Olympic Home Coming
A piece of equipment increasingly often seen at events are podiums lecterns.
These are lightweight and easy for sound companies and event managers to move around and set up. Sound equipment itself has become both smaller AND more powerful at the same time. This has meant organizations can set up and run conferences with less staff and fuss. Outdoor venues are increasingly popular. These things all combine to cause the increased need for portable podiums lecterns. In these pictures above you can see the Australian Olympic games team being welcomed back. In this photo you can see the podiums lecterns with 2 microphones clipped on and the cable running down the outside of the stem.
You can see the then Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to the left, and the then NSW state Prime Minister Morris Iemma to the right. This is an outdoors venue that had to be set up in a short amount of time and look good. For this reason the Arc2 podiums lecterns were chosen. These podiums lecterns are 7.5kg (17lbs). They can be carried easily and set up quickly. When not in use, the stem is detached and it takes up very little space in a sound company van or truck. A sign for the event can easily be hung form the top as shown.
While traditionally podiums lecterns were large and bulky, new types are easy to move, lightweight and transparent in appearance, reducing the obstructions between speaker and audience.
Podiums lecterns photo by www.sspa.com.au
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