Industry Watch: July

Thiel Audio’s New CS1.7 Thiel Audio recently launched its first new product since the company was acquired last year by a Nashville, TN-based equity company. The product, designed prior to the acquisition, is the company’s new CS1.7 two-way tower design …

It is with regret that Voice Coil announces the passing of two of our highly esteemed colleagues, Denis Ouellet and Howard Doctor. Denis Ouellet (1949-2013) Denis Ouellet, owner of Solen Electronique and a long-standing Audio Engineering Society member, was a …

Dispute Focuses on Patent THX filed a lawsuit against Apple Corp. in US District Court, Northern District of California, San Jose, CA, on March 14, 2013, alleging that Apple is using patented THX speaker technology in select iOS mobile devices …

This week, while visiting Santa Clara, CA-based HSC Electronic Supply, I came across a book display featuring a few of our best-selling titles: Loudspeaker Design Cookbook, Glass Audio Projects, and Loudspeaker Recipes. If you happen to be in the Santa …

Brown Named Thiel Audio’s Interim COO Bob Brown, former longtime president/CEO of Lenbrook America (an exclusive US distributor of NAD and PSB brands), has been appointed to Thiel Audio’s board. He has also been hired as Thiel’s interim COO. Bob’s …

Passing of a Loudspeaker Pioneer It is with regret that Voice Coil notes the passing of a pioneering colleague. Clifford B. “CB” Digre, one of the audio industry’s stalwart loudspeaker manufacturers, died November 25, 2012, at age 89. More than …

Oxford Digital and Prism Sound, in conjunction with the AES, LOUDSOFT and TTid, invite you to join our audio engineering masterclass. This is a unique opportunity to meet with some of the most experienced engineers in the industry, and to hear …

Gornik to Leave Thiel Audio Thiel Audio has been acquired by a private equity firm based in Nashville, TN. New Thiel CEO Bill Thomas has indicated that the brand focus will continue to be on premium-quality phase and time-coherent loudspeakers, …

Nortek Experiences Gain Most of this month’s industry news is financial and not much of it is all that good. However, Nortek, parent of multiple residential and commercial systems brands (e.g., Aton, Elan, Niles, SpeakerCraft, Sunfire, and Xantech), is the …

The Association of Loudspeaker Manufacturing and Acoustics (ALMA) Winter Symposium, “Product Development in the Global Paradigm: Acoustic Modeling, Measurement, and Manufacturing in the Modern Marketplace” will take place prior to CES, on January 6 and January 7, 2013, at The …