Xilica Enters Strategic Alliance with Sennheiser for Collaboration Solutions

Xilica, the manufacturer of digital signal processing solutions for audiovisual installation has partnered with Sennheiser to develop a tightly-integrated room solution that minimizes installation time, improves audio quality, and enhances collaboration for end-users. The partnership will leverage audio products from both companies, offering integrators a seamless way to deploy networked audio-conferencing and collaboration systems.

"Change the Way You Listen to Music" is Sony's pitch for CES 2021, reinforcing the company's past research efforts in spatial audio and specifically its 360 Reality Audio and Immersive Audio Enhancement technologies. The concept was so far implemented in binaural mode with headphones, but Sony demonstrated some concepts with speakers able to generate "ambient room-filling sound" since CES 2019. With users spending more time at home, Sony decided it was time to launch the new 360 Reality Audio wireless speakers, model SRS-RA5000 and SRS-RA3000.

Genelec is expanding its expertise and global recognition in professional studio monitoring also into residential and commercial installations. But now the Finish company introduced a new loudspeaker that takes it even further, to the realms of sound reinforcement in venues and clubs. At ISE 2019, the company introduced the new high SPL S360 smart active loudspeaker, which the company says can be “a formidable contender for any installation environment where the emphasis is placed on premium quality, high SPL vocal and music reproduction in a compact form factor.”

During NAMM 2019, IK Multimedia debuted a new compact monitor that the Italian company believes has the potential to “re-invent nearfield monitoring for professional and home studios”. Well, IK Multimedia said the same thing when they introduced the original iLoud Micro monitors three years ago, and in fact they did very well for thousands of people who make music and mix on a laptop and need speakers to take on the road. But the new iLoud MTM takes it a step further, using a mid-tweeter-mid design with larger drivers that truly impress, and they come with built-in acoustic auto-calibration!

Collaboration-solutions company Nureva is doing for audio conferencing technology what the Amazon Echo speaker did to home audio. It created a new category of “smart” devices with the potential completely disrupt the market. Now, at the 2018 Integrated Systems Europe show, Nureva is expanding the HDL300 system to reach out larger spaces and showing enhancements to its audio manager software, which is now automatically able to detect and perform updates.