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EISA 2023-2024 Awards in Audio Categories Announced
by Joao Martins

EISA 2023-2024 Awards in Audio Categories Announced

As the tradition dictates, the Expert Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) revealed the winners of its 2023-2024 Awards. In the 41st year of the awards recognizing the most innovative and cutting-edge products in hifi, home theater, mobile and car audio, there are many surprises and predictable winners. One of the surprises is the overwhelming number of "specialized" awards designed to accommodate hifi products, and the unexplainable absence of leading products in the true wireless category.
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Exeger and Nordic Semiconductor Launch Powerfoyle Solar Shield for Nordic Thingy:91
by Joao Martins

Exeger and Nordic Semiconductor Launch Powerfoyle Solar Shield for Nordic Thingy:91

Adding a Powerfoyle solar cell membrane to any low-power electronics is a great way to implement energy harvesting capabilities. An add-on Powerfoyle shield for the Nordic Semiconductor’s Thingy:91 enables developers to produce always-on designs in a fast and easy way. With this plug-and-play light energy harvesting innovation, Exeger has significantly expanded the possibilities of the prototyping platform and associated development boards for connected products.
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Avid Technology Becomes a Privately Held Company Following Acquisition by Investment Firm
by Joao Martins

Avid Technology Becomes a Privately Held Company Following Acquisition by Investment Firm

Following rumors that Avid was exploring sale options, the news that the company entered a definitive agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of the Symphony Technology Group (STG), a private equity firm based in Menlo Park, CA, was not exactly a surprise. Avid will become a privately held company upon completion of the $1.4 Billion transaction and will exit the NASDAQ. In general, this is great news for stockholders, bound to receive $27.05 per share in cash.
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Eclipse Audio Updates FIR Designer M Software with auditionDSP Processor and Audio Player
by Joao Martins

Eclipse Audio Updates FIR Designer M Software with auditionDSP Processor and Audio Player

Eclipse Audio has announced a major update of its FIR Designer M software tool for creating custom loudspeaker processing (IIR+FIR) filters and complete multichannel presets. Version 4 adds auditionDSP, a dynamic new digital signal processor and audio player that enables users to listen to their custom processing during the development process, rather than relying solely on visual plots. auditionDSP also allows different filtering options to be audibly compared by running processing for up to three loudspeaker presets simultaneously, in real-time, with live switching between presets.
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New HEAD acoustics ArtemiS SUITE Release 15 Introduces Important Productivity and Feature Enhancements
by audioXpress Staff

New HEAD acoustics ArtemiS SUITE Release 15 Introduces Important Productivity and Feature Enhancements

HEAD acoustics has overhauled ArtemiS SUITE, its state-of-the-art software platform for sound and vibration, psychoacoustic, and structural dynamics analysis. The new release 15 brings substantial improvements in ease of use, performance, scope of operability, and connectivity. Outstanding features include improved model creation and calculation of transfer functions, export for binaural analysis and synthesis, an updated interface to the Augmented Reality solution from HoloMetrix, and third party hardware and software support.
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Virscient Collaborates With Infineon to Accelerate AIROC-based Wireless Design Development
by audioXpress Staff

Virscient Collaborates With Infineon to Accelerate AIROC-based Wireless Design Development

Virscient, announced a new strategic collaboration with Infineon to support customers' design-in of Infineon’s connectivity products. Under this agreement, Virscient will provide expert design and engineering services, and licensable software solutions to help innovative OEMs and platform vendors rapidly deliver products integrating Infineon's AIROC Wi-Fi + Bluetooth combo ICs – whether chip-down, or in modular form.
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Cirrus Logic Helps Ease PC Industry Transition to New MIPI SoundWire Interface
by audioXpress Staff

Cirrus Logic Helps Ease PC Industry Transition to New MIPI SoundWire Interface

Cirrus Logic is offering an advanced audio solution to help ease PC manufacturers' migration to the MIPI SoundWire interface (1.2.1 specification) for a richer, more immersive audio experience. At the heart of the Cirrus Logic advanced, low-power audio solution are the company’s recently announced CS35L56 smart amplifier and CS42L43 Smart HIFI codec that are included in the Intel SoundWire-ready reference design aimed at helping laptop designers make a smooth migration to the new specification.
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AAVAA Headband Accessibility Developer’s Kit To Advance Brain-Computer Interface Applications
by Joao Martins

AAVAA Headband Accessibility Developer’s Kit To Advance Brain-Computer Interface Applications

AAVAA, a startup company based in Montreal, Canada, has announced the introduction of its brain-computer interface (BCI) technology in the form of the AAVAA Headband Accessibility Developer’s Kit. The software and headband hardware is able to detect and recognize intentional control movements, such as blinks and clicks of a tongue, paving the way for individuals with disabilities and those with mobility, speech and hearing impairments to gain control over their devices.
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AudioControl Home Audio Division Acquired by AVPro Global
by Joao Martins

AudioControl Home Audio Division Acquired by AVPro Global

AVPro Global, a company that started as a distributor, and evolved to create its own brands of audio/video installation products, display calibration and HMDI cables, has announced the acquisition of the Home Audio division of AudioControl from AAMP Holdings, an aftermarket car audio company from Florida who had acquired the Seattle, WA company in April 2022. AVPro Global says that the AudioControl Home Audio Division makes sense in its strategy to accelerate its business in residential and commercial distributed audio and media rooms.
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Speakerbench YouTube Channel Discusses Loudspeaker Bass Reflex Alignments
by audioXpress Staff

Speakerbench YouTube Channel Discusses Loudspeaker Bass Reflex Alignments

Claus Futtrup and Jeff Candy, the two creators of the Speakerbench online tool for assisting in speaker design calculations, continue to introduce more and more tools and features in this web-based application. In order to inspire even more the loudspeaker DIY community, the two authors have created an interesting Speakerbench Youtube channel where we can find new interesting videos discussing the history of speaker design theory and specifically Loudspeaker Bass Reflex Alignments.
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