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Hypex Presents New Nilai500 DIY Audio Amplifier Module
by Joao Martins

Hypex Presents New Nilai500 DIY Audio Amplifier Module

Following the announcement of the new and improved NCOREx Class-D amplifier technology, Hypex has also reserved a surprise for this year's High End Show in Munich. In a completely separate announcement, Hypex will be launching the Nilai500DIY module, which is specified to deliver 500W with 1% THD @4 ohms and will improve output noise and idle losses significantly, compared to the popular NC400 module. This, the Dutch company says, is a completely new unique amplifier module that sets a new benchmark for high-end audio applications.
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Goldring Introduces Eroica HX Moving Coil Cartridge
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Goldring Introduces Eroica HX Moving Coil Cartridge

Goldring introduced the latest member of its moving coil (MC) cartridge family, the Eroica HX. Joining the LX model in the Eroica range (‘Eroica’ translates as ‘Heroic’ in Italian - not to be confused with 'Erotica'), this high output, high-performance cartridge makes upgrading from a moving magnet cartridge to a moving-coil model straightforward. As Goldring state, this is among the most obvious and cost-effective upgrades anyone can make to their vinyl audio system.
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Sony Improves Leading Noise Canceling Experience with New WH-1000XM5 Headphones
by Joao Martins

Sony Improves Leading Noise Canceling Experience with New WH-1000XM5 Headphones

It's the active noise cancelling headphones that the consumer electronics industry learned to see as a market reference. And Sony knows this, and works to improve the standard for its best-selling product regularly. The new WH-1000XM5 wireless headphones improve adaptive noise cancellation even further, introduce new and improved 30mm drivers, while allowing for industry-leading call quality, and offering a subtle and yet more elegant design, using new materials for greater comfort.
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Westone Audio Introduces Mach Series Professional Grade Earphones for Consumers
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Westone Audio Introduces Mach Series Professional Grade Earphones for Consumers

As part of their continued customer-focused approach - inspired by Lucid Hearing - Westone Audio has launched what it states to be one of the industry's most technologically advanced universal fit earphones available on the market today. The new Westone Audio Mach Series universal fit in-earphones were developed using the over 35 years of engineering and performance experience previously used only for professional, stage-grade, custom in-ear monitors.
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KEF Unveils New LS60 Wireless All-In-One High Fidelity Streaming Audio System
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KEF Unveils New LS60 Wireless All-In-One High Fidelity Streaming Audio System

In celebration of their 60th anniversary, KEF has launched the LS60 Wireless - an all-in-one, high fidelity streaming audio system. The product features the latest high-performance KEF key acoustic technologies for the highest streaming performance available to date, including the 12th Generation Uni-Q driver array with Metamaterial Absorption Technology and two pairs of Uni-Core drivers. The two floorstanding active speakers can be expanded with up to two KEF subwoofers via sub output on each speaker and can configured to work either wired or wireless to allow for complete positioning freedom within a room.
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Beyma Launches Near and Mid Field High End Transducer Series
by Joao Martins

Beyma Launches Near and Mid Field High End Transducer Series

Over the past two years, Acustica Beyma expanded its R&D efforts significantly. The results are now visible as Beyma introduced a completely new family of outstanding drivers at ISE 2022. Beyma's R&D department used the latest simulation tools and a rigorous material selection process to create a new set of transducers that crossover from pure professional audio applications into the studio and high end world. A significant new range of woofers and tweeters with multiple voicing options that will appeal to speaker designers.
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Mcintosh Premieres MCD12000 Reference Level SACD Player and Reference Level DAC
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Mcintosh Premieres MCD12000 Reference Level SACD Player and Reference Level DAC

McIntosh updated its premium audio source with the introduction of the MCD12000 SACD/CD Player. While classified as a CD player, the MCD12000 serves as a reference level digital-to-analog converter (DAC) that includes reference level SACD/CD playback capabilities. Music played through MCD12000's digital inputs or compact discs is processed by professional grade 8-channel ESS Sabre Pro DACs, designed for premium performance.
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Renkus-Heinz Introduces Passive Steerable Column Loudspeaker Series at ISE 2022
by Joao Martins

Renkus-Heinz Introduces Passive Steerable Column Loudspeaker Series at ISE 2022

To expand the options available to integrators and system designers, across more installations, in more locations, Renkus-Heinz now incorporates its UniBeam steerable technology in passive columns with the launch of the PCX Series. The US-based loudspeaker manufacturer unveiled the new PCX Series at Integrated Systems Europe show in Barcelona. Renown for its digitally steerable arrays, the Californian company developed a custom passive filter network to control the columns' dispersion pattern.
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Neumann Expands Portfolio with NDH 30 Open-Back Headphones
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Neumann Expands Portfolio with NDH 30 Open-Back Headphones

When German studio specialist Neumann.Berlin introduced its first Neumann-branded headphones in 2019, it was certainly a bold move, given the company's reputation in the microphone and studio monitors segment. And the use of headphones for monitoring was not as popular as it is three years later. The company seems determined to leverage that opportunity and now introduces the NDH 30, open-back headphones as a new reference-class studio design for the most demanding applications.
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Two New Monolith 8-Channel Class-D Home Theater Amps from Monoprice
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Two New Monolith 8-Channel Class-D Home Theater Amps from Monoprice

Monolith, the high-end audio brand from Monoprice, announced the addition of two premium eight-channel class D amplifiers, targeted at the most demanding home theater systems with precision audio output. Designed, engineered and assembled in the USA with globally sourced parts, the Monolith 8250X and Monolith 8125X utilize high-end, audiophile grade Hypex NCore amplifier modules that deliver outstanding efficiency and can accurately reproduce the most dynamic soundtracks while articulating all the subtle sonic details found in music.
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