audioXpress May 2024 Glass Audio Special Issue Now Available

audioXpress May 2024 Glass Audio Special Issue Now Available
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Advertise in the Loudspeaker Industry Sourcebook 2024!

Advertise in the Loudspeaker Industry Sourcebook 2024!
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Loudspeaker Knowledge and Innovation in Voice Coil April 2024

Loudspeaker Knowledge and Innovation in Voice Coil April 2024
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The Audio Voice - Weekly Newsletter for audioXpress and Voice Coil Communities

The Audio Voice - Weekly Newsletter for audioXpress and Voice Coil Communities
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Bang & Olufsen Introduces Beolab 28 Adaptive Stereo Home Speaker
by audioXpress Staff

Bang & Olufsen Introduces Beolab 28 Adaptive Stereo Home Speaker

Bang & Olufsen continues to surprise with a very strong series of new speaker designs. The Danish home audio innovator now introduced Beolab 28, an adaptive, wireless speaker that combines advanced acoustical innovations with convenient smart speaker features. The slim Beolab 28 can be positioned anywhere in the home, stream anything instantly and provides powerful, immersive sound that automatically adapts to its space.
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Bose Expands DesignMax Installation Product Line with Four New Pendant Loudspeakers
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Bose Expands DesignMax Installation Product Line with Four New Pendant Loudspeakers

Bose Professional expanded its DesignMax loudspeaker range with four new pendant designs — the DM3P and DM5P loudspeakers, the DM6PE outdoor-rated loudspeaker, and the DM10P-SUB subwoofer. Ideal for open-ceiling installations, each unit is attractively designed with sleek aesthetics and provides a recessed single-point suspension system, enabling hardware to be kept out of sight, and a service loop to be held and hidden for easy access in the future.
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Lawo Introduces 48-Fader mc²36 Digital Audio Mixing Console for the IP Age
by audioXpress Staff

Lawo Introduces 48-Fader mc²36 Digital Audio Mixing Console for the IP Age

Since the original unveiling of the latest mc²36 digital audio mixing console, German company Lawo completely redefined what these compact, but extremely powerful control surfaces are able to do. Lawo’s new second-generation mc²36 audio production console is now even more capable with the announcement of a new dual-fader operating bay that allows 48 faders in the same space as a 32-fader board. The new console also becomes a part of Lawo HOME IP broadcast infrastructure management solution.
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    L-Acoustics Announces L-ISA Studio Software Suite for Spatial Audio Creation
    by audioXpress Staff

    L-Acoustics Announces L-ISA Studio Software Suite for Spatial Audio Creation

    L-Acoustics just expanded the possibilities of spatial audio creation with the launch of the new L-ISA Studio software suite and upgraded L-ISA engine with simpler yet more powerful controls. For the past 18 months, the French company has been also porting the L-ISA Processor Audio Engine to work on a regular computer, allowing anyone with a laptop and a pair of headphones to do pre/post production work. The new L-ISA Studio software even includes a binaural rendering engine and scale simulation mode.
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    APEX Releases New SMA-2 Compact 4-Channel Amplifier Module
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    APEX Releases New SMA-2 Compact 4-Channel Amplifier Module

    Belgium manufacturer APEX introduced a new four-channel OEM amplifier module specifically designed for multi-way pro audio loudspeakers designs. The new Apex SMA-2 is capable of delivering up to 3000W on a single 4 Ohm channel and uses APEX’ unique GlidePath direct drive architecture, which is a proprietary Class-D technology where the DSP system is an integral part of the amplifier system, with a fully DC-coupled audio signal path.
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    Jabra Launches PanaCast 50 Intelligent Videobar Hybrid Collaboration Solution
    by Joao Martins

    Jabra Launches PanaCast 50 Intelligent Videobar Hybrid Collaboration Solution

    With the world transitioning to hybrid working environments, manufacturers of communication solutions are betting on a new category: videobars. A combination of soundbar/speakerphone design with webcam built-in, these solutions can be placed under a monitor or display and quickly convert any space to a meeting room. Jabra, GN Group’s consumer arm, was the latest brand to join the category with the Jabra PanaCast 50 intelligent videobar.
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    Test Bench: The BWX-6502 Midbass from MISCO’s Bold North Audio Line
    by Vance Dickason

    Test Bench: The BWX-6502 Midbass from MISCO’s Bold North Audio Line

    In this article, Vance Dickason characterizes the Bold North Audio BWX-6502 Midbass, which comes from a series of exciting new drivers designed and manufactured in the US by MISCO (Minneapolis Speaker Company). The BWX-6502 is built on the same platform with a similar XBL2 "dual-gap" motor design structure to the BWX-6501 model but with a cone assembly consisting of an Abaca fiber (paper) cone and a 60mm (2.4") diameter Abaca fiber dust cap, with compliance provided by a wide high excursion NBR surround, and a 3.5" diameter flat cotton spider (damper). This article was originally published in Voice Coil, January 2021.
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    HEAD acoustics Releases Intuitive Structural Analysis Software Package
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    HEAD acoustics Releases Intuitive Structural Analysis Software Package

    With the release of ArtemiS SUITE 12.5, HEAD acoustics introduced a complete structural analysis package, offering Time Domain Animation, Operational Deflection Shape (ODS), Shape Comparison Tool and Modal Analysis. This will allow a unified software environment for simulation and project engineers to address structural dynamic issues within the ArtemiS SUITE with ease and efficiency.
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    R&D Stories: Speaker ID Technology
    by Vikrant Singh Tomar

    R&D Stories: Speaker ID Technology

    As part of its focus on voice convergence, in its April 2021 edition, audioXpress featured a contributed article by the founder and CEO of Fluent.ai, describing how increasing consumer demand for personalized experiences has sparked the creation of the company’s speaker ID technology, and exploring the challenges that this type of technology still faces. A valuable perspective from a company positioned right at the edge of voice recognition using AI and edge processing. This article was originally published in audioXpress, April 2021.
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    Sennheiser AMBEO Soundbar Adds Support for Sony 360 Reality Audio
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    Sennheiser AMBEO Soundbar Adds Support for Sony 360 Reality Audio

    In addition to 3D audio formats Dolby Atmos, MPEG-H and DTS:X, Sennheiser's flagship AMBEO Soundbar now also supports Sony’s 360 Reality Audio, which is directly targeted at music and uses Sony’s object-based 360 Spatial Sound technology, basically an MPEG-H 3D Audio scheme, to place individual sounds in a spherical sound field.
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