Renkus-Heinz has promoted Chad DeFranco to the position of engineering manager. DeFranco joined the company in September 2018 as a loudspeaker systems engineer. DeFranco grew up in the audio industry, mixing front-of-house and working with sound systems since he was 11 years old. He started engineering at Panama Beach, Florida's

Powersoft, a maker of lightweight and energy efficient amplifier platforms, announced that it has appointed industry veteran Tom Knesel to the position of General Manager for North America. Knesel will be located at the company’s U.S. headquarters in Kearny, NJ and will start on Oct. 7th. Knesel will

QSC has announced the acquisition of Attero Tech, effective September 30, 2019. This combines the growing portfolio of the Q-SYS audio, video and control (AV&C) ecosystem with Attero Tech’s portfolio of networked AV endpoints and I/O peripherals, as well as boosting QSC’s development capabilities with

To mark the 35th anniversary of its founding, L-Acoustics has announced the creation of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) Dr. Christian Heil Future of Sound scholarship. A stipend of $5,000 offered annually to graduate students in the field of audio engineering who are members of the AES, the Dr.