Power and Flexibility for a Variety of Venues
At Meyer Sound, we don’t believe in building products that designed to be
used only in certain applications. Instead, Meyer Sound systems are created
to give outstanding performance no matter what the venue or application.
Take a look below and you’ll find cruise ships and convention centers, TV
studios and recording studios, casinos and cinemas, all of whom agree that
Meyer Sound makes the best sounding, most reliable, and easiest to install
and use sound systems for their needs.
If the application that interests you isn’t below, look at our
application-specific pages, where you can find dedicated information about
sound system designs for theatres, tours, corporate AV, sports venues,
houses of worship and more.
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Spotlight 29 Casino Hits the Jackpot with Meyer Sound's MICA
A few hundred miles outside Los Angeles on Interstate 10, Joshua trees, tumbleweeds, and lengthy stretches of desert start to outnumber convenient stores, strip malls, and nondescript suburbs by a large margin. With water and livable land at a premium, it's easy to see why the nomadic Chemeheuvi tribe first settled at the Oasis of Twenty-Nine Palms in the mid-1800s (currently the Oasis of Mara at Joshua Tree National Park). Today, this picturesque area, located about 30 minutes from Palm Springs, is home to descendants of the Chemeheuvi tribe, the 29 Palms Band of Mission Indians. Situated on their reservation lands lies an oasis of a different sort: Spotlight 29 Casino, an upscale gaming, dining, and entertainment establishment that donates proceeds to help provide housing, financial aid, and security for the Tribe and its future generations.
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North America
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Golden Nugget Polishes Shine with Meyer Sound
In a town with a reputation for venues springing up overnight, the Golden Nugget is an anomaly: a legendary piece of history. First opened in 1946 by Guy McAfee, an ex-vice detective from Los Angeles, "the largest casino in the world" was designed to replicate the original Golden Nugget built on San Francisco's Barbary Coast and built at a then-staggering cost of $1,000,000. In a city known for rewriting the rules, the Golden Nugget was home to a number of firsts: the first to introduce a center dealer (until 1950, poker players dealt their own cards in no-limit games), the first casino to award a large single cash prize ($10,000 in 1968), and the first Las Vegas venue to open a formal showroom.
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North America
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Chumash Casino Makes Things Easy with MILO
Located in Santa Barbara County between Los Angeles and San Francisco, the Chumash Casino Resort is a hotel and casino complex set on the tribal reservation of the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians in the lush, green hills of the central California wine country, the region featured in the Oscar-nominated motion picture "Sideways." After a fitful series of attempts at establishing gambling as a revenue source for the tribe, a casino was first opened on the site in 1994, but a recent major expansion turned the existing casino into a parking structure for the new resort. Offering Las Vegas-style gaming 24/7, the 94,000 square feet of casino floor and 106-room hotel, which was completed mid-2004, the casino also presents an array of top-notch musical entertainment, with Rose Royce, BB King, Chicago, Michael McDonald, Creedence Clearwater Revisited, Cheap Trick, and Willie Nelson all scheduled to appear at the resort's Samala Room through early May.
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North America
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Meyer Sound Shines at Mohegan Sun
With a 10,000-seat arena for entertainment and sporting events, a nightly Cabaret featuring top-name performers, and numerous other special events and meetings, the Mohegan Sun gaming and entertainment complex in Uncasville, Conn., is a busy place 365 days a year.
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North America
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Sam's Town Live!
Sam's Town Live!, the new addition to Sam's Town Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, serves primarily as a mid-sized venue (about 1000 seats) for showcasing name touring acts like Kenny Loggins, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Clay Walker. But, at other times, the plush stadium seats are collapsed and rolled away, and the space is transformed into a banquet and meeting room.
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North America
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Oregon's Cinetopia Showcases Meyer Sound EXP at Pre-Screenings of New "Mission: Impossible" (with Video)
Cinetopia Progress Ridge 14 in Beaverton, Ore. was one of the few elite theatres in the Portland metro area selected for the December 15, 2011 pre-screenings of "Mission: Impossible—The Ghost Protocol." Among those venues, Cinetopia was the only one to bolster the blockbuster's stunning visuals with the visceral and immersive impact of Meyer Sound's premium EXP cinema loudspeaker systems.
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North America
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Wildfire Studios in LA Installs Meyer Sound EXP Cinema Sound System
After completing a major overhaul of its two largest dubbing stages, Wildfire Post-Production Studios in Los Angeles has become the first film and TV production facility in Southern California to offer Meyer Sound's cutting-edge EXP cinema loudspeakers in a large mixing environment.
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North America
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Meyer Sound Provides EXP System for Telluride Film Festival's Galaxy Theatre
In its first year as a corporate sponsor of the Telluride Film Festival, Meyer Sound will supply a complete EXP cinema sound system for movie screenings at the festival's 500-seat theatre, the Galaxy. Each year, the Galaxy venue is transformed from a gymnasium at a local middle school into a movie screening room for the festival, which draws thousands of movie enthusiasts, studio executives, and creative talent to the Colorado mountain resort town for four days of complete cinematic immersion.
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North America
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Pacific Theatres Winnetka 21 Installs New Meyer Sound EXP Cinema System
The breathtaking impact of Meyer Sound's EXP cinema loudspeaker systems was driven home by the first screening of "Thor" on screen 9 at Pacific Winnetka 21 multiplex in Chatsworth, a suburb of Los Angeles, Calif. Working in tandem with a new Dolby 3D projection system, the heightened sonic experience of EXP cinema sound technology is a key component of Pacific Theatres' "Immersive 3D Experience."
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North America
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Germany's CinemaxX Invests in Meyer Sound EXP Systems for 60 Screens
CinemaxX AG, a European cinema chain headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, has announced plans to equip a total of 60 screens throughout Germany and Denmark with Meyer Sound EXP cinema loudspeaker systems. The audio upgrade program is scheduled for completion by 2013.
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Europe
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South Korea's Megabox KINTEX Debuts Asia's First Meyer Sound EXP Cinema System
Asia's first Meyer Sound EXP cinema system is wowing moviegoers at the premium "M" screen at Megabox's KINTEX near Seoul, South Korea. EXP's Asian debut is the latest in a recent string of EXP commercial cinema installations in North America and Europe.
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Asia-Pacific
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Oscar and Golden Reel Nominees Rely on Meyer Sound Loudspeakers
The pivotal role of Meyer Sound loudspeaker systems in film sound production was underscored with the recent announcement of this year's Oscar nominees for Sound Editing by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. For four of the five nominated films, members of the sound team relied on Meyer Sound monitors in their editing suites.
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North America
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Meyer Sound Sponsors the 23rd European Film Awards in Estonia
Meyer Sound is proud to be an official sponsor of this year's European Film Awards (EFA) ceremonies on December 4 in Tallinn, Estonia. This year's event took place at the Nokia Concert Hall in the Solaris Cultural and Leisure Centre, where permanently installed Meyer Sound systems support the facility's diverse programming year-round.
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Europe
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CinemaxX AG Installs Meyer Sound Cinema Experience in Hamburg and Copenhagen
One of Germany's largest multiplex operators, CinemaxX AG has cemented its status as a technology leader in film exhibition by installing state-of-the-art Meyer Sound Cinema Experience audio systems in two of its premier screening rooms in Hamburg and Copenhagen.
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Europe
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Featured Video: What "Sound Accuracy" Means for Film & TV Postproduction at London's De Lane Lea Studios
Best-known as the one-time recording studio for The Beatles, The Who, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, and Queen, De Lane Lea is London's film and TV post-production powerhouse. To ensure a mixer's soundtrack can smoothly translate for the cinema audience, De Lane Lea took a significant leap forward in its audio capabilities by installing Acheron-based Meyer Sound Cinema Experience systems in three of its studios. In the featured interviews, General Manager Mike King, Supervising Sound Editor Julian Slater, and Sound Re-Recording Mixers Chris Burdon and Doug Cooper discuss how "sound accuracy" is the vital link in sound postproduction for films and TV.
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Europe
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Meyer Sound Brings 4D Cinema Alive at Madame Tussauds London
In the 284-seat domed theatre of Madame Tussauds London, superheroes come alive in 4D thanks to the collective efforts of a cinematic dream-team, Meyer Sound, Kraftwerk Living Technologies International, Threshold Animation Studios, and Merlin Studios.
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Europe
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Meyer Sound Cinema Experience Featured in Toronto's Exquisite New TIFF Bell Lightbox
Meyer Sound Cinema Experience audio systems will be featured in two premier cinemas at Toronto's new TIFF Bell Lightbox, a dazzling new five-story complex in downtown Toronto that is destined to become a leading international centre for film. TIFF Bell Lightbox is slated to open on September 12th during the 35th Toronto International Film Festival.
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North America
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Meyer Sound Named Official Sponsor, Conference Audio Provider to 3D Entertainment Summit
Meyer Sound, a leading designer and manufacturer of self-powered loudspeakers, has been named official sponsor, conference audio provider of the 3rd annual 3D Entertainment Summit produced by Unicomm, Inc. and The Bob Dowling Group and presented in association with Variety, September 15-16, 2010 at the Hilton Los Angeles/Universal City, Calif.
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North America
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"Inception" Opens at Cinetopia on July 16 with Meyer Sound Cinema Experience
The countdown to the opening of "Inception" draws to a close at midnight of July 16 when writer-director Christopher Nolan's highly anticipated sci-fi movie debuts nationwide. And for residents in Vancouver, Wash., there is no better place to experience the summer blockbuster than at Cinetopia, where a new Meyer Sound Cinema Experience system delivers the unparalleled sonic power and realism to push the audience's imagination to the limit.
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North America
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Legendary De Lane Lea Post-Production Studio Upgrades to Meyer Sound Cinema Experience
Perhaps best known as the one-time recording studio for the Beatles, The Who, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple and Queen, today, London's De Lane Lea specializes in sound post-production for feature films and television including Oscar-nominees "Fantastic Mr. Fox" and "Wallace and Grommit: A Matter of Loaf and Death," and "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian," among others.
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Europe
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American Zoetrope Upgrades to Meyer Sound Cinema Experience
American Zoetrope, the film studio created and used by filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola since 1970, recently completed the mix of Sofia Coppola's upcoming film "Somewhere" using their new Meyer Sound Cinema Experience monitoring system. This same system was used to mix Mr. Coppola's 2009 release of "Tetro".
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North America
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LaboDigital Brings Mexican Cinema to New Era with Meyer Sound
Known primarily for producing history documentaries, in recent years the Mexican film industry has risen to international status receiving critical praise at major movie festivals for acting, cinematography, and direction. To prepare its facilities for 21st century digital cinema production, LaboFilms in Mexico City has installed a state-of-the-art mixing stage at LaboDigital. Based on CQ-1 loudspeakers, the new Meyer Sound system provides the linear sound quality that translates smoothly across post-production and theatre reproduction.
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Latin America
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Meyer Sound Cinema System Installed in First Cinemas in US
Meyer Sound is proud to announce the first installation of a Meyer Sound Cinema Experience loudspeaker system in two US-based commercial theatres, located in Gulf Breeze and Pace, Fla. Both systems, at The Breeze and The Ridge Cinemas, will be used for the first time during the opening of "Alice in Wonderland" on March 5.
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North America
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Meyer Sound & Werner Audio Transform Brandenburg Gate into Outdoor Cinema
For this year's Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), the outdoor simulcast of Fritz Lang's 1927 film "Metropolis" kept the attention of 2,000 fans braving Germany's winter cold for two-and-a-half hours. Berlin-based Werner Audio GmbH set up a Meyer Sound MICA line array loudspeaker system for the Pariser Platz at the Brandenburg Gate.
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Europe
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Meyer Sound Sets New Benchmarks for Outdoor Cinema at Doha Tribeca Film Festival
In its inaugural year, the Doha Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF) laid claim to a giant outdoor screening venue equipped with what may have been the most powerful Dolby 5.1 surround sound system ever assembled. On a grassy expanse next to the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar's capital, 104 Meyer Sound loudspeakers complemented a towering 24-by-10 meter screen, providing faithful audio reproduction for the much awaited screenings and performance of the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra to the pleasure of 5,000 guests.
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Africa & Middle East
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Meyer Sound's New Acheron Studio Loudspeaker Offers Cinema Quality Reproduction in a Small Package
Meyer Sound has announced the newest member of the Cinema Experience line, the Acheron Studio, which brings the low distortion and transparency of the Acheron 80 screen channel loudspeaker to a smaller package. Designed for use behind a perforated screen or for direct monitoring, the THX-approved Acheron Studio is a perfect choice for small cinemas, post-production, and private theatres. Soundtracks monitored on the Acheron Studio translate accurately into larger cinema systems, making the loudspeaker an equally ideal fit for re-recording rooms, sound design rooms, and music studio control rooms.
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Worldwide
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Meyer Sound Transforms Friedrichstadtpalast into World-Class Cinema for Berlinale Film Festival 2009
Friedrichstadtpalast, Germany's historic revue theatre, took the spotlight as one of the two new venues in this year's Berlinale, one of the world's largest international film festival. With 1,750-seats used for the screenings, the Palast was also the biggest among the cinemas and played an important role for the festival's record ticket sales reaching 274,112. Deployed behind a perforated screen, Meyer Sound's M'elodie line array loudspeaker system provided an extraordinary sound experience for the critical film industry audiences at Friedrichstadtpalast, despite the theatre's wide dimensions, which are atypical for movie exhibitions.
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Europe
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Sound Designed on Meyer Sound HD-1s
Few movies this year will be as high profile as Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Once again, Decepticon and Autobot Transformers are brought to life to do battle on the big screen. Filmmakers know that it is the sound, with all the organic and mechanical sound effects that breathes life into the created CGI characters that are as much the stars in this franchise as their human counterparts.
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Worldwide
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Meyer Sound's New Cinema Experience Products Shows the Future of Cinema Sound at UC San Diego
At the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), the Digital Cinema Auditorium plays a pivotal role for the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), a unique public-private research consortium. In this intimate 200-seat auditorium, teams of artists and scientists work to push the limits of movie technology ranging from production and distribution to exhibition. Tools at hand include connections to the world's fastest fiber optic networks (up to 10 GBs), a Sony 4K ultra-high definition projector, and a multi-format surround system featuring Meyer Sound's new Cinema Experience products, highlighting the THX-approved Acheron 100 screen channel loudspeaker.
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North America
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USC's School of Cinematic Arts Unveils New Complex—
Meyer Sound Acheron Loudspeakers Provide Clarity and Smooth Translation for Cinema Sound
The University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts (SCA), the oldest and largest film school in the US, opened the first two buildings of its entirely new Cinematic Arts Complex in March 2009. The SCA features one of the first deployments of Meyer Sound's Cinema Experience of low-distortion, high-power loudspeaker products, installed in several screening rooms and mix stages. Based on the new Acheron line of self-powered screen channel loudspeakers, the Cinema Experience product line is designed to provide a smooth translation across sound design, dubbing, and exhibition.
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North America
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Meyer Sound 700-HP Subwoofer Brings Sensurround Back to Life at Egyptian Theatre
A Meyer Sound system successfully brought a bone-rattling rumble to create a unique, sensational movie experience in a 2006 Sensurround screening of the 1974 cult film "Earthquake" for the Pacific Film Archive and then a 2007 screening for the Los Angeles Film Festival. This January, Meyer Sound's 700-HP ultrahigh-power subwoofers were once again deployed to reproduce the historic track at the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles.
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North America
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At California Academy of Sciences, Meyer Sound Gives Morrison Planetarium an Otherworldly Experience
Morrison Planetarium, a key attraction within San Francisco's all-new California Academy of Sciences, has been designed from the ground up to offer the most compelling outer space experience one can have without leaving planet Earth. Cantilevered out over the Academy's coral reef tank, it mimics the 30-degree tilt of our planet and houses a state-of-the-art digital AV system that features Meyer Sound self-powered loudspeakers throughout.
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North America
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Meyer Sound LCS Series Matrix3 Orchestrates Audio at Renovated Griffith Observatory
Perched on the flank of Mount Hollywood, Griffith Observatory has been a Los Angeles landmark since it opened in 1935. The observatory is perhaps best known to moviegoers as a key location in "Rebel Without a Cause," starring James Dean. In late 2006, after a four year closure for a massive $93 million remodeling project, the observatory reopened to the public with what is literally the most star-studded show in Southern California: the new Samuel Oschin Planetarium.
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North America
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New Indonesian 4D Theatre Enthralls with Meyer Sound Support
The grand opening of new 304-seat theatre at the Jaya Ancol Resort in Jakarta, Indonesia, marks the largest installation to date of the innovative "4D" entertainment systems designed and installed by Kraftwerk Living Technologies (Wels, Austria). Housed in a structure resembling a pre-Columbian Peruvian pyramid, the theatre's cutting-edge networked digital systems create a synchronized, multisensory experience that bridges the gap between cinema and a full-blown theme park ride. On screen, dual Christie HD video projectors create superimposed, color-encoded screen images that, when viewed through the provided special glasses, result in three-dimensional visuals of startling depth and detail. At appropriate moments in the film's story line, the seats jolt, shake, and emit wafts of cool air or sprays of moisture. Finally, to complete the sensation of total immersion, the visitors are encircled by audio from a potent, precision-tuned system of 18 self-powered Meyer Sound loudspeakers.
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Asia-Pacific
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Tachikawa Cinema Expands with Meyer Sound
The busy Tokyo suburb of Tachikawa has been undergoing something of an urban renaissance over the past decade. Once an all-but-forgotten industrial enclave located some 25 miles west of central Tokyo, this city of some 180,000 has benefited from a number of redevelopment projects around Tachikawa's central train station, beginning with the opening of the "Cinema City" complex in 1994.
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Asia-Pacific
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Meyer Sound M'elodie Line Array Loudspeaker Ticks All Boxes for Adelaide Convention Centre
With its recent addition of a Meyer Sound M'elodie line array loudspeaker system, the Adelaide Convention Centre has become an even more attractive events venue for Australia's largest industry gatherings. The centre took top honors at the 2009 South Australian Tourism Awards in the category of Meetings and Business Tourism and silver in the Qantas Award for Excellence in Sustainable Tourism, and in November reported a new attendance record at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Haematology Society of Australia and New Zealand.
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Asia-Pacific
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Meyer Sound Lends Flexibility to Cairns Convention Centre
Cairns is one of Australia's foremost travel hot spots, owing to its agreeable tropical North Queensland climate, active nightlife, and proximity to the Great Barrier Reef, Daintree Rainforest, Cape Tribulation and other attractions. Capitalizing on the city's tourist draw, the Cairns Convention Centre (CCC) has spent the last decade quietly building a dedicated following and a solid reputation for excellence. Year after year, the CCC is tightly packed with a plethora of conventions, banquets, educational events, exhibits, and concerts, not to mention being the home of Cairns' own professional basketball team, the NBL Taipans.
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Asia-Pacific
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Australia's Largest Convention Center Replete with Meyer Sound
In 1988, the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre (SCEC) opened its doors to booming business and high demand for a first-class venue for meetings. Set on the edge of Sydney's picturesque Darling Harbour, the center was literally an overnight success, and remains to this day the largest convention center in Australia. More than 600 different conventions, events, meetings and product launches are held at the SCEC every year, with attendees at many major conferences numbering more than 5,000.
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Asia-Pacific
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Meyer Sound Arrays Add to Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre Down Under
To those of us in the more densely populated northern hemisphere, Australia often represents a sort of "Through the Looking Glass" paradigm. Their winter is our summer, their night is our day, and their flora and fauna are the stuff of another world. In keeping with that same inverted reality, the majority of Oz's urban environs are located in the country's cooler southern climes, while the sunny, tropical north is characterized by a slow moving, relaxed atmosphere on a par with our Caribbean or Mediterranean regions.
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Asia-Pacific
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Jakarta Convention Center Goes Self-Powered with Meyer Sound
As a top Indonesian destination for live indoor concerts, the Jakarta Convention Center (JCC) has seen its share of performances by high-profile touring acts such as Natalie Cole, Mariah Carey, and Enrique Iglesias. But the facility also hosts a huge range of locally-originating events, not only entertainment and meetings but also celebratory gatherings including college graduations and even large-scale wedding receptions. It's a busy place, with multiple events occurring simultaneously and tight turnarounds for room utilization. To meet the varied demands, JCC's sound reinforcement gear has to be flexible, quick to set up, and deliver predictably consistent quality across a multitude of configurations. Since 1992, the answer for the JCC has been relying on Meyer Sound loudspeakers, a commitment recently renewed with the acquisition of 56 new cabinets to bring its total Meyer Sound complement to nearly 100 components.
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Asia-Pacific
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Meyer Meets the Stellar Standards of Berlin's Estrel Center
The Estrel Center, Europe's biggest center for conventions, entertainment and lodging, opened in Berlin, Germany in September 1999. Comprising the Estrel Convention Center, Estrel Festival Center and Estrel Hotel, the finished complex embodies the dream of its developer, Ekkehard Streletzki: a center for "meeting, experience and living–all in one." The achievement has garnered him the coveted title of "Hotelier of the Year 2000."
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Europe
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Oasis of the Seas Sets Sail with Record-Setting Meyer Sound Systems
As Oasis of the Seas sailed out of a Finnish shipyard, the luxuriously outfitted flagship of Royal Caribbean International went straight into the record books as the largest and most expensive passenger vessel ever built—weighing more than 225,000 gross registered tons and costing $1.5 billion. Oasis of the Seas also sets a new record for the largest ocean-going Meyer Sound systems. Three complex Matrix3 audio show control systems are installed, along with a total of 268 loudspeakers that include Meyer Sound's most compact subwoofer, custom designed to meet the stringent space requirements on the cruise ship.
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Worldwide
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First-in-Class Celebrity Solstice Sets Sail with Seaworthy Meyer Sound Systems
The new Celebrity Solstice is the first of Celebrity Cruises' five-ship Solstice Class fleet, and also the largest cruise ship ever built in Germany, with an arrestingly sleek exterior and stately amenities for 2,850 guests plus a crew of 1,500. To please the well-tuned seagoing ear, a total of 77 Meyer Sound loudspeakers are installed in ten shipboard venues where sound quality is of particular importance.
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Worldwide
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Queen Victoria Sets Sail with Self-Powered Meyer Sound Systems
Cunard's newest ocean liner, the Queen Victoria, is a massive ship that spans 12 expansive decks and boasts some of the most luxurious and modern facilities ever to sail the open seas. The magnificent liner features a multi-story grand lobby, numerous ambient restaurants, lounges, a casino and state-of-the-art theatres, many of which are equipped with self-powered Meyer Sound systems designed by San Diego-based Nautilus Entertainment Design and installed by system integrator HMS Italia.
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North America
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World's Largest Cruise Ship Freedom of the Seas Outfitted with Meyer Sound
Freedom of the Seas, the flagship of Royal Caribbean's new "Ultra-Voyager" class, is the largest cruise ship ever built. Outsizing even the legendary Queen Mary II at nearly 160,000 tons, this luxurious behemoth boasts a capacity of 3,634 guests (double occupancy) on fifteen decks, and it pampers all aboard with amenities that simply could not be accommodated on a lesser vessel: the first at-sea water park and surfing pool, a state of the art fitness center, a boxing ring, a 3,600-volume library, and the four-story Royal Promenade of shops and restaurants that hosts a nightly street parade. Each of the 1,817 cabins – from the 160 square foot doubles to the 14-person, 1,200 square foot Presidential Suite – comes equipped with flat-screen televisions as well as WiFi and cellular telephone connectivity.
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North America
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ARCHI-TECH AV Award Goes to Thomas Gregor Associates for Caribbean Princess Installation
A pair of weather-protected Meyer Sound MILO high-powered curvilinear arrays anchor the audio side of a spectacular shipboard cinema system that was honored recently with a 2006 ARCHI-TECH AV Award. Installed alongside a giant Panasonic Astrovision LED video screen aboard Princess Cruise Lines' Caribbean Princess cruise ship, the MILO arrays provide clear, forceful sound for an ambitious entertainment offering dubbed "Movies Under the Stars."
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North America
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Meyer Sound MILOs Make Movies Majestic for Princess Passengers
"It's an experience like no other — one that you just can't have on any other cruise ship." That's how veteran cruise journalist Alan Wilson, owner/editor of Cruise News Daily, sums up "Movies Under the Stars" on the Caribbean Princess, a newly launched Grand-class vessel from Princess Cruises.
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Worldwide
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Holland America's Vista Class Steps Up to Meyer Sound Self-Powered Audio
Holland America Lines' new Vista class ships have taken the lead in introducing Meyer Sound's self-powered loudspeakers into shipboard entertainment systems where quality is critical. Beginning with the Zuiderdam and Oosterdam, and continuing with the soon-to-be-christened Westerdam, the Vista Class cruises are treating shipboard audiences to state-of-the-art sound through systems essentially the same as those used for hit Broadway shows and top-line concert tours.
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Worldwide
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Meyer Sound on the High Seas
When Holland American bought the cruise ship Homeric from Home Lines, they made several changes to the ship. They cut the vessel in half and inserted a new section of cabins that included a lounge. They rechristened the ship the Westerdam. And, to provide a sound system for the new Broadway-style shows they planned to put on, they purchased a Meyer sound system from Miami Audio Visual Company (MAVCO).
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North America
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Meyer Sound Helps Edfu Temple Bring Ancient Egypt Back to Life
When visitors arrive at the Edfu Temple, a 2,200-year-old landmark located in the desert 500 miles south of Cairo, they are greeted with an imposing sound and light show that brings the mysterious world of ancient Egypt to life. Sonic clarity from weather-protected Meyer Sound systems elevates the storytelling, and helps provide travelers with a new, exciting way to experience the ancient monument and Egyptian mythology.
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Africa & Middle East
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Denmark's Aarhus Theatre Upgrades to Meyer Sound M'elodie System
Aarhus, Denmark's second largest city is also the oldest with recorded history dating back to the year 951. In this context, the 19th century Aarhus Theatre, which hosts numerous theatrical, dance and musical performances throughout the year, and houses three schools for acting and theater arts, is relatively young. Yet it was the recent upgrade to a Meyer Sound M'elodie ultracompact high-power curvilinear array loudspeaker system replacing the original Meyer Sound system that brought the theater's audio into the 21st century.
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Europe
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Modesto State Theatre Transformed Into State-of-the-Art Venue with Meyer Sound
The State Theatre in Modesto, Calif., (originally named the Art Deco State Theatre) was built as a movie house in 1934 by noted architect S. Charles Lee and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The seating area is long and narrow, with rear seating that rises about 20 feet above the main floor. The side walls are notable for their gold leaf murals depicting greyhounds and gazelles. Sadly, the building fell into disrepair over time, and its sound system was badly outdated. In June of 2005, the non-profit State Theatre of Modesto, Inc. was formed and planning for a comprehensive renovation project commenced.
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North America
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Historic Colorado Springs Performance Site Gets a Makeover With Meyer Sound
Established in 1936 by local benefactor Alice Bemis Taylor, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center (CSFAC) has long been a cornerstone of all things artistic in the region. Housing a gallery, artistic and theatrical teaching facilities, and a multi-use performance hall, the center truly provides a bit of everything to this rapidly growing metropolitan area. However, as is often the case with grand old historical buildings, the center's performance space has lately started to show its age, prompting a much-needed remodel project this past summer.
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North America
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Now They Know How Many Line Arrays It Takes to Fill the Albert Hall
The Royal Albert Hall (RAH) is one of the world's best-known venues, having seen countless historic performances and live recordings, as well as being immortalized by the Beatles in their epic piece, "A Day in the Life." The task of providing sound reinforcement in such a prestigious hall is a sobering responsibility amply shouldered in recent years by Woking, UK's Sound By Design Limited (SBD).
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Europe
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Meyer Sound Makes the Play the Thing at Little Theatre On the Prairie
On the eastern Montana prairie sits a small wooden theatre with a rich cultural past. Built as a silent movie house in 1934 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Fort Peck Theatre was long a vital part of the community. During the construction of the Fort Peck Dam (still the nation's largest embankment dam), movies were shown around the clock to accommodate the work schedules of the nearly 40,000 area residents.
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North America
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MILO Plays to the Balconies at Bob Hope Theatre
One result of the San Francisco Bay Area's continual growth has been that Stockton, 63 miles East of San Francisco, now ranks as California's 12th largest city, with a multi-cultural population of over 260,000 and an aggressive economic and cultural expansion program that has been revitalizing the downtown waterfront area.
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North America
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Meyer at St. Mary's - Sound From the Shadows
Acoustics and visual aesthetics frequently collide in churches with older buildings and traditional architecture, where liturgical worship styles are often the norm. Here, clergy and worshippers prefer their loudspeakers to be highly intelligible yet essentially invisible—unlike the situation in newer worship centers where loudspeakers in open view rarely raise objections. Fortunately, at St. Mary's Episcopal Church in El Dorado, Arkansas, potential conflicts between acoustics and aesthetics were resolved by the installation of a discreet, self-powered loudspeaker system from Meyer Sound.
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North America
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Art Deco Treasure Shines with New Meyer Sound System
The citizens of Landau take justifiable pride in their recent restoration of the Festhalle, an elegant structure (completed 1907) heralded as the finest example of art deco architecture in southern Germany. The Festhalle's painstakingly refurbished interior, rich with the detailed textures of the era, is perfectly complemented by new audio systems featuring self-powered loudspeakers from Meyer Sound.
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Europe
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Firehouse Heats Up with X-10 Monitors
On the outside, Firehouse Studios preserve the rustic charm of the original structure, a circa 1889 fire station near downtown Pasadena, California. On the inside, however, the facility takes a quantum leap into 21st century audio technology. After gutting the old building's outer shell and rebuilding from the ground up, this cutting-edge recording complex installed the first surround monitoring system in Southern California to incorporate Meyer Sound's revolutionary X-10 Linear Control Room Monitors.
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North America
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Sound for Historic Churches - Beauty and Versatility Combined
Sometimes the needs of past, present and future collide when it comes to sound system design - as they did last year at the First United Methodist Church of Paris, Texas. Built in the early 1920s, this three-story, steel frame structure comprising both Mediterranean and Classic Revival architectural styles has a sanctuary housed under a 40-ft. high octagonal, rotunda dome and is noted for some unique period features, including intricate decorative paintings and stencil work . It was placed on the National Historic Register in 1983.
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North America
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New York's Plaza Hotel is Reborn with Dynamic Soundscape Created with Meyer Sound Matrix3
One of New York's most distinctive landmarks, The Plaza Hotel holds a special place in the city's history, hosting generations of the rich and famous, inspiring books, and starring in movies. The property has recently been renovated and restored to its former glory, reborn as a combination luxury condominium and hotel tower.
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North America
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Self-Powered Systems Take to the Ceiling at New Hilton
The new Hilton Americas in Houston, Texas, offers meeting spaces with state of the art audio-video systems featuring digital fiber optic signal distribution, touch-screen controllers, and over 300 powerful ceiling loudspeakers. But don't look for a room filled with racks of signal processors and power amplifiers to drive all those loudspeakers, because it doesn't exist.
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North America
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Meyer Sound MM-4s Hide Away at Florida Resort
Known for its atmosphere of casual elegance, Florida's Boca Raton Resort & Club is a jet-setter's hideaway where modern amenities blend with the opulent Mediterranean-influenced architecture of the 1920's Gold Coast heyday. To maintain the unblemished look of this bygone era while providing 21st century sound, the Resort has installed Meyer Sound MM-4 miniature wide range loudspeakers inside the chandeliers of the soaring Cathedral room. Hidden away and practically invisible, the complement of diminutive MM-4 systems fills the acoustically problematic room with consistently pleasurable music.
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North America
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Meyer Sound Self-Powered UPM-1Ps Hit the Ceiling at Marriott
Plenum-mount ceiling loudspeaker systems have been, for all practical purposes, the exclusive domain of distributed 70-volt transformer-tapped technology. Until now. At the new Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel near Houston, Texas, an unorthodox new design has ditched the old transformer-based system and opted for digital processing and matrixing with direct feeds to a phalanx of Meyer Sound self-powered loudspeakers. Is this the start of a revolution in the ceiling?
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North America
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Legendary De Lane Lea Post-Production Studio Upgrades to Meyer Sound Cinema Experience
Perhaps best known as the one-time recording studio for the Beatles, The Who, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple and Queen, today, London's De Lane Lea specializes in sound post-production for feature films and television including Oscar-nominees "Fantastic Mr. Fox" and "Wallace and Grommit: A Matter of Loaf and Death," and "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian," among others.
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Europe
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Sound Designed on Meyer Sound HD-1s
Few movies this year will be as high profile as Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Once again, Decepticon and Autobot Transformers are brought to life to do battle on the big screen. Filmmakers know that it is the sound, with all the organic and mechanical sound effects that breathes life into the created CGI characters that are as much the stars in this franchise as their human counterparts.
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Worldwide
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John Meyer Recording Nominated for GRAMMY Award
The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) has announced that a recording made by Meyer Sound CEO/President John Meyer and producer Dave Dennison has been nominated to receive a 2006 GRAMMY Award as Best Traditional World Music Album.
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North America
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Anthony Jackson Achieves Bass-Line Quality with Meyer Sound CQ-1s
When people think electric bass, there's no mistake: Anthony Jackson defines innovation and power at the low end of the frequency spectrum. His indelible stamp on modern music includes the groundbreaking bass line on the O'Jays' "For the Love of Money," more than 500 album credits, nonstop touring, and the invention of the six-string contrabass guitar.
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North America
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Angel Takes Wing with Meyer X-10s
North London recording and mixing complex Angel Studios, which specializes in classical recordings and film soundtrack work, has installed a Meyer Sound X-10 Linear Control Room Monitor 5.1 system into its newly-refurbished Studio One. The aim of the refurbishment was to update the equipment and create more space in the main control room.
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Europe
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Firehouse Heats Up with X-10 Monitors
On the outside, Firehouse Studios preserve the rustic charm of the original structure, a circa 1889 fire station near downtown Pasadena, California. On the inside, however, the facility takes a quantum leap into 21st century audio technology. After gutting the old building's outer shell and rebuilding from the ground up, this cutting-edge recording complex installed the first surround monitoring system in Southern California to incorporate Meyer Sound's revolutionary X-10 Linear Control Room Monitors.
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North America
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Meyer Sound's New X-10 System in Action at Tokyo's Sound Craft Studio
A pair of Meyer's new X-10, self-powered linear control room monitors now reside in the surround sound studio at Sound Craft, Tokyo.
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Asia-Pacific
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HD-1 Studio Monitor Certfified by THX for New Program
Meyer Sound is pleased to announce that its High Definition studio monitor, the HD-1, is THX approved for use in the new THX Certification Program, THX PM3, which includes multi-channel mixing and monitoring rooms.
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North America
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News Brief Pacific Rim 1997
Singapore dealer Concert Sound provided equipment for several large productions in 1997. "All the shows we've done with Meyer equipment have been successful. Our clients have been very happy," reports C.S. contact Ryz Martein.
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Asia-Pacific
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D'Angelo Finds Extraordinary Sound with His New HD-2s
R & B artist D'Angelo chose Meyer Sound HD-2 Mid-Field Monitors as the principal monitors in his new project studio, currently under construction at his home in Fort Lee, N.J. D'Angelo plans to use the studio for preproduction for his new album, as well as for mixes for other artists. Singer D'Angelo received three Grammy Award nominations for his debut album, D'Angelo Brown Sugar, released in 1995.
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North America
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Bootsy Collins chooses HD-2 for His New Studio
When the king of psychedelic funk, Bootsy Collins, was looking for a main monitor for his Bootzilla Re-Hab Studio in Cincinnati, Ohio, he decided upon the Meyer Sound HD-2 Mid-Field Reference Monitor. In addition to the HD-2s, the eclectic studio hosts an array of other high-end studio gear including an Amek Big 44 Channel Console, two 32 channel Mackie Boards, 32 tracks of Alesis Adat, 32 tracks of DA-88, an 8 track Akai hard disc, a 4 track Akai hard disc, as well as an array of vintage keyboards.
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North America
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ABC-TV purchases HD-1 Monitors
ABC-TV in New York recently upgraded its heavily used TV 7 Control Room with the purchase of five Meyer Sound HD-1 Near-Field Monitors and four Meyer Sound HD-2w Mid-Field Monitors. The TV 7 control room will be ABC's first fully digital control room.
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North America
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"MythBusters" Uses Meyer Sound Technology to Pit Movie Effects against the "Real Thing"
In a recent episode of "MythBusters" on Discovery Channel, show hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman worked with Meyer Sound to investigate whether the "big bangs"—specifically gunshots and explosions—heard in movie soundtracks are sonically faithful to the real events. The episode, entitled "Blow Your Own Sail," was aired on May 11, 2011.
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North America
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Mythbusters Challenges Rifle Gunshot Legend with Meyer Sound Subwoofers
"Mythbusters" Build Team—Kari Byron, Tory Belleci, and Grant Imahara—visited Meyer Sound's Berkeley headquarters as part of their quest to verify the claim that a Russian-made SKS rifle could be set off by the vibration of a high-powered subwoofer.
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North America
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Meyer Sound Helps Mythbusters Master Flame in April 11 Episode
Can sound waves extinguish a flame? If anyone can answer that question, it would be the Mythbusters. One of the Discovery Channel's most popular and entertaining shows, "Mythbusters" features five special effects and science experts taking turns debunking (and sometimes proving) common and, often, silly urban legends.
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North America
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Meyer Sound M'elodie Brings the Sound of "La Academia" to Latin America
From its first season, reality show "La Academia" ("The Academy") has captivated the Latin American public with its star-in-the-making concept, and regularly dominates its time slot. For the show's fifth season, TV Azteca, the powerhouse Mexican television network that produces and airs "La Academia," recently installed a new in-studio sound system starring the Meyer Sound M'elodie ultracompact high-power curvilinear array loudspeaker.
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Latin America
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Emmy Award-winning "The View" Upgrades to Meyer Sound
"The View," winner of 20 Daytime Emmy awards, has received critical acclaim since its 1997 debut. Now in its tenth season, the show is hosted by ABC news icon Barbara Walters, entertainer Rosie O'Donnell, comedian Joy Behar and former "Survivor" star Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and offers a wide-ranging menu of news, celebrity interviews and live entertainment.
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North America
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Meyer Sound Powers RTL France's Long-Awaited Renovation
The RTL Group is a European broadcasting institution, an acronym whose letters carry a degree of cachet comparable to that of the American NBC, ABC and CBS networks. Founded in 1924 when the Anen brothers, Francois and Marcel, installed their first transmitter in the attic of their Luxembourg house, the original Radio Luxembourg has grown into the RTL powerhouse of 31 radio stations and 32 television channels in 11 countries across the European continent and beyond.
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Europe
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German Broadcast Bets on Meyer Sound M2D
"Wetten Dass...?" (Want To Bet...?) is one of the most popular and long-running TV shows in Germany. For 21 years, the show has been entertaining audiences with its unique brand of celebrity interviews and crazy antics, including such feats as shaving while skydiving at a height of 4,000 meters or finding thirty people from ten different countries in a park and dancing the Cancan with them.
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Europe
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Television Espanola Gala in Southeast Spain Reaches 5,000 Attendees at Outdoor Event on Meyer Sound System
For the show "Murcia que bonita eres" held in Aguiles (Murcia), Spain, upwards of 5,000 people gathered to hear artists ranging from Puerto Rican pop star Chayanne and the sultry vocals of Natalia Oreiro to pop mambo hit Lou Bega.
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Europe
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Meyer Sound Brings the Tribal Beat of Axe Voodoo To MTV Event Off Cochin
Deepak Pawar, event manager for Midas Events stated that the Meyer Sound system provided through Reynold Sound was of a caliber that surpassed any permanent disco installation he had heard.
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Worldwide
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World Championship Wrestling (WCW) Purchases Self-Powered System
World Championship Wrestling, the premiere provider of sports entertainment, recently introduced their new self-powered Meyer Sound loudspeaker system on December 2nd for the TV broadcast of "WCW Thunder" in Topeka, Kansas, which is broadcasted once a week on TBS Superstation. Other WCW events that will utilize the new system include the weekly broadcast of "WCW Monday Nitro Live on TNT," as well as a dozen pay-per-view programs and numerous wrestling events scheduled for the year 2000.
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North America
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Gianni Morandi: RAI TV music shows
Gianni Morandi is one of Italy's longest-lasting pop phenomena, having been a top name since the sixties. His pulling power was recently confirmed by a mini-series of prime time RAI TV music shows hosted by the artist: all chalked up over 9 million viewers and one exceeded 10 million. Guests included Whitney Houston, Eros Ramazzotti and Laura Pausini (Italy's top pop exports). Staged in Cinecittà's Studio 15, the show featured an impressive all-white set designed by Gaetano Castelli (also Lighting Designer).
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Europe
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ABC-TV purchases HD-1 Monitors
ABC-TV in New York recently upgraded its heavily used TV 7 Control Room with the purchase of five Meyer Sound HD-1 Near-Field Monitors and four Meyer Sound HD-2w Mid-Field Monitors. The TV 7 control room will be ABC's first fully digital control room.
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North America
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