Hello,
we use digital message repeaters in all of our traveling exhibitions.  The
oldest exhibit has been on the road for 5 years now and travels to a new
museum every 4 months.  We have never had any problems with it.  We have it
encased in the wall of the exhibitions and duratrons light up as the
message is given.
Cindy Bowden
American Museum of Papermaking

At 08:11 AM 11/15/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi All- We have a text panel exhibit about the history of  gospel music in
>Detroit.  We'd like to add a "sound station". The curator would like to
>have the option of 12 tracks and up to 4 minutes of music per track. The
>tracks would need to be accessed by pushing a button or some other input
>device. She is also concerned about the sound quality.  We are going to go
>with headphones as the "delivery" part of the set up.
>
>  I have looked at CD controller units ( from Museum Technology Source in
>Mass, USA) and Digital message repeaters ( from INNOVA in Calif., USA).
>I've thought about setting the whole thing up on a computer, but (1) don't
>have any idea how to do that and (2) have concerns about the durability in
>a traveling situation.
>
>Anyone have experiences to share on this sort of thing? Contacts for folks
>who do this kind of work?
>
>We are hoping to have this station completed and ready to go for a Jan 15,
>2001 pick up. And we're trying to keep the total cost to about 1000.00
>dollars.
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>Julie Levy-Weston
>Michigan State University Museum
>East Lansing, Michigan
>USA
>
>
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