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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Jabra Announces Elite 85t Active Noise Cancelling Earbuds Available in Four New Finishes
by audioXpress Staff

Jabra Announces Elite 85t Active Noise Cancelling Earbuds Available in Four New Finishes

Jabra announced the availability of the Elite 85t active noise cancelling (ANC) earbuds in four new colors: Gold/Beige, Copper/Black, Black and Grey. The Jabra Elite 85t was originally launched in October of 2020 in Titanium/Black and is part of the brand's newly announced compact true wireless portfolio with fully adjustable Advanced Active Noise Cancellation. The new finishes expand the consumer appeal for this leading product in the category.
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The Audio Technologies That Matter More Than Ever in audioXpress February 2021
by audioXpress Staff

The Audio Technologies That Matter More Than Ever in audioXpress February 2021

audioXpress February 2021 explains why Microphones have gained Essential Status, and how microphones have a foundational contribution to voice front-ends. Erica Yorga details how Thousands of Virtual Microphones can solve audio conferencing challenges, and Mike Meechan explains how to design high-performance microphone preamplifiers. Brent Butterworth reviews the Widex Moment mRIC RD hearing aids to understand the differences and similarities in the critical sound experience. Michael Steffes explains how to increase the output current for an audio op-amp, and Andrew C. Russell details the X-Altra, a high-performance MC/MM phono equalizer DIY project. Now available in print and digital.
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JBL Synthesis Immersive Audio Range Expanded with SCL-1 Loudspeaker, SSW-1 Subwoofer and Four New Advanced Architectural Speakers
by audioXpress Staff

JBL Synthesis Immersive Audio Range Expanded with SCL-1 Loudspeaker, SSW-1 Subwoofer and Four New Advanced Architectural Speakers

Among the multiple Harman product announcements at CES 2021, the JBL Synthesis range received important custom residential additions. The JBL Synthesis range now includes the top performance SCL-1 loudspeaker and the matching SSW-1 subwoofer, both designed for no-compromise immersive audio systems and featuring patented JBL technologies. Complementing the JBL Synthesis range for immersive audio are four new SCL loudspeaker for residential installation.
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    All the CES 2021 Innovation Awards in Audio
    by Joao Martins

    All the CES 2021 Innovation Awards in Audio

    As an annual tradition, celebrating outstanding design and engineering in technology, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced the CES 2021 Innovation Awards honorees, including those products recognized as Best of Innovation. audioXpress looks at all the audio products and accessories that are included among the multiple categories, from personal audio to high-performance home audio, audio components, and smart home.
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    Agreement Between DSP Concepts and Cambridge Consultants Accelerates Audio Product Development and Voice Innovation
    by Joao Martins

    Agreement Between DSP Concepts and Cambridge Consultants Accelerates Audio Product Development and Voice Innovation

    Cambridge Consultants, part of Capgemini, and DSP Concepts, the creators of Audio Weaver, the audio DSP platform powering some of the world’s best consumer and automotive brands, announced an agreement that will see Cambridge Consultants offering deep audio product development expertise and technology to the many audio brands in the fast-growing DSP Concepts ecosystem. Cambridge Consultants will be also adding its own voice detection processing to Audio Weaver.
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    JBL Kicks Off 75th Anniversary with New 100 Classic 75 Loudspeaker and SA750 Integrated Amplifier
    by audioXpress Staff

    JBL Kicks Off 75th Anniversary with New 100 Classic 75 Loudspeaker and SA750 Integrated Amplifier

    Celebrating three quarters of a century, JBL remains synonymous with epic sound. Harman International signaled the anniversary during its CES 2021 press event with the introduction of the 100 Classic 75 loudspeaker, featuring the iconic, 1970's-style retro JBL L100 Classic design and foam grille, together with the intriguing and retro-looking JBL SA750 Integrated Amplifier, inspired by the JBL integrated amplifiers from the 1960s and 1970s, but featuring the most modern technologies.
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    Fresh From the Bench: QuantAsylum QA401 and QA451 Compact and Modular Audio Measurement System
    by David Logvin

    Fresh From the Bench: QuantAsylum QA401 and QA451 Compact and Modular Audio Measurement System

    On the cover of audioXpress December 2020, many of our readers instantly recognized the familiar look of the increasingly popular QuantAsylum QA401 audio analyzer. What many readers didn't recognize by then was the second module, the completely new QA451 programmable load, so new that audioXpress tested a pre-production version. In this review article, David Logvin shares his valuable perspective on this modular solution for audio measurements from QuantAsylum.
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    Test Bench: Omega Audio ODT29 Cloth Dome Tweeter
    by Vance Dickason

    Test Bench: Omega Audio ODT29 Cloth Dome Tweeter

    On this Test Bench, Vance Dickason offers a characterization of the ODT29 fabric dome tweeter from Omega Audio, an OEM transducer manufacturer new to the pages of Voice Coil. The company, headquartered in Holon, Israel, was founded in 1978 when the founder of Omega Audio, Levi Mordechai left Morel. All of Omega Audio’s ODT line of tweeters, dome midranges are handmade in the company's facility, from dome coating to coil winding and motor assembly. This article was originally published in Voice Coil, October 2020.
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    DSP Group Unveils DBM10 Low-Power Edge AI/ML SoC with Dedicated Neural Network Inference Processor
    by audioXpress Staff

    DSP Group Unveils DBM10 Low-Power Edge AI/ML SoC with Dedicated Neural Network Inference Processor

    DSP Group announced the DBM10, a new low-power, cost-effective artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) system-on-chip (SoC). This new open platform, with a cost- and power-optimized architecture, enables rapid development of AI and ML applications for mobile, wearables, hearables, and connected devices in general. It provides a complete platform in terms of voice and audio processing, without compromising the battery life of new designs, and allowing developers to implement their own differentiating algorithms.
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    Club Sound Available Anywhere With New Sennheiser HD 250BT Bluetooth Headphones
    by audioXpress Staff

    Club Sound Available Anywhere With New Sennheiser HD 250BT Bluetooth Headphones

    Recognizing the popularity of wireless Bluetooth headphones, Sennheiser seems to be determined to take advantage of its most popular designs to create new wireless iterations. The now available Sennheiser HD 250BT headphones, do exactly that by turning the club favorite HD 25 design into a wireless Bluetooth 5 product. Not exactly the same, given the HD 250BT are available for just $69.95 USD in the North American market, which is half the list price of the original monitoring headphones.
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