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Who is playing with whom – and how? By Malcolm Savage There are three main sets of players in this operation. First up in no particular order is Apple and their primary business partner Cisco, a partnership that has put Apple into the commercial market place from where Cisco already has a strong foothold. Cisco…

Graham John Fear (OAM), the long term leader of entertainment travel and trucking firm Showgroup, passed away on December 21, 2017 aged 72. He was the Group General Manager of Show Group since 1987, guiding the company from small boutique travel and freight company into the 100+ people strong organisation that it is today. Graham’s…

Entertainment Technology Australia have upgraded the City of Adelaide’s Christmas tree lighting, and when turned on can be seen at night for kilometres in each direction. The foliage of the 10 story high (30 metre) tree is covered with 13,336 RGB LED pixels that are individually controllable, allowing a myriad of coloured moving animations to be programmed and…

By Julius Grafton. Starting a little later than previously, on Tuesday 20th February at Brisbane, ENTECH then rolls direct to Melbourne. Sydney follows, as the trucks backtrack, no thanks to management at Sydney’s Randwick Racecourse who announced the originally booked (and deposited) date was no longer available due to a larger event taking the space.…

The inaugural AESRG Conference follows the 2018 Entech Roadshow in February and March across Australia. AESRG is an industry backed alliance of committed members who put show safety first. The conference is open to members and non members. The conferences will be held in each city the day following the Roadshow.  That way if you are…

Pro audio brands move in February. By Julius Grafton. HARMAN partner’s AV Technology Pty Ltd (avt) and CMI Music & Audio Pty Ltd (CMI) will take over distribution of JBL Professional, AKG, BSS, Crown, dbx, Lexicon and Soundcraft solutions in Australia from February 1st. Jands have represented JBL since 1984, and most of the rest…

• We’ve missed Dr. Tom Misner since he sold out of School of Audio Education and flogged the luxury spread at Byron. But wait: he (or someone pretending to be he) just emailed! “I just came across you article – once again wrong but keep going. For your information I am the owner of Studios…

Biz Talk, By Julius Grafton. After last months depressing rant I had many sympathetic calls and messages but that wasn’t the motivator behind chronicling my $1.5 million loss on the College dream. Indeed the article must have been noticed, because in the old snail mail came an envelope with a good old fashioned cheque inside.…

Last week cxnetwork.com.au revealed the L-Acoustics L-ISA system, one of several implementations of spatial audio mixing – and a very significant product for the French company. L-Acoustic share leadership in the global loudspeaker system market with German competitor d&b audiotechnik, who likewise have a rollout in this space called The d&b Soundscape. While d&b are…