Proel aquires Turbosound

At last it's official.
Rumours have been ripe within the industry
for some time about this buyout.

As of 9th February 2007 Turbosound is now a
subsiduary of Proel.

Turbosound however will continue to operate as
normal with the added benefit of much
stronger financial backing from it's new
foster mother company Proel.

This could be a blessing providing Turbosound
with lot's more cash in the bank to fund future
innovative developments.


Visit each of their websites for further information

www.proelgroup.com

www.turbosound.com

Speaker Showdown III

The third and successive Speaker Meeting took place on Monday 15th January 2007.

The Venue was The Mount at Orrell, Northwest.

On show were the following systems:

Bose L1 (PAS)
Martin Audio Blackline
Martin Audio ICT / ICS
Celestion
Ohm
DAS

Several systems were mixed and matched
to provide attendee's with ideas on what worked with what the best.

Martin F10 Score = -3 (minus 3)
Bose L1 PAS Score = -1 (minus 1)
DAS 15 tops, 18 bins Score = +1 (plus 1)
Celestion Cxi 1221 Score = +5 (plus 5)
Martin ICT 300 Score = +7 (plus 7)

Overall Favourite system was:
Martin Audio ICT/ICS 300 combo

eBay Counterfeits

Several leading microphone manufacturers are making moves to stop the growing number of counterfeit microphones that can be found on eBay.
Shure, Sennheiser and Audio Technica are the main names who are making pro-active moves
to quash this new trend.
Shure are making use of special eBay based software programs that hunt down and shut
down these rogue sellers.
We at Pro DJ Show urge you all to be vigilante when purchasing equipment via eBay.

Hand baggage ban on UK flights affect DJs

DJ's rage about the difficulties of having no hand luggage following the recent UK terror alert.

Musicians Union Resolves Ban

The MU has once again come up trumps.
Members of the MU can now take thier instruments and other small items onto aircraft.
This may involve paying for an
additional seat for larger items,
but this is at least a step in the right direction.

The effects of loud music are far worse for the
DJ, who are subjecting their ears to
high decibel levels night after night.

DJ's have a clichéd image that the louder
music is played the better.

Some DJ's want to raise awareness of the damage that can be done with loud music