Volume 11, Issue 13 — July 12, 2022

rAVe HOW [House of Worship] — Volume 11, Issue 13

July 12, 2022 | Volume: 11 | Issue: 13

Welcome back, AV Tweeps!

Sara Abrons didn’t get a chance to attend ISE or InfoComm 2022. Instead, she watched over 2,000 product videos captured at the show. She said that watching the videos is certainly not as fun as attending in person, but it’s a pretty efficient way to digest an enormous amount of technology as shown and marketed on a trade show floor, and it’s given her a unique insight into what the industry is doing, collectively. Read the article here and stay tuned for part 2 of Sara’s experience!

And, the winners of rAVe’s Best of InfoComm 2022 Awards are OUT! There were so many amazing products at the show, so these are truly the best of the best! Find the full list of winners here!

In one of our product news stories this time, Blaze Audio, a subsidiary of Pascal A/S of Copenhagen, Denmark, Denmark, just announced the PowerZone Series of install power amplifiers. Consisting of three models — the PowerZone 252, PowerZone 505 and PowerZone 1004 — these power amplifiers can deliver both Lo-Z (4/8 ohm) or Hi-Z (70/100V) loads on any channel. For all the details, check out the article here!

Thanks for tuning in! Check back soon and have a great rest of your week!

— Gianna Holiday

COLUMNS

+ Part 1: What I Learned About the Industry by (Not Attending ISE or InfoComm, But) Watching 2,000 Product Videos [Sara Abrons]

I didn’t go to ISE in Barcelona this year, or InfoComm in Las Vegas just a few weeks later, but as the editor in charge of video titling for rAVe [PUBS] for both, I did watch pretty much every video the team shot from both show floors, which was about 2,000 videos. Although certainly not as fun as attending in person, it’s a pretty efficient way to digest an enormous amount of technology as shown and marketed on a trade show floor, and it’s given me a unique insight into what the industry is doing.

+ Sennheiser Adds Merging Technologies; Will Align With Neumann.Berlin [Bob Snyder]

A joint announcement declares Germany’s Georg Neumann GmbH and Swiss digital audio specialist Merging Technologies will be working closer together — because both are now fully part of the Sennheiser group. This cooperation, as the release explains, results from Sennheiser having taken over “entirely” the shares of Merging Technologies. Sennheiser had shares in the Swiss company and now makes a full purchase, in which financial details are not revealed. (Sennheiser is still a private, family-owned company — a remarkable achievement these days.) Sennheiser’s first move, post-acquisition, inspires closer “cooperation” between newly acquired Merging Technologies and Neumann.Berlin (already a part of the Sennheiser family).