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Nominees for the 36th Annual TEC Awards Announced
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Nominees for the 36th Annual TEC Awards Announced

The TEC Awards committee and the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) have announced the nominees across the 22 Technical Achievement and seven Creative Achievement TEC Award categories. The annual TEC Awards recognizes and celebrates the individuals, companies and technical innovations behind the sound of recordings, live performances, films, television, video games, and multi-media. The TEC Awards creators and innovators will be honored during Believe in Music Week, January 2021.
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Sound Semiconductor Unveils Next Generation SSI2130 Voltage Controlled Oscillator IC
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Sound Semiconductor Unveils Next Generation SSI2130 Voltage Controlled Oscillator IC

Following the recent expansion of Sound Semiconductor's range of IC products with new single and dual VCA chips, the Sonora, California, -based company founded by Dan Parks, now announced a new audio-band Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) integrated circuit. The first new electronic music VCO IC in decades, the FatKeys SSI2130 has been a long time in the making, and credit is due to the company's great chip designers, which seem determined to quickly build up Sound Semiconductor's portfolio.
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Eminence Speakers Launches Impulse Response Library
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Eminence Speakers Launches Impulse Response Library

Eminence Speakers launched the digital version of its legendary guitar speakers — Eminence Impulse Response (IR) library — developed in conjunction with the highly respected amplifier profiler and guitarist, Michael Britt. This announcement follows the trend from guitar speaker manufacturers to release official IR files of its own best-selling models to support the growing trend of amplifier profilers and emulators, as well as studio production.
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CEVA Partners With Fluent.ai to Offer Multilingual Speech Support on Edge Devices
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CEVA Partners With Fluent.ai to Offer Multilingual Speech Support on Edge Devices

CEVA and Fluent.ai, a leading provider of on-device, multilingual speech understanding solutions, announced a partnership to offer ultra-low power speech-to-intent solutions for intelligent edge devices. Fluent.ai’s suite of speech-to-intent technologies has been ported and optimized for CEVA’s low power audio and sensor hub DSPs, providing a high performance, robust solution for OEMs and ODMs looking to integrate intelligent voice activation and control into their wearables, consumer devices and IoT products.
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Bowers & Wilkins Launches Special PX7 Carbon Edition Wireless Headphones to Celebrate a Decade of Headphone Success
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Bowers & Wilkins Launches Special PX7 Carbon Edition Wireless Headphones to Celebrate a Decade of Headphone Success

Over the past 12 months, Bowers & Wilkins has enjoyed outstanding success with its flagship PX7 over-ear wireless ANC headphones. 2020 also marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of Bowers & Wilkins first-ever headphone design, the iconic P5 — a breakthrough model that redefined the premium performance headphone category. Naturally the company decided it was time to celebrate that success, with the launch of the PX7 Carbon Edition featuring a new premium black finish and added support for aptX Adaptive.
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Mytek Announces New "Cost No Object" Empire DAC Streamer and Preamplifier
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Mytek Announces New "Cost No Object" Empire DAC Streamer and Preamplifier

New York-based Mytek Digital revealed the details on its new Empire DAC/Streamer/Preamplifier, supposed to be the flagship of a new Empire series of very high-end audio products. As the company describes, this is an "all out" assault on the state-of-the-art, establishing Mytek as a top echelon player in the high-performance audio arena. The Streamer will be “Powered by Roon OS” and features an internal Roon Core that can drive both the ultra-high performance Empire DAC and external Roon endpoints.
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SEAS Takes Over Soundcare SuperSpikes Business and Brand
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SEAS Takes Over Soundcare SuperSpikes Business and Brand

Soundcare AS was established in June 1996, in Norway. It developed from an idea of making the best spikes for audio equipment that wouldn't cause damage to the surfaces. Now, loudspeaker driver manufacturer SEAS Fabrikker, which has been manufacturing Soundcare products in-house since 2017, is taking over the Soundcare SuperSpikes business and brand.
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ISE Postponed to June 2021 and Launches New Digital Offering
by Joao Martins

ISE Postponed to June 2021 and Launches New Digital Offering

After a period of consultation with the industry and the impact of the ongoing pandemic, Integrated Systems Events announced that ISE 2021, scheduled for taking place 2-5 February in Barcelona for the first time, has been postponed and will now (possibly) take place June 1-4, alongside a virtual offering. ISE intends to launch RISE Digital, a regular program of content and networking events which will run throughout the year and will support the show, in-person or virtual.
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GaN Systems Publishes Whitepaper Detailing Advantages of GaN Technology in Class-D Audio
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GaN Systems Publishes Whitepaper Detailing Advantages of GaN Technology in Class-D Audio

GaN Systems published a document titled "GaN in Class-D Audio:Advantages with GaN Systems – a Comparative Look,” that reviews the various GaN and silicon transistor approaches in Class-D audio amplifier design techniques. The document identifies and compares the most popular GaN-based transistor and Silicon MOSFET solutions for high-performance Class-D amplifier applications, including the GaN Systems Class-D Amplifier and Companion SMPS Evaluation Kit.
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Bob Stuart Receives Prestigious Award for Career of Innovations by the Royal Academy of Engineering
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Bob Stuart Receives Prestigious Award for Career of Innovations by the Royal Academy of Engineering

Bob Stuart, creator of MQA and co-founder of Meridian Audio, was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering Prince Philip Medal for 'his exceptional contribution to audio engineering which has changed the way we listen to music and experience films’. Stuart is the first audio engineer to receive the award in the institution's 20-year history. The Royal Academy of Engineering is UK’s national academy for engineering and technology promoting the advancement and "excellence in engineering."
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