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SINGAPORE–After several years hosting the annual Bay Beats festival, a concentrated exposition of local south-east Asian talent featuring five "Indie" bands a day for three days, this year a decision was taken by Singapore's Esplanade Theatres on the Bay to purchase a large format line array to cater for the festival's audio needs.

PITTSBURGH–The Benedum Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Pittsburgh is a historic theatre that hosts over half a million visitors a year. Named the "Number One Auditorium in the US" by Billboard and ranked third in Pollstar's 2004 Top 50 list of theatre venues worldwide, the 2,800-seat Benedum Center provides turnkey production services to everyone from first-run national Broadway tours to regional groups like the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre and the Pittsburgh Opera.

TORONTO, ONTARIO–Republic, a busy Vancouver Club on Granville has revamped their entire sound system with Adamson Speakers. Republic is open seven days a week; during the day Republic is a busy pub and sports bar, and at night it features live DJs and entertainment transforming itself into a dance club.

OXNARD, CA–L-ACOUSTICS' has completed its P-Series line of self-powered amplifiers with the release of a self-powered subwoofer. The addition of a self-powered subwoofer SB15P for extended LF response in bi- and tri-amp configurations widens the performance range of the P series for small to medium format applications.

JESSUP, MD–API Audio will debut the latest in the company's 19-inch rack mounted products–the 5500 dual equalizer–at the 2006 AES in San Francisco. Designed for recording, mixing and mastering applications, the single rack space API 5500 is a two-channel EQ package with an all-discrete signal path that combines the classic features of the API 550B four-band EQ module with the boost and cut precision of the 550D and the 550M mastering equalizer.

ST GEORGE, GRENADA–Music, festival and dance are at the heart of Grenada's cultural heritage, and the spice island's annual "Spicemas" Carnival, a world-renowned celebration featuring the finest soca, reggae and calypso music, sounded better than ever this year, thanks to the EV, Midas and Klark Teknik sound system, operated by Judah Sound System of St. George's, Grenada.

MIAMI–Miami's Dolphin Stadium is arguably one of professional sports' more active venues and part of the continued success of this privately funded arena can be credited to owner Wayne Huizenga's strong advocacy of regular upgrades and renovations, a program that has helped to maintain the stadium's first-class amenities and state-of-the-art technical infrastructure, including a recent upgrade to Community Professional speakers in the interior sound systems.

WEST CHESTER, PA–Aviom, Inc, manufacturer of the Pro16 Monitor Mixing System, is announcing that the company is now shipping the new AN-16SBR System Bridge, which will be featured at AES 2006 (Booth# 123).

LAKE CHARLES, LA–Despite floating in the direct path of Hurricane Rita last year, Pinnacle Entertainment's L'Auberge du Lac dockside riverboat casino in Lake Charles is once again rockin' with gamblers from the nearby Houston metro area.

TORONTO–The Rizla Unleashed Music Festival delivered a fantastic weekend of music, from a breath-taking cliff top location overlooking Watergate Bay in Newquay, UK on Friday and Saturday, August 4 and 5. The sold-out event attracted 14500 people for the weekend, who were treated to Cornwall's largest music festival. Friday's headliners, "Feeder" were joined by "The Automatic", "Mystery Jets", "Captain" and others. "Starsailor" and "Graham Coxon" headlined the Saturday show.