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Sennheiser Announces New X Massdrop HD 58X Jubilee Exclusive Headphones
June 28, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Sennheiser Announces New X Massdrop HD 58X Jubilee Exclusive Headphones

Following the success of previous collaborations, Sennheiser and Massdrop, a community-driven commerce platform, announced the latest result of the companies’ ongoing partnership: the Massdrop x Sennheiser HD 58X Jubilee. The new exclusive headphone is a tribute to the Sennheiser HD 580 Jubilee, an open, dynamic headphone that helped pave the way for a successful range of audiophile headphones including the HD 600 and the HD 650.
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SD Memory Cards Now a Faster Alternative with New SD Express Format
June 28, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

SD Memory Cards Now a Faster Alternative with New SD Express Format

The SD Association announced its new SD Express format, which adds the popular PCI Express and NVMe interfaces to the legacy SD interface. This revolutionary innovation for SD memory cards achieves up to 985 MB/sec transfer rate, while keeping compatibility with existing billions SD hosts in the market. With growing storage capacities this might be an attractive alternative to USB memories for many portable storage applications.
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Aaware and Infineon Form Partnership to Develop Next-Generation Voice Solutions
June 27, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Aaware and Infineon Form Partnership to Develop Next-Generation Voice Solutions

Infineon Technologies, and Aaware, Inc., an emerging supplier of sound capture technology for far-field, voice-enabled digital products, announced the formation of a partnership to launch a next-generation voice development platform to be released later this summer. Aaware’s Acoustically Aware technology is highly synergistic with Infineon’s digital MEMS microphone technology, combining to bring the best sound capture for extremely noisy environments in commercial and industrial applications.
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Yamaha UC Announces YAI-1 Conference Ensemble, Complete, Ready-to-Install Solution for Large Rooms
June 27, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Yamaha UC Announces YAI-1 Conference Ensemble, Complete, Ready-to-Install Solution for Large Rooms

Yamaha Unified Communications announced a professional audio conferencing solution specifically engineered for seamless and easy installation out of the box into boardrooms and large conference rooms utilizing UC applications. Available only in North America, the Yamaha YAI-1 Conference Ensemble is a preconfigured USB audio system that achieves optimum audio in and audio out for an organization's chosen UC platform.
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Celestion Introduces V-Type Impulse Responses
June 27, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Celestion Introduces V-Type Impulse Responses

Celestion, the celebrated manufacturer of guitar and bass loudspeakers, debuted the V-Type IR as the latest addition to their acclaimed line of Impulse Responses, the definitive digital representations of the company’s renowned classic tones. The new V-Type IR, as well as the rest of the collection of genuine Celestion IRs, which also includes the recently launched G12T-75 IR, are available for audition and download at CelestionPlus.
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Get the Loudspeaker Focus You Need with Voice Coil July 2018
June 26, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Get the Loudspeaker Focus You Need with Voice Coil July 2018

The Voice Coil July 2018 edition is now available and full of great content and insights, apart from the indispensable patent reviews and Test Bench reviews. This edition focuses on Bonding, Dispensing, Coating, and Related Aspects in Speaker Production, and features a great article by Mike Klasco on the topic, as well as an updated industry directory. James Croft reviews a patent for a “Self-bias Emitter Circuit,” awarded to Turtle Beach, while Vance Dickason looks at two interesting new high-frequency transducers, from Radian Audio Engineering, and Spanish OEM manufacturer Beyma.
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Microchip Announces First 32-bit Low-Power MCU to Feature Robust, Chip-Level Security and Arm TrustZone Technology
June 26, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Microchip Announces First 32-bit Low-Power MCU to Feature Robust, Chip-Level Security and Arm TrustZone Technology

Microchip announced the 32-bit SAM L10/L11 MCU families for low power and high security, based on the Arm Cortex-M23 core, with the SAM L11 featuring Arm TrustZone for Armv8-M, a programmable environment that provides hardware isolation between certified libraries, IP and application code. The SAM L11 features robust security with chip-level tamper resistance, secure boot and secure key storage. When combined with TrustZone technology, this is designed to protect applications from both remote and physical attacks.
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Smartphones Approaching TVs as Americans’ Most-Frequently Owned Tech Product, Says New CTA Study
June 26, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Smartphones Approaching TVs as Americans’ Most-Frequently Owned Tech Product, Says New CTA Study

4K UHD television sets, digital streaming devices and smart speakers are among the fastest growing technology segments, according to the latest Consumer Technology Association (CTA) research. Smartphones continue their meteoric popularity and are now owned in 87 percent of U.S. homes, second only to televisions at 96 percent ownership. Laptops are the third most popular product in the United States. Smartwatches are also growing in popularity.
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Wi-Fi Alliance Introduces Next-generation Wi-Fi Certified WPA3 Security
June 26, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Wi-Fi Alliance Introduces Next-generation Wi-Fi Certified WPA3 Security

The Wi-Fi Alliance continues to expand its initiatives in order to ensure interoperability and increased security. The latest announcement is the introduction of Wi-Fi Certified WPA3, the next generation of Wi-Fi security, bringing new capabilities to enhance Wi-Fi protections in personal and enterprise networks. Building on the widespread adoption of WPA2 over more than a decade, WPA3 adds new features to simplify Wi-Fi security, enable more robust authentication, and deliver increased cryptographic strength for highly sensitive data markets.
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Waves Audio Is Now Shipping the TRACT System Calibration Plugin and TRACT System Calibration + Smaart Di v2 Bundle
June 25, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Waves Audio Is Now Shipping the TRACT System Calibration Plugin and TRACT System Calibration + Smaart Di v2 Bundle

As recently promised, Waves Audio is now shipping the TRACT System Calibration plugin and the TRACT System Calibration + Smaart Di v2 bundle. With the Waves TRACT plugin, sound engineers can now turn any sound system into a well-balanced foundation for their mixes, quickly and easily. The TRACT plugin integrates with Smaart, the industry-standard audio analysis software, to auto-correct EQ issues and time-align any sound system: live or in the studio.
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