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Tannoy and Lab.gruppen come together on the ballroom floor of Grand Hyatt New York

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

32 Butterflies in concert in Vietnam’s largest stadium

A Vertical Line Array Outline comprising 32 Butterfly CDH 483 Hi-Packs, supported by 16 SubTech 218, was chosen as the FOH system for “Happy New Year 2010”, a concert for 35,000 people staged in the country’s largest stadium: My Dinh National Stadium.

Robert Juliat Shines in the New Hefei Grand Theatre

Robert Juliat has supplied a substantial number of 2K profiles, PCs, Fresnels and followspots to the newly completed Hefei Grand Theatre in China’s Anhui Province.

Sound Power Pilot Bar Fit-Outs with PR Lighting

Dominating the late night high street retail bars for the last two decades, Newcastle-based integrators Sound Power have standardised on PR Lighting moving spot and wash lights for their rig dynamics.

Color Span Lighting Livens Up Brighton Dome Foyer Bar

A.C. Entertainment Technologies Ltd. has supplied a Chroma-Q™ Color Span™ LED cove lighting and wall wash system to the Brighton Dome for their stylish Dome Foyer main bar. Situated alongside the venue’s magnificent art deco style Concert Hall and part of a £22 million refurbishment of the facilities in 2002, the modern Foyer is the perfect location for a wide range of shows and corporate events.

Outline at the Minotaure: hifi sound in a theatre hall

The Minotaure complex just bought a new Outline sound reinforcement system, comprising twelve Mini-COM.P.A.S.S. speakers and two SubTech 218 SP subwoofers, controlled by an Outline Genius 26 unit.

Petõfi Theater of Sopron, Hungary, installs HK Audio System

Only 60km from Vienna, southwest of Lake Neusiedler, lies the Hungarian city of Sopron. Sopron (or Ödenburg in German) is not only a university town but also the home of HK Audio’s Hungarian distributor IFK.

Twisted Pepper Gets Hotter with Void

Void Acoustics, designer and manufacturer of advanced professional audio systems for the installed and live sound markets, reports that its distributor for Ireland, Decibel Audio, has achieved another installation coup, installing Void loudspeakers and amplifiers throughout Twisted Pepper, Dublin's premier night venue.

Interview: Bob Schacherl
November / December 2009

Bruce Jordahl quizzes his first boss and close friend, Bob Schacherl about his journey in business that began with Blackstone Productions and continues now with Philips, revealing a number of personal and industry significances along the way... more...

CHAUVET: THE VIP TREATMENT
September / October 2008

The award winning Chauvet booth at LDI 2007 Husband and wife duo, Albert and Berenice Chauvet take time out of their busy schedules to speak to mondo*dr about the ins and outs of running a lighting specialist company for the past 20 years. more...

Plasa
13-16 September 2009

This year’s PLASA Show returned to Earls Court London on 13-16 September. After quite a positive Prolight + Sound Frankfurt earlier in the year, everyone waited with bated breathe to see what PLASA 09, up there in the top three tradeshows in Europe, would pull out of the bag. Though the positive vibe about the industry being on the up remained amongst the exhibitors and visitors, the show itself seemed to have gone the other way. Stand sizes had been scaled down, the aisles seemed considerabley wider than last year and some of Hall 1 that was full last year, was sectioned off altogether. There was also a cut back in the signage department, in fact there was no aisles labelling at all, which made things rather difficult, especially for any first time visitors to the show. Despite all of that, the response did seem to be positive, though some said the show may be moving more towards being a national show rather than international. Most agreed that the PLASA Show was still an important exhibiton to be seen at, and said they would be returning next year. more...

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