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Powersoft Introduces ArmoníaPlus 2.0 Software to Easily Design, Manage and Control Install Projects
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Powersoft Introduces ArmoníaPlus 2.0 Software to Easily Design, Manage and Control Install Projects

Powersoft just announced the new ArmoníaPlus 2.0 software update. This new version redefines what Powersoft amps can do, maintaining the same structure and features for Live Sound projects, while introducing completely new features for installations, focusing on the needs of system integrators for sources and zones management, and allowing the creation of fully customizable user interfaces and controls with the new Views Designer and a dedicated app to quickly load project designs to the amplifiers and external controls.
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Audio Innovations for Applications That Demand Premium Sound Quality
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Audio Innovations for Applications That Demand Premium Sound Quality

Learn how TI Burr-Brown™ technology continues to shape the premium audio market with it's growing portfolio of devices for smart home, automotive and professional audio applications. Driven by a growing stream of innovative and enhanced technologies, audio is entering a new era. Here’s what you need to know about today’s rapidly evolving audio market. Download the white paper now to learn more!
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Loudspeaker Bonding in Perfection! Precise Adhesive Application to Components
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Loudspeaker Bonding in Perfection! Precise Adhesive Application to Components

Bonding is an important point when it comes to ensuring the quality of each finished loudspeaker. What you need: Most precise adhesive dispensing and absolute repeatability in fast processes! preeflow dispensers are proven in loudspeaker dispensing applications worldwide: Bonding of coils, magnet system, membrane damper adhesives, wire fixation and contact protection. Smallest adhesive quantities starting from 0.001 ml can be applied – with a repeatability higher than 99%
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Google Introduces Nest Audio Smart Speaker With Focus on Music Reproduction
by Joao Martins

Google Introduces Nest Audio Smart Speaker With Focus on Music Reproduction

Google held the company's traditional hardware announcements event. Apart from a new mandatory phone, the star of the event was the new Nest Audio smart speaker, bigger and more powerful than the Google Home that it replaces. Rumored for months, the new smart speaker reflects the hard work by a dedicated engineering team, resulting in a better overall speaker design, but also improved multi-room streaming features. Inside, there's more intelligence to support voice commands locally, and there's even a microphone "privacy" mute switch, when required.
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Zound Industries Redesigns Iconic Marshall Wireless On-Ear Headphones
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Zound Industries Redesigns Iconic Marshall Wireless On-Ear Headphones

Swedish headphone and speaker designer and developer Zound Industries International successfully refreshed the iconic Marshall Major on-ear headphones. The new Major IV is not only the strongest iteration and refinement of the iconic design, but it also achieves the increasingly important goal of sustainability by using recycled plastics, with electronics designed for minimal environmental impact. And it helps that the sound is also the best ever in the range.
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Dirac Introduces Spatial Audio Solution for Direct Chipset Integration Into Next-Generation Wireless Headphones
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Dirac Introduces Spatial Audio Solution for Direct Chipset Integration Into Next-Generation Wireless Headphones

Swedish digital audio pioneer Dirac announced that its latest spatial audio solution, which leverages the company's patented Dynamic HRTF technology, is now available for direct integration into the digital signal processors (DSP) of Bluetooth wireless headphones. The solution is now compatible with chipsets from Qualcomm, BES, and MediaTek and allows headphone manufacturers to deliver spatial audio to consumers, independent of playback devices or media players.
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FM Synthesis Pioneer John Chowning to Deliver AES Show 2020 Heyser Lecture
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FM Synthesis Pioneer John Chowning to Deliver AES Show 2020 Heyser Lecture

“Realizing a Dream, a Discovery, and Lissajous Figures,” will be the title of the presentation where Chowning will detail sound spatialization and synthesis innovations from his 50-plus years of research and development in the industry. John Chowning, FM Synthesis pioneer, researcher and composer, will deliver the AES Show 2020 Heyser Lecture on Tuesday, October 27, at 1PM EDT during the AES Show Fall 2020 Convention.
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WiSA Introduces SoundSend Home Cinema Audio Transmitter to Instantly Connect Smart TVs to WiSA Certified Speakers
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WiSA Introduces SoundSend Home Cinema Audio Transmitter to Instantly Connect Smart TVs to WiSA Certified Speakers

WiSA unveiled its WiSA SoundSend audio transmitter, the Association’s first branded product to hit the market since its inception. The SoundSend is an HDMI (or optical)-connected transmitter designed to make wireless multichannel audio accessible in minutes to nearly every smart TV. SoundSend allows for instant transmission of smart TV content to WiSA Certified speakers for a true cinema sound experience at home without speaker wires. The product will be available for purchase in November of 2020 and will retail for $179 US MSRP.
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Amazon Reimagines Echo Smart Speaker Family for 2020
by Joao Martins

Amazon Reimagines Echo Smart Speaker Family for 2020

Amazon.com introduced its all-new line-up of Echo devices, featuring completely new designs, enhanced audio, more powerful hardware, and experiences that make Alexa voice assistant more engaging, and helpful. Most of the new Amazon products will be available at the end of October 2020, and that includes an all-new Echo (4th Gen), now with better sound and integrated smart home hub; the new Echo Dot and Echo Dot Kids Edition featuring the new spherical designs and improved audio, and Echo Show 10, the smart speaker with screen.
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JAM Audio Goes Vintage With New Atomic Age Series Of Bluetooth Speakers
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JAM Audio Goes Vintage With New Atomic Age Series Of Bluetooth Speakers

Lifestyle audio brand JAM Audio is expanding their powerhouse collection of fun, affordable Bluetooth speakers with the release of their Retro series, three speakers designed to bring a vintage look together with modern features and big sound. In a market highly saturated with competitive products in all price ranges, in a category that still struggles to gain consumer's confidence like Bluetooth speakers, an appealing vintage design is one way to generate impulsive buying. And these designs certainly appeal to those impulses.
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