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AXPONA 2024 Reports Record Attendance And Exhibitors
by Joao Martins

AXPONA 2024 Reports Record Attendance And Exhibitors

AXPONA (Audio Expo North America) welcomed 10,391 attendees, coming from 42 states and 31 countries, to the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel & Convention Center, April 12-14, 2024. This was a 14% increase over 2023 and marked its biggest show yet. Over 600 audio brands from 50+ countries offered a vibrant showcase filling the largest number of rooms. AXPONA offered music lovers three jam-packed days of spectacular sound, technology, seminars, live music, and the very latest products in the industry.
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Trinnov New WaveForming Design Tool Recommends Room Layout to Optimize Sound Performance
by Joao Martins

Trinnov New WaveForming Design Tool Recommends Room Layout to Optimize Sound Performance

Trinnov Audio, the French manufacturer of advanced audio processors for home theater, high-end audio, and commercial cinemas, announced the launch of a design tool for its WaveForming technology. This online tool simplifies the process of specifying room layouts, tailored to optimize all the potential of the WaveForming technology and making life easier for dealers, distributors, enthusiasts and industry professionals.
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Shure Achieves Sustainable Packaging Goals in 2023, on Track for 90% Recyclable and/or Renewable Packaging for New Products by 2025
by Joao Martins

Shure Achieves Sustainable Packaging Goals in 2023, on Track for 90% Recyclable and/or Renewable Packaging for New Products by 2025

In 2022, Shure announced aggressive goals to increase recyclable and/or renewable packaging for new products. Shure has achieved its goal to convert to 75 percent by 2023 and is on track to grow to 90 percent by 2025 and 100 percent by 2030 for new packaging. The goal for existing product packaging in 2025 is 75 percent recyclable and/or renewable.
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Nureva Granted Three New Patents for Its Microphone Mist Technology
by Joao Martins

Nureva Granted Three New Patents for Its Microphone Mist Technology

Nureva Inc., announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office and European Patent Office have issued three additional patents for the company’s Microphone Mist technology. These new patents validate the completely original approach Nureva has taken to reinventing the way that pro audio conferencing performance is achieved in larger spaces, including its one-of-a-kind approach to microphone pickup, intelligent sound targeting, position-based gain control and echo cancellation.
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Microchip Technology Acquires Neuronix AI Labs
by audioXpress Staff

Microchip Technology Acquires Neuronix AI Labs

Microchip Technology has acquired Neuronix AI Labs to expand its capabilities for power-efficient, AI-enabled edge solutions deployed on field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Microchip’s mid-range PolarFire FPGAs and SoCs already lead the industry in terms of low power consumption, reliability and security capabilities. The acquisition of this technology will enable Microchip to develop cost-effective, large-scale edge deployments for use in applications on systems that have cost, size and power constraints and enable a multifold increase in AI/ML processing horsepower on low and mid-range FPGAs.
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AuviTran Integrates Merging’s ZMAN AoIP Module Into New Interface Card
by Joao Martins

AuviTran Integrates Merging’s ZMAN AoIP Module Into New Interface Card

France-based audio manufacturer AuviTran has adopted Merging Technologies’ ZMAN audio networking module into its brand-new AxC-AES67 interface card, part of its flagship Audio ToolBox Suite. Bringing low-latency and bridging capacities to high performance applications, the AxC-AES67 interface card is fully compatible with AES67 and Ravenna protocols, and supports industry standard SMPTE2110, ST2022-7 Seamless Protection Switching and NMOS IS-04 + IS-05.
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Digigram Expands with Acquisition of Noise and Vibration Testing Systems Specialist OROS
by audioXpress Staff

Digigram Expands with Acquisition of Noise and Vibration Testing Systems Specialist OROS

Digigram has acquired Grenoble-based OROS, also a French company specializing in noise and vibration testing systems. This acquisition by the audio over IP solutions company expands the Digigram Group's build-up strategy focused on critical audio applications. OROS high end solutions meet the requirements and expectations of automotive, aerospace, marine energy & process, manufacturing and automation industries. The amount of the transaction has not been disclosed.
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Teledyne LeCroy's Frontline X500e Wireless Sniffer Captures Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth, and 802.15.4 Traffic Simultaneously
by Joao Martins

Teledyne LeCroy's Frontline X500e Wireless Sniffer Captures Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth, and 802.15.4 Traffic Simultaneously

Teledyne LeCroy is enabling the development of the latest wireless devices and connected applications with the launch of the Frontline X500e wireless protocol analyzer with Wi-Fi 7. For any application involving Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 802.15.4-based technologies (including Matter, Thread, and Zigbee), or wired interfaces such as HCI-UART, USB, SPI, and Audio I2S, the X500e delivers precise insights for network professionals.
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Sound Devices Expands Astral Wireless Products for Live Sound Markets
by Joao Martins

Sound Devices Expands Astral Wireless Products for Live Sound Markets

Sound Devices, now part of the Audiotonix group, has been a major player in field recording and location sound for 25 years. The latest products that Sound Devices launched in its wireless Astral range have features that serve not only film and television applications but propel the company into the global live sound market. Group One Limited will now carry the distribution of those live sound products in the United States.
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AudioControl Expands Manufacturing Operations Less Than a Year After Acquisition
by audioXpress Staff

AudioControl Expands Manufacturing Operations Less Than a Year After Acquisition

Seattle, WA-based AudioControl reports that its operations are now delivering best products and customer support in the brand’s nearly five-decade history across all critical phases of the company thanks to a significant investment by AVPro Global since the August, 2023 acquisition. New R&D, engineering, manufacturing, and customer service teams are now able to yield just-in-time delivery of multizone entertainment and home theater products to integrators.
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