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Today's Top Stories #1 The Sound Book explores echoes, bad acoustics and more   By Sid Perkins, Science News   Most lists of the world's wonders include visually stunning attractions — the Grand Canyon or the pyramids of Giza, for example. Yet there's more to life than meets the eye, as acoustic engineer Trevor Cox reveals in this international tour of aural amazements. More» Why This Matters: Fathers' Day gift? The author visits the audio wonders of the world including the most reverberant place on earth, which is in Scotland. Here it is on Kindle. –Cynthia Wisehart #2 Webcast Tuesday June 3: Anatomy of a Network, Crash Course on the Basics of AV over Ethernet   Speaker: Dave Theis, Theis Consulting   What is the OSI Model? How do Layer 2 and Layer 3 mean to AV Networking? What is the IEEE 802.1 standard and why does it matter to AVB? What's the difference between Dante and AVB and how are they related? What about AES67? Should I care about the subnet mask, multicast, MAC, IP, and RTP? Do I need to learn configure switches? In this course, our speaker Dave Theis puts networking language into a context that AV pros can relate to. More» Why This Matters: There is a lot of network jargon swirling around out there. Dave will cut through some of that to give you a foundation to hold your own. Networking is probably the most important thing that's happening in ProAV right now and for the future. This is a one-hour, free shortcut to being a little more knowledgeable and competitive. And you'll be able to ask questions. I'll be there too. Tuesday, June 3, 2pm EST. Register here. –Cynthia Wisehart #3 Sennheiser announces BYOD cinema sound solution lights   Via Sennheiser   CinemaConnect, which enables cinemas to stream audio from films to the mobile devices of members of the audience. The product is particularly aimed at providing audio description and assistive listening for people with hearing or sight impairments, but it could also be used to provide foreign-language tracks or even directors' commentaries. More» Why This Matters: Sennheiser has founded Sennheiser Streaming Technologies (SST) to develop this product and others. The new assistive listening and audio description product provides live streaming to smartphones through existing audio systems. Here's a video preview and the app in the iTunes store. –Cynthia Wisehart 4. Furman introduces power conditioner (via InAVate) 5. Review: Asus PB287Q, don't expect miracles from a $650 4K display (James Galbraith, PC World) 6. Martin Logan Neolith prototype loudspeaker showcased in Munich (Steve Munz, Audioholics) 7. Microsoft's Skype translator will translate voice calls on the fly (Josh Lowensohn, The Verge) 8. The world's largest mall in Dubai installs 900 Meyer Sound MM-4XP loudspeaker (via Live Design) 9. Nest recalls 440K smoke alarms for safety risk (via Associated Press) 10. From the Wire@SVCOnline: Harman Professional opens new technology center in Salt Lake City, Utah Find Us Online Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Jobs from TWICE.com Vice President of Sales and Marketing - Russound, FMP Inc. - Newmarket, NJ» VP Sales - Electrical Distributing, Inc. - Portland, OR » International CE Company - Confidential - California » More Listings » Jobs from Eduwire Click here to see all posted positions » Upcoming Events Anatomy of a Network: Crash Course on the Basics of AV over Ethernet, June 3, Online Immersion 2014, June 6-8, Los Angeles AES Conference on Audio Forensics, June 12-14, London InfoComm Show, June 14-20, Las Vegas Almo E4 AV Expo, Aug. 14-16, King of Prussia, PA AES Conference on Spatial Audio, Aug. 27-29, Helsinki, Finland CEDIA Expo, Sept. 10-13, Denver IBC 2014, Sept. 12-16, Amsterdam, Netherlands For more events, see our calendar. Was this copy of Pro AV Today forwarded to you? Start your own subscription by clicking here. Pro AV Today Editorial Team SOUND & VIDEO CONTRACTOR CYNTHIA WISEHART, Editor Phone: (212) 378-0400 x526 | Send Email DIGITAL SIGNAGE DAVID KEENE, Executive Editor Phone: (512) 480-9473 | Send Email RENTAL AND STAGING SYSTEMS DAVID KEENE, Executive Editor Phone: (512) 480-9473 | Send Email

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