Kii Audio's Three: The Next Step in Loudspeaker Evolution

audioXpress January 2017 featured the much-anticipated review of the brand new Kii Three speakers from the company everyone’s watching, Kii Audio. “The Next Step in Loudspeaker Evolution,” as Jan Didden and Paul Wilke titled their review, examines whether the Kii Threes are effectively “the most advanced loudspeaker on the market today,” as is claimed by Kii Audio. Learn what they discovered in this definitive review, now available online here.

For our readers interested in loudness standards, Jon Schorah provides a great article about Loudness Meters and Measurements. If someone has extensive experience both in understanding the norms and cutting-edge implementation of corresponding loudness tools is Jon Schorah, the creative director and co-founder of NUGEN Audio, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of loudness products. Read the full article available online.

In this article audioXpress discusses a new company that certainly deserves attention from our readers. Oliver Masciarotte reviews the affordable but extremely useful MusicScope software, from a relative newcomer to the pro and consumer electronics software space, XiVero, from Germany. Oliver Masciarotte was fascinated by the amount of things he discovered and which he intends to explore further in future articles. This article was originally published in audioXpress, October 2016.

Since its publication in 2010, “Current-Driving of Loudspeakers" by Esa Meriläinen, was received with both enthusiasm and skepticism. Effectively, Meriläinen anticipated the criticism when writing in his book preface: “The subtitle of the book may at first sound too much promising or inflated, which it, however, is not at all; for as will show up especially in chapter 4, the issue is indeed about a fundamental fallacy in sound reproduction technology.” In this article, published originally in Voice Coil, July 2010, Joseph DeMarinis not only reviews the book but also runs tests of the theory.

In this article, Vance Dickason highlights a new transducer technology from Christensen Audio, which was recently introduced and has the potential to replace moving-coil driver types in many applications, both in terms of performance and cost. The new technology represents a radical improvement of the basic and well-known Air Motion Transformer (AMT) technology, as originally developed by Dr. Oskar Heil and ESS Labs in the 1970s. This article was originally published in Voice Coil, January 2016.

In this article, part of audioXpress’ “Acoustics in Focus” August 2016 edition, Oliver Masciarotte explores one of the newest companies in the acoustical treatment domain, already making a splash in the global market. Artnovion, was founded in 2015 by acoustical engineer and visionary entrepreneur, Jorge Castro, just one of the three ventures he founded in Paços de Ferreira, the furniture capital of Portugal. This article was originally published in audioXpress, August 2016.

November 2013 was the first issue of the redesigned audioXpress in its current form, featuring several new sections, including the first of its R&D Stories series, focusing on engineering and product development - independently of the audio application field. This article by Stuart Yaniger on QSC’s Flexible Amplifier Summing Technology (FAST) was a reference for many to follow.

audioXpress September 2016 - Speaker Focus Edition - featured an extensive article discussing Powersoft's M-System, which combines the M-Force motor transducer and M-Drive switching-mode amp module, taking advantage of Differential Pressure Control (DPC) technology among several other innovations from the Italian company. Learn how Powersoft developed a new transducer technology, currently fully available to the OEM market and being applied to novel subwoofer designs, among several other application areas.

Introduced during the 137th Audio Engineering Society (AES) Convention in Los Angeles, CA, the new Genelec 8351A Acoustically Coaxial Smart Active Monitor (SAM) System is a tri-amplified studio near-field monitor with an ingenious design that introduces enhanced directivity control at lower frequencies in a relatively small speaker. This brilliant design reflects the Finish brand’s “outside-the-box” thinking improving the reference in recording studios. This article was originally published in audioXpress, June 2015.

Master Quality Authenticated (MQA) is a revolutionary end-to-end technology that captures and delivers master quality audio in a file that’s small enough to stream or download. Given that this is essential reading for anyone interested in following subsequent MQA-enabled product reviews that audioXpress intends to feature, we have decided to make the article available in its entirety. This article was originally published in audioXpress, June 2016.