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Martin Audio CDD LIVE

Martin Audio CDD LIVE! Powered Portable Loudspeakers

At last year’s InfoComm show in Orlando, I had an opportunity to hear Martin Audio demo its CDD Series coaxial loudspeakers — which ranged from the micro (five-inch) CDD5 to the powerful CDD15 — all combining distinctive curved enclosures with Coaxial Differential Dispersion technology intended to deliver high performance and consistent coverage to the install market.

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VUE Audiotechnik al-12, with grill removed

VUE Audiotechnik al-12 Line Array

Founded just four years ago by a team of industry veterans who played major roles in shaping the course of modern sound reinforcement system designs over the past four decades, VUE Audiotechnik continues to break new ground in product innovation.

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EAW’s unique ‘engine’ drives its Adaptive line arrays

Inside EAW’s Adaptive Systems

Since its earliest days, Eastern Acoustic Works has always been defined by an ongoing quest to redefine the state of the art in loudspeaker systems that offer practical solutions targeted toward professional sound reinforcement users and installers. Perhaps a clue to that comes from incorporating the term “Acoustic” into the company name, when “Eastern Speaker Works” might have sufficed. And certainly the most recent embodiment of EAW’s solutions-oriented approach comes in the form of its Adaptive Systems line, which now includes the Anya and Anna line arrays and the Otto subwoofer.

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Clair Brothers kiT+ Series Speakers

Clair Brothers was established 49 years ago when brothers Gene and Roy Clair had their first gig — supplying sound for Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons at F&M College in Lancaster, PA — and over the years, the company has grown into a major force in touring, installations and technologies for live sound reinforcement. In fact it was just two years after that first defining gig that the company debuted its first large-scale system (powered by the then-new Crown DC300 amplifiers), doing sound for Cream in 1968 at the Philadelphia Spectrum for 18,000 fans.

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Whirlwind's PL-PM1/RJ power meter expands monitoring access via LAN and the Internet

Whirlwind Offers Solution for Real Time Monitoring of Power

Whirlwind, Inc. is a name well known to anybody in the music industry, with good reason. Makers of some of most ubiquitous and long-lasting electronic infrastructure equipment you’re likely to find on the road, they’ve been a leader in creating high-quality audio interfaces for more than 40 years.

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