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Poly Introduces Speakerphones To Bring Professional-Quality Audio to Home Offices
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Poly Introduces Speakerphones To Bring Professional-Quality Audio to Home Offices

Poly (the company that resulted from the merger of Plantronics with Polycom) unveiled its Poly Sync Family, a new line of smart, USB and Bluetooth speakerphones. These new Poly are touted as smart because, among other things they use proprietary microphone technology to track the talker, not the noise. Appropriately, the new speaker line was announced during the Zoomtopia 2020 online event (focused on everything Zoom (the web conference company, not the Japanese audio brand), where the devices also were confirmed to be "Zoom Certified."
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DirectOut Technologies Discloses New Compact EXBOX.RAV Ravenna/MADI Converter
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DirectOut Technologies Discloses New Compact EXBOX.RAV Ravenna/MADI Converter

German AoIP specialists, DirectOut announced new products during its first online event, the DirectOut Insider. One of the highlights is a completely new hardware solution, the compact EXBOX.RAV, designed to migrate baseband audio to IP. The core of this new converter is running on DirectOut’s well-proven Ravenna (AES67, ST 2110-30 / -31) audio-over-IP implementation and supports NMOS for stream discovery (IS-04) and connection management (IS-05).
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B&C Speakers Introduces Its Largest Horn to Extract Maximum Potential From New DCX Coaxial HF Driver Family
by Joao Martins

B&C Speakers Introduces Its Largest Horn to Extract Maximum Potential From New DCX Coaxial HF Driver Family

In the wake of innovation breakthroughs made possible by wide-bandwidth ring radiator drivers, B&C Speakers has now released the ME464 1.4-inch horn built especially to extract the full potential of the DCX family of coaxial drivers. The largest horn so far introduced by the Italian company and commercially available, the ME464 horn offers 70° x 55° nominal coverage with constant directivity and excellent loading down to 300 Hz. The development follows the introduction of the B&C DCM414 midrange compression driver, building on the DNA of the DCX464 HF coaxial design.
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PSB Speakers Announces Alpha AM3 and Alpha AM5 Affordable Active Monitors with Bluetooth
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PSB Speakers Announces Alpha AM3 and Alpha AM5 Affordable Active Monitors with Bluetooth

Canadian manufacturer PSB Speakers, long renowned in loudspeaker design, announced the immediate availability of two new affordable compact, powered speakers, the Alpha AM3 and Alpha AM5. The new models are founded on PSB’s almost 50 years of speaker design expertise and the Alpha P3 and P5 models, introduced last year. The Alpha AM3 ($399/pr U.S. MSRP) and Alpha AM5 ($599/pr) feature phono and optical inputs, built-in Bluetooth, USB DAC, and much more.
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EarFun Teams Up With Edifier to Create Brand's First Noise-Cancelling Earbuds
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EarFun Teams Up With Edifier to Create Brand's First Noise-Cancelling Earbuds

The new EarFun Air Pro Hybrid Active Noise Cancellation True Wireless Earbuds are the brand's first with the technology that consumers are now demanding. The new TWS earbuds with active noise cancelling are called the Air Pro (what else?) and feature technology and sound signature designed and engineered by Edifier, the large Chinese audio manufacturer that was the first public listed audio speaker company in China, and the owner of Japanese electrostatic headphone company Stax.
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Plugin Alliance Announces Availability of ADPTR AUDIO Streamliner Streaming Codec Evaluation Plugin
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Plugin Alliance Announces Availability of ADPTR AUDIO Streamliner Streaming Codec Evaluation Plugin

Plugin Alliance, the software developer and webstore supporting all major plugin formats and uniting some of the best-known international audio companies under one virtual roof, announced availability of ADPTR AUDIO Streamliner — a new audio codec evaluation plugin that eliminates guesswork and allows producers and mastering engineers to find out how their masters will sound on all the major streaming services. The application features a vast codec selection that includes Apple Music, Bandcamp, Spotify, Tidal or even Twitch, and YouTube Music.
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Audio Engineering Month Events to Feature AES’s APEI Product Development Symposium October 14–16
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Audio Engineering Month Events to Feature AES’s APEI Product Development Symposium October 14–16

The Audio Engineering Society is promoting its next-in-series Audio Product Education Institute event designed for those seeking to increase their skills and understanding of what it takes to launch successful audio products. Three-days of knowledge – October 14, 15 and 16. All Access registration for AES Show Fall 2020 is required to attend the Product Development Symposium, available now at AESShow.com.
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McIntosh Unveils Most Powerful All-You-Need MA12000 Hybrid Integrated Amplifier
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McIntosh Unveils Most Powerful All-You-Need MA12000 Hybrid Integrated Amplifier

70 years since the company's foundation, and McIntosh continues to expand its portfolio of ultimate-quality audio solutions for today's luxury home. The company introduced the MA12000 Hybrid Integrated Amplifier, which is also McIntosh's most powerful integrated amplifier ever, delivering 350 Watts per channel of clean, high performance power that produces a breathtaking home audio experience. This fully loaded, hybrid MA12000 Integrated Amplifier is a product of uncompromising audio engineering and expert craftsmanship.
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High-Quality Horn Loudspeaker Systems Book Now Available From Parts Express
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High-Quality Horn Loudspeaker Systems Book Now Available From Parts Express

The book High-Quality Horn Loudspeaker Systems — History, Theory and Design by Bjørn Kolbrek and Thomas Dunker is now available at Parts Express. This extremely detailed volume of more than 1,000 pages - reviewed here by audioXpress' Mike Klasco - is the first ever to address the history, theory, and design of horn loudspeakers in a complete, accurate, and scholarly fashion. The limited edition of this massive and very high-quality hardcover book is sponsored by Celestion.
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Dirac and ASUS Team Up to Update All New ROG Phone 3-Compatible Headsets With Immersive Audio Optimized for Mobile Gaming
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Dirac and ASUS Team Up to Update All New ROG Phone 3-Compatible Headsets With Immersive Audio Optimized for Mobile Gaming

On the heels of the company's recent ROG (Republic of Gamers) Phone 3 collaboration, Swedish digital audio pioneer Dirac and ASUS, a global manufacturer of smartphones, computers and electronics, announced that all ROG Phone 3-compatible gaming headsets have now been upgraded with Dirac’s headphone optimization solution through a recent “over-the-air” software update.
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