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SOUNDBITES
PricewaterhouseCoopers has invested in a Yamaha audio system after moving headquarters to Prague. The technical equipment includes four DME64N digital mixing engines with two CP4SF wall- mounted control panels and two LS9-32 digital mixing consoles. Michal Dolezilek, audio and video administrator for PwC, said: “The system allows any seminar or event needing sound reinforcement, video or audio to be catered for automatically, without the need for specialist operators. It is very reliable, maintenance-free and has excellent sound quality.”
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Polartide, an interactive exhibition about climate change, is to take place on November 24 at the 55th Venice Biennale in Italy. The installation uses a Meyer SoundUP-4XP 48V loudspeaker system for sound reproduction. Visitors click on an interactive graph showing sea water levels and oil stock quotes, and this generates musical textures. The sound is then relayed outdoors through eight UP-4XP loudspeakers connected to two MPS-488HP power supplies (48V DC). “We needed tools that reproduce sound precisely and work in the rain, and the UP-4XPs have achieved both brilliantly,” said Grey Niemeyer, new media artist and creator of the exhibition.
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The local council in the suburb of Brasschaat, Belgium, has purchased a QSCCore 250i-based Q-Sys system with a TSC-3 touchscreen controller and KLA line array loudspeakers for the multi- purpose hall at the heart of its local cultural centre. The staff that run the sound system recommended the purchase of the Q-Sys system along with the KLA active line array system following a demo by the local QSC distributor, AED.
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installation NETHERLANDS/UNITED STATES Duran Audio steers into Harman fold
Creator of the AXYS Intellivox column speaker is latest acquisition by US entertainment technology giant
By Dave Robinson
HARMAN, PARENT of loudspeaker giant JBL, has acquired privately-held beam- steering specialist Duran Audio BV of the Netherlands. The acquisition supplies
Harman with access to electro- acoustic and software-based directivity control technologies such as the AXYS Intellivox line of “steerable” columns. The AXYS products and core technologies will become an integrated part of the Harman Professional audio product line.
Harman Professional’s Bryan Bradley with Gerrit Duran at the 135th AES Convention
The news comes just nine months after Harman demonstrated an active commitment to growing through acquisition – across a number of geographic and vertical markets – by buying lighting giant Martin Professional. The terms of the acquisition were not announced. Gerrit Duran, founder of
Duran Audio, noted: “Our focus
has always been on innovation. Over the years we have developed a range of solutions for some of the most difficult problems facing sound system designers, architects and acoustic engineers. Today’s acquisition by Harman presents many wonderful opportunities to push the R&D boundaries even further and to deliver some
truly unique technologies to a wider customer base.” Founded in Zaltbommel,
Netherlands by Gerrit Duran in 1981, Duran Audio has earned a strong reputation for its AXYS range of professional audio products including loudspeakers, amplifiers, signal processors and network devices. Duran Audio pioneered modern loudspeaker “beam steering” and “beam shaping” which are essential to addressing demanding acoustic environments. The company has also established a leading position in audio solutions for European EN54 safety applications and software technologies for audio design. Harman’s director of
corporate communications, Darrin Shewchuk, confirmed that Gerrit Duran will stay with the group as an “executive in the loudspeaker business”.
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UNITED KINGDOM UNITED STATES
A RENKUS-HEINZIconyx digitally steerable column array was installed in Los Angeles’ stunning new Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX.
The crown jewel of the new terminal is the 14,000sqm, $1.9 billion (€1.4 billion) Antonio R Villaraigosa Pavilion, which houses dining and shopping services, along with an AV information hub.
“At 80 feet high with tons of glass, the pavilion was one of the more challenging spaces,” said system designer Michael Kalmanson, vice president at VSA Associates. “The Iconyx systems allows us to direct sound exactly where we needed it to be, while avoiding difficult reflective surfaces or wasting energy outside of the listening areas.”
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MARTIN AUDIO has provided equipment for Fathom, a sonic exhibition at Plymouth University creatd by media arts specialists Jane Grant and Dr John Matthias. Fathom enables visitors to experience the sounds of the River Tamar estuary, using underwater sound recording technology. They experience different atmospheres, and the exhibition conveys a sound divide between water and air. Producer of the event and
sound engineer Simon Honywill, said on using Martin Audio equipment: “It was the only way I could even start to generate the kind of sharp cut-off that this unique project demanded.” Elements of an MLA system was deployed for the projects used. Andy Davies, from Martin Audio Application Support, said: “It was a great honour for Martin Audio to be involved in this project.”
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