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HEAD acoustics Improves Efficiency of End-of-Line Tests
by Joao Martins

HEAD acoustics Improves Efficiency of End-of-Line Tests

HEAD acoustics is setting new standards in end-of-line (EoL) testing with a new modular test system that combines the company's AQuire V4 hardware front-end with its AI-supported conTEST software for efficient analysis. According to the German company, this state-of-the-art solution allows manufacturers to implement real-time pass/fail decisions with increased process reliability, and improved vibroacoustic product quality.
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Eclipse Audio Updates FIR Designer and Adds Support for AFMG, Storm Audio, LabGruppen IPX and Audio Weaver
by audioXpress Staff

Eclipse Audio Updates FIR Designer and Adds Support for AFMG, Storm Audio, LabGruppen IPX and Audio Weaver

Eclipse Audio continues to expand its partnerships and software, allowing the use of FIR filtering in DSP-driven loudspeakers, for loudspeaker design, live tuning, and system integration. The company founded by Michael John in 2016 now announced that its FIR Designer M (multichannel) software now has capabilities to build up to 6-way presets. Like the single channel FIR Designer, FIR Designer M now also added new branded IIR modes and expanded support with more DSP tools.
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Global Sources 2024 Hong Kong Shows With Record Number of Exhibitors and Less Visitors
by audioXpress Staff

Global Sources 2024 Hong Kong Shows With Record Number of Exhibitors and Less Visitors

The October 2024 Global Sources Hong Kong Shows at AsiaWorld-Expo have concluded after an intense month of activities. The three-phase show program, spanning multiple sectors including Consumer Electronics, Electronic Components, Smart Home, Lifestyle, Sports & Outdoor, and Baby & Children, attracted nearly 5,000 premium Asian suppliers and showcased over 500,000 innovative products, setting a new record for exhibitor participation.
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Alango Unveils Sound Processing Module for Qualcomm S7 SoC
by Joao Martins

Alango Unveils Sound Processing Module for Qualcomm S7 SoC

Alango Technologies announced a new digital sound processing module for Qualcomm's Bluetooth SoCs, including the latest S7 Gen1 Sound platform that features five times the compute power, three times the DSP processing power, and almost 100 times on-device AI processing power compared to previous solutions. According to Alango, this first to market platform offers a pre-integrated, ready-to-use modular solution for the latest generation of hearables and advanced audio designs.
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Brane Audio RAD Speaker Technology Named in TIME’s Best Inventions of 2024
by Joao Martins

Brane Audio RAD Speaker Technology Named in TIME’s Best Inventions of 2024

As TIME revealed its annual list of the Best Inventions, which features 200 product, technologies and innovations changing our lives, there was a surprising mention of Brane Audio's Brane X portable speaker as a winner in the Entertainment & Gaming category. As audioXpress and Voice Coil readers learned earlier - and coincidently James Croft writes about in Voice Coil November 2024 - the company's Repel-Attract-Driver (RAD) that is part of the Brane X design, is indeed the first effective embodiment of a negative-spring woofer that bends Hofmann’s Iron Law.
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Knowles Teams up with Mimi to Deliver Personalized Audio for Breggz
by Joao Martins

Knowles Teams up with Mimi to Deliver Personalized Audio for Breggz

Since Dutch company Breggz introduced the concept of its luxury wireless hearables at CES 2024, the company has been evolving the project in partnership with key technology providers. The now called Breggz ZOHN-1 in-ears are leveraging Bragi's platform and Audio App Store concept to offer a future upgrade path, with new exciting options. Among those is the possibility to personalize the response to each user, thanks to a partnership with Mimi Hearing Technologies and Knowles, which supplies the balanced armature drivers
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Studio Six Digital Launches New SoundScope VR Module
by Joao Martins

Studio Six Digital Launches New SoundScope VR Module

Studio Six Digital announced the release of a new SoundScope VR module for its AudioTools professional audio test & measurement iOS app. SoundScope VR is an advanced acoustic analysis module that uses an advanced FFT algorithm to precisely analyze audio and offers a number of plotting options so that users can visualize the performance of an audio system in real time. Some of it's powerful features include an FFT 1/48th octave audio analyzer, RTA bar, line, and combo RTA+FFT plots, SPL measurements, and split-screen with Spectrograph.
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Celestion Introduces CF1230BMB Extended Excursion Compact Bass/Midbass Pro Audio Woofer
by audioXpress Staff

Celestion Introduces CF1230BMB Extended Excursion Compact Bass/Midbass Pro Audio Woofer

Celestion introduced the CF1230BMB 12-inch woofer, suited to both bass and midbass professional audio applications. The new ferrite magnet, cast aluminum chassis driver is engineered for a longer throw than conventional midbass speakers, being able to produce more low-end when loaded into conventional two-way enclosures. Celestion also says the new compact woofer excels as a bass unit in compact subwoofer applications.
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Inside the Audio Lab: How Apple Developed Its Hearing Health Experience
by audioXpress Staff

Inside the Audio Lab: How Apple Developed Its Hearing Health Experience

Apple owns multiple R&D centers spread across the globe, some of which include state-of-the-art anechoic chambers and advanced acoustic simulation rooms. Apple’s state-of-the-art Audio Lab in Cupertino, California, is the hub for the design, measurement, tuning, and validation of all of Apple’s products with speakers or microphones. It’s also the center for Apple's multiyear, cross-team collaboration that enabled the new hearing health features on AirPods Pro 2.
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QSC to Be Acquired by Acuity Brands
by Joao Martins

QSC to Be Acquired by Acuity Brands

QSC, the Costa Mesa, CA-based audio manufacturer has announced that it is being acquired by Acuity Brands, Inc, an industrial technology company that supplies lighting and building management solutions. Acuity is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe, and Asia and it acquired QSC not because of their audio amplifiers and professional audio loudspeakers, but because the Californian company has greatly expanded its systems integration business under the brand Q-SYS.
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