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WiiM OS Powers Audio Pro’s A10 and C10 MKII Speakers
by Joao Martins

WiiM OS Powers Audio Pro’s A10 and C10 MKII Speakers

WiiM, the company that disrupted the consumer industry with its fast growing range of music streamers and simple and affordable smart home connected products, announced the integration of its powerful WiiM OS into a third party brand of wireless speakers. The collaboration with Audio Pro combines the company’s minimalistic-designed speakers with the feature-rich and user-friendly WiiM OS, resulting in an improved experience that offers seamless control, advanced audio streaming, and versatile multiroom connectivity.
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New Dolby Europe Reference Atmos Studios Equipped with Genelec Monitoring Systems
by audioXpress Staff

New Dolby Europe Reference Atmos Studios Equipped with Genelec Monitoring Systems

With Dolby Atmos expanding from cinemas to home cinema, music, and automotive audio, the new Dolby Europe facility in Nuremberg, Germany, needed to provide a reference environment and technical capabilities to handle all these different application scenarios. With the move to a new building, the company took the opportunity to augment its development and testing facilities with both a mixing lab and a critical listening lab in its new, larger location. When it came to the monitoring systems in these important spaces, Genelec was the brand of choice.
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Shure Announces Axient Digital Wireless WMAS In Ear Monitoring System
by Joao Martins

Shure Announces Axient Digital Wireless WMAS In Ear Monitoring System

It didn’t take long for Shure to make its own WMAS (Wireless Multichannel Audio System) product announcement, leveraging the superior RF performance and audio quality associated with the multichannel wideband technology that significantly increases spectral efficiency. The new Shure Digital PSM wireless in ear monitor system is powered with WMAS innovation, and will be available early 2025. A solution that offers unmatched flexibility and scalability for monitor engineers, RF engineers, and rental houses.
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IOT747 Releases Low 20ms Latency Mode for IDC777 Module
by Joao Martins

IOT747 Releases Low 20ms Latency Mode for IDC777 Module

IOT747 announced a new low latency feature for its IDC777 ultra-low power module. The IDC777 is a fully integrated dual mode LE Audio (LC3 Codec Auracast and Unicast) and Classic Bluetooth module, optimized for Bluetooth wireless audio designs. With this new 20ms low latency stereo mode, the IDC777 module supports even further flexibility for device customization, enabling applications for gaming and an improved experience for Auracast audio sharing and broadcasting.
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Doris by dgApps Controls Multiple MIDI Devices from iPhone or iPad
by Joao Martins

Doris by dgApps Controls Multiple MIDI Devices from iPhone or iPad

dgApps is a small company based in Ireland, about 40 miles south of Dublin and Doris is an app that was created out of pure necessity. With a simple interface, the app sends and receives MIDI commands from an iPhone or iPad. Each Doris Project can have multiple Screens of multiple Buttons, each Button can be one of nine different sizes, and each Button can be one of six different types: Note On Note Off, Control Change, Program Change, Multiple MIDI, Flash, and Blank. Each MIDI command is fully configurable visually and everything is configured directly in the app.
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Synaptics Launches Veros High-Performance Wireless Combo SoCs
by audioXpress Staff

Synaptics Launches Veros High-Performance Wireless Combo SoCs

Synaptics launched the Veros Seamless Intelligent Connectivity brand with two high-performance systems on chip (SoCs) for Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth, and 802.15.4. The two new wireless combo chips from Synaptics, the SYN4383 triple combo (Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/802.15.4) and tri-band (2.4GHz, 5GHz, 6GHz ), and the SYN43756E, also a multi-protocol, tri-band solution that offers a cost-effective version aimed at products not requiring 802.15.4 support, enable product developers to integrate essential wireless protocols including Bluetooth LE Audio.
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The Return of an Icon: The New Revox B77 MK III Tape Recorder
by Joao Martins

The Return of an Icon: The New Revox B77 MK III Tape Recorder

A German company called Revox Klangwerk is now manufacturing reel to reel machines again, and is selling improved versions of the famous Revox B77 reel-to-reel analog recorder. Given the demand, and following a limited reissue B77 MK II in 2023, the company is now introducing the new Revox B77 MK III tape recorder, which the company says was redesigned and improved with significant new features, and using updated electronics, optimized with components available today. They are even selling Master Tapes to pair with this reissue.
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Sonos Unveils New Arc Ultra Soundbar Featuring Sound Motion Technology
by Joao Martins

Sonos Unveils New Arc Ultra Soundbar Featuring Sound Motion Technology

Sonos announced Sonos Arc Ultra, a new premium soundbar that also debuts the new Sound Motion transducer technology that finally leverages some of the original Mayht patents. Part of the new generation of advanced designs that the Sonos engineering team is creating, the Sonos Arc Ultra is able to reinvent what a premium soundbar is capable of doing. With the new soundbar, Sonos also introduced Sub 4 with a refreshed design, both systems tightly integrated with Sonos app updates that deliver a significant progress in performance.
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Sensory Introduces Emergency Vehicle Detection System for Enhanced Road Safety
by Joao Martins

Sensory Introduces Emergency Vehicle Detection System for Enhanced Road Safety

Sensory, the embedded AI and voice recognition technology specialists from Santa Clara, CA, announced the availability of a new cutting-edge Automotive Siren Detection System. An expansion of the company’s DSP software suite running on-device, the solution is designed to improve road safety by providing reliable, real-time detection of emergency vehicle sirens, particularly critical in autonomous vehicles, but increasingly required by electric vehicles with active acoustics.
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Starkey Unveils Edge AI Hearing Products Featuring Auracast
by Joao Martins

Starkey Unveils Edge AI Hearing Products Featuring Auracast

Starkey, the privately held hearing technology company from Eden Prairie, Minnesota, is pushing ahead of the competition once again with the introduction of Edge AI, an innovative hearing technology building on the success of its Genesis AI platform. As the name implies, Edge AI represents the next leap in neural processing on-device applied to hearing assistance, in a modern LE Audio platform already featuring Auracast broadcast streaming capabilities.
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