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At CinemaCon 2014 in booth 213F, QSC Audio Products will be demonstrating a versatile processing platform that can accommodate any object-based or channel-based immersive sound format. Q-SYS, the company’s network audio platform, now has the capability to directly accept a network connection from a Dolby® CP850 processor, and it can also function as the rendering engine for MDA, the multi-dimensional audio format developed by DTS®, Inc. Immersive sound, which features a three-dimensional array of loudspeakers and the ability to place sounds anywhere in the cinema, offers filmmakers more creative freedom in the production of a cinema soundtrack. It also offers cinemagoers a much greater sense of engagement with the action on screen. Although standards are still being proposed, there are several formats which have been developed to produce the immersive audio…

在CinemaCon大会上，所有由主要电影公司和发行商赞助的放映和影片展示环节，都会在Colosseum（大剧院）举行。由于大剧院比大多数影院大，因此他们组合使用了QSC专业音频设备和影院产品。  

QSC Audio Products宣布Danny Pickett晋升为全球影院产品销售总监。Danny Pickett于2005年加入QSC Cinema，担任大客户经理，负责QSC Audio Products欧洲影院经销商的选择和建设。2010年，他晋升为影院产品销售经理，负责美国和国际影院经销商的管理和支持工作。作为全球影院产品销售总监，Danny将全面负责美国和国际销售运营以及客户技术支持。QSC Audio Products高级副总裁兼首席战略官Barry Ferrell说：“事实证明，Danny是我们影院产品销售的中流砥柱。自他就任影院产品销售经理以来，我们的全球影院产品销售显著增长，这在很大程度上要归功于......

QSC Audio Products发布三款适合小型影院的扬声器，能够满足音频输出要求，成本效益高但不会牺牲音质。这些新型号包括两个无源全频二分频银幕声道扬声器和一个紧凑的超薄型低音炮。通过将QSC SC-2150银幕声道扬声器和SR-8101环绕扬声器搭配使用， QSC现在可以提供最完整的扬声器产品系列，符合小型影院的应用需求和预算。全新SC-1120二分频银幕声道扬声器采用12英寸低频驱动器和1.75英寸音圈高频驱动器，专门针对从银幕到最后一排座位的距离不超过35英尺（11米）的放映厅进行了优化。全新SC-1150二分频银幕声道扬声器针对长度不超过45英尺（14米）的放映厅设计，采用1个15英寸低频单元......

QSC Audio Products, LLC.宣布任命John White为研发副总裁。在QSC的新职位上，John将领导公司发展计划的技术和管理工作，并积极规划和执行研发部门内的人员发展、流程管理和基础设施管理。John将向QSC首席运营官Jatan Shah报告工作。Jatan Shah说道：“我们非常高兴John White博士能担任QSC的研发副总裁。QSC将继续开发革命性的技术平台来服务我们的客户，期待John利用他的领导能力和专业知识，带领我们的尖端研究和产品开发团队更上一层楼。”John将充分利用他在世界领先企业的丰富技术经验……

德克萨斯州普莱诺（2013年10月31日） -- 作为市场规模高达10亿美元的鬼屋行业的新成员，位于得克萨斯州Dark Hour Haunted House鬼屋采用了大量QSC Audio多分区音响系统， 由双冗余Q-Sys Core 500i处理器控制。这座科技含量极高的鬼屋包括三个令人毛骨悚然的主题——死亡之域、集会城堡和伏都教报复。每个主题都配备了QSC Audio有源K系列、KW系列和KLA系列扬声器，以及AcousticPerformance扬声器。其中AcousticPerformance扬声器由CX系列和PowerLight 3系列功放驱动。走进“Dark Hour”鬼屋的游乐设施就会进入一片墓地，接着穿过一座鬼屋，最后进入到一个伏都教主题区，Q-Sys和全套QSC扬声器通过特殊效果和环境音营造了惊悚的氛围。整个音响系统都……

在佛罗里达州好莱坞举行的ShowEast电影博览会上，QSC Audio Products推出了用于重要音响应用的全新扬声器系统。参考监听音箱系统（图中显示的是带有选配翼形挡板的产品）包括银幕声道和低音炮、信号处理单元和功放，从而形成了一个全面优化的系统，可以为需要卓越音质的场合提供最佳聆听体验。参考监听音箱系统的扬声器组件包括全新RSC-112三分频扬声器和全新RSB-212低音炮。RSC-112是参考监听音箱系统的屏幕通道组件。采用12英寸（305毫米）低音喇叭，带4英寸（102毫米）音圈，可以实现卓越的低频带宽表现。低频驱动器分频器为带有3.5英寸（90毫米）音圈的大功率铷磁中频压缩驱动器......

During exhibit hours at ShowEast 2013 this week in Hollywood, Florida, QSC Audio Products, LLC, is demonstrating a proof of concept of an end-to-end solution for the playback of object-based immersive sound program material in their booth #709 on the trade show floor. The demonstrations highlight the capability of the QSC Q-SYS audio signal processing and routing platform to render MDA (multi-dimensional audio) files in real-time. MDA is an open platform, object-based audio format developed by DTS, Inc. that allows every element of a soundtrack to be mapped in 3D space, storing all of the spatial and behavioral information as metadata.  For the demos, test program content files were created using a ProTools MDA plug-in at The Dub Stage, a prominent Hollywood, CA post-production facility. The audio files were combined into a DCP (digital cinema package), which will be…

Anna Maria, FL (October 22, 2013) — Located in Anna Maria, a retirement community of just over 1,800 situated on a barrier island at the mouth of Tampa Bay on Florida’s Gulf Coast, Roser Community Church recently upgraded its sound system that incorporates a Q-Sys™ Integrated System Platform featuring a Core 500i. The system, installed by Creative Sound Solutions, LLC of Cape Coral, FL, is optimizing the performance of a single powered loudspeaker and enabling easy operation of the entire audio system via a custom iPad user interface and the TSC-3 and TSC-8 Networked Touch Screen Controllers. “The church is in a retirement community, so the system is simple enough that anyone can use it,” comments Jacob Broadway, Sarasota Office Manager at Creative Sound Solutions, who added that the church’s new Q-Sys system is programmed for two modes of operation: auto-mix and…

QSC Audio Products为其DCP系列影院处理器专用的三款基于PC的软件应用发布了更新。这三个更新都提供了一系列新功能，并且操作更加简单。DCP Manager 3.01.18  DCP Manager用于与DCP系列影院处理器通讯，让您配置和监控影院音响系统。可以通过菜单快速配置所有功放和扬声器的信号流和参数预设。所有配置数据都存储在DCP设备中，并且可以将其保存到DCP中的可插拔SD存储卡中，以供备份并快速在其他DCP设备上复制设置。DCP是一系列集成数字影院处理器，提供了影院音响的所有基本功能：分频器、放映厅监视器、路由、均衡器和状态…

Hobbs, NM (October 14 2013) — The Lea County Event Center, located in Hobbs, NM in the southeastern corner of the state, has upgraded its installed sound system to QSC WideLine-8 line arrays powered by  CX Series amplifiers. The multi-use venue, which can seat more than 10,000 people, hosts a diverse program of commercial, industrial, community, social, sports and entertainment events throughout the year. In order to accommodate such a wide variety of events and to meet the venue’s budget, Casey McGrew, Senior Consultant at Tarpley Media Systems in Lubbock, TX, specified three hangs each of 10 WL3082 arrays together with four WL212-sw subwoofers and twenty three matching CX Series amplifiers to power the system. “We covered almost 300 degrees with the three QSC arrays,” said McGrew, who specified a mono summed configuration, with the entire array covering a floor area…

Toronto, Ontario, Canada (September 19, 2013) —Toronto’s historic Maple Leaf Gardens was gutted in 2010 and the interior completely rebuilt over the last few years, reopening as the Mattamy Athletic Centre (MAC) at the Gardens and featuring a brand new audio network infrastructure driven by three QSC Q-Sys™ Core 1000 processors and more than 32 QSC amplifiers to power the loudspeakers. The multi-purpose, four-story building now houses a 70,000-sq.-ft. Loblaw’s food store at street level with Ryerson University’s new 222,970-sq.-ft. sports facilities, including an NHL-sized ice hockey rink, multi-purpose courts and other amenities, on its upper levels. Originally built in 1931 and known as Canada’s “Cathedral of Hockey,” the venue is revered as the historic home of the Toronto Maple Leafs team, and was added to the Canadian Register of Historic Places in 2009. The…

好莱坞顶级音频后期制作机构之一的Dub Stage选择QSC Q-SYS来支持其音频信号处理和路由。Q-SYS是一个功能齐全的数字音频网络和处理平台，支持灵活控制复杂的音频系统。Q-SYS最初专注于复杂的商业音频设施，现在他们的产品可以扩展或缩小，能经济高效地适应几乎任何规模的系统，包括5.1、7.1、11.1、13.1和 MDA（多维音频）影院音频格式。全新的沉浸式影院音频格式为音响设计师和混音师带来了更大的挑战，同时也大大增加了后期制作环境的复杂性。就在几年前，大多数电影还只是以5.1或7.1格式进行混音。如今，随着数字影院转型已接近完成……

Norfolk, VA (August  23, 2013) — The multi-purpose Ted Constant Convocation Center at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, colloquially known as “The Ted,” has undergone  a comprehensive upgrade with an end-to-end installed sound system from QSC for its tenth anniversary. The audio system overhaul at the arena, which seats 8,639 for basketball games, comprised of two separate QSC WideLine-8 line array systems as well as AcousticDesign™ Surface Mount and Ceiling Mount loudspeakers powered by PowerLight™ 3 and CX Series amplifiers, with a Q-Sys™ Core 500i  handling all signal distribution and system processing. “We’ve been a longtime supporter of QSC and their product lines,” says Jeff Hathaway, Audio-Visual Systems Designer, who has worked for Onyx AudioVisual of Chesapeake, VA for 20 years. “QSC offered us an integral solution for everything from speakers to…

London, UK, (August 13, 2013) — Since the launch in early 2012 of the QSC Q-Sys™ Core 250i, Scottish audiovisual integrator Black Light has designed and installed several QSC audio routing and processing systems based around this latest addition to the Q-Sys product family. Recent Core 250i-based Q-Sys installations carried out by Edinburgh-based Black Light have ranged from simple systems in which the Q-Sys Core manages and routes audio to loudspeakers and amplifiers from third-party manufacturers, to projects comprised solely of QSC equipment. One such recently completed installation is the new PA system at the Dundee Ice Arena in Scotland, where the integrated Core 250i serves audio to two loudspeaker arrays, each comprising two KLA12 Active Line Array elements and one KLA181 subwoofer. The KLA arrays are positioned over the ice rink and are the main PA loudspeakers…

Key West, FL (Aug 2013) --The Key West Songwriters Festival, reportedly the largest festival of its kind in the world, attracted more than 150 troubadours, including Jeffrey Steele, Paul Overstreet, Bob DiPiero and Lori McKenna, to the tiny Florida island this year. A Key West institution since 1996, the BMI-sponsored festival provides a five-day platform for country, folk, blues and rock songwriters to perform in their own right at some of the island’s numerous bars and music venues. According to New Orleans native Glen Himmaugh, owner of Backstage*America/Sound of Key West, the shows—which are mostly free—take place at about two-dozen venues on the island. Himmaugh has been providing production for the festival for the past five years. A longtime fan of QSC, Himmaugh has outfitted such island hotspots as the Smokin’ Tuna and Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville with QSC…

QSC Audio Products, LLC宣布在欧洲大陆成立QSC影院产品分销中心。QSC与全球3PL（第三方物流）提供商DSV达成服务协议，将由他们负责在比利时根特的仓库存储QSC影院产品并发货。这个地点位于大多数欧洲国家的中心位置。该仓库将存储最受欢迎的QSC影院产品，让欧洲影院的客户可以更快速地收到产品，成本效益也更高。目前， QSC影院产品已经入库，可以发货。

Dallas, TX (July 2013) — As the concourse reconstruction project at Dallas Love Field, home of Southwest Airlines, moves into its final phase, Dallas-based design, build and installation firm Master Sound Co., Inc. has outfitted the new facility with a QSC Audio Q-SYS™ Integrated System Platform. Redundant Q-SYS Core 4000 processors power the new networking system, which also includes 14 I/O Frames integrated with more than 20 PS-1600 networked page stations and three dozen CX Series two-and four-channel amplifiers. The new terminal is the first installation in the world to be designed from the ground up based on a redundant Q-SYS system. The initial 11 gates at Love Field were opened to the public in mid-April, 2013 at the new terminal, which will include a total of 20 gates when the $519 million project is completed in fall 2014. According to installer Wayne…

London, UK, July 2013 — London-based professional sound production company Podd Sound chose a QSC WideLine-8 line array system for use at the recent Sony Music European launch party for Daft Punk's new album, Random Access Memories. The stylish event was held on Floor 69 of London's recently completed landmark Shard skyscraper, now the tallest building in the European Union, with a star-studded guest list including Calvin Harris and Jude Law — a very appropriate launch for the record it celebrated. The WideLine-8 array used by Podd Sound at the Daft Punk launch comprised 16 QSC WL3082 line array elements and 12 WL212-sw subwoofers driven by no fewer than nine QSC PL380 amplifiers, and managed by two SC28 processor/system controllers. The system components were supplied to Podd Sound by Shure Distribution UK (SDUK), the distributor of QSC products in the UK and…

QSC Audio Products, LLC is pleased to announce a new service partner agreement with dcinex to provide support for QSC Cinema products and systems across the European continent and the United Kingdom.  dcinex is a provider of fully integrated solutions for cinema operations, including Exhibitor Services, Content Services, and Consulting.  The company has a long history in digital cinema services.  Under the new agreement, dcinex will provide centralized customer telephone support and arrange advance replacement or repair of QSC cinema products when necessary.  Services will be available to all customers of QSC Cinema products.  The agreement will be effective on August 1, 2013.  Cinema operators and QSC cinema products dealers will be able to access the dcinex support group seven days a week, from 0900 to 2400 hours (9:00 am to midnight) Central European Time. Support…