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49101 Introduces Changer Bluetooth 5 Headphones with Power Sharing Abilities on Indiegogo
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49101 Introduces Changer Bluetooth 5 Headphones with Power Sharing Abilities on Indiegogo

There's no lack of ideas for differentiating products and even more opportunities to bring those to market with crowdfunding platforms like Indiegogo. 49101, an innovative headphone brand from Taiwan, just announced Changer wireless Bluetooth earphones that offer a multipurpose cable for data transfer, charging and battery sharing capabilities between devices. The neckband design features Micro USB, Lightning or Type C power connections and behaves like a true power-vampire, borrowing battery power from other Android smartphones.
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Dolby Introduces Dolby Dimension Home Entertainment Immersive Wireless Headphones
by Joao Martins

Dolby Introduces Dolby Dimension Home Entertainment Immersive Wireless Headphones

While Dolby is mostly recognized for licensing key audio and media processing technologies, once in a while the company doesn't hold off from venturing into its own hardware, sometimes to deliver a reference designs, other times simply to grab a new category in untapped markets. That is the case with the Dolby Conference Phone, that allows a Dolby Voice conferencing experience in meeting rooms. Now, Dolby decided to do the same in the consumer space, with Dolby Dimension, the first wireless headphones perfected for home entertainment.
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Creative Technology Introduces Nova Smart Multiroom Speaker with Amazon Alexa
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Creative Technology Introduces Nova Smart Multiroom Speaker with Amazon Alexa

Creative Technology announced Creative Nova, a portable WiFi multiroom Smart Speaker with a light and sound mood-setting environment which the company calls "a Light & Sound Spa". The Nova features a powerful 5-driver design in a WiFi/Bluetooth high-performance speaker system with Amazon Alexa-enabled voice assistance, complete with far-field voice recognition. A design which the company believes will set it apart from other smart speakers, inspiring "a smarter lifestyle."
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Drobo Launches High Performance Thunderbolt 3 8D Direct Attached Storage Solution
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Drobo Launches High Performance Thunderbolt 3 8D Direct Attached Storage Solution

For professionals involved in content creation, or those keen on amassing large quantities of media files simply because they like/need to keep their assets private and locally stored, there is now a new great solution. Drobo has launched the new Drobo 8D, a Thunderbolt 3 Direct Attached Storage (DAS) solution which brings a 10x performance increase, allowing to mix and match hard disks or SSD drives on 8 bays, and featuring Intelligent Volume Management and a new SSD accelerator bay, increasing performance by up to 30% for frequently accessed data.
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Cabasse Announces The Pearl Wireless Active Three-Way Coaxial Smart Speaker
by Joao Martins

Cabasse Announces The Pearl Wireless Active Three-Way Coaxial Smart Speaker

Cabasse, the iconic French hi-fi brand is today part of AwoX, one of the most dynamic companies in the smart home space. In recent years, Cabasse significantly expanded its catalogue with modern and feature-rich products for home-theater and wireless multiroom. The most recent announcement from Cabasse clearly positions the brand in the most contemporary lifestyle segment. After 3 years of R&D and benefiting from the group's experience in wireless and smart home connectivity, Cabasse has launched The Pearl, an active, high-definition, connected – and smart – speaker.
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Steinberg Unveils Cubase 10 Music Production Software
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Steinberg Unveils Cubase 10 Music Production Software

German software company Steinberg, part of Yamaha, officially unveiled the highly anticipated release of the latest version of its award-winning DAW: Cubase 10. The latest iterations of Steinberg’s music production software, Cubase Pro 10, Cubase Artist 10, and Cubase Elements 10, combine best audio quality and with a vast range of advanced audio and MIDI tools for composing, recording, editing and mixing music.
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Waves Introduces New SoundGrid DSP Servers and Waves-Optimized Computer
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Waves Introduces New SoundGrid DSP Servers and Waves-Optimized Computer

As a leading provider of digital signal processing solutions, Waves has been showing the way for the professional audio industry to fully leverage the possibilities of audio networking and distributed audio processing, combining the best of software and hardware to create a fully integrated Waves SoundGrid solution. Now the company introduced three new elements to that architecture with the new SoundGrid Server One-C and Extreme Server-C DSP processing units, and the Waves Axis One, a standardized computer, custom-designed and optimized to run Waves audio applications.
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Naim Audio Introduces Apple AirPlay 2 Support for Siri Voice Control and Multiroom Capabilities to Mu-so Range
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Naim Audio Introduces Apple AirPlay 2 Support for Siri Voice Control and Multiroom Capabilities to Mu-so Range

The Mu-so range by Naim Audio now supports AirPlay 2. Naim confirmed that the Mu-so Qb (compact all-in-one speaker) update is now available, followed by the Mu-so (full size all-in-one speaker) update. The Naim Uniti range (2018-19 EISA award winner) will update with AirPlay 2 at the end of November 2018. With the updates Naim also confirmed that the Mu-so and Mu-so Qb systems are now available in Magnolia stores across the United States, in addition to Apple Stores.
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Consumer Technology Association Announces CES 2019 Best of Innovation Awards Honorees
by Joao Martins

Consumer Technology Association Announces CES 2019 Best of Innovation Awards Honorees

The CES Innovation Awards is an annual competition honoring outstanding design and engineering in consumer technology products. As in previous years, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced the CES 2019 Innovation Honorees, including those products recognized as Best of Innovation Honorees, during the annual CES Unveiled event in New York. This year's nominees have a strong focus on sustainable and eco-friendly concepts. Audio products highlighted in the Innovation Awards include many surprises, including a Best of Innovation tube amplifier!
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MSE Audio Introduces Soundtube STNet Dante-Enabled Outdoor Surface Mount Speakers
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MSE Audio Introduces Soundtube STNet Dante-Enabled Outdoor Surface Mount Speakers

MSE Audio, the parent company of SoundTube Entertainment, Soundsphere, dARTS, Phase Technology, Induction Dynamics, SolidDrive and Rockustics, announced the availability of its latest SoundTube Entertainment STNet IPD-SM52-EZ and IPD-SM82-EZ-II speakers, designed to bring Dante-enabled capabilities outdoors. The new STNet speakers can be setup, managed and monitored in real-time through SoundTube software, simply connected with a Dante audio network.
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