Features

Dial ’œA’ for Acoustics

Chris Fitzsimmons interviews Emma Greenland , Associate at WSP Acoustics, and winner of the IoA’s Peter Barnett Student Award, to talk about her experiences as a student and starting her acoustics career. It turns out that the best place to find a work placement at the time was in the phone book!


Rules and regulations

It is important to understand the rules and regulations that affect your business to maintain effective operation. Anna Mitchell takes the opportunity to explore the ‘frequency sell-off’ and what it means to users of wireless microphones before diving into the importance of contract law for distributors.

Happy New Year?

Tight budgets, long sales cycles and a credit crunch made 2009 a bleak year for pro AV. Tim Kridel looks at the impact and why some integrators are optimistic about 2010.

Picture the process

For the men and women who operate process plants the control room is their window to the facility. It is essential that they are provided with the correct tools to accurately monitor the process and communicate effectively with their colleagues. Anna Mitchell explores how audiovisual technology fits into the process.

The Great Gig in the LAN

As it is now over ten years since the introduction of CobraNet to the audio community it seemed appropriate to review the current state of audio networking protocols and discover how much growing up has gone on in the last ten years. Richard Northwood reports.

Pixel powered

There is no doubt that the digital signage market is maturing from its early days in retail and offices to a much wider user-base. As a consequence displays themselves have developed; both in appearance and functionality. Steve Montgomery reports. All of the large display manufacturers have commercial product ranges targeted at high-use, high quality applications as professional applications evolve with a consequent demand for higher specification, and higher value displays.