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Devialet Raises $106 Million From New Investors to Accelerate Growth
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Devialet Raises $106 Million From New Investors to Accelerate Growth

Acclaimed French audio manufacturer Devialet, announced a fundraise of $106 million in capital through a co-investment led by Ginko Ventures with participation from international industrial and institutional investors including Foxconn, Groupe Renault, Sharp Corporation, Playground Global, Naver, Roc Nation, Future French Champions, CM-CIC Investissement and Bpifrance. Devialet has raised $160 million to-date.
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Lautsprechershop to Distribute Anaview Amplifiers following ETAL Agreement
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Lautsprechershop to Distribute Anaview Amplifiers following ETAL Agreement

ETAL Group has strengthened its distribution channel in Europe with the appointment of Lautsprechershop to support the Anaview range of Class D amplifier modules. Lautsprechershop is well known in the audio industry as a supplier of loudspeaker kits and associated equipment including its own range of amplifiers, and already offers a range of plate amplifiers based on Anaview modules.
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Dialog Semiconductor Simplifies Smart Home Device Creation with New Apple HomeKit Bluetooth Development Kit
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Dialog Semiconductor Simplifies Smart Home Device Creation with New Apple HomeKit Bluetooth Development Kit

Dialog Semiconductor announced the availability of its latest Apple HomeKit development kit, to reduce the time-to-market and increase functionality of smart home and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Dialog’s second-generation kit supports all current HomeKit Accessory Profiles within Apple’s updated IoT platform. The kit itself is built on Dialog’s SmartBond DA14681 System-on-Chip (SoC), the most integrated single chip solution that is purpose-built for IoT development, providing connectivity to a variety of battery-powered devices.
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Eminence Introduces Custom Shop for Custom Design, Tuning and Modification of Existing Drivers
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Eminence Introduces Custom Shop for Custom Design, Tuning and Modification of Existing Drivers

For 50 years Eminence has been all about providing high quality solutions for any audio application. Whether it’s a custom designed speaker for an OEM customer or an off the shelf stock model available on their website, Eminence has a design to fit virtually any need. The skilled technicians in Eminence’s Custom Shop are now able to customize a product by offering an existing model in an alternate impedance, break-in speakers so that the tone becomes exactly what users expect, or design a new driver from scratch and custom manufacture it.
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Freedman Electronics Group Acquires Soundfield From TSL Products
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Freedman Electronics Group Acquires Soundfield From TSL Products

On the eve of its 50th year in business, The Freedman Electronics Group, home to pro audio brands RØDE Microphones, Event Electronics and Aphex, expanded its company portfolio, purchasing the surround sound recording SoundField range of products and technology from broadcast equipment manufacturer TSL Products. With this acquisition, RØDE gains access to the leading brand in surround production and Ambisonic audio, in the exact moment when the format is gaining momentum.
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DVB Approves Specification For Future UHDTV Services including MPEG-H Audio
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DVB Approves Specification For Future UHDTV Services including MPEG-H Audio

In the world of broadcast standards, a few countries depend upon their own specific set of terrestrial broadcast technologies, such as the United States, Japan, Brazil, and China. The rest of the world uses DVB standards. Now that everyone is preparing the next generation of standards to support 4K UHDTV, the news that the new DVB UHD-1 Phase 2 was approved is a big deal. More important for the audio community is the news that MPEG-H is part of that standard.
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Cambridge Consultants Announces Completion of Pizzicato Software-Defined Radio Development
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Cambridge Consultants Announces Completion of Pizzicato Software-Defined Radio Development

Following its reveal of Pizzicato, the world’s first all-digital radio transmitter, product design and development firm Cambridge Consultants has now added a digital receiver to create a complete Pizzicato radio system, built purely from computing power. Pizzicato promises to vastly increase the range of wireless applications and to be a powerful enabler for both the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) and 5G technology.
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Audinate Introduces Dante Analog Output Adapter Module
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Audinate Introduces Dante Analog Output Adapter Module

Audinate introduced a new compact Dante Analog Output Module, allowing manufacturers an easy option for quickly developing Dante endpoints. The new module is a simple Dante audio to analog audio adapter module, supporting one RJ45 Dante input, and one or two balanced analog outputs. It is designed for use in products assembled using an overmold process, where a single part is created using two or more different materials in combination. This allows rapid product development for simple audio networked systems, such as powered speakers.
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More than One Billion Wireless Headphones to Ship from 2016 to 2020
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More than One Billion Wireless Headphones to Ship from 2016 to 2020

According to the latest report from SAR Insight & Consulting (Global Consumer Wired and Wireless Headphones), the overall consumer headphone market has risen steadily over recent years to reach almost $15.5 billion in 2016, and is forecast to see continued strong growth to be more than $20 billion in 2020. Sales will be driven by the increasing popularity of wireless headphone technology, SAR Insight forecasts.
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Samsung Electronics to Acquire Harman International Industries
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Samsung Electronics to Acquire Harman International Industries

Harman’s current management was looking for an exit, getting richer while doing it. The detachment between Harman International Industries’ recent strategies and asian manufacturing focus with the company’s brands and market foundation in the United States and Europe was becoming increasingly visible. The acquisition by Samsung confirms the perspective. Follows the source statement without further comment.
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