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Nagaoka Unveils MP-700 Moving Permalloy Cartridge
by audioXpress Staff

Nagaoka Unveils MP-700 Moving Permalloy Cartridge

Unveiled ahead of its official launch at High End Munich 2025, the new Nagaoka MP-700 is now the top-of-the-line model in the brand’s MP Series. A renowned audio equipment manufacturer from Japan, with 85 years of history, Nagakoa’s phonograph cartridges are used by many renowned companies as original installed equipment and under private label. The new MP-700 Moving Permalloy (MP) cartridge will be available in the standard MP-700 and a MP-700H premium version.
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Audeze Announces LCD-S20 Closed-Back Planar Magnetic Headphones Featuring SLAM Technology
by Joao Martins

Audeze Announces LCD-S20 Closed-Back Planar Magnetic Headphones Featuring SLAM Technology

Audeze announced the new LCD-S20 closed-back headphones, the first planar model from the Californian company featuring their patent-pending SLAM technology for powerful bass response and improved spatial imaging, along with a new magnetic earpad attachment system. At $499, LCD-S20 becomes Audeze’s most affordable LCD headphones, appealing to a whole new group of content producers, musicians, and music enthusiasts that always admired the planar magnetic products from the manufacturer.
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ATC Launches SCM20ASL 2-Way Active Stand-Mount Loudspeakers
by Alfred Moody

ATC Launches SCM20ASL 2-Way Active Stand-Mount Loudspeakers

Scheduled for its premiere at AXPONA 2025, the new SCM20ASL compact active speakers, are the main attraction from Acoustic Transducer Company (ATC), and are based on its 50th anniversary ‘Limited Edition’ design. Described as an ideal choice for modestly sized rooms where outstanding musical reproduction is the goal, the new ATC SCM20ASL are 2-way stand-mounts that expand on ATC’s philosophy of combining the best in-house drivers with matched on-board amplification.
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Waves Audio Introduces Curves AQ Generative AI Equalizer Plugin
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Waves Audio Introduces Curves AQ Generative AI Equalizer Plugin

Following the success of Waves’ Curves Equator, the resonance suppression plugin, and the first in the “Curves” series presenting an evolution in EQ technology, Waves Audio is now shipping Curves AQ, the world’s first autonomous EQ plugin. Unlike other “smart EQ” offerings which rely on a rigid “take-it-or-leave-it” preset curve with extremely limited adjustment and control options, Curves AQ uses generative AI Spectral Targeting Technology.
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Rotel Expands Personal Audio Series with DX-5 Stereo Integrated Amplifier
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Rotel Expands Personal Audio Series with DX-5 Stereo Integrated Amplifier

Rotel announced availability of its DX-5 Stereo Integrated Amplifier, a compact Class AB powerhouse delivering 33 watts per channel into 4 ohms (25W/channel at 8 ohms) in its new modern style, compact chassis. Powered by an in-house toroidal transformer and high-current transistors, it also incorporates a 768kHz-capable ESS ES9039Q2M Sabre DAC, with specifications promising ultra-low noise (100 dB SNR) and superior reproduction characteristics - as typical of products from the Japanese brand.
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Point Source Audio Debuts Newly Engineered Earmounted Lavalier Microphone for Content Creators
by Joao Martins

Point Source Audio Debuts Newly Engineered Earmounted Lavalier Microphone for Content Creators

Renowned for professional-grade microphones, Point Source Audio (PSA) unveiled a creator-friendly new over-ear lavalier microphone. The new Embrace Model EO-7, unveiled at NAB 2025, expands on PSA's catalog of broadcast and live performance solutions, offering the same patented earmounted design that ensures pickup stability, color-changeable skins, with a standard 3.5mm termination to connect to leading 2.4 GHz wireless systems used by streamers and content creators.
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CEDAR Audio Renowned Audio Processing and Forensic Tools Now Available as Plugins
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CEDAR Audio Renowned Audio Processing and Forensic Tools Now Available as Plugins

For more than 36 years, CEDAR has been renowned for its groundbreaking audio processing, whether in hardware, software, dedicated systems, or through 3rd-party collaborations with some of the biggest names in the industry. Now, the British company announced a rethinking of its software products as CEDAR icons, a series of more affordable VST3/AU/AAX compatible plug-ins that will be available for download from CEDAR’s new online shop.
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Sennheiser Launches MKH 8018 Stereo Shotgun Microphone
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Sennheiser Launches MKH 8018 Stereo Shotgun Microphone

Sennheiser has launched the new MKH 8018, a compact stereo shotgun microphone designed for broadcasting and filming applications. Climate-proof and rugged, the MKH 8018 is a high-class short microphone that completes the company’s MKH 8000 range of RF condenser microphones, all of which excel in the field due to their ability to capture natural sound with virtually no off-axis coloration. Providing further flexibility, the lightweight MKH 8018 features three switchable stereo modes: MS stereo, wide XY stereo, and narrow XY stereo.
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Audio-Technica Launches ATH-R30x Open-Back Headphones
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Audio-Technica Launches ATH-R30x Open-Back Headphones

Audio-Technica expanded its brand-new R-Series line of professional open-back headphones with the introduction of the ATH-R30x Open-Back Reference Headphones. First previewed in January 2025 at the NAMM show, this more affordable model joins the ATH-R50x and updated flagship ATH-R70xa, launched earlier. The new Audio-Technica R-Series of open-back headphones offers a more natural, spacious listening experience, ideal for mixing and mastering in a studio or other private space.
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Focal Bathys MG Headphones: Testing Wireless Luxury
by Joao Martins

Focal Bathys MG Headphones: Testing Wireless Luxury

In October 2022, Focal made its entry into the competitive wireless headphones segment with its first “Bluetooth hi-fi” Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) design, named Bathys. Short after, it relaunched the design with new finishes and added support for Mimi personalization. More importantly, Focal understood that it needed to sell it as a “luxury” product considering the asking price of US $799 USD. It didn’t work very well. Now, Focal is introducing the Bathys MG, doubling down on the strategy, with an updated model priced at $1,299 USD.
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