Sound & Video Contractor presents features & columns related to loudspeaker technology

World-changing Event, Part 1
By John W. DeWitt
Marketing hype aside, few corporate events legitimately lay claim to changing the world. One is Saatchi & Saatchi’s World Changing Ideas Awards ceremony....

Wired for News
By Cynthia Wisehart
It had an AV budget that few museums can command a healthy percentage of the project's $450 million budget, consumed by hundreds of loudspeakers and screens,...

The Buzz: Installation Spotlight: Lakewood Church, Houston
By Bennett Liles
The increasingly sophisticated and elaborate performances being done in churches in the past few years have stretched the limits of staging, lighting,...

The Buzz: Installation spotlight: Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke University, Durham, N.C.
By Jessaca Gutierrez
Cameron Indoor Stadium, on the Duke University campus in Durham, N.C., has a rich legacy. Legend has it that the arena was conceived on a back of a matchbook...

Sound Advice: Into the Deep White Spaces
By Dan Daley
While you're at InfoComm, you may hear a ubiquitous referencing of the term “white space...

Focus On Residential AV: Smart Choices for a Smart Home
By Jack Kontney
With the ready availability of powerful control systems, it's no surprise to learn that today's dream home is, almost inevitably, a smart home. On the recommendation of their builder, the owners of a spectacular 6000-square-foot residence in La Jolla, Calif., engaged San Diego Sound and Video to create such a system for them. ...

The Buzz: Installation Spotlight: University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, Ariz.
By Dan Daley
When you ante up $455 million for a sports venue, you want your share of firsts even before anyone scores in a game...

Audio Podcast: Dakota Audio at the Newseum

In this edition of the Corporate AV podcast, Online Editor Jessaca Gutierrez with Dakota Audio's Director of Business Development Michael Blake about the manufacturer's part in the recently open Newseum in Washington, D.C. and the latest audio trends in the market

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Conservatory Invests in Student Laptop Program
By Linda Seid Frembes
The Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences (CRAS) is the premier school for audio recording, engineering, and production education with campuses in Tempe and Gilbert, Ariz. The Conservatory's 900 hour Master Recording Program II is a 42-week program in which students spend 30 intensive weeks on campus learning about sound reinforcement...

Audio Podcast: Creative Audio Upgrade

Daryl Porter—system design associate with Audio Analysts in Colorado—talks about his experience installing new Meyer Sound loudspeaker line arrays as part of an audio upgrade at the Heritage Christian Center in Denver

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