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The NEXO family is mourning the loss of one of its sons, the talented young loudspeaker designer Matthias Larrieu, who lost his life in a car accident in June. He was just 30 years old. In his six years at NEXO, Matthias left a truly impressive mark.

After years of searching, Antwerp’s Café d’Anvers, has found a sound system worthy of the club’s reputation as an iconic house music venue. For 26 years, owner Pim de Rhoodes struggled to find a system that could deliver a deep bass on the dancefloor yet enable customers to talk comfortably at the bar – and, importantly, not upset the venue’s neighbours.

With its source composed of seven base colors of LED and its profiling module, Robin DL7S aims for perfection in colors, pastels, saturated colors and whites, with a nominal CRI of >90, regardless of the white balance. An 18-bit dimmer allows extremely fine control at low levels – it is between 0 and 10% that makes all the difference.

Ayrton doubles up its imagination to create unique effects fixtures: CosmoPix-R, a moving-yoke globe with 12 punchy beams, MagicDot-R, a small, mono-source fixture, the motorized video panel DreamPanel Shift, its counterpart DreamPanel Twin, with a video face and a lighting face, and the NandoSpot-SC, which marks the entry of the French manufacturer into the next generation of LED spot fixtures.

JB Lighting presents the Licon 2X lighting console. Developed primarily for live applications, it can control 128 DMX universes. It is based on a concept of simplicity, for intuitive and fast programming, thanks to its straightforward and comprehensible interface using an integrated trackball and two 12.1", high-resolution touch-screens with motorized tilting up to 90°.

Following a convincing recent demo in Paris, Meyer Sound has confirmed three new orders for the LEOPARD™ linear sound reinforcement system, including two French rental system purchases and an installation going to a nightclub in Marseille. The patent-pending LEOPARD line array loudspeaker and its accompanying 900-LFC low-frequency control element are the newest, smallest, most versatile members of Meyer Sound's flagship LEO® Family.

The newly available CosmoPix-R, a small motorized globe that emits 12 punchy beams, is implemented here in a show designed by the French lighting designer Stéphane Migné and programmed by Arnaud Pierrel, which demonstrates some novel effect ideas for structuring a performance space.

Netherland-based Jasper Ravesteijn has been named European sales manager for Adamson Systems Engineering. He will work with Jochen Sommer, director of European operations for Adamson, to manage sales and support for new and existing customers in Europe, Russia and Africa.

Chamsys presents their latest lighting console, the MQ80, an evolution of the MQ60 that allows the user to work more comfortably and with a more powerful processor that can control 24 DMX universes. One can see at first glance that the screen size has been increased for better legibility. Its quality has also been improved, with an increase in the viewing angle and in luminosity.

Yamaha continues to expand its range of digital consoles to accommodate lower budgets, with the introduction of the TF Series, which follows the CL and the QL Series. Also exhibited on the stand of the Japanese manufacturer was the PM10 Rivage digital mixing system – the flagship of the brand (see SLU) – and RSiO64-D, a rack of mini-YGDAI cards for inputs and outputs that accepts more than 30 types of cards .

Numerous new products were presented by RCF at this edition of Prolight + Sound: a new 3-way, amplified line array system, HDL 50-A; an addition to the TT series, the TTL6-A amplified enclosure; the new stage monitors ST 12-SMA and ST 15-SMA; and finally, a series of small rack-mount digital mixing systems including the M08 and M18.

Production Resource Group, L.L.C. (PRG) today announced that it has agreed to acquire the XL Video Group, one of the largest providers of premier multi-market video services. PRG Chairman & CEO Jeremiah J. Harris and Lucas Covers, the Group CEO of XL Video jointly made the announcement.

We discovered three big news on the d&b stand: the D20 amplifier, little brother of the D80, the stage monitor MAX2, successor of the German manufacturer's renown MAX and, on the simulation-prediction software side, version 8 of ArrayCalc, which now has the ArrayProcessing extension.

At Prolight + Sound, the American manufacturer High End Systems unveiled version 3 of the software developed for the Hog 4 series consoles. It includes two major new features: Plot and Pixel Mapping and, of course, other improvements.

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