Contents Volume 19 Issue Five September–October 2020
NEWS BUSINESS Global AV report shows future promise
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DISTRIBUTION Cheng Seng Trading to represent beyerdynamic in Taiwan
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APPOINTMENTS Cherian George joins Fohhn Audio AG
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EDUCATION Audac unveils long-term platform
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SPECIAL REPORT Phil Ward takes a look at broadcast post-Covid-19
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SPECIAL REPORT International momentum for Digital Light Windows
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PROJECTS Sovico installs a QSC system at Kyung Hee University
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FEATURES BIG BANG THEORY Meyer Sound’s Constellation system at JIExpo, Jakarta
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NEW GENERATION ACCOMMODATION Millennial-friendly touches at Capri Hotel 52 USER-FRIENDLY UPGRADE PxD transforms performance spaces at Sydney school 54 BELLS TOLL FOR K-ARRAY New AV package for Singapore’s Chijmes
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STRIKING GOLD Redfish Technologies upgrades Western Australian courtroom
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STARS OF THE FUTURE New auditorium for Nexus International School (Singapore)
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SETTING THE TONE Lambodara Studios opens in Navi Mumbai
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FULL CIRCLE CCTV 360 Studio upgrades with China’s first SSL Duality Pro-Station
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BUSINESS LETTER FROM AMERICA Dan Daley considers the safe reopening of recording studios 70 LETTER FROM EUROPE Phil Ward explores the virtual crowd concept
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COMPANY PROFILE UK’s rising LED processor specialist, Brompton Technology 72 COMPANY PROFILE Marshall Day conquers the Middle Kingdom
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TECHNOLOGY Exterity explains why IPTV and digital signage are key to workplaces
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PRODUCTS The industry’s most comprehensive product news
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ANALYSIS Genelec’s new logistics centre: a masterpiece of sustainability
Editor’s note Email: cmoss@proavl-asia.com
I don’t usually sit down to write this column in a nostalgic frame of mind. Generally, when we reach this stage in our production cycle, we’re celebrating the completion of another issue and looking to the future. However, this time around, two things are giving me cause to look back in time. At the beginning of this year, I travelled to Finland to visit Genelec’s lakeside facility to report, among other things, on its sparkling new logistics centre (Business Analysis, p.106). This was very much in the pre-Covid era and would turn out to be my first and last overseas trip for the magazine this year. We were hearing about the virus at this stage, but it seemed like a distant concern. Apart from an increasing amount of facemasks at the airports I passed through, and a slight sense of foreboding at the cancellation of a growing number of tradeshows, the world was pretty much as we knew it to be. How fast things moved after that. In our line of work, we’ve always hopped on and off planes as if they were buses, seeking out new developments and contacts around our evershrinking world. Freedom to travel at will was one of many things we took for granted. But our travel will doubtless resume and, in the meantime, technology is enabling us to carry on remotely. The company profiles in this issue – Brompton Technology (p.72) and Marshall Day (p.74) – are both great examples of how video technology can bring interview subjects into focus. The second issue giving rise to nostalgia – not just for me but our entire team – reaches further back in time. Raymond Boey, our Singapore office manager, is retiring after 18 years with Blank Canvas Publishing, having joined when Richard Lawn first set up Pro Audio Asia in 2002. For some of us, our association with Raymond goes back even further to the nineties, when we all worked for various outposts of publishing giant Miller Freeman, and Raymond was assigned to a fledgling publication called Pro Sound News Asia, which became the crucible for the magazine you read today. I will never forget Raymond collecting me from Changi on my first-ever trip to Singapore in 1998 and conducting a whistlestop tour to acquaint me with this intriguing new city. His hospitality and kindness whenever one of our team visits Singapore has equalled his calm, professional hand on the helm, steering us through the sometimes obstacle-strewn channel of publication, printing and distribution. Raymond, you will be most missed, definitely not forgotten, and very firmly on our radar whenever we can get back to Singapore.
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