Audio Brands Australia’s Greg Collins talks new gear from Optmal Audio. Joining their zone processsors with fantatstic web GUI are new subwoofers, bezel-less grilles for existing ceiling speakers, and new pendant speakers

Nureva’s Jeffrey Ly shows us their frankly huge HDL all-in-one audio conferencing bars for large meeting rooms. Filling the room with ‘thousands’ of virtual mics and packing major grunt in the loudspeker department, these bars promise simple and effective audio in Teams and Zoom environments

Recent Harman acquisition FLUX has given the audio giant new software tools for immertsive audio and system design. Hugo Larin tells us what it all means

Jands Application Engineer Samuel Drury gives us the low-down on Shure’s MXW neXt2, the all-in-one audio solution for hybrid classrooms, training rooms, and lecture halls that provides superior audio for conferencing and presentations. Simple, easy to set-up, and looking like a category killer to us!

Jands’ Sam Drury introduces us to the all-new Shure Nexadyne, the new standard in stage microphones. Nexadyne Vocal microphones feature patented Shure Revonic™ dual-engine transducer technology, with two precisely calibrated transducers working together to achieve optimal performance. The result is a high-performing microphone line that combines state-of-the-art acoustic signal processing and exceptional cardioid polar pattern…

Jands’ Sam Drury teases us with ShureCloud. Currently in beta and in use by invitation only, when it goes live, it will enable full control, monitoring, and maintenance of networkable Shure dvices, making facility management possible from anywhere you have an internet connection.

Jands’ Nicholas Shaw wisely stands behind the Robe iBOLT, the all new Laser source from Robe. Specifically designed to generate incredible power, and be perfectly safe to use, its white 500W Phosphor Laser source produces an incoherent beam with an incredible intensity of 1.100.000 lx @ 20 m (42.000 lx @ 100 m). With such…

TAG’s inimitable Tony Russo show’s us what’s new at Martin Audio, including the unique Torus constant curvature array series, new three-way 15″ with proprietary Martin mid driver, and the tiny FlexPoint FP4 4″ coaxial box, which Tony insists could do FoH at a corprate event.

NAS’s Anthony Murdoch gives us a tour of some new releases from loudpseaker manufacturer dBTechnolgies, including the install-focussed IS range

AudioBrands Australia’s Greg Collins shows us new microphone releases from Earthworks, including affordable drum mics and all-new goosenecks

Ben Clarke, Rational Acoustics SMAART instructor and all-round audio guru at PAVT, discusses the most succesful and widely adopted immersive audio format – Dolby Atmos – and why phase response is so impotant when designing and deploying immersice audioo systems

ULA Group’s Rod Marshall blinds us with the Pulse Panel FX, a powerful strobe, bright blinder, high-output wash light and creative eye candy effect, all in one