Authored by: William J. Lawrence, Jr., CTS-D, CTS-I, CQD, CQT, CQA Executive Director The Association for Quality in Audio Visual   Back in the 80’s (1980’s, that is), I was just a couple of months into my marriage to my wonderful wife. We were living in a tiny apartment (450 square feet) with 1960’s era appliances, complete with a small top-condenser refrigerator in “Avocado Green”.    Having dated for a few years before that, my wife knew how much I loved my mom’s homemade Zucchini Bread....

Authored by: William J. Lawrence, Jr., CTS-D, CTS-I, CQD, CQT, CQA Executive Director The Association for Quality in Audio Visual   We often get questions about what AQAV & AV9000 are.  Is it "another" or an "alternate to" the long-established and well-respected Industry Education Organizations? Is it an "all-or-nothing" system? Does it add time and cost to projects?   Let's take each of those on this month and create some clarity.    #1 - AV9000 is the de facto ISO9000-based framework of...

Authored by: William J. Lawrence, Jr., CTS-D, CTS-I, CQD, CQT, CQA Executive Director The Association for Quality in Audio Visual   A reasonably long time ago, I was working for a medium-sized company as an Engineer.  The project was a House of Worship that was acoustically challenging. A “pie-shaped” space, raked seating, and a rear wall made completely of brick and arced in a manner that nearly perfectly reflected reinforced sound right back at the Minister’s position. A feedback generator....