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CODA Audio USA Appoints Michael Creason as Technical Director
June 7, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

CODA Audio USA Appoints Michael Creason as Technical Director

CODA Audio USA, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CODA Audio GmbH, will be officially introduced at this year's InfoComm show in Orlando. Headquartered in California and headed up by Managing Director Luke Jenks, the German company has meanwhile announced the appointment of Michael Creason to the position of Technical Director for its newly created United States subsidiary. Creason is a highly skilled audio practitioner, with an extensive experience in the professional audio industry.
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G.R.A.S Sound & Vibration Announces Availability of World’s Smallest Measurement Microphone Set
June 7, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

G.R.A.S Sound & Vibration Announces Availability of World’s Smallest Measurement Microphone Set

G.R.A.S. Sound & Vibration announced availability of the 46DE, the smallest measurement microphone set in the world and the only microphone set where no parts are larger than 1/8”. The 46DE is a 1/8” Constant Current Power (CCP) pressure microphone set with a nominal sensitivity of 0.8 mV/Pa and has TEDS (Transducer Electronic Data Sheet). It is the latest in a long line of innovative and advanced microphone measuring products with the brand's proven seal of quality.
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IK Multimedia USA Grows Into New Headquarters in Sunrise FL
June 7, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

IK Multimedia USA Grows Into New Headquarters in Sunrise FL

Fast expanding Italian company IK Multimedia, a leading provider of hardware and software solutions for music creation, recently opened a new office in Sunrise, Florida to accommodate rapid growth and leverage the area’s diverse talent pool. The new office expansion enables IK Multimedia US, LLC to accelerate growth through increased capabilities in marketing, distribution, and customer support.
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Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Announces Breakthrough Development in Speech Separation Technology
June 6, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Announces Breakthrough Development in Speech Separation Technology

Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, announced a breakthrough in speech separation technology at an annual R&D open house held in Tokyo. The research lab has created the world's first technology that separates in real time the simultaneous speech of multiple unknown speakers recorded with a single microphone. It’s a key step towards building machines that can interact in noisy environments, in the same way that humans can have meaningful conversations in the presence of many other conversations.
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Genelec Announces 1032C Studio Monitor Updating Classic Design with Latest Technologies
June 6, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Genelec Announces 1032C Studio Monitor Updating Classic Design with Latest Technologies

Genelec announced the 1032C two-way nearfield monitor, now upgraded with the cutting edge features and flexibility of Smart Active Monitoring (SAM) advanced monitor auto-calibration and networking software, plus significant across-the-board improvements including a digital input, higher SPL and increased low frequency extension. The 1032C monitor uses the same drivers, acoustic design and soffit-mountable classic styling, simply upgraded for the most demanding modern studios.
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The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Special Dolby Atmos Listening Events
June 5, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Special Dolby Atmos Listening Events

Dolby Laboratories and Universal Music Group (UMG), announced special listening events for The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album, remixed in Dolby Atmos at the illustrious Abbey Road Studios in London, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the iconic album. Listening events will take place at select cinemas in the United States and Canada.
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MPEG-H TV Audio On The Air as South Korea Launches UHD TV Services Based on ATSC 3.0
June 5, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

MPEG-H TV Audio On The Air as South Korea Launches UHD TV Services Based on ATSC 3.0

The MPEG-H TV Audio System is the first next-generation audio codec worldwide to go on air 24/7 as South Korea launched its 4K UHD TV services, broadcast using the next-generation ATSC 3.0 standard, on May 31, 2017. Not only will this new, ultra-high definition television service deliver pin-sharp pictures, it also brings with it never-heard-before novelties in sound, thanks to the MPEG-H TV Audio System.
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Fundamentals of RAVENNA Audio Networking at 142nd AES Convention in Berlin
June 5, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Fundamentals of RAVENNA Audio Networking at 142nd AES Convention in Berlin

For those who weren’t able to attend NAB 2017 in Las Vegas, the 142nd International AES convention in Berlin was yet another opportunity to learn about the latest developments in AoIP networking from a number of industry experts including RAVENNA evangelist, Andreas Hildebrand from ALC NetworX. AES67 was among the core topics during this year’s European convention, and Hildebrand gave no fewer than three presentations during the course of the event.
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RCF Announces Three New Precision Transducers for Professional Audio Applications
June 2, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

RCF Announces Three New Precision Transducers for Professional Audio Applications

With an extensive range of drivers for professional audio applications, RCF confirmed that it is now shipping its latest range of products featuring advanced technologies and the precise designs that always characterize the Italian brand. The new products include the ND340 high performance neodymium compression driver with an extremely reduced size, the LF18N405 extended low frequency transducer, and LF21N401 high power handling 21" subwoofer.
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DPA Microphones Celebrates 25th Anniversary with d:facto Limited Edition Kit
June 2, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

DPA Microphones Celebrates 25th Anniversary with d:facto Limited Edition Kit

DPA Microphones, the Danish Professional Audio manufacturer of high-quality condenser microphone solutions for professional applications, is celebrating its 25th anniversary throughout 2017. Among several scheduled celebration initiatives, DPA announced that the first of three limited edition, 25th Anniversary microphone kits is now available. The first limited edition kit features the successful DPA d:facto 4018V Vocal Microphone.
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