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Jaybird Launches Fifth-Generation Freedom Wireless Bluetooth Buds
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Jaybird Launches Fifth-Generation Freedom Wireless Bluetooth Buds

Jaybird, the pioneer brand in premium sport wireless headphones, recently acquired by Logitech, announced its fifth-generation Freedom Wireless Bluetooth Buds, combining style, sound and increased comfort into its smallest and most advanced wireless earbuds model. The new Jaybird’s Freedom allow listen-while-charging and secure comfortable fit for all active lifestyles, with control provided by the MySound app.
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Feniks Essence High Quality Computer Speaker System Successfully Funded on Kickstarter
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Feniks Essence High Quality Computer Speaker System Successfully Funded on Kickstarter

Another week and another speaker project gets successfully funded on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. Swiss company Feniks promoted its high end speaker concept, the Essence active sound system, and received a positive response allowing to start building and delivering directly to consumers. The Essence is a fully integrated design, featuring a high-quality DAC, custom designed full-range driver and a cutting edge low resonance aluminum alloy cabinet.
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The Return of the Legendary Dynaco ST70 Tube Amplifier
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The Return of the Legendary Dynaco ST70 Tube Amplifier

At the 2016 High End show in Munich, and as advertised, visitors could experience the relaunch of the Dynaco ST70 Series 3, stereo tube amplifier, together with the prototype of a new integrated Dynaco ST-1 amplifier. The return of the Hafler and Dynaco brands was signaled in Munich with the return of what is, without question, the most successful tube amplifier of all time. And the new advanced design was sounding great already.
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Acoustic Sciences Corporation Unveils New IsoThermal Tube Trap at T.H.E. Show Newport
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Acoustic Sciences Corporation Unveils New IsoThermal Tube Trap at T.H.E. Show Newport

Oregon-based Acoustic Sciences Corporation (ASC) is heading to T.H.E. Show Newport in Irvine, CA (June 3-5) to unveil its new IsoThermal Tube Trap solution. The new TubeTrap model is an isothermal class RC time constant bass trap, combined with the adjustable treble diffusion of ASC’s Standard TubeTrap. It delivers twice the deep bass absorbing power as its predecessor.
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New Hafler P3100 2-Channel Amplifier Featuring Patented Lateral MOSFET Trans-nova Technology
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New Hafler P3100 2-Channel Amplifier Featuring Patented Lateral MOSFET Trans-nova Technology

Following earlier presentations at trade-shows, Hafler (a division of Radial Engineering Ltd.) announced the new P3100 2-channel amplifier will start shipping in July 2016. Designed for both studio recording and home listening, the P3100 follows David Hafler’s philosophy of offering the very highest quality at an affordable price point, and signals the return of a legendary brand following Radial’s acquisition of the Hafler brand from Rockford in 2014.
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Allen & Heath Announces Major Updates to QU Series Mixers
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Allen & Heath Announces Major Updates to QU Series Mixers

Allen & Heath has announced a host of major enhancements to the feature set and ecosystem of its Qu Series of compact digital mixers. Accompanying the release of firmware V1.9 is a number of key updates to the Qu-Pad app, factory mic presets from leading manufacturers Shure and Sennheiser, streamlined DAW Control for Windows, plus the new, customizable Qu-Control app for install applications.
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SoundHound Integrates Houndify Speech-to-Meaning Technology
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SoundHound Integrates Houndify Speech-to-Meaning Technology

Sound recognition and voice search technology specialists, SoundHound Inc., has enhanced its popular music app, SoundHound, to include “the most advanced voice interface of any mobile app, enabling a hands-free experience.” The updated SoundHound music discovery app now enables hands-free search, discovery and play, including ability to add songs to a Spotify playlist, all using the company’s Houndify natural language voice search engine.
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Rotel Electronics Launches New RA-1592 Integrated Amplifier
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Rotel Electronics Launches New RA-1592 Integrated Amplifier

Rotel Electronics has introduced the RA-1592 stereo integrated amplifier built upon the award-winning Rotel RC-1590 preamplifier and RB-1582mk2 power amplifier in a sleek, single chassis design. While home theater is still in high demand for consumers, Rotel believes that listening to music should be more than a secondary pastime. The new RA-1592 integrated amplifier provides an optimal solution for stereo music listening, whether its from modern digital sources or classic analog vinyl recordings.
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Waves Audio Announces the DTS Neural Surround Collection
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Waves Audio Announces the DTS Neural Surround Collection

Waves Audio and DTS have collaborated to create the DTS Neural Surround Collection, a bundle including three real-time audio processing plugins – DTS Neural Surround DownMix, DTS Neural Surround UpMix and DTS Neural Mono2Stereo. Together, these plugins provide a discrete-sounding, end-to-end surround delivery system for any live broadcast or post-production situation.
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A Completely New Rega Planar 3 Turntable
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A Completely New Rega Planar 3 Turntable

The UK based Rega team of designers, directed by Rega’s original founder Roy Gandy, devoted two years of intensive development to perfect the Planar 3 turntable. This was the most intensive redesign of the iconic ‘three’ model ever, looking for new ways to extract greater performance. To compliment the Planar 3 is the new RB330 tonearm. Engineered alongside the Planar 3, the RB330 is the culmination of 35 years of tonearm design experience.
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