audioXpress June 2024 Models Automotive Audio Development

audioXpress June 2024 Models Automotive Audio Development

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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 Resources in Voice Coil May 2024

Loudspeaker Knowledge and Resources in Voice Coil May 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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The AudioChiemgau ModeCompensator: A Quick Basic Test
by Rens Tellers

The AudioChiemgau ModeCompensator: A Quick Basic Test

The principles applied by Dr. Reinhold Lutz's for precise measurement of the sound pressure frequency response in the presence of room modes, are available in its AudioChiemgau Mode-Compensator solution. Jan Didden and Rens Tellers did a basic functional test to find out how well they could make it work and they were pleasantly surprised with the results. This article was originally published in audioXpress, October 2023.
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Voice Coil Test Bench: Wavecor's WF182BD13-04 7" Midbass Driver
by Vance Dickason

Voice Coil Test Bench: Wavecor's WF182BD13-04 7" Midbass Driver

The Wavecor WF182BD13 is a midbass driver that utilizes a unique proprietary cone material made with interwoven Kevlar/Carbon fibers with beneficial properties for midrange reproduction - a combination of low mass, rigidness, and damping. Unique features include a vented inverted dome-type phase plug (no dust cap), a shallow profile low loss high Qm NBR surround, accompanied by a flat 4” diameter black cloth spider.
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Audio Precision Expands Electronic Audio Testing with New APx516B Audio Analyzer
by Joao Martins

Audio Precision Expands Electronic Audio Testing with New APx516B Audio Analyzer

Audio Precision announced the new APx516B, a modular and affordable audio analyzer that expands electronic audio testing with even better performance and flexibility. The new Audio Precision APx516B Audio Analyzer is a budget-friendly solution to test both analog and digital audio with two analog generator/analyzer channels with performance suitable for testing consumer and professional audio devices, a digital interface module slot, and seamless integration with APx500 measurement software.
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    Opal Tadpole Webcam Features Soundskrit Directional MEMS Microphone
    by Joao Martins

    Opal Tadpole Webcam Features Soundskrit Directional MEMS Microphone

    Opal Camera announced Tadpole, a compact and light webcam built exclusively for laptops and tablets, with DSLR image quality and featuring VisiMic audio capture. The webcam intends to solve all the pains that users experience with standard built-in webcams, making the experience seamless and automatic. Apart from the superior image quality, the Tadpole is the first product in the market to feature directional MEMS microphones from Canadian startup Soundskrit, with its unique background noise cancellation features.
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    Rycote Promotes Behind-the-Scenes Factory Tour
    by Joao Martins

    Rycote Promotes Behind-the-Scenes Factory Tour

    To promote Rycote's new expansion phase, Videndum organized a series of visits to its brand new manufacturing facility at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in the UK. Dealers, sound engineers, and press were able to go behind the scenes and get hands on with production of the famous Rycote windshields and shockmounts for field production sound. The event also allowed Rycote to promote its new range of professional condenser microphones.
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    Lenovo Collaborates with Jabra to Introduce AI Enabled ThinkSmart Bar 180 Solution
    by audioXpress Staff

    Lenovo Collaborates with Jabra to Introduce AI Enabled ThinkSmart Bar 180 Solution

    Lenovo announced the new ThinkSmart Bar 180 bar for small and medium meeting spaces. The integrated room system, offered in collaboration with Jabra, combines an intelligent videobar with the Lenovo ThinkSmart Core and Controller for a complete, intelligent room system. Using AI-enabled video and audio streams, the new co-branded ThinkSmart Bar 180 delivers a more seamless, inclusive, and premium collaboration experience.
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    Everything That's Audio in audioXpress December 2023
    by audioXpress Staff

    Everything That's Audio in audioXpress December 2023

    audioXpress December 2023 includes a market overview of multiroom audio, Brent Butterworth writes about new ways to measure ANC earbuds, and Stuart Yaniger measured the new Axign and GaN Systems Class-D audio amplifier board. Richard Honeycutt writes about tubes, BJTs, JFETs, MOSFETs, and ICs, and Dimitri Danyuk, discusses JFETs in audio circuits. Douglas Self explains how to optimize variable-frequency tone controls, and Jan Didden shares his eDD direct-drive amplifier project.
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    xMEMS Achieves Extended Bass Response, Making ANC Applications Possible From a Single MEMS Driver
    by Joao Martins

    xMEMS Achieves Extended Bass Response, Making ANC Applications Possible From a Single MEMS Driver

    The new Cypress MEMS speaker from xMEMS Labs achieves 40X louder bass response on a single monolithic, miniaturized device, achieving well above the 130dB SPL at low frequencies, required for ANC implementations on TWS earbuds. The new xMEMS Cypress achieves this groundbreaking performance by using ultrasound technology. The new development will be demonstrated at CES 2024 by appointment only, with mass production scheduled for late-2024.
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    SPL Introduces New Channel One Mk3 and Track One Mk3 Recording Units
    by Joao Martins

    SPL Introduces New Channel One Mk3 and Track One Mk3 Recording Units

    German company SPL used the Tonmeistertagung 2023 (tmt32) conference and exhibition in Düsseldorf to present new products in its professional recording series. This time, SPL introduced its next generation of channel strips, the Channel One Mk3 and the Track One Mk3. Both are updates to the SPL Studio Series, combining a complete source preamplifier and mixing channel strip with analog dynamics processing, improved and optimized for the needs of modern recording studios.
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    Sonoro to Offer Dirac Live Room Correction for New MAESTRO Quantum Receiver
    by audioXpress Staff

    Sonoro to Offer Dirac Live Room Correction for New MAESTRO Quantum Receiver

    Swedish digital audio processing pioneer Dirac confirmed that the new sonoro MAESTRO Quantum receiver will run Dirac Live Room Correction. The MAESTRO Quantum all-in-one integrated amplifier is the first product from the German company to feature Dirac Live, in combination with broad connectivity options. The new iconic design is an effort to deliver an intuitive, user-friendly hifi receiver that is both simple and convenient, but extremely powerful.
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