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DISTRIBUTION NEWS Funktion One appoints AACK for Korean distribution KOREA: Funktion One has parted company with long-time distributor Soundus and appointed AACK. The two companies joined forces at Koba 2014. AACK represents a wide range of installation products including Peavey MediaMatrix, Biamp Systems, Australian Monitor, MTS ampli ers, beyerdynamic, Auralex acoustic treatment, VDC cable, Crestron and SurgeX. The company has handled large installations, working extensively in the corporate, government and worship sectors. ‘With two of the major DSP platforms in its portfolio, AACK has proved itself in successfully PAT ANNOUNCES NAME CHANGE AUSTRALIA: Re ecting the company’s recent reach beyond pro audio, Professional Audio Technology Pty Ltd (PAT) has announced that it will now operate under the name Professional Audio & Television Pty Ltd. At the same time the company has announced its PAT will now operate under the name Professional Audio & Television Pty Ltd appointment as the exclusive distributor of Orban Television processors in Australia. ‘The name change was inevitable for our business, as we continue our diversi cation within the broadcast industry,’ said Patrick Salloch, managing director. ‘We felt it was important that the name of our company re ects the industries we are servicing and the technology solutions we provide nowadays. As technologies are merging and our company is expanding its reach well beyond the ‘audio only’ applications, it was important to us to incorporate television into our name, but keep the well known and established PAT brand.’ www.proaudiotv.com.au handling large projects,’ said Funktion One’s director of business development, Bill Woods. ‘Although Funktion One’s reputation isn’t necessarily with projects of that size, we felt that given some of the products we’ve been developing, this would be a very good opportunity to work together. They also have a strong association with the church market, which is potentially a high growth area for us, given our reputation for high vocal intelligibility.’ ‘We are really happy about this appointment,’ said AACK director Euny Min.