January 2001
Columns
TRADE SHOW CONFLICTS
Nathaniel Hecht, Editor
A number of months ago I wrote about the overlap of related industry trade shows, both domestic and abroad, particularly the overlap this year of the…
SURVIVING THE GOOD TIMES
Alan Kruglak
There is no telling what surprises lie around the corner. When cash flow becomes tight, you can’t pretend you’re from Florida and demand a recount. With…
Departments
Business News
by Elizabeth Price
SPL Opens Seattle Office SPL Ancha is growing. The company, which designs, fabricates and installs integrated audio, video and multimedia systems, recently…
What’s New
What’s New
Amp Racks PAS www.pas-toc.com Professional Audio Systems introduces Baltic birch amplifier racks for both portable and permanent installations. Portable…
INSTALLATION PRODUCTS
Projector: Barco The BarcoReality 6500 DLC delivers 5,000 lumens at S-XGA resolution through 1.8 LCD panels with video inputs, S-video, RGB, VGA and SDI/SDO….
Installation Profiles
Holy Family Church
By Joyce Jorgenson
The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 left only five public buildings standing in the city. One was the Holy Family Church, located on the Windy City’s West…
Temple Beth El
By Shane Swisher
The sound system had to be transparent, and it had to be multipurpose. Located in the historic East Side neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island, Temple…
Clean Signals
DEALING WITH RFI
Bill Whitlock
RFI is an abbreviation for Radio Frequency Interference. Radio frequencies are broadly defined as electromagnetic waves ranging in frequency from the…
Articles
PROJECTION SYSTEMS IN HOUSES OF WORSHIP
Chris O’Neal
Soaring ceilings prominent arches detailed engraving on every surface. Classical houses of worship used architecture to enhance and amplify sound and…
Why Churches Buy three Sound Systems
By R. Jim Brown
I want to sell this church their last sound system. Better sound contractors make this kind of statement with good reason: strange as it seems, most churches…
Sounds of the Sublime
By Bruce Bartlett
No venues require a wider variety of mic techniques than houses of worship. Sound sources range from live music, with instruments, organ and choir, to…
THE MOST BANG UNDER BUDGET
By Cal Perkins
In almost every article I have read in trade publications about installed church sound systems, the size of the system suggests that the budget for the…
Not a Projector, Not a Monitor, It’s a Videowall!
By Peter H. Putman, CTS
It seems like I’ve been writing about electronic displays for most of my life (particularly after one of my multiproduct projector or plasma reviews)….
NSCA Update
2001 Construction Forecast Is Focus of NSCA Expo SuperSession Construction industry predictions will be the keynote focus at the NSCA Systems Integration…
