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xMEMS Piezo Microspeakers - The Future of Direct-to-Consumer Hearing Health Devices
by Mike Klasco

xMEMS Piezo Microspeakers - The Future of Direct-to-Consumer Hearing Health Devices

Mike Klasco writes about xMEMS Piezo Microspeakers. How Piezo MEMS Address Development Challenges to Combine the Compact, Consumer-Friendly Form Factor of TWS With Hearing Assistance Features Into a Single Product. How Piezoelectric MEMS Microspeakers devices promise to enhance OTC hearing augmentation solutions, increasing comfort, while adding features and extending battery life. This article was originally published in The Audio Voice newsletter, June 3, 2021 (#330)
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The Cell Alpha Triphonic Speaker Design from Syng. A Revolution in Spatial Audio?
by Joao Martins

The Cell Alpha Triphonic Speaker Design from Syng. A Revolution in Spatial Audio?

Chris Stringer is a longtime Apple designer and the reason why the unveiling of its latest project caused so much buzz on the usual gadget-oriented click-bait websites. His new company is called Syng and its first product is called the Cell Alpha Triphonic Speaker. A mysterious designation to describe a lot of very ambitious technologies and a bold design that normally would makes us suspicious, if it wasn't for the fact that a lot of great names in speaker engineering are involved.
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Sound Design to Audio Product Design - What Can We Do With Spatial Audio?
by Joao Martins

Sound Design to Audio Product Design - What Can We Do With Spatial Audio?

What do we expect exactly from Spatial Sound? A true tri-dimensional representation of sound in space? An effective way to translate virtual acoustics? A limitless soundstage for infinite creativity? What about sound “in your head”? I started to write about this topic with audio product developers in mind. But the questions equally apply to content creators, because basically we all have the same doubts.
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Work from Anywhere: Evolving the Unified Communications Paradigm
by Jon Schau

Work from Anywhere: Evolving the Unified Communications Paradigm

This article by Jon Schau (Lead Engineer for Emerging Technology at Bose Professional) frames the Work from Anywhere paradigm and sends a message to CIOs, CTOs and IT departments. The article discusses how digital connectivity empowered knowledge workers to collaborate, communicate, and execute from anywhere in the world. And how, as UC literacy evolves, IT must grow along with it! This article was originally published in The Audio Voice, April 2021.
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Pantheone I: Merges Art, Form, Sound & Technology to Create a 360 Experience
by Oren Adani

Pantheone I: Merges Art, Form, Sound & Technology to Create a 360 Experience

A high-quality speaker does not have to look like an ordinary, clunky piece of technology nor should anyone have to compromise on function to get a stylish speaker perfect for their home aesthetic. Groundbreaking, beautiful, and inspiring are just a few ways to describe Pantheone I. Pantheone Audio's first design, the Pantheone I, is a winner of the prestigious Red Dot Award for design and an Archiproducts Design Award. In this article for audioXpress, Oren Adani, the CEO and founder of Pantheone Audio shares the journey.
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Audio Market Intelligence Update March 2021 - Positive Stats and Look Ahead. Photo credit: Earin
by Joao Martins

Audio Market Intelligence Update March 2021 - Positive Stats and Look Ahead

Every day at audioXpress we look carefully at market intelligence updates from the leading research firms, and we normally look at data-based reports from multiple sources, trying to get a clear vision of what is happening in the markets, and how forecasts look for the audio industry. audioXpress is focused on serving the audio industry, and we are more interested in providing market intelligence than publishing subjective opinions about the measurement systems used by YouTube headphone reviewers - which seems to be the latest focus even for many competent audio publications these days.
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Feeling The Audio Industry's Pulse
by Joao Martins

Feeling The Audio Industry's Pulse

It's been precisely a year since the global COVID-19 pandemic was declared and we all had to refrain from our normal routines and shelter in place, being restricted to working from home until now. At least for the audioXpress team. A year past, and we are glad to be able to signal that during that year we've kept our publications and even grown our online audiences and achieved extremely positive results. Mainly, because we continued to offer the best content for anyone interested in following the audio industry, audio product development, audio innovations, and DIY audio.
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Technical, Scientific, and Engineering Awards: A Recognition to the Audio Industry
by Joao Martins

Technical, Scientific, and Engineering Awards: A Recognition to the Audio Industry

I would like to thank the Academy! It's award season and following the CES and TEC Awards, It's time to highlight all the well-deserved scientific, technical and engineering Emmy's, Grammy's and Oscars awarded to the audio industry. This article was originally published for The Audio Voice newsletter #313, distributed February 4, 2021.
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Best Kept Secrets: The Continuous Search for Reference Speakers
by Joao Martins

Best Kept Secrets: The Continuous Search for Reference Speakers

I frequently learn about new products from brands large and small, which sometimes remain unnoticed for multiple reasons (and I don't mean by the press) regardless of how innovative they are. That's a topic in itself to be addressed in a separate editorial one of these days... This week, I spent some time looking at a few speakers that I think deserve a spotlight. Please note that I have not heard those speakers. I just think they are interesting products that deserve a mention.
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Situational Loudspeakers: Different Ways of Thinking About Speaker Design
by Joao Martins

Situational Loudspeakers: Different Ways of Thinking About Speaker Design

One of the most intriguing concepts in speaker design is the notion that people have to sit in a very limited sweet spot - a carefully triangulated arrangement of a center line between our ears and the point source in a pair of speakers. For many music and audio enthusiasts, there's no other way - and preferably in a carefully treated listening environment designed for musical enjoyment. But what the market once dubbed as "living room stereo" is something that the vast majority of people completely ignore. Why would you even have to sit still to listen to music?
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