46 l April 2014
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Community has opened a new indoor test facility at its factory in Chester, Pennsylvania, US. Designed by Charlie Hughes of Excelsior Audio and operated by senior measurement technician Hadi Sumoro, the new test facility enables loudspeaker measurements with “unprecedented” accuracy and precision. Community’s director of technical services, Dave Howden, comments: “[T]his new facility provides phase data and other new information for systems designers and will help Community’s engineering team design the next generation of great loudspeakers.”
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TheMidas PRO1 digital mixing console is the board of choice for Tudor House, a popular hotel, pub and performance venue located in Wigan, UK. Tudar House’s technical manager, Russ ‘The Sound Guy’ Miller, who has worked with Lacuna Coil, Pop Will Eat Itself, and Curtis Stigers, says of the PRO1: “I love the immediacy of the sound of the Midas PRO Series, and the PRO1’s compact footprint fits the limited space in the sound booth.”
www.midasconsoles.com installation UNITED KINGDOM/FRANCE Fraser heads UK sales for APG
French manufacturer continues to bolster its marketing strategy, writes Murray Stassen
LOUDSPEAKER MAKER APG has announced the appointment of Scott Fraser as head of its UK sales operation. Fraser is an experienced pro audio professional and is joining the role with a strong technical background. His experience includes a stint as installation manager for Yamaha’s installed sound division. The vice-president of global sales for APG, Bruno Garros,
UNITED KINGDOM Turbo makes Audio Precision decision By Murray Stassen
TEST AND measurement specialist Audio Precision attended Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt for the first time this year, exhibiting key technologies including the APx Converged Audio Test (CAT) and the APx Electro-acoustic software
suite. (This software provides acoustic measurements for loudspeaker drivers and enclosures, including quirkily- named ‘Rub and Buzz’ detection.) Following a successful
showcase in Germany, AP received a further boost as it was revealed that Music Group brand
Turbosound has purchased Audio Precision test instruments for use in its new R&D and manufacturing facility in Kidderminster, UK. The company’s APx audio analysers will now be used to test “every single Turbosound product, from the earliest concept stage,
says: “The traditional distribution model puts too many obstacles between us and the customer. We felt very strongly that the best way forward for us was to have a direct link into the UK with someone who is actually employed and trained by APG – it means a direct link to the factory, to R&D and to marketing with access to all of the resources that we provide as a company.”
Scott Fraser, left, with APG’s Xavier Pion in Frankfurt
“APG’s portfolio offers unique technology, sounds fantastic and is backed up a great team of people who are passionate about what they do,” says Fraser.
“Whether it’s off-the-shelf products, RAL colour-matched or an entirely bespoke product, there’s nothing we can’t cover.”
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to the final production stages”, both in the Midlands and in the £2.4m ($4m) Music Group R&D centre in Manchester. AP president David Schmoldt
says: “AP is expanding the definition of audio test to cover all aspects of the signal chain using a single platform from analogue through digital and electro-acoustics, and the work done at Turbosound exemplifies this converged approach.”
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