers, RHAON (Renkus-Heinz Audio Operations Network) technology and a slimmer, lighter weight enclosure.

IC Live is engineered to supply natural, musical and intelligible sound for live events from meetings with background music to high-energy theatrical productions and concert

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The W-DMX BlackBox S-2000 is a 19" 1U Rack unit that is prepared for ACN Lite, ETC-NET and Strand ShowNET. This is billed as the world's first double universe transmitter that supports both RDM and Art-Net. BlackBox S-2000 is stackable for up to 32 DMX Universes and supports the W-DMX Co-Existence technology with plug-and-play ease.

With full RDM compatibility, the W-DMX BlackBox S-2000 supports remote addressing for up to 512 fixtures in both Point-2-Point mode in daisy chain by cable and in Point-2-Multi-Point mode. This translates to major time savings in big rental productions.

Wireless Solution will also be holding Wireless University during PLASA on Tuesday, 9 September

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At PLASA08, the Philips MSR Gold 1500 FastFit will be on display for the first time, designed in a fixture from Italian manufacturer SGM; the Giotto 1500 family. This new high wattage FastFit lamp concept has an arc gap of 5.5mm and an efficiency of 82 lumens per Watt (which is unparalleled within the industry for this level of lamp wattage), combined with a high colour temperature of 6000° Kelvin and an excellent CRI of 80. Furthermore, the lamp has a flexible power range, dimmable up to 800W.

Since the initial launch of the Philips FastFit system just two-and-a-half years ago, 16 manufacturers have applied the FastFit lamp concept, releasing to date a total of more than 20 fixtures across 10 lamp t

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The company will also launch IC Live at PLASA08, a new product line that applies the company's innovative Iconyx Digitally Steerable Array technology to live event production.

"Iconyx is one of our most successful products," says Renkus-Heinz vice president of operations Rik Kirby, "we've had lots of opportunities to see how the system performs in applications from cathedrals to cruise ships, courtrooms to corporate auditoriums. As we evaluated the total Iconyx system, we identified significant improvements in many areas."

Inside every Iconyx R model are new co-axial tran

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Leading the new products is the SpectraLed120 Inground, an enhancement to the SpectraLed footlight fixture developed for the Oslo Opera House. The new product retains the fixture's high-powered five-coloured (RGB-amber-white) LED array and adds motorization, allowing the footlight to vanish from view when not required. When closed, the surface of the fixture can support a load exceeding one tonne.

LDDE will also introduce a new version of its SpectraConnecT5 four-colour (RGB-white) fluorescent batten at a competitive price designed to appeal to architectural projects, TV studios and rental companies.

Alongside these products, LDDE will show two variants of Apollo Design's RightArm motorised lighting yoke. The RightArm Pro is designed to i

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This includes the popular Eurotrucker 3 general purpose road trunk, which will be on display complete with a striking new colour scheme.

The Eurotrucker won't be the only 5 Star case to have a new, unique or different visual appearance. Audio console manufacturer DiGiCo has worked closely with 5 Star to produce a new case for its new SD8 product .

5 Star's CNC machining facilities will once again be highlighted by a top of the range Pioneer VJ console. Pioneer is another brand with which 5 Star has collaborated very closely. The special console case will house the new Pioneer MEP7000 multi-media player, an SVM1000 Audio/Vision mixer and two DVJ1000 players.

A selection of smaller cases will also be displayed, including the n

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Each four-bus mixer features ultra-low noise, high-headroom XENYX microphone preamps. Mono input channels feature three-band, semi-parametric mid-range EQ with Neo-classic "British" response. Stereo input channels provide precise four-band equalisation. Each input has four aux sends; with two sends switchable between pre/post fader, for a flexible mix of monitor and effects applications.

External signal processing racks can be largely eliminated, tha

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Built on ArKaos' latest generation of technology, Media Master runs perfectly and reliably on standard laptops or can play up to eight full frames-per-second HD movies on an octo-core server, says the company.

Media Master's new interface has been designed to give lighting designers and video artists "the best ergonomics possible". Designed around one single window, it is possible to display all playing layers simultaneously, giving designers improved visibility of their shows. Supporting MSEX (Media Server Extensions) protocol, the ArKaos Media Master allows thumbnail display of media directly onto modern lighting consoles.

ArKaos has developed a new media management system for Media Master whi

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The Selecon line includes includes the Acclaim, Rama and Arena Fresnels and PCs; the world's largest range of ellipsoidals as represented by Pacific range; Hui, Lui and Aurora Cyc / Floods and the very bright Performer range of Followspots.

The new high frequency, variable voltage 80V Direct DMX Power Supply supplies 80V to energy efficient 1200W lamps for the Pacific range and the Rama 175 High Performance Fresnel resulting in bright white light with the output of, or near to an equivalent 2.0/2.5kW mains voltage luminaire

The Wing range of Wall Washer Floods is Selecon's latest addition to their specialised display lighting range. A single slim-line body design offers

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The digiFLEX skin is manufactured in 320mm (w) x 160mm (h) tiles which can flex smoothly both horizontally and vertically.

Two further products from the digiLED creative series will also be showcased - the Mirage M40-3 and the Mirage M40-4 high brightness version. The Mirage M40 is a semi transparent and lightweight, large-scale video screen utilizing a 40mm pixel pitch and designed to provide dramatic and dynamic lighting and video effects.

With options for outdoor daylight viewing, the Mirage M40 weighs around 11kg per m2, can be built to any size

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The Lancashire-based family firm specialise in the manufacture, installation and refurbishment of pipe organs for the church market. The company has a long history of building and installing traditional pipe organs, but has also more recently started to specialise in the field of hybrid and pipeless organs. This is where modern sampling technologies are brought to bear to allow for full-sounding organ installations in situations where there is either insufficient space or funds for a full-scale pipe organ, often in combination with some pipe sections for the instrument (hence, hybrid).

Of course, this requires some form of speaker installation in order to deliver the audio output of the

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TMB Architectural will present a comprehensive range of products and solutions: Distributed Architectural products include Blues System by Global Design Solutions (GDS); CueServer by Interactive Technologies; curveLED digital light curtain; the new Deja Cue lighting playback and integration processor; Digital Festoon DFS colour changing LED display systems; Falcon xenon fixtures by Alpha One; Leader Light flood and linear LED fixtures; ProAqua submersible custom cables and Tempest all-weather fixture and projection enclosures.

Innovative Film and TV lighting equipment will also be featured. A revolutionary product introduction, on display for the first time anywhere, is the ne

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Visual Productions' Lighting Control Software products will be running the lights on the stand of Lightstorm Trading. The latest releases of both Canvix and VisualDMX will be on display with an array of new features. Canvix matrix control software will be controlling LED fixtures from Dutch manufacturer TDE Light-tech and VisualDMX lighting control will be controlling the lights on display from German based company Amptown.

The control interfaces will include the latest version of touch screen user-interface, VisualTouch, which is now available for both Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows systems. Alongside the Frontier and Elite standalone hardware interfaces will be the new Duple interface which is compatible with bo

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Libra comes in the form of a Crosby shackle with a load sensing pin. Currently 3.25 tonne and 4.5 tonne versions are offered, both with a 5:1 safety factor. A Libra loadcell can either be connected directly to a Kinesys Elevation 1+ giving feedback about the motor being controlled by the Elevation, or daisy-chained together with other Libras and connected to an interface unit positioned on the floor.

A PC is connected to the interface via USB or Ethernet, and all the loads can be clearly viewed onscreen using Libra's free software. The software package also contains numerous other features including the logging of weights, warning and overload settings for both underload and overload, multiple grouping options and the

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The LED BR30 bulbs are designed to replace the equivalent BR30 globes and lamps available in markets today. They use lower wattage compared with the original product, with the high brightness 720 Lumen illumination.

The innovative product incorporates the same structure and style of traditional BR30 bulbs but delivers a brighter performance per watt, with less heat radiation. The LED BR30 Globe can be used for general everyday use from indoor applications to spotlighting and street lighting applications, and incorporates all the latest luminary technology garnered from GlacialTech's resources, combining years of experience in designing cooling systems as well as all manner of consumer electronic device power supplies,

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The AXYS Scope range is designed for theatre and conference applications. All of the units have built in amplification and DSP and can be networked together using RS485. AXYS Scope loudspeakers come fitted with stand adaptors and/or rigging hardware.

The AXYS Scope range consists of four products: T-2112: a three-way mid/hi loudspeaker with a 12" LF driver and a coaxial HF driver. T-2115: a three-way mid/hi loudspeaker with a 15" LF driver and a coaxial HF driver. UB-25: a single 15" subwoofer. B-07: a single 18" subwoofer.

The AXYS® Source system is a horn loaded system that is designed for use as a front of house

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Paul Silsby, CTO and co-founder of Proteus Displays, has been developing this technology for more than three years. "We've conceived our system as an artistic cladding system, or a media façade to use the current term, which will be of interest to both architects and designers," he says. "A Proteus Display is robust and straightforward to retro-fit, and once fi

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New for PLASA 08 is the SG/SGX12S subwoofer. The extensive Sygma development process makes this compact 12-inch vented subwoofer an exceptional combination of high performance and superior value - the right choice to add low frequency punch to any Sygma system, says the company. Multiple versions are available: the externally powered SGX12S, the SG12S-2 with a 200 Watt digital amplifier, and the SG12S-5 with 500 Watts of integrated Class D amplification.

The two self-powered versions are also available RHAON-Empowered - the SG12S-2R and SG12S-5R, both with built-in RHAON (Renkus-Heinz Audio Operations Network). All versions are capable of at least 128 dB SPL from