April 1998
Columns
Electrical Safety-an issue of education
Nathaniel Hecht
Working in our industry, it is just about impossible to avoid hazardous situations when it comes to electricity. I can remember an incident when I was…
Establishing Sales Territories
Alan Kruglak
Race horses project a rare combination of power and grace. The most valuable ones have agility and speed-they’re the runners that win the trophies. Good…
Departments
Business News
Lutron relaunches division Lutron Electronics, Coopersburg, PA, has relaunched its commercial A-V division to offer lighting control products for use…
Association News
The American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) International has moved its headquarters to 1625 Prince Street, Alexandria, VA 22314; phone: 703-519-6200;…
What’s New
What’s New
Installation products Mixer: The Mojo MM8x club and mobile mixer from Rane has eight inputs with four phono pre-amps, independent EQ for each of the four…
What’s New
Signal processor:Symetrix The 9022 2×2 DSP Engine from Symetrix is a programmable, two-channel processor that supports 24-bit, multifunction DSP processing….
Video Projections
Scaling New Heights
Peter H. Putman
The 1998 trade show season is here, and the explosive growth in large-screen display technology shows no evidence of abating. It seems that there’s always…
Clean Signals
Understanding Video and Other Unbalanced Interfaces.
Bill Whitlock
Ground noise is a rich mixture of power line harmonics and any other high-frequency noises that exist on the power line-think about listening to the power…
Articles
A New Sound
Sam Gidren
Plagued by substandard sound quality for several years, things have gradually changed for the better at the Hollywood Bowl. Over the past three years,…
Play ball
Toni Flosi
After more than three decades of existence, Anaheim Stadium has a new look and a new name. Now Edison International Field of Anaheim, the familiar structure…
Back to Basics
Andrew Dixon
The sound installation business these days is a hotbed of new technologies with products and gadgets that have consumed our attention, and as a result,…
High Security: Providing Audio System Supervision for the Lockheed MartinComplex.
R. David Read
During recent years, audio paging systems have been increasingly pressed into service to provide voice evacuation, sound masking and other functions….
Beating the Clock
Danny Abelson
Not many college basketball teams can boast the kind of arena that the Badgers of the University of Wisconsin received when the Kohl Center opened this…
Atop the Green Monster
Gregory A. DeTogne
History has shown that if you are a Boston Red Sox fan, you learn to live with catastrophe. I realize that making a statement like that may seem like…
To Market
Carolyn Heinze
Located in Charlotte, NC, Earth Fare, “The Healthy Supermarket,” is a grocery store with a twist. Equipped with a health-food supermarket, a restaurant…
Why Use DSP?: An Introductory Course in DSP System Design, Part 2
David Skolnick and Noam Levine
If you have read the first part of this series (see S&VC, December 1997) or are already familiar with some of the ways a DSP can work with real-world…
Versatility with Intimacy
Jack McLean
The facility is part of a more than 64,000 ft squared (5,946 meter squared) addition to the church, located in Kentwood, MI, which is just south of Grand…
Night life
Joe Kamenstein
In its heyday at its former location on Broadway at West 75th Street, New York’s China Club was known as a late-night meeting place for celebrities and…
Vanishing Act
Gregory A. DeTogne
To be heard and not seen was the audio system design edict issued at the outset of construction of the Bistro Roxy, a Parisian-style restaurant found…
