Study With Steph

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Managing Editor Steph Beckett is back with another season of Study With Steph! Join her as she takes on the CTS exam again with the help of some industry experts. Each episode will cover a particular topic, and she will share the best study methods and prep tools to ensure you both ace the exam. Come Study With Steph!

  1. 10/12/2021

    Study With Steph — Lesson 14: A Site for Sore Eyes

    In today’s Study With Steph episode, Jay Rogina from Spinitar jumps on a call with me because we are talking about site surveys! If you consider yourself a good integrator, you’ll know the importance of a job site evaluation and what can go wrong if the evaluation is done the wrong way. Jay walks me […]

    37 min

  2. 09/24/2021

    Study With Steph — Lesson 13: The Customer Is Always Right

    Let’s talk about gathering customer information. It’s an important part of specifying any room — you have to know what the customer needs. Of course, gathering info requires a certain level of communication. What are the best ways to communicate with a customer or client? What questions do you ask to properly find out what the customer […]

    23 min

  3. 09/14/2021

    Study With Steph — Lesson 12: Radio Ga Ga

    In the latest episode of Study With Steph, I invite Pete Putman (just in time apparently since he announced his retirement the week after we recorded) to chat with me about wireless radio systems. As you may have learned from Gary Kayye’s Rants & rAVes episode, Pete has had a long and fruitful career in the AV industry, […]

    38 min

  4. 08/10/2021

    Study With Steph — Lesson 11: Ohm My God

    *Lizzo voice*: Y’all been waiting for this one! Every time I’ve asked someone for study tips for the CTS test, the first thing I’ve heard is “learn Ohm’s law.” So, being the physics-averted person I am, I avoided it like the plague for as long as possible. But I’m back. I’m ready to learn. Jim Maltese from Level […]

    56 min

  5. 06/08/2021

    Study With Steph — Lesson 10: Control Freak

    Control systems — they’re such a mystery to me. What are they about? What can they do? What do they want? Steve Greenblatt of Control Concepts, Inc. sits down with me to discuss just that. So — if you need help studying: commands versus functions, how a CPU communicates, types of control systems, etc. this is […]

    37 min

  6. 05/18/2021

    Study With Steph — Lesson 9: Mixed Signals

    It’s time to talk about the way we connect. No, not with one another. I’m talking cables and the things at each end you use to plug them into stuff. If you’ve ever wondered what a Phoenix connector is, why wires and cables are NOT interchangeable terms and why building an AV rack the proper […]

    40 min

  7. 03/30/2021

    Study With Steph — Lesson 8: Networks (Not the Social Kind)

    In today’s episode of Study With Steph, I catch up with my pal, Justin Kennington, to help me with networks. We answer the following questions: What is a network? Why does topology matter? What the heck is up with Ethernet (I previously thought it was just a cable. It is not just a cable.) For clarification […]

    48 min

  8. 03/23/2021

    Study With Steph — Lesson 7: Video Killed the Radio Star

    I took a few weeks to rearrange my episode structure, and now I am back here with all of you — and I am ready to learn! If you’re still following the CTS Exam Guide, I’m so sorry that the chapters no longer match the episode numbers. I will let you know we are still on […]

    54 min
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Managing Editor Steph Beckett is back with another season of Study With Steph! Join her as she takes on the CTS exam again with the help of some industry experts. Each episode will cover a particular topic, and she will share the best study methods and prep tools to ensure you both ace the exam. Come Study With Steph!

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