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High End Show 2021 in Munich Is Now Fully Booked!
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High End Show 2021 in Munich Is Now Fully Booked!

The organizer of the High End Show, the High End Society Service Gmbh, announced that the 2021 edition of the Munich show is now fully booked, even before the registration deadline at the end of March 2021! Scheduled to take place September 9-12, 2021, in combination with the newly announced International Parts+Supply (IPS) expansion, this seems to be now the very first International audio show to take place in 2021, even if global travel is expected to still be conditioned.
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Nanusens Moves Headquarters and Receives Funding for Expansion
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Nanusens Moves Headquarters and Receives Funding for Expansion

Nanusens, the innovative research venture working on nano-sensors built inside CMOS devices, recently received significant funding that will enable it to expand its operations and hire new staff. Nanusens is also a finalist for the Design Team of the Year in the prestigious Elektra Awards 2020. The company, headquartered in the United Kingdom, with R&D centers in Barcelona, Spain and Shenzen, China, has designed a novel way to enable the higher frequency bands needed by 5G mobile phones, something that presents a challenge with current technology.
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DSP Group Opens Audio Signal Processing and AI Innovation Lab in Germany
by Joao Martins

DSP Group Opens Audio Signal Processing and AI Innovation Lab in Germany

DSP Group announced the opening of an audio innovation lab in Straubing, Germany, focused on advancing the state-of-the-art in audio signal processing and artificial intelligence (AI) for acoustic engineering. The lab is already staffed with experts, each with 20+ years of experience in the areas of voice and audio processing algorithm development and deployment, speaker non-linear processing, AI-based audio processing, active noise cancellation (ANC), and rapid prototyping and tuning.
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Can Audio Quality Criteria Be Classified by Machines Using Artificial Intelligence?
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Can Audio Quality Criteria Be Classified by Machines Using Artificial Intelligence?

The IEEE Broadcast Technology Society and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) are promoting a webcast on March 24 to discuss the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence to address audio quality classification. The topic will be addressed by Musician Tyler Morris, Tufts Graduate School of Electrical Engineering, Undergraduate WPI Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Dr. Karen Panetta, Dean of Graduate Education for the School of Engineering, authors of a paper on the subject.
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AES Audio Product Education Institute Invites Design Houses to Discuss How to Quickly Bring Audio Products to Market
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AES Audio Product Education Institute Invites Design Houses to Discuss How to Quickly Bring Audio Products to Market

The AES Audio Product Education Institute (APEI), will host its sixth online event addressing Supply Chain & Sourcing on Wednesday, March 17 (12:00pm EDT). The online session will feature top executives from Cardinal Peak and One Point Zero discussing the role and contributions of design houses as a critical support option in bringing new products to market.
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Meridian Delivers Performance, Technology and Luxury Audio to New Kia K8 Sedan
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Meridian Delivers Performance, Technology and Luxury Audio to New Kia K8 Sedan

Meridian continues to expand its automotive audio business working in close cooperation with car makers. The British audio pioneer has now unveiled the results of its work with Kia Corporation taking in-car audio to another level in the brand new K8 modern sedan. Featuring a purpose-designed 14-speaker surround sound system, Meridian has worked with Kia to provide an exceptional audio inside the new K8 model exploring all the possibilities of its proprietary DSP audio technologies.
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McIntosh Labs Delivers McIntosh Automotive Reference Systems to Jeep
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McIntosh Labs Delivers McIntosh Automotive Reference Systems to Jeep

McIntosh Laboratory announced that its latest McIntosh Entertainment Systems — the MX1375 Reference Entertainment System, employing 23 specifically tuned speakers, and the MX950 Entertainment System, are going to hit the road in the upcoming 2022 Jeep Wagoneer and Jeep Grand Wagoneer. Both vehicles will be available in mid-2021. The two iconic American brands have been collaborating to develop an exclusive sound system combining imagination and expert engineering in equal parts.
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iZotope and Native Instruments Form New Music and Audio Technology Group
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iZotope and Native Instruments Form New Music and Audio Technology Group

iZotope, the Boston-based audio processing software experts, and Native Instruments, the German music creation company that just recently sold the majority of its shares to investment firm Francisco Partners, announced that they have teamed up to form a new technology group backed by Francisco Partners and EMH Partners. Both companies share a vision of shaping the future of music-making and audio production and believe this alliance opens up new creative possibilities for musicians, producers, and audio engineers.
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SAR Insight & Consulting Forecasts Technology and Market Potential for MEMS Speakers
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SAR Insight & Consulting Forecasts Technology and Market Potential for MEMS Speakers

MEMS microspeakers and earphone drivers could threaten incumbent audio technologies by 2025 as consumers desire smaller and less power-hungry devices. Four billion devices with seven billion speakers were shipped during 2020, it has been estimated, across multiple sectors, including automotive, mobile phones, home AV, and many others. MEMS speakers could revolutionize the audio industry, thanks to their small form factor and low power capabilities, according to market analyst SAR Insight & Consulting.
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Dirac and CRI Middleware Join Forces to Deliver Enhanced Sound for Mobile, Gaming, and Automotive
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Dirac and CRI Middleware Join Forces to Deliver Enhanced Sound for Mobile, Gaming, and Automotive

Swedish digital audio pioneer Dirac and Tokyo-based solution provider CRI Middleware announced they have entered into a distribution agreement to explore new applications of Dirac’s audio optimization technology. The two companies will build on CRI Middleware’s expertise working with developers in the gaming, automotive, mobile/PC and connected devices to identify products that would benefit from the enhanced sound experiences enabled by Dirac solutions.
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