livenews UNITED KINGDOM Big Yamaha box buy for Studiocare By Erica Basnicki
LIVERPOOL-BASED pro-audio sales and hire company Studiocare Professional Audio has purchased a significant consignment of amplifiers and loudspeakers from Yamaha Commercial Audio. In total, Studiocare invested in 120 P-S series power amplifiers plus 84 HS series, 80 DXR series and 10 DXS series loudspeakers. “We bought the DXR and DXS loudspeakers for our hire department after trying a pair of DXR12s,” said Drew Culshaw, Studiocare hire manager. “We were very impressed with the quality of sound they deliver at a very good price point. They have proved extremely popular with our rental customers, both as FOH speakers and as monitors, and we are happy to use them for installations as well as live applications. “The HS50s and 80s are among the most popular monitors we sell. Meanwhile, the quality and reliability of the P-S series amplifiers means that we regularly use them in installations. This investment gives us a healthy
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stock across the four-model range, so we have them ‘off the shelf’ for any type of project.” “The quality of the products
is, of course, a huge factor, but the after-sales support we receive from Yamaha is second to none and very important to us,” added
Culshaw. “We’ve long had a good relationship with Yamaha and it will always be a brand that we are happy to invest in.”n www.yamahaproaudio.com
Studiocare’s Drew Culshaw with some of his new Yamaha kit
NATIONALLY RENOWNED Italian band Elio e le Storie Tese has added Powersoft K Series amplifiers to their JBL VerTec system for their latest tour. PA technician Claudio Scavazza has worked with the band – and audio rental company Sonique – for several years: “Now that Sonique has switched over to Powersoft, the whole system can be driven with only 10 amplifiers (down from the 20 previously required),” said Scavazza (pictured, left, with and Sonique’s Diego De Ferrari).n www.powersoft-audio.com