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Germany - One of the largest and most prestigious holiday season celebrations in Germany, The National Press Association's annual ball (Bundespresseball 2009), took place at the Inter Continental Hotel in Berlin. The 2,500 strong event guest list included politicians, media and corporate personalities, all headed by Horst Köhler, Germany's president and official Head of State.

The Intercontinental hotel was completely transformed by a team of builders, artists, and technical designers taking 5,600 man hours to complete. Decorative structures were supplied by Deco Sun. L&S & Co. KG, Hupfer Beschallungstechnik, and Darkselection & Co. KG all whom own Adamson inventory, came together to provide complete sound production. Kaluza&Schmid managed the event, and PAM Events, Jands , Licht

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USA - Electro-Voice has added to the ZX loudspeaker family with the new ZXA1 - the self-powered version of the ZX1 compact two-way loudspeaker.

Launching globally at Winter NAMM 2010, ZXA1 is powered by an 800W amplifier module derived from EV's Tour Grade series.

ZXA1is designed for a wide range of applications including live sound, mobile DJ, stage monitoring and permanent installation.

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USA / The Netherlands - BTX will show its ProBlox-D all-in-one connector system at ISE in Amsterdam next month (2-4 February 2010). The patent-pending ProBlox-D all-in-one connector system is the AV industry's first to incorporate multiple data, HD video, audio, and control signals in a single connector, the company says.

The system contains two Cat 5e connectors along with 16 HD video and 18 audio and control contacts - all field-terminatable. The addition of the Cat 5e components takes advantage of all the signals, including HDMI, DVI, and VGA, that can now effectively be run over one or two Cat 5e cables. The ProBlox-D connector system simplifies setup for AV applications in classrooms, houses of worship, conference rooms, or any setting where multiple signals of different formats need to be delivered to a single connection point. In addition to saving installers time during

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Malawi - By supplying a complete DVX monitor system to the four-day vinspired Lake Of Stars (vLOS) festival recently, dBTechnologies provided headliners The Maccabees and many other UK and African bands with a calibre of sound reinforcement never before heard on the palm-fringed shores of Lake Malawi.

A total of eight DVX DM15s, a DVX12 and a DVA S10 subwoofer were loaned to the festival, much to the delight of vLOS stage tech/engineer, Craig Williams. "They were incredibly easy to set up and had a sonic clarity and detail you would not usually expect from a self-powered monitor," he reports.

"They are awesome products that I would take anywhere in the world, especially in a situation where weight, size and reliability are an issue," continues Williams. "The limiting system meant I could spend more time with the African artists and less time wor

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USA - Crown has introduced its next generation line of XLS Series amplifiers, which it says provide "a new benchmark for amplifiers in the MI category". The four models in the XLS series implement a flexible PureBand Crossover System: a user can select crossover points from 50Hz to 3kHz, allowing for precise matching of specified crossover points on most bi-amplified loud speakers. Increased Control is also highlighted by the three selectable channel modes and clip limiters designed to protect loudspeakers that can be turned on and off by channel.

PeakX limiters allow higher output levels than conventional analog limiting while providing driver protection, and deploy algorithms derived from the OmniDrive HD loudspeaker processing in Crown's flagship I-Tech HD Series.

The new XLS series amplifiers also feature Integrated DriveCore Technology to keep the power supply p

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ETC Halcyon Silent

High End Systems Halcyon Silent builds on ETC’s legacy of fanless automated fixtures by incorporating features from the highly sought-after Halcyon family. Halcyon Silent perfectly balances silent operation with brilliant output of 18,400 lumens and high-impact features. 

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Italy - This past fall, Italian singer-songwriter and rock musician Gianna Nannini was out on her 15 date GiannaDream Tour with lighting and set design by Mamo Pozzoli.

Pozzoli incorporated a visually stunning cylindrical LED screen made up of Martin LC Series LED panels into the design. He explains his decision to use the LC panels, "I needed LED panels with a medium pitch between 30 and 60mm to ensure intelligibility and transparency simultaneously. Rental company Giochi di Luce offered me the LC Series so I took the opportunity to test them in combination with Martin's Maxedia media server and Maxxyz lighting console."

The LC panels formed an arcing 6m wide by 4m high cylindrical structure positioned at centre stage, the visual centrepiece of the set.

"With both concave and convex sides facing the audience, in practice we achieved two superimposed sc

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Australia - The North Melbourne Grand Final Breakfast is a function organised by the North Melbourne Football Club on the morning of the AFL (Australian Football League) Grand Final - marking the traditional start of Australia's landmark sporting day.

In addition to being a major social highlight and an annual must-watch ritual for thousands of footy fans, it plays a huge role in the pre-match build up. The breakfast includes a Grand Auction, with all proceeds donated to the Starlight Children's Foundation.

Clifton Productions were employed to provide lighting and visuals for the 1500 guests, including a veritable who's who of Australian sport, politics and culture plus performances from some of the biggest acts in town.

Robe moving lights were employed to creatively light the event, with 28 Robe ColorSpot 1200 ATs and 24 Robe ColorWash 1200 ATs rigged above the triangular s

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Create new traditions – Cameo P6 - High Output Full-Spectrum Ellipsoidal

Cameo's P6 is a future-proof LED profiler with a powerful 600 W RGBACL engine and 16,000 lumens. It’s an energy-efficient replacement for 2.5 kW halogen profile lights in theatres and venues. With excellent light quality and natural colour rendering, it fits perfectly in theatres, musicals, TV studios, congresses, and live events.

With an LED life of 50,000 hours and low power use, the P6 cuts energy costs and supports the EU’s ‘Green Deal’ goals for climate neutrality by 2050. It also meets updated eco-design rules for lighting.

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Austria - Vienna-based Concept Solutions is a major system provider in the Austrian market, servicing everything from small to large live music events, club gigs and corporate functions. Recently the company needed to expand its mixing console inventory and invested in the DiGiCo SD8.

"I had heard a lot about the great sound of DiGiCo consoles, so I decided to try them out," says Raphael Rupprecht, Concept Solutions technical director. "I tried the D1 and was amazed at the quality of the preamps, the EQs and the dynamics. Even my reference CDs sounded better over the PA when routed via the D1 - I could hear details I had never heard before."

The next DiGiCo console he tried was the SD8, and this immediately became the 'gold standard' for Concept Solutions.

"I contacted local distributor TON Eichinger and got an SD8 for evaluation. We tested the desk

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Germany - Belgium based XL-Technologies supplied two customised Pixled F-30 screens for the flagship Mercedes Benz Gallery showroom in Berlin.

XL-Technologies was commissioned to build the screens by Frankfurt-based design agency Atelier Markgraph. The company was recommended to provide a bespoke LED solution for the project by rental partner XL Video, which has worked on a variety of Motor Show Mercedes stands designed by Markgraph.

The two specially shaped screens are different sizes and flown at different angles in the showroom, Each has staggered edges and is made up from specially adapted and sized Pixled modules.

Screen 1 consists of 22 Pixled modules giving a full screen area of 20.6sq.m, with a plasma monitor inset at the lower levels. The second screen is constructed from 30 Pixled F-30 panels, making up a total surface area of 29.7sq.m with a much larger plasma mon

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USA - Hot on the heels of its new DN-X1700 flagship mixer, Denon DJ has announced the launch of the DN-X1600 model at NAMM. Derived from the same R&D development programme, the DN-X1600 offers much of the same quality, performance and a comparable feature set to a wider market at a more affordable price point, the company says.

Like the DN-X1700 announced last week, the DN-X1600 similarly represents a new class of DJ mixer, in particular providing a new feature and performance standard in its price category. The DN-X1600 shares many of the same features and performance specifications, as well as offering some new and improved features of its own. Included are Alps channel faders, extensive USB connectivity (both Windows and MacOS compatible), matrix input assignment with DVS mode, 32-bit internal digital processing, simultaneous MIDI operation - expanded to provide wide ranging

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Germany - Steinberg has announced the immediate availability of a fully functional trial version of its Cubase 5 Advanced Music Production System. All that's needed to use the full 30-day trial version is a USB eLicenser and a MySteinberg account at www.steinberg.net.

The Cubase 5 software can be downloaded from the Steinberg website or obtained on DVD from any authorized Steinberg dealer. Users of other DAW products who do not yet own a USB eLicenser receive a full refund on the price of the USB eLicenser in the Steinberg online shop when buying the full Cubase 5 version.

"The Cubase 5 Trial version is the ideal way for customers of older Cubase versions or any software that uses the USB eLicenser to try out Cubase five for 30 days," comments Helge Vogt, Steinberg's product marketing manager for Cubase.

"Importantly, this is not a functionally limited demo ve

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UK - TOA has launched the Type C line array speaker systems. Type C will be revealed to the audio-visual, sound contracting and system integration communities on the TOA Europe stand at Integrated Systems Europe next month.

The system is based on TOA's phase wavefront control technology for audio clarity and uniform sound dispersion thereby focusing the audio on the intended area more accurately. The Type C offers a choice of 15-degree and 5-degree vertical dispersion angle modules, together with a 15-inch subwoofer enclosure for low-end reinforcement. Different modules can be combined together for their intended application where a combination of short- and long-throw coverage is required, while all three boxes are also available as IPX4-rated splash-proof enclosures.

Both mid-high modules use TOA's proprietary Sync-Drive waveguide design, and can be run in a choice of single

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UK - The Sound of Music featuring sound design by Mick Potter, continues to attract capacity audiences around the UK. Involving nine trailers' worth of equipment and scenery, The Really Useful Company's take on the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein original requires a backstage crew of 92, a cast of 28, a 14-piece orchestra, and scenery on a mountainous scale requiring five-ton stage lifts.

Orbital Sound has provided an equally impressive complement of sound equipment, with Mick Potter adapting his original design for the 2006 West End production to cope with the venue variations and the tight schedule on the extensive national tour.

Overall, the touring version of the show matches up closely to the West End production, with the exception of a slightly re-organised orchestra to allow for the logistics of touring a 14-piece band. The sound system revolves around Potter's trad

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USA - FaitalPRO has a strong presence at this week's NAMM show in Anaheim, headed by the release of its latest 15" woofer branded 15FX560.Other product innovations include additions to the 'Serie 520', where the present 15" currently available on the market is joined by two new models, respectively 10" and 12", to complete the series that will be available within the first quarter of the year.

There are also new products in the compression driver area for the HI's, including the HF144 which features neodymium magnets, a 65mm voice coil and 1.4" mouth. Incorporating a Ketone-polymer diaphragm and an innovative annular phase plug, it holds 80 W nominal power, characterized by an efficiency of 109 dB (1W@1m) and a frequency range of 700 Hz to 18 kHz.

Flavio Naggi, FaitalPRO overseas sales manager, comments: "For us, this NAMM will be the most success

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USA - Sensaphonics has announced at NAMM the introduction of its latest model, the 3MAX triple-driver custom earphone. The first triple-driver earphone with the long-wearing comfort of soft-gel silicone earpieces, the 3MAX also features a field-replaceable cable as standard. By combining a proprietary twin-driver bass system with a precision high frequency driver, the 3MAX delivers exceptionally accurate in-ear audio with higher SPL and more bass headroom than any previous model, says the company.

"We were the first manufacturer to extend low frequency response by adding a second speaker to a custom earphone," notes Sensaphonics president and founder Michael Santucci. "To meet today's demands on IEM earphone performance, we developed a triple-driver design that can deliver as much acoustic push as modern wireless systems can provide, while retaining the sound sign

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UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies has introduced to the entertainment industry the IEC-lock, a power lead specifically designed to guard against accidental disconnection of electrical appliances powered using a standard IEC inlet.

The IEC-lock is an IEC female line plug with an integral locking system that is backwardly compatible with existing IEC male inlet sockets. An internal latch clamps the earth pin, making it resistant to accidental disconnection and vibration. The IEC-lock is used just like a normal power cable, except to unplug it, the user simply pulls back a red button on the underside of the connector to release the lock.

This makes the IEC-lock's locking mechanism suitable for protecting entertainment technology electrical appliances, including computer equipment and data communications applications that require a secure power source.

The IEC-lock is availab

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The Netherlands - The first Streetcaster screen in Holland was recently launched in the city of Lelystad, where it is placed on the Stadhuisplein in the centre of the city. This screen is the first Dutch project for Streetcaster and will be followed by other screens in several other Dutch cities. For audio reproduction, the screen is fitted with Alcons LR7 micro line-arrays.

A Streetcaster screen is more than just an electronic billboard with video and audio capabilities. "The commercial options of a Streetcaster screen are quite obvious." says creative director Hans ter Burg of Streetcaster. "But a Streetcaster screen does have much more possibilities. Every screen is supported by an editorial staff which engages itself to generate content for the screen. Apart from public announcements and commercial messages, the screen can also be used for news made available

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USA - Proel's Xenia is a series of speakers designed specifically for high-profile installed sound applications and featuring contemporary Italian styling and advanced technical solutions.<>All of the models - on debut this week at NAMM - in the Xenia range utilise high-definition dome tweeters and high-efficiency woofers providing "superior quality, full-range sound for a wide scope of installations where the sound system must blend perfectly into a stylish environment".

X30T is a model specific for paging and background music in environments (shops, restaurants, offices) requiring unobtrusive, small size speakers, able to provide a good SPL and a high-quality sound.

X50T is suitable for a variety of applications requiring a full-range sound in a limited space, such as bars, pubs, department stores and outdoor venues. It delivers an extended response with deep lows

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USA - A recent renovation of Grand Hyatt New York's elegant Empire Ballroom placed a strong emphasis on flexible, high-fidelity sound, with the addition of Tannoy QFlex digitally steerable arrays and CMS in-ceiling loudspeakers, plus various lobby speakers powered by Lab.gruppen C Series amplifiers.

"Our existing sound system didn't offer the quality of playback that we need for guests using our landmark ballroom on 42nd Street in the heart of Manhattan," says Matt Adams, the hotel's VP and managing director."

The Empire Ballroom comprises six interlinked areas that together can host events for between 100 and 1,700 patrons. The larger ballrooms B, C and D are laid out in a row with dividing air walls, while ballrooms A and E plus the West Ballroom serve as satellite areas with interconnected AV systems. "Previously, Grand Hyatt has brought in music-playbac

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UAE - Dreamland Aqua Park in Umm al-Quwain is one of the largest water parks in the UAE with over 25 attractions for children and adults, surrounded with palm trees, a roaring volcano and replicas of wild animals.

Dreamland Aqua Park contacted Jean-Paul Jeannet, director of The Brain Concepts company - a special effects design company working for the entertainment industry - to be the show designer and constructor of the newly-built Volcano Dreamland attraction.

The Brain Concepts selected Medialon to be the main show and media control system of the attraction which is located in the water park and offers visitors a special experience inside the volcano itself.

When coming to the Volcano, visitors can watch a spectacular three-minute show filled with fire and water explosions, roar sounds and many other special effects.

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USA - Audio-Technica is displaying the AT4050ST Stereo Condenser Microphone, a stereo version of A-T's AT4050 and one of the new offerings from A-T's expanding 40 Series microphones at NAMM this week.

The AT4050ST, developed in direct response to feedback from end users, is a stereo side-address externally polarized (DC bias) condenser microphone with independent cardioid and figure-of-eight elements, configured in a mid-side arrangement with switch-selectable internal matrixing.

The AT4050ST offers sound recordists the choice of selecting a left-right stereo output (wide 127º or narrow 90º) via the microphone's internal matrixing system or choosing discrete mid-side signals for later manipulation. As with all of Audio-Technica's 40 Series microphones, the AT4050ST comes standard with a newly announced extended five-year warranty. This product has also recently been certifie

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