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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27% of U.S. Broadband Households Own at Least One Smart Speaker
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27% of U.S. Broadband Households Own at Least One Smart Speaker

Parks Associates' new report "Global Connected Living Outlook: Expanding IoT Momentum" reports 27% of U.S. broadband households own at least one smart speaker, and that nearly 40% of consumers planning to purchase a smart home device find interoperability with either Amazon or Google personal assistants is important. Parks Associates's research on Home Security also reveals that 75% of home security installations in 2017 included smart control features.
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Chord Electronics Hugo TT 2 DAC and Headphone Amplifier Unveiled at High End 2018
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Chord Electronics Hugo TT 2 DAC and Headphone Amplifier Unveiled at High End 2018

It was one of the most well-attended press conferences in the first day of the High End Munich 2018 show, and for a good reason. Chord Electronics had already teased the market with the announcement that it would introduce a successor for the powerful and versatile Hugo Table-Top (TT) launched in 2015. With the new Hugo TT 2, the design received an extensive upgrade inside and out, achieving even better performance and value, since it can now be used with more headphones, and even to power loudspeakers!
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AES Will Promote Pro Audio Education Sessions at The NAMM Show Through 2021
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AES Will Promote Pro Audio Education Sessions at The NAMM Show Through 2021

Building on the success of the inaugural AES@NAMM Pro Sound Symposium: Live & Studio in 2018, and the organizations' shared mission to continue to strengthen the music and pro audio industries, The National Association of Music Merchants and the Audio Engineering Society have reaffirmed their commitment to providing best-in-class education and professional development opportunities with a three-year agreement for January 2019, 2020 and 2021 at The NAMM Show in Anaheim, California.
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    Faital Presents FEM Thermal Model of a Compression Driver at AES Convention in Milan
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    Faital Presents FEM Thermal Model of a Compression Driver at AES Convention in Milan

    Milan will host the 144th International AES Convention from May 23-26, and Italian manufacturer of automotive and professional loudspeakers, Faital, will present a new technical report entitled: “FEM thermal model of a compression driver: comparison with experimental results.” The presentation details Faital's successful experiments in developing a predictive model using Finite Element Analysis to improve the design of magnet assemblies in a loudspeaker.
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    Audinate Announces Over 400 Products Are Now Dante Domain Manager Ready
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    Audinate Announces Over 400 Products Are Now Dante Domain Manager Ready

    Audinate announced over 400 Dante-enabled products from top AV manufacturers now feature upgraded firmware that supports Dante Domain Manager. With thousands of products currently supporting Audinate's audio networking technology, manufacturers across nearly every product category have recognized the power of Dante Domain Manager software, and have upgraded their firmware to be compliant.
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    McIntosh Announces Luxury Music Streamer and New Flagship CD/SACD Player
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    McIntosh Announces Luxury Music Streamer and New Flagship CD/SACD Player

    McIntosh continues to consistently update its range of reference-level home entertainment source components, this time with two "best-in-class" solutions for high-quality music streaming and CD playback. Keeping up with its 65 years of tradition in the high end audio market, McIntosh announced the MCD600 SACD/CD Player and the MS500 Music Streamer, both retailing for approximately $7,000 USD.
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    zplane.development Announces élastiqueAAXtce And Price Reductions
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    zplane.development Announces élastiqueAAXtce And Price Reductions

    Berlin-based audio software specialists zplane.development announced élastiqueAAXtce, a new time manipulation plug-in designed exclusively for Pro Tools. élastiqueAAX and élastiqueAAXtce, now in version 2.1, are now available, with the new tce version as a stripped down version of the already known élastiqueAAX TC/E algorithm option in Pro Tools, with only time-stretching supported.
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    Radial Presenter Compact Mixer and Interface is Now Shipping
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    Radial Presenter Compact Mixer and Interface is Now Shipping

    Radial Engineering, the imaginative audio solutions company from Vancouver, BC, already offers many unique solutions for any type of presentation event, from versatile DI boxes and converters to press boxes, and even new Dante boxes that are ideal for connecting all sorts of sources into the audio networking systems that are common with audio crews these days. But for more basic needs at the podium, now there's the Radial Presenter compact mixer, now shipping.
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    Corporate End User and Buyer Behavior in Corporate Meeting Rooms - Making Sense of Meeting Room Technology Spend
    by Futuresource Consulting

    Corporate End User and Buyer Behavior in Corporate Meeting Rooms - Making Sense of Meeting Room Technology Spend

    Futuresource Consulting has announced the availability of its brand new Meeting Room Technology - Corporate End User Study, which highlights the opportunities for an ever-broadening range of suppliers to the this rapidly evolving and developing market sector. The new study highlights corporate end user and buyer behavior in the Corporate Meeting Room markets in USA, UK, France and Germany.
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    Tascam Introduces BO Expansion Boxes for ML-Series Dante Converters
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    Tascam Introduces BO Expansion Boxes for ML-Series Dante Converters

    With many studios and professional audio companies embracing Dante audio networking solutions, digital connectivity becomes a simple, versatile, and reliable process. Responding to that trend, in 2017 Tascam introduced a complete line of Dante-enabled offerings. Now, Tascam is shipping its BO-series I/O expansion boxes for the Tascam ML-32D and ML-16D professional analog/Dante converters, and other D-Sub equipped devices. Three BO-series models are now available.
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