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There is an old joke about an usher who lined his pockets by ceremoniously leading patrons to a seat as if it were a great honor and, on being...

A recent sound-system upgrade at B.C. Place, a domed stadium in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, emphasizes the significant advances in digital audio

Editor's note: The Westminster Abbey sound-system refurbishment project had originally been programmed to run from October 1993 through September 1996.

When a venue is used for more purposes than one, it often serves only one of those purposes well; the others are treated rather like poor relations. That

For AAtronics, providing audio contracting services at the new Rose Garden Arena required more than the usual wire-pulling and rack-stuffing skills, especially

Imagine the problems of placing a sound system in a conservatory-roofed building whose interior walls are actually the ornate stone exterior walls of

Planning for the Rose Garden, initially called the Oregon Arena, began in 1991 when architect Ellerbe Becker signed Wrightson, Johnson, Haddon & Williams

Cliche is a wonderful word. It originated in French about 1820 meaning a cast, solid printing plate that included an entire page or multiple pages to

Seated deep in the southernmost tip of Sweden a stone's throw across the Baltic Sea from Copenhagen, Malm" is a town of around 300,000. Some of its citizens

Harvey Fletcher, edited by Jont B. Allen, The ASA Edition of Speech and Hearing in Communication, published for the Acoustical Society of America by the

The subject of this international issue takes us to another galaxy, er, I mean part of this planet. We travel to De Melkweg or, as translated, The Milky

Wire Running, As Easy As That, produced and written by Roy Bowling, Complete Vision Productions, 7 VHS tapes, 2 hr, 33 min, 1995, $495. Fellow installer,

Diana Deutsch, Musical Illusions and Paradoxes, Philomel Records, compact disc, 42:21, 1995, $14.95. Two years ago, I sang in the chorus of a production

This January, the National Systems Contractors Association (NSCA) began regional training courses to prepare prospective applicants for the National Institute