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Legrand Unveils the Nuvo P600 Full-Featured Streaming Audio Player for Din Rail Mounting
February 8, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Legrand Unveils the Nuvo P600 Full-Featured Streaming Audio Player for Din Rail Mounting

Legrand, the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures, introduced the Nuvo P600 Player, the first model in the Player Portfolio whole home audio line designed specifically for the DIN rail mounting system, heavily adopted throughout Europe and the rest of the EMEA regions. The new player, which is compatible with other amplifiers in Legrand’s expanding ecosystem of Nuvo streaming players, supplies up to 40 watts of power to a single zone.
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Lavoce Introduces New Pro Audio Drivers at the NAMM Show 2018
February 7, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Lavoce Introduces New Pro Audio Drivers at the NAMM Show 2018

With a heritage of over 30 years designing and manufacturing loudspeaker components, Lavoce Italiana continues to expand its portfolio of OEM professional audio solutions. At the NAMM Show this year, Lavoce introduced several new products including 1.4” exit and 2" exit ferrite magnet compression drivers and a high sensitivity neodymium magnet 10”. Lavoce also appointed its very first official distributor for the USA.
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Xiaomi Teams Up with Dirac Research on its Xiaomi Mi AI Smart Speaker
February 7, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Xiaomi Teams Up with Dirac Research on its Xiaomi Mi AI Smart Speaker

Marking Dirac’s debut in the smart speaker market segment, the Swedish company has teamed up with Chinese consumer electronics giant Xiaomi to provide the Mi AI smart speaker with an improved listening experience – complete with louder audio, a wider soundstage, clearer and improved vocal separation, and richer acoustical details. This upgrade - which Xiaomi describes as “extraordinary” - has been delivered through a software update made available worldwide on January 26th, 2018.
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Meyer Sound IntelligentDC Hits the Ceiling with New Ashby Series
February 7, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Meyer Sound IntelligentDC Hits the Ceiling with New Ashby Series

Meyer Sound has announced the introduction of the Ashby Series self-powered ceiling loudspeakers, the latest addition to a growing family of installation products incorporating the company’s exclusive IntelligentDC technology. The two new Ashby loudspeakers join seven surface mount models in the existing IntelligentDC line, all of which offer the inherent sonic advantages of self-powered systems along with the installation ease of distributed low-voltage systems.
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Focal Expands Integration Speaker Series and Launches New Entry-Level 100 Series
February 6, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Focal Expands Integration Speaker Series and Launches New Entry-Level 100 Series

2018 sees the launch of two new important built-in speaker ranges from Focal, with the introduction of the all new entry-level 100 Series and additional products added to the mid-priced 300 Series, focused on audio performance. With both series offering a wide array of in-wall/in-ceiling models, stereo, AV and ambient music applications are catered for, with each model conforming faithfully to Focal’s signature sound.
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Renkus-Heinz Announces Three New Iconyx Steerable Arrays
February 6, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Renkus-Heinz Announces Three New Iconyx Steerable Arrays

Renkus-Heinz has significantly expanded its family of acclaimed Iconyx-series digitally steerable column arrays, introducing the new IC8-HD, IC Live X, and IC Live XL models. The IC Live X and IC Live XL deliver even higher SPL than the current ICLive's, while the IC8-HD is Renkus-Heinz’ highest-definition array ever. The Californian manufacturer introduced the three new models at ISE 2018, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Sennheiser Celebrates 20 Years of evolution Series and Introduces evolution Wireless G4 Systems
February 5, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Sennheiser Celebrates 20 Years of evolution Series and Introduces evolution Wireless G4 Systems

2018 marks the 20th anniversary of Sennheiser's evolution microphone series, and there's no better way to celebrate than to introduce the new evolution Wireless G4 Systems, a complete revamp of the whole series, featuring major technology updates. During the 2018 NAMM Show, the brand's booth was completely used to promote only new major product launches, of which the many new solutions in the evolution Wireless G4 Systems, including completely new IEM systems, is certainly one of the most exciting.
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Amphion Announces BaseTwo25 Low-Frequency Extension Monitoring System
February 5, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Amphion Announces BaseTwo25 Low-Frequency Extension Monitoring System

Finnish manufacturer Amphion Loudspeakers announced its new flagship BaseTwo25 Low-Frequency Extension System. The BaseTwo25 is a turnkey system that transforms any Amphion two-way studio monitor into a full range three-way tower, perfectly integrated in time and phase, extending all the way down to an incredible 10Hz corner frequency (-3dB). Each of the two BaseTwo25 towers features brand new and extremely robust 25 cm (10”) woofers with 25 cm passive radiators mounted on either side of the enclosure.
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beyerdynamic Launches New DT 240 PRO Professional Monitor Headphones
February 5, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

beyerdynamic Launches New DT 240 PRO Professional Monitor Headphones

Initially announced by beyerdynamic in September 2017, the new DT 240 PRO compact monitor headphones are now available. The new model was designed for musicians, podcasters and filmmakers, offering a no-frills reference solution with detachable cables. As the German company explains, since music is not only created in a studio, videos are now often cut on a notebook, and podcasters report via smartphone from anywhere in the world, the DT 240 PRO monitor headphones are optimized for mobile workflows.
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Pascal Moves Into Expanded Headquarters with State-of-the-art EMC Test Laboratory
February 2, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Pascal Moves Into Expanded Headquarters with State-of-the-art EMC Test Laboratory

Following a year of continuing accelerated growth, Danish pro audio amplifier electronics manufacturer Pascal A/S kicked off 2018 with a transition to newly expanded headquarters and facilities, featuring a state-of-the-art EMC test laboratory. Completion of the 55 percent expansion of its HQ, on the outskirts of Copenhagen, was the closing high note of 2017, a year in which the company, once again, eclipsed its growth targets.
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