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We hope you enjoyed reading about the Pro Sound Awards (page 14), which took place last month and attracted wide and fulsome praise. But did you notice something a little strange about the picture of the BEIRG representatives collecting the Grand Prix award? One of the team, Duncan Bell of Autograph Sound, wasn’t there in person and so was replaced on stage by a lifesize cardboard cutout (right of lectern). All sorts of questions present themselves here. Whose idea was it to use this 2D replica? Was it created specially or did Autograph (or BEIRG) have it to hand? If the latter, for what purpose was it created originally?


We’ve written before about some of the weird and wonderful suggestions thrown up by the spellchecker in Quark XPress, the software package used to lay out this magazine. But we couldn’t resist sharing with you something we came across when working on the PLASA London preview. Sommer Cable will be showing a new product called Glandmaster, but Quark decided that this word


Charity corner: here are five intrepid souls, calling themselves Team HDBaseT, who have been canvassing sponsorship for a three-day, 550-mile cycle ride from Bruges to Stuttgart. The team, who are sponsored by connectivity solutions manufacturer CYP Europe, all work for AV distributor CIE-Group: left to right they are marketing director Chris Edwards, group sales director Steve Collin, CYP product manager Martin Featherstone, field sales director Kevin Sherwood and AV account manager Lauren Bamford. They’re raising money for three very


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We could have asked someone about it, but on reflection we think it’s better not to know – it’s more entertaining to speculate.


Food for thought from the Twitterati


was suspect, and helpfully suggested some others. These included gladsomester,


gloomiester and gladdester; these can’t be proper words, can they? And what about glasnoster and germanister? Thankfully, though, we were on safer ground with glutamates and gladiators. But overall we still can’t shake off the notion that this spellchecker is trying too hard...


worthy charities – Derby Kids Camp, Cancer Research UK and the British Heart Foundation – and are meeting all expenses for the trip out of their own pockets, so every penny raised goes straight to these good causes. Frustratingly for us, their ride is due to take place while this magazine is being printed, so we can’t report on the outcome, except to say that it should have happened by now. But we’re sure they wouldn’t be averse to some after-the-event sponsorship – which you can make happen at www.justgiving.com/hdbaseteam.


Adder Technology..............9 Active Audio .....................58 AMC ....................................58 Amina.................................62 AMX....................................13 Analog Way.......................45 Apart Audio.......................53 Ateis ...................................61 Audio Sud..........................12 Audio-Technica...................7 Audipack............................74 Barco .........................4-5, 43 BBG Peerless....................19 Blackmagic Design..........11 Bosch..................................23 Cadac .................................71 Chief ...................................48 Community Pro................21 Control 4............................22 coolux ................................62 Crestron.............................47 Datapath ...........................31 Dexon....................................9 DiGiCo.................................27 DIS................................64, 65 eyevis .................................49 Genelec..............................37 Gonsin ................................67 Installation Showcase....25 InOut...................................53 ISE .......................................75 Kling & Freitag..................39 Kramer Electronics .........44 Lab.gruppen.....Front cover Leyard.................................33 Lightware ............................... ................Inside front cover Martin Audio .....................35 Meyer Sound.......................... .............Outside back cover Mipro...................................63 Mitsubishi Electric...........29 Mode-AL...............................6 Nebula ..................................3 Next TV..............................69 NuVo...................................54 Peavey................................38 Powersoft..........................73 Rane....................................51 Sennheiser........................15 Shure..................................17 Smart-e ......................16, 60 Sommer Cable ...........40-41 Soundcraft........................57 Taiden.................................79 Tannoy ...............................36 TOA.....................................55 TV One...............................30 Vivitek...................................8


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