Here Are All the EISA 2025-2026 Awards in Audio Categories
The Expert Imaging & Sound Association (EISA) revealed the winners of its 2025-2026 Awards. Technical experts from over 54 specialist magazines and websites in 27 countries across the world have recognized and awarded the best products in their categories. The 43rd edition of the awards recognizes stand-out products in hifi, home theater, mobile and car audio. This year there are again surprises and predictable winners, but the unexplainable absence of leading products in home audio, personal audio, and particularly in the true wireless category continues.
IDUN audio Granted US Patent for Dynamic Spatial Audio Technology
IDUN audio announced that it has been granted a key US patent for its cutting-edge technology enabling real-time, dynamic spatial audio through time-varying HRTFs. The patent, US2023-0403528 A1, listing Pauli Minnaar as the inventor on behalf of the Danish spatial audio company, is an important milestone that further validates its longstanding efforts. The technology at the core of IDUN audio's advanced spatial audio engine for personal audio devices has been embedded on leading platforms and chipsets from Qualcomm, Airoha, or BES Technic.
GN Introduces New AI-Powered Hearing Aids with LE Audio and Auracast
GN Hearing announced the launch of ReSound Enzo IA (and the Beltone Boost Max S equivalent hearing aids), offering improved ability to enhance speech, especially in noisy environments, using real-time adaptive processing and more precise beamforming. The new design is promoted as the "world's smallest rechargeable" Super Power hearing aid, offering "a huge leap forward in sound quality for people with severe to profound hearing loss." It also offers Bluetooth LE Audio and Auracast— something that should be totally standard in 2025.
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Evolution of Automotive Audio Tuning and Testing
Offering an updated perspective on automotive audio, this article highlights the advantages of utilizing a head-and-torso simulator (HATS) and introduces the Multi-Dimensional Audio Quality Score (MDAQS) assessment of audio quality - both key technologies pioneered by HEAD acoustics. Valuable insights about the methods used to benchmark automotive audio and advanced audio processing in modern vehicles, equipped with high channel counts and headrest speakers.
Patent Review: Loudspeaker Enclosure with a Sealed Acoustic Suspension Chamber
James Croft reviews a design, invented in Sweden, and patented in 2018, of a new approach to an area that has been extensively researched in an effort to improve low-frequency performance in speakers. The specific design under review describes a loudspeaker enclosure housing a sealed acoustic suspension chamber, where a driver and a passive acoustic diaphragm on opposite sides are combined with a first bandpass chamber connected to the sealed chamber by the passive unit in a curved structure.
Sonarworks Updates SoundID Reference Calibration Software
Sonarworks SoundID Reference was designed to make studio workflows more reliable by creating a calibrated reference for creators, including those working on headphones, in any environment. Now, Sonarworks updated the software with improvements to Translation Check reliability, adding four new headphone profiles, and improving the integration with Universal Audio's Apollo X interfaces, allowing a faster Measurement Mode start, smarter output gain handling, and fixes to the preset export and install path.
StreamUnlimited Brings AES67-Based Multiroom Audio to IFA 2025
StreamUnlimited Engineering is heading to IFA 2025 in Berlin (September 5-9 - Hall 11.2, Booth 261), offering an early look at its upcoming multiroom audio implementation, currently in development as part of StreamSDK. Supporting native playback of high-resolution audio, delivered via Ethernet and Wi-Fi transmission, expanded sampling rates, and AES67-based integration, this next-generation solution marks a significant evolution in distributed audio systems.
Home Audio, Networks, Practical Electronics, and New Listening Perspectives in audioXpress September 2025
Read the report of the High End 2025 show in Munich, the latest report about Connected Home Audio and Home Theater, and Gary Eickmeier's thought-provoking perspective on An Image Model Theory for Stereo. Learn about Phase Delay, Group Delay, and Circuit Sensitivity Basics, the Dante Virtual Soundcard Pro software, the Universal Audio Apollo x16D audio interface, and the essentials about Audio-Speech Processing and Microphone Arrays. Tom Perazella designed a filter for a SMPS, and Richard Honeycutt explores options to build a tube guitar amp.
Ezurio and Cloud2GND Launch Aurawave AW100 Series Modules to Simplify Auracast and Bluetooth LE Audio Product Development
The Aurawave AW100PA is the first commercially available Auracast and Bluetooth LE Audio module designed to support product developers. Engineering services firm Cloud2GND worked in partnership with Ezurio to create this complete solution for Auracast and Bluetooth LE Audio, combining long-range wireless performance (up to 250m), a high-performance AKM codec, and preloaded AT-command firmware for quick evaluation, integration, and deployment.
2025 AES International Conference on Headphone Technology, Finland - Program Now Online
The Audio Engineering Society promotes two major conventions every year, one in Europe and another in the US. And yet, its themed conferences, some happening only every two years, are by far the most insightful and successful events, as seen particularly with the recent Automotive Audio events and, of course, the Headphone technology conferences. The next one is scheduled to take place in Finland, in the same Aalto University where the 2023 AES Europe conference was so successfully held.