“I guarantee we didn’t play any quieter — we just had better control.”
Chicago’s Band Shell, Home of International Blues Festival,Gets New Gear
An outdoor amphitheatre whose origins date back to 1935. A big-city government that, appropriately, isn’t keen on
wasting the taxpayers’ money. A venue that needs to suit the definition of diversity: from an international blues
festival to the symphony; from Aretha Franklin to the Dalai Lama.
“It was more than proximity that led Chicago Sound to doing business with SLS on this extremely important job.”
“They responded to comments and suggestions and were willing to make changes, so we quickly developed a good
relationship with them.”
by Kevin M. Mitchell
SLS Loudspeakers to Support IAJE Conference NEW YORK — SLS Loudspeakers will provide the Interna-
tional Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) with a sound solution in audio support during the organization’s 34th
Annual Conference, to be held at the Hilton and Sheraton New York Hotels between January 10th and January
13th. This year’s four-day show, celebrating jazz, will be outfitted with an SLS line-up composed of 52 SLS
RLA/2s, 48 SLS RLA/3s, 10 SLS FF2605s and several SLS LSB8115 subwoofers.
“With more than 200 of the world’s most respected professional jazz groups and musicians performing in two ho-
tels, each housing different rooms of various size and acoustical composition, versatility and portability was key,”
says Hunt. “SLS’ small size and light weight provides much more flexibility for transporting and positioning com-
pared to other products on the market.”
SLS Loudspeakers installed at University of Massachusets Lowell take listening to a new level!
Bob Alach, president of Alactronics Corporation, who designed the new studio as well as the University’s first
studio established in 1990 and the acclaimed critical listening classroom in 2002, says each room is strategically
built to allow students the experience of listening to audio at an extremely high degree of resolution. “The loud-
speakers’ role in these rooms is to convert audio signals from the electrical domain to acoustical,”
“Speaker quality is important to recording in the same way as a good camera lens is important for visual accu-
racy. If you were to look through an average lens, you’ll see a picture, but a high quality lens will offer far more
details and resolve much more about the picture. Through the newly installed SLS speakers, these students are able
to hear sounds that they would ordinarily be unable to hear through any other speaker. As a result, their end prod-
ucts and performances are better sounding and translate better to other systems.”
North Metro First Baptist Church, which recently moved into a newly constructed building near Atlanta, is en-
joying spectacular sound with a full complement of SLS loudspeakers.
"SLS loudspeakers were chosen primarily for their patented high frequency ribbon driver technology," Austin ex-
plains. "Other commercial loudspeaker manufacturers claim to emulate 'ribbon-like sound,' but only SLS uses ac-
tual ribbons. The flat, linear response and near-zero distortion attributes of the ribbons translate into very clear,
accurate vocals that are very pleasing, even at higher SPL levels.
"This allows the sound engineer to run the house system louder-to overcome stage volume-without complaints
from the congregation. The most common comments the engineer hears is how amazed people are by their ability
to understand every spoken word, including lyrics by the choir, and how pleasing and smooth the music is."
"The SLS speaker system recently installed for us by Austin Sound Design is incredible," says Rev. Keith
McBroom, North Metro First Baptist Church Minister of Music. "I have had church members young and old com-
ment on the clarity and presence of the music and spoken word”.
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