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2008
February HTML PDF
Contents:  Analog-to-Digital: The New Y2K?; ClearSorber Acoustic Material Lets the Light in; New London Church, New TA-Designed AV System; QuietCurtains – A Product with Potential
April HTML PDF
Contents:  TA Turns 16!; Upcoming Industry Events; Analog-to-Digital - The New Y2K? Part II; Mystery Photo; City Noise Ordinances; When to Embrace Digital Cinema
June HTML PDF
Contents:  Upcoming Industry Events; Mystery Photo Winner Revealed; Focus on Food: TA Regional Summer Cuisine; Project Highlight: University of Illinois
 
2007
February HTML PDF
Contents:  Focus on Acoustics: Home Theater Equation; Focus on Technology: Sound Myth-Understandings; Project Highlight: San Jose Cambrian Branch Library; Product Review: Zigbee
April HTML PDF
Contents:  TA Turns 15!; Upcoming Industry Events; Bartlett High School, Anchorage, AK; Fire-Rated Back Boxes
June HTML PDF
Contents:  Sumptuous Summertime Savories; PlotVizable 
August HTML PDF
Contents:  High-Rise Buildings; San Francisco's General Services Administration Building; Perforated Wood Panels
October HTML PDF
Contents:  Helipad Solutions; High Definition Video Conferencing; Kaiser Santa Clara Medical Center; Polycom HD Videoconferencing CODEC
December HTML PDF
Contents:  To RT60, or Not to RT60; Digital Signage Update; USF Joint Military Science Leadership Center; LiveWires - Custom-Fit In-Ear Monitors
 
2006
February HTML PDF
Contents: Where We'll Be; Earbuds Cause Hearing Loss; Recent Natural Disasters spark Interest in Emergency Generators; The Plaza Apartments; Safter Earbuds
April HTML PDF
Contents: TA Celebrates 14 Years; Advantages of Category 5 Cable; Sound Health; NC Wildlife Education Center; Ceiling-Mounted Microphones
June HTML PDF
Contents: Staff Recipes; DWF Composer; Waterproof Your Tunes
August HTML PDF
Contents: Vikuiti Rear Projection Film; CAVSP Certification; City of Galt Police Dept; MPEG-4
October HTML PDF
Contents: Get Your Wobulator Upgraded; Travel Advisory for Sound; Eye in the Sky
December HTML PDF
Contents: What's New With TA; Noise Cancellation Headphones; Presentation Lighting; Mountain View Senior Center; GPS Navigation
 
2005
January HTML PDF
Contents:  Video Conferencing in a Box; Soundproof Windows; Projection Screens You Can Write On; Baylor University - SW Securities Financial Center; Standards Online and Up to Date
March HTML PDF
Contents:  DWF Composer; Why STC Doesn't Tell You Everything; Designing Lecterns for Today's Technology; Digital Signage at Federated Dept Stores; NCSA Trade Show Wrap-up
May HTML PDF
Contents:  Welcome Wing Ko, PE; Environmental Acoustics; Video Conferencing Over the Internet; Demolition Noise and Vibration Monitoring; Acoustical Plaster
July HTML PDF
Contents:  Summer Fun Recipes; Assessing Environmental Impacts - Noise Quality; Videoconference With Your Cell Phone; Technology in Universities; Mall of America Tycoon
September HTML PDF
Contents:  Technology Master Plan; Wireless Projection; Assessing Environmental Impacts - Air Quality; Federated Department Stores Retailer of the Year; Avocent Emerge WMS1000
December HTML PDF
Contents:  Conference Highlights; Tracking Cameras; Texlon; San Francisco GSA Federal Building; Deep Freeze
 
2004
January HTML PDF
Contents:  ICIA Course Offerings at IPD Memphis; Speech Privacy Within Hospitals; Presenting the Perfect Picture; UNCA Highsmith Student Center; Loudspeaker Technology
February HTML PDF
Contents:  Memphis IPD a Success; Noise Criteria (NC) vs. Room Criteria (RC); Making AV Systems Easy to Use; Riverside County Boardroom Replacement Project; Regupol-QT
March HTML PDF
Contents:  CSI's Masterformat 04; I Didn't Know You Did That; Blast Berms for the Space Shuttle Launch Pad; Invisible Loudspeakers
April HTML PDF
Contents:  InfoComm 2004; HDTV Update; Changes In Resilient Channels; Restoration of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception; Resilient Sound Isolation Clip (RSIC)
May HTML PDF
Contents:  www.AVProjectManagement.org; Retail Audio; Restaurant Acoustics; Historical Temple Goes Retail; H Series Interior Design Loudspeaker
June HTML PDF
Contents:  Infocomm 04 Wrap Up; Widescreen: The New Standard; Recipes for the 4th of July; Way to Go Team - Cesar E. Chavez Education Center Wins; Laminated Glass on Steroids
September HTML PDF
Contents:  Cell Phones; Digital IMAX; Teleconferencing; Computer History Museum; Question of the Month
November HTML PDF
Contents:  The Themed Entertainment Association has Changed Its Name, Thorburn Named to Board; Variable Acoustics; Music and the Healing Process; Paradise Park Wins Best FEC Award; Sleigh AeroNautical Test Area Laboratories Project Update
 
2003
Fall HTML PDF
Contents:  Retail Design
December HTML PDF
Contents:  New Advances In Video Conferencing Technology H.264; Classroom Acoustics; ADA and Audiovisual Systems; Acoustics and LEEDS/Sustainable Building; NEC WT 600
 
2002
Fall HTML PDF
Contents:  Acoustics for Live Theatre
 
2001
Spring HTML PDF
Contents:  Digital Preservation
Summer HTML PDF
Contents:  Video Conference Technology
 
2000
Spring HTML PDF
Contents:  Environmental Acoustics - Noise or Sound?
Summer HTML PDF
Contents:  High Definition Television is Here! (Sort of...)
Fall HTML PDF
Contents:  The Cone of Silence; New Staff
 
1999
Summer HTML PDF
Contents:  Display Technology - Part 1
Fall HTML PDF
Contents:  Display Technology - Part 2
 
1998
Spring HTML PDF
Contents:  I can Hear a Pin Drop; And the Winner Is...
Summer HTML PDF
Contents:  It's Time to Take Control
 
1997
Spring HTML PDF
Contents:  The Invisible Audiovisual System; Sones; Newsletter of the Future!
Summer HTML PDF
Contents:  Fiberboard Facts; TA Principal Wins ICIA Awards
Fall HTML PDF
Contents:  Comparing Themed And Corporate A/V Systems
 
1996
Spring HTML PDF
Contents:  Resilient Channels
Summer HTML PDF
Contents:  Keeping Up With Multimedia Projection Technologies
Fall HTML PDF
Contents:  Growing Trends in Green Insulation
 
1995
Spring HTML PDF
Contents:  Binauralization™; Questions and Answers; We're Growing!
Summer HTML PDF
Contents:  Audio Considerations in Teleconferencing; What Exactly is Sound; Question: If a Tree Falls in the Woods...
Fall HTML PDF
Contents:  Video Conferencing; Answer: If A Tree Falls In the Woods...
 
1994
Spring HTML PDF
Contents:  Front Vs. Rear Projection - Questions and Answers; Peach Piracy; From the Editors
Summer HTML PDF
Contents:  Residential Sound Isolation; Sound Masking
 
1993
Spring HTML PDF
Contents:  Office Acoustics; For Your Information...Seminars Offered by Thorburn Assoicates
Summer HTML PDF
Contents:  Acoustical Terms: What Are They/What do They Mean; Tech Notes: Ceiling Mounted Microphones - A Solution or a Problem; Questions and Answers; Did You Know...?
Fall HTML PDF
Contents:  Tech Notes: Hydraulic Pile Drivers Work Out of a Tight Spot, Quietly; TA Has New Digs; Did You Know; Who Is That?
 
1992
Summer HTML PDF
Contents:  Acoustics and ADA; New Acoustical Products at AIA National Convention '92