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Sales of Waterproof Bluetooth Streaming Speakers Grow to 30 Percent of Category Sales
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Sales of Waterproof Bluetooth Streaming Speakers Grow to 30 Percent of Category Sales

Is the Bluetooth speaker market saturated? It all depends of the sales pitch apparently. Simply being portable is no longer the argument. Consumers are now looking for specific functionalities that differentiate different models… and the time of year also helps. From June through August 2016, waterproof Bluetooth streaming speaker sales in the U.S. increased 137 percent versus the same period a year ago, according to a recent NPD market survey. Next up… Bluetooth speakers with built-in lights for the Winter?
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Ear Trumpet Labs Celebrates Five-Year Anniversary
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Ear Trumpet Labs Celebrates Five-Year Anniversary

It is rare in the pro audio world for a company, of any size, to be able to boast a 100% sales growth, yet that is exactly what boutique microphone company, Ear Trumpet Labs (ETL) continues to achieve. ETL will celebrate their 5-year anniversary this fall touting that exciting news along with many other accomplishments that paint the picture of a thriving company with an enthusiastic and growing customer base. For the past three years ETL has doubled in sales every year, and 2016 is no exception.
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Cadence Offers Industry’s First Licensable MPEG-H Audio Decoder for Tensilica HiFi DSPs
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Cadence Offers Industry’s First Licensable MPEG-H Audio Decoder for Tensilica HiFi DSPs

Cadence Design Systems announced immediate availability of the next-generation MPEG-H Audio decoder based on Cadence Tensilica HiFi DSPs. MPEG-H Audio is a future broadcast standard and is expected to be one of the key audio technologies adopted worldwide for new TVs. Through close collaboration with Fraunhofer, one of the developers of the open ISO MPEG-H Audio standard, Cadence is first to market with an implementation for a licensable DSP.
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ICEpower and Audio Bricks Merge to Create a New Audio Amplification Powerhouse
by Joao Martins

ICEpower and Audio Bricks Merge to Create a New Audio Amplification Powerhouse

Danish company ICEpower, independent from Bang & Olufsen since May 2016, announced the decision to merge with Audio Bricks, and to acquire its holding company, Bolecano Holding AB, from Sweden. While ICEPower is highly recognized in the market as one of the leading brands in audio amplification, Audio Bricks is a relatively new company, created in 2014 by Patrik Boström and Lars Press Petersen, which have now become partners and shareholders of ICEpower, respectively holding the position of CTO, Amplification, and CTO, Research and SMPS in ICEpower.
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NAB Show New York and Audio Engineering Society to Co-Locate Conventions in 2017
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NAB Show New York and Audio Engineering Society to Co-Locate Conventions in 2017

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), producer of NAB Show and Content & Communications World (CCW), featuring SATCON, rebranded the CCW event in 2015 to become “NAB Show New York,” held in early November at the Javits Convention Center in New York City. In 2016, the event co-located with the InfoComm Connections New York. For 2017, NAB Show New York is moving to October, which enables the event to co-locate with the Audio Engineering Society International convention.
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Riedel Communications Reinforces Market Reach with ASL and DELEC Acquisitions
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Riedel Communications Reinforces Market Reach with ASL and DELEC Acquisitions

In the digital/IP age, the intercom market expanded also into media distribution and infrastructure. The companies who understood that strategic reach are now the dominant players. Following several other acquisitions in the intercom segment, at the IBC 2016 show, Riedel Communications announced the acquisition of ASL Intercom BV, from The Netherlands and DELEC Audio und Videotechnik, from Germany. With those acquisitions, Riedel essentially expanded its engineering resources considerably.
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Blackmagic Design Makes a Grand Entrance Into Professional Audio with Acquisition of Fairlight
by Joao Martins

Blackmagic Design Makes a Grand Entrance Into Professional Audio with Acquisition of Fairlight

As reported back in July 2016, Australian technology development company Fairlight.AU was actively seeking a buyer for its Professional Audio technology and intended to focus on licensing its existing generic user-interface technologies. At IBC 2016, the largest company in broadcast and professional video technologies from Australia, Blackmagic Design, confirmed the acquisition, together with many other spectacular announcements.
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Mobile Audio, Streaming and Smart-Home Takes Centre Place at IFA 2016
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Mobile Audio, Streaming and Smart-Home Takes Centre Place at IFA 2016

More international trade visitors, more international media, visitors excited by the variety of innovation, positive mood across the board. That’s how the organisers of IFA Berlin, one of the largest trade shows for consumer electronics and home appliances, describe the 2016 edition, which took place at the Berlin Exhibition Grounds (ExpoCenter City). New audio products were front and centre at this year’s event.
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Media Networking Alliance AES67 Live Demonstrations at IBC 2016
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Media Networking Alliance AES67 Live Demonstrations at IBC 2016

With the broadcast and digital production communities focused on reaching an agreement on a new IP standard for video, the audio equation is well advanced, even if dependent upon an interoperability standard to connect different protocols, such as Dante, RAVENNA, Livewire and others. During the 2016 International Broadcasting Convention, the Media Networking Alliance live demos will serve to show how AES67 is the neutral ground upon which dozens of live demos depend upon.
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Libre Wireless Technologies Now Offers Multi-Room Audio with High Resolution Audio Streaming to Multiple Devices
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Libre Wireless Technologies Now Offers Multi-Room Audio with High Resolution Audio Streaming to Multiple Devices

Embedded WiFi and wireless solutions provider, Libre Wireless announced their popular LibreSync WiFi media streaming platform including their advanced “Dynamic Direct Multinode Streaming” technology (DDMS) now enables full high resolution uncompressed audio streaming to multiple devices. The DDMS technology is unique in that it can stream this high bandwidth stereo 24 bit, 192 kHz lossless high resolution audio to up to ten highly synchronized devices throughout the home.
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