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The ULA Group continues working closely with the leading Melbournian architects and lighting companies to light up the city’s iconic structures. After our successful re lighting of the iconic Melbourne ‘Red Sticks’, we were invited to head up supply and design another project managed by Transurban – illuminating the towers of Bolte Bridge.  When the…

Sadly we report the death of Daniel Castelli in the early hours of Saturday morning, 18th of October 2014. Daniel was a much-loved member of the InSight Systems team and known to many through the Audio Visual industry. Daniel was a good man and though he appeared as fun loving guy, we now know that…

Ken Dwyer has left Audio Products Group, just three months after Hills acquired his business for a reported $15 million. In this month’s CX, Hills Chief Operating Officer Brad Newton spoke about the acquisition. (Read interview here) “With APG, our goal right now is – we’ve got a lot of integration work to complete with…

A local innovator who designed what it is believed to be the strongest public temporary structure in the world has won a 2014 Northern Engineering Excellence Award in Darwin. The Skycity Beachside Pavilion may look like another stylish marquee – but this ‘tent’ can withstand winds to the equivalent of a medium range Category 4…

To celebrate the release of the Qu-32 and the last model in the Qu range, Allen&Heath is embarking on a national Australian tour from October 27th – 31st. Headlining the event will be Alex Schloesser, Sales Engineer and Global Market Manager over at Allen&Heath. Alex was last in Australia for the CX Roadshow to show…

Earlier this year Sennheiser Australia held a series of seminars on RF technology and wireless system design. Presented by Sennheiser wireless specialist James Waldron, they were a huge hit, with overwhelming positive feedback from attendees. Well, we’re doing it again in October / November. And we’re making it even better. Joining James will be one…

This turned up at the Knock Off Gear (private) Facebook Group. An incompetent at best, possibly duplicitous, cunning, and conniving importer has dumped vast quantities of very dangerous domestic TPS cable into the Australian market. Woolworth’s owned Masters Hardware were silly enough to sell it, as were some other vendors (list below). The affected cable came…

Sound Workshop in Canberra, Australia has chosen the new self-powered MJF-210 stage monitor from Meyer Sound. Built for the demanding needs of today’s live productions, the MJF-210 is the lightest stage monitor in the Meyer Sound product line. “The problem has been finding something that delivers the same audio performance, reliability, acceptance and ease of…

Novatech Creative Event Technology have cemented their reputation as Australia’s biggest supporter of the legendary PA manufacturer L-ACOUSTICS by being among the first companies in the world to take on a major inventory of their new K2 line array system. A full 48 K2 elements supported by 16 K1-SB’s will call Novatech home. Novatech share…

UPDATED 3.52PM: Telstra advised us that they ran an advert in CX during September, alerting the industry to wireless trials ‘in a number of locations’. Allied with previous communications, this was understood to be the six regional trails referred to in today’s story, not trials within SYDNEY. As the advert shows, the web page ‘will…

ENTECH founder and former CX partner Caroline Fitzmaurice-Grafton is seriously ill in Sydney with an inoperable brain tumor. After selling out of Connections Publishing in 2002, Caroline left the industry and built a career as a business advisor. She was very popular and well known across the sound, light and vision industry in her time…