by Dan Daley | Nov 12, 2013 | News
A noisy restaurant is a happy restaurant, or so goes the industry belief, anyway. The reality is that noise is becoming a substantial problem in the hospitality business. Design trends in recent years have done away with carpeting, linen tablecloths and other...
by Dan Daley | Feb 15, 2013 | News
On the old The A-Team television series, Colonel John “Hannibal” Smith’s catch phrase was, “I love it when a plan comes together.” That could also be the motto at The Cove Church, in Mooresville, NC for the process of transitioning their video operation from SD to HD....
by Dan Daley | Nov 20, 2012 | News
Acousticians will always list their ears as their primary tools, but as good as those highly developed organs are for them, they’re backed up with a very sophisticated array of software-based systems that let them predict and track reflected sound in almost any kind...
by Dan Daley | Nov 20, 2012 | News
If people have ghosts, sound has reverb – the lingering, echoic presence of a sonic event that has occurred and passed on. Clapping your hands in a large, empty, hard-surfaced space readily produces the bell-like footprint of the transient as its energy...
by Dan Daley | Nov 6, 2012 | News
“It’s that last 5 percent.” That’s Chuck Wilson, director of the National Systems Contractors Association (NSCA), commenting on what he found was the hardest thing to do when he was managing multiple A/V projects as an integrator. And, Wilson continues, the...