| June- 2008
At this years INFOCOMM, CS&A's manufacturers came prepared for everything except the 110 degree heat (yes, but it's a dry heat!).
But on the show floor the heat outside took a back seat to the hot new products that were shown inside. Several new ground breaking and innovative products were introduced. Please click on the PDF to the right and download the recap
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BIAMP® SYSTEMS ACQUIRES CREATIVE AUDIO
BEAVERTON, OREGON, April 10, 2008 — In a major expansion of its audio engineering research and development capabilities, BIAMP® Systems today announced the acquisition of Creative Audio, of Brisbane QLD Australia. The acquisition, which was announced by BIAMP Systems President Ralph Lockhart, provides the company with immediate access to a highly evolved and experienced engineering development team that will enable BIAMP Systems to accelerate its R&D programs in digital audio networking technologies.
Currently, Creative Audio products are featured in many prestigious installations throughout the world including the US House of Representatives, the Sydney Opera House, Stadium Australia, and Heathrow Airport. The company has developed forward-looking networked technologies for audio control and communications, as well as advanced paging systems.
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| Biamp Releases NPS-1 Paging Microphone |
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| June 20, 2007
With extensive experience producing the most powerful and flexible digital signal processors in the professional audio market, Biamp® today announced its entrance into the paging market with the launch of the Biamp Paging System at InfoComm 2007. With the AudiaFLEX at its core, the Biamp Paging System includes the new Networked Paging Station-1, an innovative input interface and a plug-and-play front-end control that dramatically cuts costs and installation time while providing paging systems in stadiums, convention centers, shopping malls and other facilities with pure and natural Biamp sound that is true – to life.
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| Listen- DIS Announce Distribution Agreement |
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| January 2008 Bluffdale, Utah, USA —
Listen Technologies Corporation is pleased to announce a partnership agreement with DIS, Danish Interpretation Systems granting distributorship of the DIS conferencing solutions to Listen in the U.S. Over the last three years Listen Technologies Corporation has emerged as a leader in delivering conferencing solutions to the North American market. Conferencing products offer a better way to conduct meetings and training sessions because it makes these interactions more efficient and productive. Whether planning a small discussion group or a conference with hundreds of delegates, Listen offers a system that will enhance any meeting.
The innovative audio solutions leader will add DIS’s DCS 4000 Conference Discussion System, DCS 6000 Digital Conference System, and the DCS 6000 Digital Infrared System. These systems will round out Listen’s FM and Infrared portfolio for offering solutions for language interpretation, assistive listening, tour group, and soundfield.
“DIS is a perfect fit for Listen,” noted Listen President Russell Gentner. “They are a relationship focused company committed to being long term partners. DIS also shares the same philosophy of delivering the right audio solution and excellent support to our customers.”
DIS Managing Director and CEO Finn Halken said, “Listen has gained a tremendous amount of experience and intellectual property over the last three years in the conferencing arena. We look forward to building on the momentum Listen has created in the conferencing market.”
To see the official press release in the Listen Technologies News Room, please click on the DIS logo on the left.
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| CLOCKAUDIO Releases "Tamper Proof" Button Mics |
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| Clockaudio C011E-RF |
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| With todays demanding corporate enviornment, typical conference rooms serve as multi-purpose spaces. Some by-products of this are conference tables that have to accomodate for laptops, catering trays, and a multitude of objects that can destroy a typical steel mesh capped button mic. With input from the consultant and end user communities, Clockaudio has created the ultimate equalizer for those destructive objects.
The C011E-RF and C012E-RF were also designed sonically to be as close to a matched pair as possible to their Clockaudio C003E-RF Omni and C004E-RF Cardioid counterparts. So in a retrofit situation, there will not be a need to re-EQ your automixers.
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March-2008
CS&A is proud to announce an agreement with Dallas Texas based AMX to represent the entire family of AMX products in the North East territory. Details of the agreement are below.
The addition of the AMX product portfolio will significantly broaden and strengthen CS&A's position as a solid well rounded A/V Manufacturers Representative Firm.
AMX's vast offerings to its customers via the AMX, Autopatch, endeleo, lines etc. will give CS&A a very strong and equally balanced line card of the finest world class industry leading A/V manufacturers from all disciplines and aspects of the systems integration chain.
We look forward to our new working relationship with AMX. We are committed to building all of the current and future manufacturers under the AMX umbrella.
From the AMX website. To view this from AMX's corporate website, click on the following link:
http://www.amx.com/newsroom/pressrelease-file.asp?release=2008.1.9
AMX APPOINTS MANUFACTURER REPRESENTATIVE FIRM TO SUPPORT EAST COAST COMMERCIAL SALES
Cardone, Solomon & Associates Will Focus on New Dealer Recruitment to Augment AMX Sales in East Coast Region
RICHARDSON, Texas- Jan. 9, 2008- AMX® announced today that it has entered into an agreement with manufacturer representative firm Cardone, Solomon & Associates (CS&A) to augment its existing AMX East Coast commercial sales team. Based in Northport, N.Y., CS&A will be primarily responsible for supporting AMX sales efforts with CS&As existing commercial dealer base in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and the District of Columbia.
"Since its inception more than 10 years ago, CS&A has consistently excelled at promoting the product lines it represents to dealers, end users and consultants in the Eastern territory. Today, it is one of the most respected and successful manufacturer representative firms in the country," said Alan Stoddard, AMX vice president of U.S. sales and support. "By joining forces with CS&A, AMX will be able to offer its industry leading products, services, and support to a larger portion of the industry."
The new partnership between AMX and CS&A will not affect most existing AMX commercial dealers. The majority will continue to receive support from the AMX regional sales manager assigned to their company.
About AMX
AMX hardware and software solutions simplify the way people interact with technology. With the increasing number of technologies and operating platforms at work and home, AMX solves the complexity of managing this technology with reliable, consistent and scalable systems. Our award-winning products span control and automation, switching, distributed audio and video, and technology management. They are implemented worldwide in conference rooms, homes, classrooms, network operation / command centers, hotels, entertainment venues, broadcast facilities, among others.
AMX was founded in 1982 and is a member of the Duchossois Group of Companies. For more information, visit www.amx.com.
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| January 2007
CS&A has been hired by newly formed Spire Global to represent them for the North Eastern United States. Spire Global has assumed all aspects of sales and marketing of the SONY Videoconferencing family of products.
Spire is headed up by Joe Sorrentino. Joe prior to Spire was VP of Worldwide Sales for Clear One, and prior to that he held the same position at Polycom. Sorrentino has assembled a very strong team of seasoned veterans that fully understand the industry from a US perspective.
John Cardone stated,
"After our initial meetings with Sorrentino we felt that they had their finger on the pulse, and had a solid plan in place to bring SONY's VC division to a place in the AV space it hasn't ever been to. But as we do with all potential new manufacturers who approach us, it's not just selling my partner Michael Solomon and I, it's selling the concept to our team. We make no decisions regarding new manufacturers coming on board without a unanamous vote from the team. They all have a say in the ultimate decision, if it's not an across the board yes, than we will not bring that company in to our portfolio.
We met with the Spire team at INFOCOMM. After that meeting we polled the group to see how they felt about Spire, and it came back thumbs up from all. Mike and I were very impressed, but we needed to have our guys see and hear what Spire was about with their own eyes and ears. As we expected, all were quite impressed and wanted to take the challenge."
To learn more about Spire Global, go to their website at www.spireglobal.com or contact your CS&A salesperson.
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