audioXpress May 2024 Glass Audio Special Issue Now Available

audioXpress May 2024 Glass Audio Special Issue Now Available
Read more...
Advertise in the Loudspeaker Industry Sourcebook 2024!

Advertise in the Loudspeaker Industry Sourcebook 2024!
Read more...
Loudspeaker Knowledge and Innovation in Voice Coil April 2024

Loudspeaker Knowledge and Innovation in Voice Coil April 2024
Read more...
The Audio Voice - Weekly Newsletter for audioXpress and Voice Coil Communities

The Audio Voice - Weekly Newsletter for audioXpress and Voice Coil Communities
Read more...
Cambridge Audio Reveals Updated Melomania 1+ True Wireless with USB-C and Enhanced User Experience
by Joao Martins

Cambridge Audio Reveals Updated Melomania 1+ True Wireless with USB-C and Enhanced User Experience

Currently the strongest growth product segment in consumer electronics, true wireless technology is advancing fast but the category remains a crowded and highly competitive space. Short after the announcement of its flagship Melomania Touch earbuds, British audio brand Cambridge Audio updated its first TWS design, launched originally in June 2019. The new Melomania 1+ true wireless earbuds keep the compact form factor and a competitive price, and gained updated technology and app control features.
Read more...
New Klippel SCN Near Field Add-On (SCN-NF) Now Available
by audioXpress Staff

New Klippel SCN Near Field Add-On (SCN-NF) Now Available

Announced earlier in 2020, Klippel now confirmed availability of its new SCN Near-Field Add On (SCN-NF), a new solution that accurately enables all the most relevant transducer measurements using a single hardware setup in a non-anechoic room. This new powerful addition to the Klippel Scanning Vibrometer is a smart alternative to using an anechoic chamber, and the fastest way to get full directivity holographic measurements, extrapolate SPL to any point in 3D half-space and obtain balloon, contour, polar and sound power plots.
Read more...
Raspberry Pi Relaunches Four IQAudio HATs Following Acquisition
by audioXpress Staff

Raspberry Pi Relaunches Four IQAudio HATs Following Acquisition

Raspberry Pi has relaunched four IQaudio HATs as official Pi audio add-on boards with lower prices ranging from $20 to $30: the IQaudio DAC+, DAC Pro, DigiAMP+ and Codec Zero. In December 2020, Raspberry Pi Trading announced it had acquired IQAudio and would be relaunching their Raspberry Pi audio HATs at lower prices. Now, IQAudio’s four most popular HATs have been relaunched as official Pi accessories and are available via the usual Pi resellers.
Read more...
    Tube Amp Doctor Launches Brand New TAD 6L6GCM-STR REDBASE Premium Selected Tubes
    by audioXpress Staff

    Tube Amp Doctor Launches Brand New TAD 6L6GCM-STR REDBASE Premium Selected Tubes

    A brand new series of tubes was launched and the first model is now ready to ship worldwide! The new 6L6GCM-STR is the first model from a new high quality premium tube series named REBASE, from Tube Amp Doctor (TAD). As the German company explains, the 6L6GCM-STR REDBASE is an entirely new TAD development, recommended for lively clean sounds as well as powerful broadband multi-channel amps, an ideal upgrade for any guitar or high-end amplifier that uses 6L6GC or 5881 tubes.
    Read more...
    Neutrik AG Acquires Connectivity Solutions Company Connex GmbH
    by audioXpress Staff

    Neutrik AG Acquires Connectivity Solutions Company Connex GmbH

    The Neutrik Group, with headquarters in the Principality of Liechtenstein, confirmed the acquisition of connectivity solutions company Connex Gmbh, headquartered in Oldenburg, Germany. The acquisition intends to strengthen Nuetrik's expertise in professional solutions. Connex produces and develops high-quality components for the professional event industry, including audio distribution, stage boxes, multicore systems, audio splitters, power distribution, and networking.
    Read more...
    Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon Sound End-To-End Audio System
    by Joao Martins

    Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon Sound End-To-End Audio System

    Following previous announcements in development platforms and solutions for wireless audio, Qualcomm announced Qualcomm Snapdragon Sound, a new end-to-end approach to promote high resolution digital audio and enhanced voice communications across devices. The approach combines and optimizes multiple Qualcomm technologies for mobile platforms, processing, connectivity, plus the latest aptX Adaptive audio technologies needed to improve the sound experience for consumers.
    Read more...
    HIFIMAN Electronics Announces HE400se Affordable Open-Back Planar Magnetic Headphones
    by audioXpress Staff

    HIFIMAN Electronics Announces HE400se Affordable Open-Back Planar Magnetic Headphones

    HIFIMAN, a company normally associated with price-no-object premium electrostatic and planar magnetic designs, confirmed that will launch a powerful new planar magnetic headphone that offers all the appreciated qualities of ultra-wide soundstage and detailed audio imaging, at a mass market price. The new HE400se ($149) is an open-back planar magnetic headphone that employs single-ended drivers with increased efficiency to 91dB, performing well with smartphones and tablets as it does with a full-size amplifier.
    Read more...
    Paradigm Introduces Founder Series Premium Loudspeaker Series
    by audioXpress Staff

    Paradigm Introduces Founder Series Premium Loudspeaker Series

    Canadian audio specialist Paradigm launched its Founder Series, a six-model range of premium loudspeakers that brings high-end performance and luxurious style to hi-fi and home cinema systems. Designed for today’s modern living spaces, the Founder Series is a foundational development of all speaker design aspects aiming for precise control and game-changing dynamics in music and media reproduction. Every single speaker features totally new driver designs.
    Read more...
    Hisense Joins DTS Play-Fi Whole-Home Wireless Audio Ecosystem
    by Joao Martins

    Hisense Joins DTS Play-Fi Whole-Home Wireless Audio Ecosystem

    DTS is still much at play in wireless audio with its Play-Fi technology. The company that is now a part of Xperi and just merged with TiVo, announced that Hisense is joining its DTS Play-Fi whole-home audio ecosystem. With a rapidly growing presence in the US and Europe, Hisense’s partnership with DTS will bring additional wireless interoperability in consumer electronics. Hisense will design and manufacture Play-Fi enabled products to be globally distributed in the second half of 2021.
    Read more...
    QuickLogic Releases Amazon-Qualified Alexa Reference Design for Hearables
    by audioXpress Staff

    QuickLogic Releases Amazon-Qualified Alexa Reference Design for Hearables

    QuickLogic released an Amazon-qualified QuickFeather AVS Reference Design that enables OEMs and ODMs to evaluate and develop their own smart hearable products quickly and easily. This kit integrates the Alexa voice-initiated Close-Talk experience, enabling a broad set of battery-powered applications to communicate directly with Alexa for a multitude of use cases. In addition, OEMs and ODMs can optionally integrate multiple AI-based motion, sound and other AI use cases based on SensiML’s AI Software Platform, which already has native support for the development kit.
    Read more...