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SPL Announces New Crescendo duo 2-Channel Microphone Preamplifier Featuring 120V Technology
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SPL Announces New Crescendo duo 2-Channel Microphone Preamplifier Featuring 120V Technology

SPL of Germany has announced the new Crescendo duo mic preamplifier that extends the company's 120V technology portfolio with a two-channel version of the original SPL Crescendo. The Crescendo duo offers an entry-level solution to SPL 120V technology microphone preamplifiers, and is perfectly suited for the most demanding stereo recordings but is also ideal for mono signals such as vocals. SPL describes as "the ultimate front end for all professional recording studios."
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Line-up of WiSA Certified Home Audio Products Expanded with the Harman Kardon Citation Sub S
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Line-up of WiSA Certified Home Audio Products Expanded with the Harman Kardon Citation Sub S

The Wireless Speaker and Audio Association (WiSA), comprised of over 60 leading consumer electronics brands, and founded by Summit Wireless Technologies, announced certification of the Harman Kardon Citation Sub S. This newly WiSA Certified compact subwoofer, part of the expanded Citation range introduced at CES 2020, is the second subwoofer in the line and the third Harman subwoofer overall to be WiSA Certified.
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KRK Systems Invents Speaker Grilles Add-on Cross-Selling Concept
by Joao Martins

KRK Systems Invents Speaker Grilles Add-on Cross-Selling Concept

KRK Systems introduced a completely new and revolutionary concept for the speaker industry. While speaker grilles have long been used by manufacturers as a way to protect the drivers, the truth is many users remove them immediately mainly for aesthetic reasons. That's the reason some brands don't even bother including grilles in the first place. KRK probably hired a new marketing exec that looked at the brand's latest ROKIT G4 range of active monitors and thinks "what if we would sell optional add-on grilles"?
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Genelec Announces 1235A Smart Active Main Studio Monitor
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Genelec Announces 1235A Smart Active Main Studio Monitor

Genelec unveiled its new 1235A Smart Active Monitor, which fuses the sound and heritage of the iconic 1035 main studio monitor with high-performance 96 kHz processing and the ability to adapt to any space through its tight integration with Genelec’s GLM calibration software. The 1235A targets large music, film and post-production studios that demand high SPL and neutral, stable imaging that can be perfectly optimized for the room’s unique acoustic environment.
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Jabra Launches Evolve2 Next-Generation Business Headsets with Hybrid ANC
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Jabra Launches Evolve2 Next-Generation Business Headsets with Hybrid ANC

Jabra announced its Evolve2 range, the next generation of Evolve, its best-selling UC headsets for improved productivity. The new range consists of the Evolve2 85, Evolve2 65 and Evolve2 40, all engineered to transform concentration, collaboration and flexibility in the workplace. By blocking out more noise and providing better voice clarity, the Evolve2 business headsets bring distributed teams together, giving people the power to work from anywhere while staying connected. The headsets work with all leading UC platforms and are pending certification for Microsoft Teams.
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Tracktion Launches Fully Featured Unlimited Free DAW for All Operating Systems
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Tracktion Launches Fully Featured Unlimited Free DAW for All Operating Systems

In response to the virus pandemic situation, Tracktion Corporation announced Waveform Free, a perfect solution for making and sharing music for anyone stuck at home, self-isolating. "The software has no restrictions, other than imagination and more capabilities than most enthusiastic producers will ever need. Stay safe at home, keep busy, get the creative juices flowing and dive into a genuinely complete, stand-alone, Free DAW," the company says.
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Carl Tatz Design Employs IsoAcoustics Decoupling System in New PFM 1000 Series PhantomFocus Monitors
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Carl Tatz Design Employs IsoAcoustics Decoupling System in New PFM 1000 Series PhantomFocus Monitors

Studio designer and monitoring expert Carl Tatz, principal of Carl Tatz Design (CTD) from Nashville, TN, and the creator of the PhantomFocus line of Precision Monitors, and Dave Morrison, president and founder of the IsoAcoustics line of speaker isolation products, have announced the custom integration of IsoAcoustics’ award-winning pistonic decoupling technology into the new PhantomFocus PFM HD-1000 and PFM UHD-1000 Professional Reference Studio Monitors.
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Media Links Introduces 100Gbps Combined Ethernet Switch and Trunk Interface for Media Applications
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Media Links Introduces 100Gbps Combined Ethernet Switch and Trunk Interface for Media Applications

As demand surges for higher bandwidth at the network edge in order to transport more and more media channels, Media Links, the manufacturer and pioneer in Media over IP transport technology, introduced its new MD8000-100G solution. This high performance 100G combined Ethernet switch and trunk interface allows media companies to support up to 48x SFP (1G/10G/25G) and 32x QSFP28 (100G) ports. Media Links offers the 100G solution as part of a complete ecosystem solution for Wide Area Transport, Remote Production, Contribution, and more.
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Dirac Introduces Dirac Live for Studio Software and DAW Plug-In
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Dirac Introduces Dirac Live for Studio Software and DAW Plug-In

Swedish sound processing pioneer Dirac decided to expand the application of its pioneering room correction solution – Dirac Live – to include studio environments that have been long plagued by acoustical challenges. Dirac Live for Studio features patented impulse response and frequency response correction to help tackle time domain and frequency domain issues – thereby improving the accuracy of sound reproduction in studio environments.
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Delightfully Disruptive Huawei Sound X Wireless Speaker Co-Designed with Devialet
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Delightfully Disruptive Huawei Sound X Wireless Speaker Co-Designed with Devialet

With China resuming production capabilities and companies back to work, the barrage of products that had been scheduled to be unveiled or launched at MWC Barcelona 2020 are now being announced. Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei unveiled its latest smartphone together with a new wireless speaker, co-designed with French audio company Devialet. Announced to the world during an "online product release event," the all-new Huawei-Devialet joint wireless speaker stands-out for the electro-acoustic design and the patently intent to copy the Apple HomePod.
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