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LightViper™ For World Renowned Marie Foster Performing Arts Hall

Annapolis Junction, MD, April, 2008 — FiberPlex, Inc., announced that their LightViper™ audio transport system was recently acquired by the Oklahoma-based, Bartlesville Community Center. The Marie Foster Performing Arts Hall within the “BCC” is recognized as one of the finest performing arts venues in the country. The 94,000 square foot Center complex features the 1,700 seat state-of-the-art-theater. The acoustically superb Foster Hall hosts a wide variety of music concerts and dance, as well as intimate theater and touring Broadway extravaganzas. In addition to music concerts, the Center presents various stage productions, and offers meeting facilities for a broad spectrum of civic groups.

Tulsa, OK-based sound design and integration company, “Sounds From Heaven”, installed the advanced fiber optic audio system in the prestigious auditorium. The stage-to-FOH run is approximately 450’ to a digital console that is equipped with LightViper MY-32 fiber optic digital interface modules. A standard Model 1832 “plug n’ play” LightViper fiber optic audio “snake” system with three splits (FOH, Monitor and a third split for recording/broadcast with AES/BU digital output) was specified by Sound From Heaven’s veteran Audio Engineer, Gary Howard.

Howard commented on his client’s investment in fiber audio routing technology:

“Our customer wanted an all-digital signal path that would integrate well with their new digital sound console. In my opinion, nobody’s CAT-5 stuff is really cutting the mustard. Anthony Hinton, the Center’s Technical Director, was pleased we were able to add the LIghtViper fiber system to the big Performing Hall, rather than Ethernet copper runs.

“The contrast between the new fiber optic LightViper system and old system is remarkable; it’s a greatly improved signal path, audibly superior. There’s more clarity and sharpness to the sound now. No signal losses, no annoying grounding issues — no matter what kind of act hits the stage. It was also a vastly easier upgrade to install thin fiber optic cable in the building’s existing and crowded conduits. That helped a lot too!”

Editor’s Technical Notes:

Fiberplex manufactures the LightViper fiber optic audio cable transport systems. The LightViper systems offer total signal path isolation between both stage and mixer as well as between the mixer and power amplification; the cable is totally immune to ground loops, RFI, EMI and electromechanical noise, and runs of up to 1 1/4 miles (6,600 feet) can be easily accomplished without signal loss or degradation. FiberPlex includes a limited lifetime warranty with all of its LightViper system components.

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