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A study showed that people spend more at restaurants that play classical music. | |
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The new Houston Downtown Aquarium in Houston, Texas, represents a dramatic departure from the research facility model adopted by similar attractions. | |
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The 7-acre complex houses 5 themed aquaria, including a Louisiana swamp, the Amazon River, and a shipwreck. Features and attractions include an observation tower, a 90-foot Ferris wheel, midway games, a helipad, and an acrylic train tunnel running through the massive shark tank. Built for $33 million by Landry’s Restaurants (owners of the popular Rainforest Café chain), the bright blue building has an innovative sound system designed by Houston's Chills & Thrills Inc. (CTI). Rane's RPM products, such as the RPM 88 Programmable Multiprocessor, gave CTI control of all audio processing blocks within the facility, each easily configured and programmed using Rane’s Drag Net software for Windows. Drag Net software eliminates the cost of a third party controller. The core of the system contains three RPM 88s, each with eight balanced, studio-grade analog inputs (mic or line level), and eight balanced analog outputs. Industry standard 10Base-T Ethernet is used to communicate between Drag Net devices and any Ethernet-equipped PC. |
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For more information about Chills & Thrills Inc., please call (713) 952-2757. |
"The complexity, tight budget, and enormous scale of the project required a thorough evaluation of existing audio networking technologies. It was precisely this need for flexibility and ease of use that led us to select Rane’s network processors. The use of multiple, interconnected RPM devices eliminated the need for an expensive proprietary bus. The combination of Drag Net configuration software and SR 3 remote controls really sold us on Rane. The SR 3 remote is a slick little package that allows you to lay out the user interface bitmaps any way you want, for any zone. Once programmed, the user simply needs to push a button and turn a knob.”
Rick Roberts, Chills & Thrills (CTI)
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