December 2000
Columns
CHANGES AHEAD
Nathaniel Hecht
I read Future Shock by Alvin Toffler way back in junior high school (I attended a fairly experimental junior high back in the early ’70s). The premise…
Departments
Business News
Elizabeth Price
Harman Launches Dealer Extranet Harman Consumer Systems Group was expected to launch Custom Central, an online resource for authorized Harman custom installation…
What’s New
What’s New
SOUND & VIDEO CONTRACTOR STAFF
MUSIC SYSTEM JBL SMS1 System JBL’s SMS1 Soundzone Music System is a complete music package for stores, restaurants and other businesses. The $895 system…
Installation Profiles
THE National Ice Centre
Peter Mapp
kating icons – and Olympic gold winners – Jayne Torvil and Christopher Dean hail from Nottingham, a town that’s now home to a new state-of-the-art ice…
Video Projections
THE DTV HOLY GRAIL good indoor 8vsb reception
Peter H. Putman
In the July and August issues of S&VC, I wrote about my tests of off-the-shelf antennas for terrestrial reception of DTV signals. These tests were conducted…
Security Trends
LOOK, MA, NO WIRES!
Steve Filippini
Working with security system transmitters You are standing in the entry of a large home with vaulted ceilings and tiled floors. Your job is to run a pair…
Articles
Cleaning Up the House
Peter Mapp
EQUALIZATION AND SOUND SYSTEM PERFORMANCE It never ceases to amaze me how many sound system installations out there do not incorporate an equalizer or…
THE EQUALIZATION TRANSFORMATION
RAY MILLER & DENNIS BOHN
When Bell Labs began the first use of equalizers in the late 1920s, it did so to undo, or “equalize,” the damage done by the transmission path. Long lines…
The Art of Equalization
Emory Straus & Duke Ducoff
You have to wonder what the craftsmen who built and installed pipe organs in churches long ago felt when all their painstaking work on huge instruments…
The Cure for the Common Feedback
Robert McPeek
As with any discipline, sound system design and engineering has its own unique language that non-initiates may find difficult to fathom. A conversation…
