Releasing a new product is a special moment in a company's life. For Active Audio, the launch of the Ray-On is no exception. We are all very excited to show this new column loudspeaker to the pro audio market. Very innovative, it's the perfect marriage of performance, aesthetics, ease of installation, and cost.

We presented the Ray-On for the first time last April during ProLight+Sound in Frankfurt, and the feedback we received has all been extremely positive. We can't wait to ship the first columns in July.

In the meantime, if you haven't seen the Ray-On in Frankfurt, you can still go on our website to learn some more about it.

Régis Cazin - Managing Director

Active Audio is proud to announce that the StepArray range was selected by the European magazine, Installation Europe as one of the top 8 innovative products prensented at ProLight + Sound 2011.

The SA180S and SA400P columns which came to expand our range this year, have particularly contributed to this consideration. Thanks to these two new columns, StepArray now has a complete range with a column for every room configuration.

Below, the video made by the Installation Europe team for Pick of Prolight+sound 2011.

Go to the Installation Europe website

The Sunday morning religious program on France 2, the national public channel, planted its faithfull cameras in the Cannes and broadcast the Mass live from Notre Dame de Bon Voyage on the final Sunday of the festival.

The project of this special Cannes Festival religious program goes back to February, when the Cannes Parish changed its PA system for 2 SA180P StepArray columns.

Several meetings were necessary to prepare the shooting. Sophie Mouysset, head of events for the municipality, had to, "take into account a bundle of difficulties: organize everything during the Film Festival, establish a traffic plan, find room to park 5 trucks including France 2's production departement, which measures 4,5 metres wide! Of course everything has to be done without interfering with the surrounding shops". "This televised mass enhances our City and our church Notre-Dame de Bon Voyage," she adds. Moreover, as well as being close to the Palace, the downtown church also has exceptionnal musical instruments and a excellent PA system. That's why it was chosen. "We are fortunate to have a great organ, a piano, and this is where the Cannes Choir gives the best of itself," says father Gautheron.

Distributor : Sound Directions France

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StepArray and Ray-On columns were presented to Swedish audio professionals for the first time during LLB 2011(Ljud Ljus Bild), the most important audio pro fair for the Nordic countries. There, the columns were displayed on our Swedish distributor's booth, Intersonic.Intersonic AB is a distributor of professional audio equipment whose goal is to become the market leader in supplying high quality audio equipment in Sweden. Current lines include Midas, CAMCO, Klark Teknik, NEXO and more.

www.intersonic.se

Staying in Europe, let's go to the southern tip, to Portugal where Domotron just added Active Audio's products in its catalog. Domotron is one of the leaders in the PA systems market in worship places; a huge market considering that 95% of Portuguese are Catholic.

China has just discovered Ray-On! During the international PALM EXPO 2011 fair, which took place from May 26 to 29 in Beijing, our distributor in China, Rightway Audio Consultants presented the new column on its stand.

www.iirx-gallery.com/palmexpo2011

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For the second year in a row, Active Audio was present at Handica - France, the benchmark trade show where you can meet in one place all those involved in the disability, dependence, and home support sectors working toward better autonomy for disabled people.

This year, we introduced new Sagitone models, which allow a more discrete integration of the audio beacons thanks to separate electronics. We also exhibited our system to aurally broadcast information displayed on the electronical information screens for public transports. This new project, created with Soridis, has raised a lot of interest.

www.handica.com

Xavier Meynial, technical director and founder of Active Audio, was at the 130th AES Convention (Audio Engineering Society) to present two research works conducted by our engineers.

The first paper was the subject of a conference on "Losses and Coupling in Long Multi Wire Loudspeaker Cables".

See this article on AES website

Meanwhile, the second work, about the "Design of a Passive DGRC Column Loudspeaker with Wave Front Synthesis" was presented as a poster.

See this article on AES website