50 l July 2012
www.prosoundnewseurope.com www.prosoundnewseurope.com/installation For the latest installation news SOUNDBITES installation UNITED STATES
Russian systems integrators and APGintegration partner Doka Centrerecently celebrated its 25th anniversary with a two-day event featuring a number of presentations, workshops and demos on APG products. “Doka ran the whole thing completely professionally,” said APG’s Xavier Pion. “Then in true Russian style, everyone let their hair down (helped by many, many litres of Russian vodka of course!) at the gala dinner.”
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A sizeable PeaveyMediaMatrix system was chosen for Phase II of the massive AV installation at the Qatar National Convention Centre. Some 82 Peavey MediaMatrix NION n3s and 91 Cab 4n units with Crestron RoomView have been deployed, providing a massive 2,760 channels of audio, all run over CobraNet. The system was designed by integrator Techno Q.
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Apart-Audio, the main brand of Belgian manufacturer Audioprof, marked its 20th anniversary inJune with a distributor meeting at its HQ in Schoten near Antwerp, at which it unveiled its new logo and a range of new products. The OVO5P active speaker set and OVO8P single active speaker; the VINCI1215 audiophile amplifier; and the VINCI5 and VINCI7 reference bookshelf speakers were all showcased.
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Mayfair’s Novikov Restaurant & Bar has been fitted with an extensive new sound system courtesy of London integrators Sound Division. The company opted for six JBL Control 67 Pendant speakers discretely suspended above a floating wooden slatted raft ceiling in the Asian Restaurant. In the Italian restaurant are eight DS40SE speakers from Bose. These are installed in pairs on pillars and on a ledge on the veranda, which features a further pair of Bose FreeSpace DS40F flush-mount ceiling speakers.
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VUE looking confident with triple speaker offering
Three series of loudspeakers, featuring beryllium compression drivers, marked the official product debut of VUE Audiotechnik, writesJames McGrath
VUE AUDIOTECHNIK, founded in March of this year, introduced its first loudspeaker families at InfoComm in Las Vegas in June. The new H, A and I Classes all incorporate purpose- designed transducers, enclosures and system electronics. VUE was launched by Ken
Berger (of EAW and LOUD Technologies) and Jim Sides (of Nexo and Meyer Sound) at Prolight + Sound earlier this year, but InfoComm marked the first showing of any product. The new H Class full-range system is based around VUE’s proprietary Truextent beryllium HF compression drivers. Kyle Ritland, marketing manager at Vue (and ex-LOUD, ex-Avid), reveals: “Aluminium has always been considered better sounding than titanium, but is significantly less durable. Looking at all three, beryllium offers better sonic performance than aluminium with higher stiffness and durability per weight than titanium.”
UNITED KINGDOM SSE eats up ETA By Erica Basnicki
SSE AUDIO Group has acquired Welsh sound hire and sales company ETA Sound, which has moved its operations to SSE’s Redditch headquarters. SSE’s John Penn explains the decision to buy ETA from
owner Eddie Thomas: “Following our merger with Melpomen France in 2001 we observed how their hire business was shielded from the curse of seasonality by their complementary install business, which seemed to be busiest in the slower hire periods.”
The H Class family comprises
12” and 15” two-way models as well as the HS-28 subwoofer, which is a dual 18” active design that debuts VUE’s patent pending Active Compliance Management (ACM) technology. ACM utilises a unique hybrid configuration in which two 18” woofers, each with inbuilt amplifier and DSP control share a common vented chamber. Active onboard electronics include system-optimised amplification and DSP for each driver and cabinet combination. Network control and monitoring capabilities are available via standard Ethernet-based protocols and accessible through an intuitive software interface. The A Class range has the same design principles and similar voicing characteristics that are behind the flagship H Class. The range includes passive systems in 8”, 10”, 12” and 15” two-way configurations, as well as a
VUE design chief Mike Adams and Mark Engebretson
selection of three powerful subwoofers. I Class is said to offer AV contractors an alternative to the plastic-boxed systems on the market. The range includes surface-mount, full-range systems as well as three powered and passive subwoofer options, allowing contractors and system designers to address applications ranging from compact PA to ancillary fills for larger distributed systems. Ken Berger, CEO of VUE, comments: “We’ve worked hard to ensure that each of our classes brings something truly unique to their respective markets – from cutting-edge technologies and
SSE went on to acquire two
more installation companies – Tarsin Entertainments in 2006 and Green-I – to target larger format installations, especially in light of London’s winning Olympic bid. “We sniffed around but in the
event were not invited to tender for any of the fixed installations,” said Penn. “This led us to discover that this market operates in an entirely different way, with the builders subcontracting down the supply chain, with audio frequently being a part of the security and emergency systems.”
innovative designs in the flagship H Class, to a very compelling price/performance equation in our I Class systems.” Shortly after
InfoComm, the company
announced that Mark Engebretson, former VP of R&D and chief design architect for QSC Audio, had joined the team. His role will include overseeing development and patent products. n
www.vueaudio.com
“Then Eddie Thomas at ETA Sound was introduced to us. He felt he needed the backup and support of a larger organisation behind him – he was active in a lot of the London projects, and had more prospects on the go, but didn’t have enough time in the day to do it all.”
Thomas concludes: “With
the extensive backup and support offered by SSE, we are now offering a 360º service to our clients.”n
www.etasound.co.uk www.sseaudiogroup.com
The A-10 atop an as-115
subwoofer
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