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NTi Audio’s Speech Intelligibility Reporting Tool Extended
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NTi Audio’s Speech Intelligibility Reporting Tool Extended

Public address systems in public spaces have to clearly inform persons in danger about escape information and directions in case of an emergency. NTi Audio’s XL2 Acoustic Analyzer reliably measures the Speech Transmission Index (STI) and the results can be imported into the STI Reporting Tool which now also assigns the same ambient noise spectrum to multiple speech intelligibility measurement results.
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Arturia Launches Oberheim Matrix-12 Analog Polysynth Software Emulation
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Arturia Launches Oberheim Matrix-12 Analog Polysynth Software Emulation

Music software and hardware company Arturia announced availability of Matrix-12 V — returning to its roots by bringing back the classic sound of Oberheim’s mighty Matrix-12 analogue polysynth as an authentic-sounding sensational soft synth, albeit one on steroids, boosted by modulation and effects extras in abundance.
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New Audio-Technica SonicPro In-Ear Headphones with Push-Pull Driver System
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New Audio-Technica SonicPro In-Ear Headphones with Push-Pull Driver System

Audio-Technica announced the introduction of its new SonicPro in-ear consumer headphones with sophisticated audio technologies that deliver the most from high-resolution audio sources. The new SonicPro range includes the ATH-CKR10 and ATH-CKR9 models featuring the world’s first push-pull driver system. The ATH-CKR7, ATH-CKR5iS and ATH-CKR3iS models feature other innovative technologies, all combined in a contemporary design.
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Sound Magic Releases Serenade Workstation: A Portable And Affordable DSD/DXD/High-Resolution Music Production Workstation
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Sound Magic Releases Serenade Workstation: A Portable And Affordable DSD/DXD/High-Resolution Music Production Workstation

Founded in 2004, Chinese company Sound Magic, started by creating physical modeling and DSP processing technologies, mainly focusing on virtual instruments. Later, the company created a full range of effect plug-ins for the most popular DAWs. Now, the company combined its Serenade USB 2.0 Audio Interface to create a complete DSD/DXD/HRA music production system.
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Waves Audio and DiGiCo Are Now Shipping DiGiGrid IOS
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Waves Audio and DiGiCo Are Now Shipping DiGiGrid IOS

Waves Audio and DiGiCo have expanded their DiGiGrid line of advanced audio interfaces with DiGiGrid IOS, an audio interface with a built-in SoundGrid DSP server for plugin processing. DiGiGrid IOS features eight mic/line inputs with broadcast/studio-quality preamps, eight line outputs, two headphone outputs, and MIDI, S/PDIF and AES ins and outs.
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Artison RCC Nano 1 Mini-Subwoofer Promoted as The World’s Smallest High-Performance Subwoofer
by Vance Dickason

Artison RCC Nano 1 Mini-Subwoofer Promoted as The World’s Smallest High-Performance Subwoofer

Artison, the Nevada-based loudspeaker manufacturer launched its first crowd-funding campaign on Kickstarter, to raise money to build and market a small high-performance DSP subwoofer and to promote the product to the average person. The project’s funding goal was not reached, achieving only $38,729 of the pledged goal of $250,000. Still, probably the marketing goals were achieved.
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Shure Unveils Model 5575LE Unidyne Limited Edition Microphone
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Shure Unveils Model 5575LE Unidyne Limited Edition Microphone

In celebration of Shure’s Unidyne microphone 75th anniversary of the world’s first single element unidirectional dynamic microphone and because the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) presented Shure with the prestigious Milestone Award for the Unidyne technology, the company released a new 5575LE Unidyne Limited Edition model.
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PreSonus StudioLive AI-series Mixers and Nimbit Add 96 kHz Support
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PreSonus StudioLive AI-series Mixers and Nimbit Add 96 kHz Support

Musicians are now able to record and distribute high-definition 24-bit@96 kHz audio files thanks to the newly announced HD mode for the PreSonus StudioLive AI-series digital mixers. PreSonus also confirmed its Nimbit online, direct-to-fan music marketing, promotion, and sales service now supports direct distribution of high-definition music files.
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Flips Audio Announces Next Generation Headphone & Speaker Hybrid
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Flips Audio Announces Next Generation Headphone & Speaker Hybrid

The continuous effort to differentiate products in the crowded headphone market is leading manufacturers to brand new concepts, including headphones that “flip” to speakers. Headphone & speaker hybrid concept pioneer Flips Audio now announced the new Flips XB model with reinforced bass resonator.
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Dante Card and New Firmware for Sennheiser’s Digital 9000 Series Now Available
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Dante Card and New Firmware for Sennheiser’s Digital 9000 Series Now Available

Announced in September 2014, Sennheiser now confirms the availability of its Dante card for the EM 9046 receiver, enabling the top-of-the-range Digital 9000 wireless microphone system to be integrated into Dante audio-over-IP networks. Sennheiser also updated its Digital 9000 firmware and the new Wireless Systems Manager 4.2 software with a set of optimized monitoring functions.
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