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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Earbuds Consumer Survey Identifies Key Takeaways for Manufacturers
by audioXpress Staff

Earbuds Consumer Survey Identifies Key Takeaways for Manufacturers

Austrian company ams, a leading worldwide supplier of high-performance sensor solutions, shared the results of its ‘Comfortable, Smart, High-performing Earbuds Survey’ conducted in Spring 2020 with 2000-plus consumers around the world on their audio earbud uses, habits and preferences. Earbud comfort seems to be a key focus for existing users, with the survey identifying the benefits of active noise cancellation and volume-limiting technology as top earbud innovations. Preference between loose fit and tight-fitting, in-ear earbuds, depends upon type of activity.
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Symphonic Acoustics Debuts 2X8V Ultra High-End Studio Monitors
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Symphonic Acoustics Debuts 2X8V Ultra High-End Studio Monitors

Studio monitor company Symphonic Acoustics has unveiled its new Dual 8V ultra high-end monitors. The new 2X8V is the result of a longtime design and manufacturing collaboration between Symphonic Acoustics and several industry legends, including George Augspurger, John Storyk and others. Ideally suited for mixing and monitoring across a range of genres, each pair of monitors ship with a curated selection of power and DSP options.
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audioXpress September 2020 Speaker Focus Edition Is Now Available!
by audioXpress Staff

audioXpress September 2020 Speaker Focus Edition Is Now Available!

Our always popular loudspeaker edition is now available online and in print! audioXpress' Speaker Builder, Speaker Focus edition covers loudspeaker building, design, and testing with a balanced amount of DIY, speaker history, theory, R&D, and manufacturing articles. Read two articles about speaker history, a review of the Magnepan LRS, explore the details of two amazing speaker builds, and learn how to do loudspeaker measurements at home. And there's much more in speaker research and development, measurement, and production!
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    Arylic Introduces New Up2stream Amp 2.1 Wireless Amplifier Board
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    Arylic Introduces New Up2stream Amp 2.1 Wireless Amplifier Board

    Arylic, an audio electronics company specialized in the needs of both the OEM/ODM market as well as the requirements of DIY music enthusiasts, announced the availability of its Up2stream Amp 2.1 Wireless Amplifier Board. This Class D stereo amplifier board with a powerful subwoofer output is able to generate 50W+50W+100W and deliver good results from low impedance speakers. And it adds the most advanced wireless technology, with WiFi, Bluetooth 5.0, Airplay, Spotify Connect, also with DLNA and UPnP protocols for wireless control.
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    Mcintosh Group and Alps Alpine Join Forces in Automotive Luxury Audio Strategy
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    Mcintosh Group and Alps Alpine Join Forces in Automotive Luxury Audio Strategy

    McIntosh Group Inc. and Alps Alpine have teamed up to deliver transcendent, luxury audio systems to the automotive industry. This announcement also signals that the McIntosh Group is returning to the automotive industry – bringing solutions from McIntosh Labs and Sonus Faber to vehicles. The partnership means that those automotive solutions are delivered by Alps Alpine in select vehicles.
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    Sony Launches New WH-1000XM4 Headphones with Next Generation Adaptive Noise Canceling
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    Sony Launches New WH-1000XM4 Headphones with Next Generation Adaptive Noise Canceling

    Sony Electronics announced the WH-1000XM4 – the fourth-generation noise-canceling headphones from Sony's 1000X family. The popular wireless over-ear model shows a similar design to the previous WH-1000XM3, with subtle but effective changes in materials providing longer comfort and lighter weight. But the main improvement relies on Sony's latest processing, sensors and a new Bluetooth 5 SoC, providing the WH-1000XM4 with additional smart features that personalize music, improve noise cancelation and adjust ambient sound automatically.
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    The Intelligent Microphone: The Next Generation of MEMS Microphone Technology
    by Mike Klasco

    The Intelligent Microphone: The Next Generation of MEMS Microphone Technology

    At the end of July 2020, audioXpress ran a product release on Vesper's VM3011 intelligent digital micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) microphone. Its claim to fame is a power saving architecture that enables battery standby life that otherwise would be unattainable without the "smarts." There are another half-dozen developers working on integrating all sorts of capabilities within the MEMS mic package. This article, originally published in The Audio Voice newsletter, discusses those developments.
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    Dirac Live Bass Control Expands Performance of Latest AudioControl AV Receivers and Processors
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    Dirac Live Bass Control Expands Performance of Latest AudioControl AV Receivers and Processors

    Swedish digital audio pioneer Dirac and the team of self-proclaimed obsessed audio experts at AudioControl announced that the brand's latest line of receivers and processors will include Dirac Live Bass Control for a more immersive home theater experience in any space. The collaboration between the two companies has resulted in expanding the Dirac Live Bass Control software to the new Concert Series receivers and Maestro Series AV processors, part of AudioControl's high end home audio range.
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    TDK Unveils New Ultra-High AOP Analog MEMS Microphone Ideal for Noisy Environments
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    TDK Unveils New Ultra-High AOP Analog MEMS Microphone Ideal for Noisy Environments

    TDK Corporation introduced the InvenSense ICS-40638 MEMS analog microphone, a new high-performance solution enabling clear audio capture in loud and noisy conditions, with an extended frequency response from 35 Hz to 20kHz. The ICS-40638 microphone offers an ultra-high Acoustic Overload Point (AOP) of 138 dB Sound Pressure Level (SPL), exceptionally efficient 170 µA low power operation and high Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) of 63 dB in a small 3.5 mm x 2.65 mm x 0.98 mm bottom port surface‐mount package.
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    MSE Audio Introduces Modern White Finishes to PhaseTech Premier Collection Series
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    MSE Audio Introduces Modern White Finishes to PhaseTech Premier Collection Series

    MSE Audio, the parent company of SoundTube Entertainment, Soundsphere, dARTS, Phase Technology, Induction Dynamics, SolidDrive and Rockustics, announced the PhaseTech Premier Collection subwoofers, bookshelf and tower speakers are now available in a smooth white satin finish. The culmination of over 65 years of engineering experience, the Premier Collection is the pinnacle of the PhaseTech line, offering high performance sound reproduction in solid, curved cabinets, that reduce resonant frequencies and standing waves.
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