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The Sennheiser stand featured both a live stage and a recording studio where attendees could try out the new MK 8 recording microphone
Solid State Logic moved from hall 5.1 to hall 8.0 and brought along five of its new Live consoles
Bringing out the Quality
Products, press events, and parties – check out some of our highlights from this year’s Prolight + Sound show in Frankfurt.
THE ECONOMIC climate has some in the industry wondering about the future of bigger pro-audio trade shows and this year’s Prolight + Sound brought many of those bedroom critics back out into the open. Yet if there is a phrase that
would describe the general sentiment of most of the manufacturers I spoke with during this year’s show in Frankfurt it would have to be something along the lines of ‘guarded optimism’. As many of ‘those critics’
noted, Frankfurt is starting to feel the pressure that the rest of the industry is experiencing. The halls are all still bustling, albeit slightly less busy than in past years (except for on the consistently chaotic public day). This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, however. Audio Media’s diary was filled with back-to-back meetings and the press events all seemed well attended. Smaller crowds don’t necessarily mean a show is losing its appeal, but perhaps instead that the crowd is becoming more refined. Prolight + Sound as well as Musikmesse are some of, if not the, most important shows for many of the pro-audio manufacturers in Europe. The international press was out in full force and most people I spoke with said that with a few
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less punters wandering from stand to stand they were able to get down to proper business. The show’s big product releases have been covered
elsewhere in the magazine (check them out on pages 6-9) but here are a few of the key moments from our time in Frankfurt...
AKG Acoustic’s Walter Rühig with the newly launched DMSTetrad digital wireless microphone system
Salzbrenner Stagetec Mediagroup held a press conference to announce the arrival of its new digital mixing console, the Polaris Evolution
The newly launched Soundcraft Vi3000 made its European debut on the Harman stand
The crowds turned out for Yamaha’s launch of its QL series of digital mixing consoles
DPA Microphones CEO Christian Poulsen demonstrated a number of the company’s products
Dynaudio global business manager Fred Speckeen announced six new products including four near-field monitors and two new subs
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