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Copy Lamps, a false economy.

Independent tests have shown that copy lamps (branded or otherwise) give poorer life, brightness and build quality; we value our reputation and that of our resellers with the projector user and so only supply 100% genuine performance lamps. 

UHP™ technology was developed in 1995 by Philips, who have become established as the largest manufacturer of lamps [...]

Technics 1210 Pitch Fluctuation – Zero point

This is a technical post so those of you that are faint hearted please give us or your local repair centre a call.
Also this process involves removing two covers from your Technics and hence exposing bare connections to electrical terminals potentially at mains voltage.
The fabulous 1200 MKII and 1210 Mk II DJ turntables from technics [...]

Setting up a Radio Mic

Radio Microphone setup is crucial to get write. An expensive microphone system setup badly will certainly sound worse than an inexpensive system setup correctly.
Check out this info from Sennheiser and Gain tech note from Rane to supplement it.
Connecting the power supply
When connecting the power supply you should be aware that the right unit with the [...]

Lighting Controls and Standards

Control standards in Lighting

Aims
This short document aims to present the common control standard used in the lighting industry today and give a short explanation of their development, uses, advantages and disadvantages.

Introduction:

Lighting can be switched on or of and it can be dimmed that is the light output of the lighting [...]

K2 Insert jack connections

Recently we carried out a major service on a Soundcraft K2 mixer. The mixer required some general repair , cleaning and some limited fader and pot replacement.
The mixer has three jack connections on the rear of each channel seen below:
Two of these are good quality metal fronted jack connectors while the central insert connection (which [...]

Pioneer Error codes!

When an error occures with any Pioneer CDJ series of cd players the player sometimes displays an error message in the main display. Here are some of the most common errors aswell as the description of the problem and a possible fix. These codes can be really useful or really useless. There are also [...]