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Zound Industries Redesigns Iconic Marshall Wireless On-Ear Headphones
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Zound Industries Redesigns Iconic Marshall Wireless On-Ear Headphones

Swedish headphone and speaker designer and developer Zound Industries International successfully refreshed the iconic Marshall Major on-ear headphones. The new Major IV is not only the strongest iteration and refinement of the iconic design, but it also achieves the increasingly important goal of sustainability by using recycled plastics, with electronics designed for minimal environmental impact. And it helps that the sound is also the best ever in the range.
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Amazon Reimagines Echo Smart Speaker Family for 2020
by Joao Martins

Amazon Reimagines Echo Smart Speaker Family for 2020

Amazon.com introduced its all-new line-up of Echo devices, featuring completely new designs, enhanced audio, more powerful hardware, and experiences that make Alexa voice assistant more engaging, and helpful. Most of the new Amazon products will be available at the end of October 2020, and that includes an all-new Echo (4th Gen), now with better sound and integrated smart home hub; the new Echo Dot and Echo Dot Kids Edition featuring the new spherical designs and improved audio, and Echo Show 10, the smart speaker with screen.
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JAM Audio Goes Vintage With New Atomic Age Series Of Bluetooth Speakers
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JAM Audio Goes Vintage With New Atomic Age Series Of Bluetooth Speakers

Lifestyle audio brand JAM Audio is expanding their powerhouse collection of fun, affordable Bluetooth speakers with the release of their Retro series, three speakers designed to bring a vintage look together with modern features and big sound. In a market highly saturated with competitive products in all price ranges, in a category that still struggles to gain consumer's confidence like Bluetooth speakers, an appealing vintage design is one way to generate impulsive buying. And these designs certainly appeal to those impulses.
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IsoVox Introduces IsoMic Microphone Tailored for Voice Recording With the IsoVox 2 Vocal Booth
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IsoVox Introduces IsoMic Microphone Tailored for Voice Recording With the IsoVox 2 Vocal Booth

IsoVox introduced IsoMic — a microphone technically tailored for voice recording within its innovative IsoVox 2 vocal booth, featuring four layers of acoustic materials with a patented 360 XYZ design to control sound waves from all angles. The combination, the Swedish company says, is guaranteed to capture perfect voices, thanks to the IsoMic patented triangular capsule, with an extended frequency response that delivers professional results.
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SB Audience Introduces Two New Rosso 65mm Compression Drivers
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SB Audience Introduces Two New Rosso 65mm Compression Drivers

SB Audience, the new brand of professional transducers manufactured by Sinar Baja Electric (SBE) in Indonesia, is introducing a completely new range of compression drivers. The range starts off with two 65mm titanium diaphragm compression drivers, both with a 1.4" throat exit. The two new Rosso compression drivers are high performance designs, available at an attractive price, and are in stock now, and under way to distributors.
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Sennheiser Introduces Affordable HD 560S Wired Reference Headphones
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Sennheiser Introduces Affordable HD 560S Wired Reference Headphones

Today’s music enthusiasts spend hours enjoying or analyzing music, whether listening to another artist’s work or assessing their own recordings. Sennheiser’s new HD 560S headphones offer just what is required for analytical listening sessions at an accessible price point: natural and accurate reference sound that divulges every detail, complemented by an outstanding low-frequency extension, while providing a “barely there” experience on the head and ears.
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Lectrosonics Introduces New DCHR Miniature Stereo Digital Receiver
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Lectrosonics Introduces New DCHR Miniature Stereo Digital Receiver

Lectrosonics announced the introduction of a new compact and lightweight miniature receiver, capable of stereo or mono operation from a single RF carrier with Lectrosonics digital transmitters, including the DCHT, M2T, DBu, DHu, and DPR. The new Lectrosonics DCHR is a portable stereo digital receiver that tunes from 470-614 MHz in the UHF band, covering 6 Lectrosonics blocks and matches the tuning ranges of the digital transmitters in the D Squared, DCH and M2 Duet lines.
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Parasound Debuts Parasound ZoneMaster ZM 2 and ZM 4 Custom Installation Amplifiers
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Parasound Debuts Parasound ZoneMaster ZM 2 and ZM 4 Custom Installation Amplifiers

Parasound has added a pair of two-channel and four-channel power amplifiers to its ZoneMaster line for professional audio systems installers. The Parasound ZoneMaster ZM 2 and ZM 4 pack a lot of power into relatively small packages with each channel rated at 150 watts into the typical 4-ohm and 2-ohm loads of architectural speakers, and 120 watts for 8-ohm hi-fi speakers. In the hands of skilled installers, these amps can be used to resolve multi-zone design challenges and provide new opportunities.
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Origin Acoustics Expands Director Collection With Two New In-Ceiling 10" Coaxial Models
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Origin Acoustics Expands Director Collection With Two New In-Ceiling 10" Coaxial Models

Origin Acoustics introduced two new two-way coaxial speaker models to its Director Collection of premium architectural loudspeakers – the D101 and D103DT. Bigger in performance, but not in size, the two new 10" loudspeakers use Origin's unique mounting system structure, which allows looking like having smaller 8" units on the ceiling. While the aesthetics will please both client and system designers, the larger sized loudspeaker performance will stand-out in larger rooms and theaters.
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Celestion Offers DIY Cabinet Design for the F12-X200 Guitar Loudspeaker Modeling Driver
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Celestion Offers DIY Cabinet Design for the F12-X200 Guitar Loudspeaker Modeling Driver

Celestion offers a DIY cabinet reference design made specifically for the F12-X200 Full Range Live Response Loudspeaker. The F12-X200 combines Celestion’s expertise in guitar speakers and pro audio speakers into one transducer, designed especially for use with profiling amps, modeling software, impulse responses, and all technology for emulating guitar amps and speaker cabinets. The reference design will allow anyone to build a custom 1x12 cabinet for the F12-X200.
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