Toy Specialists Plays Nicely with Scharff Weisberg
Toy Specialists, a New York City-based audio equipment rental company, announced that it will be entering into a joint venture with Schwarff Weisberg Inc., a company that specializes in audio, video and lighting technology. MORE

Midiman Creates New Corporate Identity as M-Audio
Midiman (Arcadia, Calif.) announced today that it has changed its corporate moniker to M-Audio -- the name it has been using for its Audio Division since 1999. MORE

Millennia Ships Number 10,000
Millennia (Placerville, Calif.) announced the shipment of the 10,000th HV-3 microphone preamplifier, which went out last week as part of a larger order to acclaimed tenor Andrea Bocelli. MORE

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Bob Geldof Goes for Big Sound
Promoting Geldof's latest release, Sex, Age and Death, sound reinforcement company Big Sound brought along an Allen & Heath 40-channel ML5000, configured as a dedicated monitor console, which was used by Big Sound's technical director Duncan Wild. MORE

THX Certifies Dynaudio Acoustics' AIR Series
Responding to numerous THX-certified facilities that asked for a THX certification of Dynaudio Acoustics' AIR products, the AIR 6, AIR 15 and AIR Base-2 monitor systems are now authorized for use in pm3 rooms. MORE

Starlight, Star Bright, Meyer Line Array Tonight
Scandinavia-based P.A., staging and lighting company Starlight has recently purchased a large quantity of Meyer Sound M Series Line Array products to add to its rental inventory. MORE

QSC Sounds Off in Beantown
Boston Symphony Hall opened this year's Boston Pops summer season with a revitalized audio blueprint designed and implemented jointly by house sound guru Steve Colby and Greenfield, Mass.-based Klondike Sound. Employing a central L'Acoustics V-DOSC/dv-DOSC cluster, the new system is powered by QSC PowerLight amplifiers working off of a QSControl Ethernet-based network audio system. MORE

Syn-Aud-Con update: "System Optimization" and "System Design" seminar: July 29-August 2, San Francisco; September 16-20, Providence, R.I.; October 14-18, Chicago; and November 18-22, Seattle.

Atlantis Music Conference 2002, July 31-August 3 in Atlanta.

Inspiration 2002 Conference, August 5-9, at the Georgia International Convention Center (Atlanta). Sennheiser will conduct a wireless seminar/workshop on August 9, from 10:30 a.m. to noon in the Cyprus Room at the convention center.

TI (Texas Instruments) Developer Conference, August 6-8, 2002, in Houston at the Westin Galleria Hotel.

West L.A. Music Seminar: Pro Tools Control Surfaces, August 8.

The Indie Sessions (sponsored by Mix sister publications Electronic Musician, Remix and Onstage): New York City at The Puck Building, August 17; Los Angeles at The Radisson Hotel, September 7; and Nashville at The Radisson Hotel Opryland, August 24.

DVD Entertainment 2002 Conference, August 21-22, in Universal City, Calif.

Replication Expo 2002 China on August 26-28, 2002 (Shanghai, China) E-mail: howell@howell.163.com.

IRMA Technology & Manufacturing Conference, September 25-27, 2002, at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.

M3/Replitech dates: November 6-8, 2002 in Bangkok; and February 4-6, 2003 in San Jose, Calif.

Pro Production 2003, "The Live Event Marketplace," will take place January 10-12, 2003 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego.

Register now for SBCA 2002, August 6-10 (education seminars) and August 7-9 (exhibits) at the Las Vegas Hilton. Call 888/732-7117 and reserve your room at a special rate.