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Power Conditioner: Furman Sound Elite i-Series Power Conditioner
The Elite i-Series of power conditioners from Furman Sound features a new design of black steel with clear blue LED lights.
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Speech Intelligibility Meter: Quest Technologies SoundPro Integrating Sound Level Meter
Two products from Quest Technologies are available for the evaluation and certification of speech intelligibility through fire alarm, mass notification, and other PA systems. The Verifier is available as...
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Power Conditioner: Panamax MAX 4300-PM Power Conditioner
The MAX 4300-PM power conditioner from Panamax offers advanced patent-pending circuitry for the protection of sensitive home theater components from damaging power surges and transient voltages.
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Touchscreen PC: Digit Professional ProDVX Osprey MPC
The ProDVX Osprey MPC from Digit Professional is an advanced metal Panel PC with touchscreen. Geared toward applications such as digital signage, information kiosks, video systems, and industrial automation...
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Multiviewer: Avitech International Rainier Series Multiviewers
Avitech International recently unveiled its Rainier Series of multiviewers, a line of multi-image display processors that addresses entry-level broadcast and professional AV applications. At 10 inches deep, the units...
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Upgrade to Paging Management System: Symetrix Integrator Series Zone Mix 760 Version 1.1
Symetrix is offering Version 1.1 of the Integrator Series Zone Mix 760 paging and music management system with several enhancements. For example, it has increased the number of presets...
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DSP Control System: Architectural Acoustics Prolinx DX DSP Control System
The Prolinx DX programmable DSP audio processing, routing, and control system from Architectural Acoustics, a division of Peavey, can operate as a self-contained system at 12x12 I/O. Built on...
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Cat-6 Cable Connector: Neutrik EtherCon Series Cat-6 Cables
The EtherCon series for Cat-6 cables from Neutrik includes a metal housing for RJ45 cable connectors that protects the connector against mechanical load. It is equipped with the company's...
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Audio Node: MediaMatrix NION nX Digital Audio Processing Node
MediaMatrix, a division of Peavey, recently introduced the NION nX programmable digital audio processing node for professional and commercial audio and communications applications. The internal processing core of the...
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Panel-Mount Adapter: BTX Technologies CD-HDMIFFP Panel-Mount Adapter
The CD-HDMIFFP female-to-female HDMI panel-mount adapter from BTX Technologies provides an interface between any compatible digital audio/video source, such as a set-top box, a PC, or an AV receiver,...
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SurgeX SA82 protector
Customers who want to protect their investments in flat-panel displays will have no problem with a mere $275 (U.S. list) in the new SurgeX FlatPak SA82. It's a surge...
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Yamaha ProjectPhone conferencing system
Yamaha Electronics Corp. was at InfoComm for the first time, showing a new category of product for this Japanese electronics giant. While there's obvious competition in the conferencing systems...
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InfoComm 2007 Hot Products
At this year's InfoComm, although many manufacturers continued the trend of product-line extensions and feature enhancements, there was a marked increase in the number of truly new products and...
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Gefen Wireless for HDMI Extender transmitter
Several companies showed advances in wireless video signal transmission. But Gefen's new Wireless HDMI Extender uses ultra-wideband (UWB) technology from Tzero Technologies to deliver HDTV resolutions up to 1080i...
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AMX Anterus RFID device management
We've talked about RFID being part of the AV world for years. Now, AMX has made it a reality. The company calls Anterus the world's first radio frequency identification...
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Audio-Technica SpectraPulse mic system
Ultra-wideband technology is here, as Audio-Technica proved with the flashy launch of its new SpectraPulse UWB microphone system. SpectraPulse bypasses the increasingly congested RF environment to deliver clear, intelligible...
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Polycom SoundStructure audio processor
Full-frequency sound and full-stereo echo cancellation contribute to what Polycom calls an ?immersive audio experience,? which will provide superior audio to any voice-only teleconference and is the perfect audio...
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AMX Inspired Signage
AMX's acquisition of UK-based Inspiration Matters enables the company to offer a complete end-to-end solution for virtually any digital-signage design, management and distribution need. The new Inspired Signage software...
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Extron Fiber Matrix 6400 switcher
Extron's new Fiber Matrix 6400 is a high-performance, modular, fiber-optic matrix switcher, expandable in sizes from 8x8 up to 64x64, and supports up to 4.25 Gbps digital switching.
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projectiondesign Action! M25 DLP projector
Among the many firsts that various manufacturers touted was projectiondesign's Action! M25 DLP projector, which the company calls the world's smallest, full high-def projector.
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Sanyo PLC-XL50 projector
The first thing you notice about the Sanyo PLC-XL50 is that looks unlike any projector you've seen. Its feature set and functionality are also unusual, yet will solve many...
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True To Life
HDVC came onto the scene two years ago, first announced by LifeSize Communications, yet the products just started to gain solid market traction in late 2006. In the last...
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Rise Of The Modern AV Cart
Today's learning environments often revolve around a highly sophisticated, flexible, continually evolving tool called the teaching station.
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A Church From Scratch
A brand-new processor and building were two major challenges at New Life Assembly.
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AV Links Art And Architecture In Dallas
More than 17 Million visitors are expected annually at the new Victory Park in Dallas, a multifaceted entertainment, retail, dining and performance venue adjoining the American Airlines Center.
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Giants Create Larger Fan Experience
When AT&T Park opened in March 2000 after two years of construction, the new home of the San Francisco Giants baseball team instantly became a landmark. The 13-acre site...
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Finding Business
A critical challenge for any small to midsize business is finding new business for tomorrow while in the middle of completing today's projects.
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Test Your Knowledge of Lumens
Test Your Knowledge of Lumens True Or False Answers The word lumen comes from the surname of the French inventors August and Louis Lumière, who pioneered an early version...
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Fascinating Facts About The Speed Of Sound
Fascinating Facts About The Speed Of Sound It was British scientist Sir Isaac Newton who gave the first analytical determination of the speed of sound in his scientific treatise,...
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Q & A: Loudspeaker Cabling
I need to run a loudspeaker cable underground, about 400 feet, to a pole-mounted outdoor loudspeaker in a high school stadium. What kind of cable should I use, and...
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How to choose the correct wire gauge
A cable that's too light will waste amplifier power because of the series resistance of the cable. It also will cause low-frequency performance loss because of poor damping.
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5-Minute Interview: Guy Mullins
Director, New Media Studio in Arizona State University's Applied Learning Technologies Institute in Tempe. Mullins' push to find new and better ways to use technology in education and research...
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Who Does The Design?
At a recent manufacturer's event, I had an enlightening conversation with a fellow consultant and a manufacturer about programming issues and software or design support.
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Big-Box Custom Installs?
I'm writing this in the waning days of July, and two hot stories that just crossed the wire moments ago detail how both Best Buy's Magnolia division and Circuit...
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Mems The Word
If you bought a phone in the past year, chances are good that its mic uses Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technology. And if you've installed a projector or rear-projection display...
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Peer Review: Sabine Navigator NAV240
Sales Manager Byard Hey reviews the Sabine Navigator NAV240 audio processor.
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New Products: September 2007
QVS VGA swivel adapter and connector, Bosch Communication Systems loudspeaker, Digit Professional LCD monitors ...
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Cedia Products
A sampling of new products to be displayed at the 2007 CEDIA Show, September 5-9 in Denver.
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AV Lockdown
As growing sales in the commercial and consumer market can attest, AV gear is fast becoming a ?must-have? for many end-users. For some, that means sawing through cables, picking...
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Digital Video Disconnectivity
Which has more clout these days, pro AV or consumer AV? Judging by the current and emerging digital connectivity standards, the consumer market increasingly determines the pro's choices.
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Mount Misconceptions
Once considered a profit margin commodity, display mounts are under attack from the host of generic poor-quality alternatives that are undercutting the market price and perpetuating the viewpoint that...
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L.A. Story
Brett Ratner calls his Kaleidescape ?the coolest thing in the world.? In fact, the filmmaker behind the ?Rush Hour? franchise recently told the showbiz trade paper Daily Variety that...
