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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Consumer Technology Association CES 2022 Innovation Awards Audio Highlights
by Joao Martins

Consumer Technology Association CES 2022 Innovation Awards Audio Highlights

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced the CES 2022 Innovation Awards honorees, including those recognized as Best of Innovation honorees. The CES Innovation Awards is an annual initiative honoring outstanding design and engineering in consumer technology products across 27 product categories. The CES 2022 Innovation Awards program received a record-high number of over 1800 submissions. audioXpress highlights the audio-related awards.
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New Soundscape Spatial Modeling and Simulation Tool from d&b audiotechnik
by audioXpress Staff

New Soundscape Spatial Modeling and Simulation Tool from d&b audiotechnik

German audio technology and solutions company, d&b audiotechnik announced the latest addition to its powerful software toolkit - Soundscape Simulation, SPL and localization mapping within an object-based workflow. As part of d&b’s ArrayCalc simulation software, this new intuitive visualization tool, accurately models a Soundscape system’s real and perceived acoustical performance within a space.
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Reading Glasses and Hearing Aids. Smart or FDA-Approved. Pick One.
by Joao Martins

Reading Glasses and Hearing Aids. Smart or FDA-Approved. Pick One.

Making Audio Augmentation useful for everyone, or pursue the regulatory requirements of OTC hearing aids. This article offers a useful perspective regarding the guidance documents published by the US Food and Drug Administration regarding improved access to hearing aid technology. The agency proposes a rule to establish a new category of over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids - to be sold directly to consumers in stores or online without a medical exam or a fitting by an audiologist. But most audio manufacturers are better off by not pursuing this FDA-approved OTC market. Doing so will simply hinder critical experimentation and innovation.
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    New Approaches to Speaker Optimization in audioXpress December 2021
    by audioXpress Staff

    New Approaches to Speaker Optimization in audioXpress December 2021

    audioXpress December 2021 is now available. Learn how Room Correction and Speaker Calibration is influencing efforts towards the Self-Calibrating Loudspeaker, Dirac's take on Spatial Room Correction Technology, and how to Measure Directivity of In-Wall Loudspeakers. Richard Modafferi describes his unique crossover design build, Frans de Wit talks about DC Power Supplies, Morty Tarr discusses important aspects of amplifier design, and Michel Nieuwenhuizen offers an Arduino-based motor control for turntables. Start reading online or in print.
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    Meridian Unveils Next Generation DSP8000 XE Digital Active Loudspeakers
    by audioXpress Staff

    Meridian Unveils Next Generation DSP8000 XE Digital Active Loudspeakers

    Meridian Audio has launched its new flagship loudspeaker, the DSP8000 XE, announcing major advances in platform design, audio engineering and performance for the company’s DSP digital active loudspeakers. Within the familiar shape of Meridian's high-end loudspeakers, the new DSP8000 XE combines a 5mm beryllium dome with silver voice-coil tweeter plus one midrange driver, and 6 long-throw woofers, in a fully integrated design with analog balanced and digital audio inputs, plus USB (Type C) supporting up to 24-bit/384kHz.
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    Sonarworks Partners with Wayne Jones Audio for SoundID Reference Integration in Studio Monitors
    by Joao Martins

    Sonarworks Partners with Wayne Jones Audio for SoundID Reference Integration in Studio Monitors

    Sonarworks has announced that its SoundID Reference correction software will now be integrated into the highly acclaimed Jones-Scanlon Studio Monitors. The partnership with Wayne Jones Audio, an Australian manufacturer of bass guitar speaker cabinets and high-end studio monitors, allowed the first direct integration of the calibration software to run straight from the monitor's built-in DSP SHARC processors. SoundID Reference (Reference 4 software), will now be integrated into select Wayne Jones Audio monitors.
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    Parameter Estimation and Box Simulation with Speakerbench (Part 1) - Model Parameter Comparisons
    by Claus Futtrup and Jeff Candy

    Parameter Estimation and Box Simulation with Speakerbench (Part 1) - Model Parameter Comparisons

    The two authors investigate leakage loss as identified with an advanced transducer model and verified with measurements. This is compared to classical Thiele-Small modeling with the intention to motivate the reader to further explore advanced parameter estimation and box simulation with the Speakerbench Speaker Design Calculations online tool. This two-part article concludes with an overview of how Speakerbench offers an accurate and practical approach to this problem. This article was originally published in audioXpress, August 2021.
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    DaS AuReality — 3D Loudspeaker Technology
    by Joe Hayes

    DaS AuReality — 3D Loudspeaker Technology

    A fully patented 3D loudspeaker technology resulted from a multi-year effort of Diffusion at Source (DaS) and elliptical soundfield speaker design approaches. DaS AuReality has evolved out of work known as “Acoustic3D” from an Australian-based company and is now being commercialized by Vastigo, Ltd. (Vastigo.com), headquartered in Singapore. This article offers all the details into the unique approach followed by the development and multiple applications segments envisioned by the inventors. This article was originally published in Voice Coil, September 2021.
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    Knowles Celebrates 75 Years of Voice and Audio Technology Integration
    by audioXpress Staff

    Knowles Celebrates 75 Years of Voice and Audio Technology Integration

    Knowles Corporation is celebrating the company's 75th anniversary. Knowles pioneered many industry-firsts including balanced armature drivers for the first hearing aids in 1954, and the first MEMS microphones used in everything from the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover to the latest true wireless earbuds. Today, Knowles products and solutions are in cell phones, laptops, wearables, smart speakers, or any device with voice control. And Knowles leverages its 75 years of success and expertise to expand in audio processing, the smart home or automotive applications.
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    Eventide Refines Audio Equalization Possibilities with SplitEQ
    by audioXpress Staff

    Eventide Refines Audio Equalization Possibilities with SplitEQ

    Eventide has released SplitEQ, an advanced equalization plug-in featuring a new Structural Split patented technology. At first glance, it’s a parametric EQ with 8-bands of filters, but the Structural Split engine divides the incoming audio into separate Transient and Tonal streams that feed the 8 bands. This approach makes common EQ problems easy to solve — even in a complex mix.
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