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Electronics and digital processing are accepted virtually everywhere: in the car, at the movie theater, at Broadway productions and at the local jazz

Recently a trade magazine for home-theater installers arrived in our office. It announced a new loudspeaker: "The SW-X1 subwoofer can handle up to 150

Congratulations to the 1996 winners of the Electronic Lifestyles Awards for Manufacturers' Excellence and for Designer/Installer Excellence presented

"Tarump-bum-bam-boom." Thunderous applause. The conductor takes a bow, the cast has its final curtain call, and the audience files out in an orderly fashion.But

Collecting bills can be tricky. Push too hard and your business can wind up paying money rather than receiving it. For example, in Maryland, a jury awarded

Oh, I've designed nuclear plants before. They're much easier than theaters!This quote, from an electrical engineer we know, is no joke.The successful

Sound systems do nothing until people use them. At some point, a person will interact with the systems we design and install. Whether this person is the

Crucivocabularian winners from S&VC's crossword puzzle contest printed in the 1996 Contractor's Product Source have been chosen. Allan Soifer of AJS Communications

The entertainment rigging industry is almost universally unregulated. In the United States, a few laws originate from worker safety legislation, and some

The concept of the box truss has been around for many years; it is an efficient use of materials to create high-strength, low-weight structures. Box trusses

Systems integration is not a new phenomenon; in just two years, it has moved from leading edge to mainstream, providing electronic contractors and consultants

Imagine a graphics display board four city blocks long with 2.1 million multicolored lights. It is suspended 100 feet over your head, integrated into

As you walk through the gates of Legoland, you're greeted by a dinosaur made entirely of plastic bricks. It peers over a rolling hillside toward Windsor

The big question clients often ask is how to hire good salespeople. They want to know exactly what to look for, but no one strategy nor formula is the

As contractors, we are often asked to add audio and visual arrays to buildings not originally designed for them. How to hang the arrays is well established,

Fall protection seems to be one of today's entertainment industry hot buttons. Articles are being written on the subject, heated debates have popped up

Do you know that you are the responsible qualified professional if you specify, install or instruct someone else to install a loudspeaker in an overhead

In almost anything you do, you learn by doing. Challenge sparks innovation; problems spark solutions. And in the contracting field, sound reinforcement

Sophisticated technology and a friendly purple dinosaur might seem a strange combination. Yet The Barney Theater, one of the newest attractions at Universal

The world's largest musical fountain presents an integration of sight, sound and nature at an unprecedented level of beauty and enjoyment.Since 1963,

The Cumberland River flows through Nashville TN, home of the world-famous Opryland USA and one of its prize attractions, the General Jackson, a turn-of-the-century

How is an orchestra similar to a subwoofer? "An opera singer performing with an orchestra is not in competition with the orchestra," said David M. Ancker,

Look behind the impressive new facade of the expansion to the Baltimore Convention Center, and you'll find some equally impressive new audio technology

The greater emphasis placed on music in modern religious services has created a whole new set of challenges for sound-system designers and installers.

After our involvement at Super Bowl XXIX in Miami, Jerry Anderson, architect for the NFL and Super Bowl XXX, called us for Super Bowl XXX. We provided

It was a Texas-size pro-ject from the start when the retail giant J.C. Penney decided to move its corporate headquarters from New York to Plano, TX. When

The concept of worship sound systems is long established in the United States. In Europe it is something that has taken a long time to become understood,

At Boeing's training center, audio, video, computer and control systems are seamlessly blended to create an ideal mode for learning.The Boeing Company

Many tests and inexpensive test instruments can assure proper operation of a constant voltage system.Constant voltage systems are designed to connect

Although videoconferencing is making headway, audio teleconferencing continues to deliver on the promise of long-distance communications for education

The perfect emergency voice evacuation system meets code requirements without unnecessary frills."For where two or three are gathered in my name, there

Of Time, Part II Jul 20, 1996 12:00 PM, Ted UzzleEditorialSound and video, seeing and hearing, are at the mercy of time in profound and un

At the Congress Center in Wurzburg, Germany, events are limited not by the configuration of the facility, but only by the whims of the public.Flexibility

Churchgoers at Baylake United Methodist yearned for intelligible sound and a hearing assistance system not plagued by the hails of passing truckers.This

Networked systems will not become a mainstream business for contractors until contractors and manufacturers face their unique business issues.Over the

The new National College Football Hall of Fame has been created as much more than a place to view bronze plaques and grainy films of gridiron heroes of

Since appearing in the commercial market during the late 1980s, LCD (liquid crystal display) projectors' image quality and popularity have soared. Today,