All items tagged with DSP (434)
Outboard DSP: Marani Pro MIR480I Audio System Processor
March 13, 2025 by Vance Dickason

Outboard DSP: Marani Pro MIR480I Audio System Processor

In his exploration of available Outboard DSP systems, Vance Dickason explores the Marani Pro Audio MIR4801, the company's flagship DSP processor with four inputs and eight outputs. MIR stands for Marani Impulse Response, which refers to the proprietary Marani linear (zero) phase Linkwitz-Riley filter, which is described in a whitepaper titled by Michael Marani and Simone Castrucci, both from SEED Electronics, Guangzhou, China.
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Outboard DSP: An Introduction
February 26, 2025 by Vance Dickason

Outboard DSP: An Introduction

In this article, Vance Dickason explores the use of digital signal processing, and specifically Outboard DSP, an increasingly viable solution to create a complete active crossover design, contained in a programmable unit that can be delivered with multiple presets for different usage scenarios or even configured by the user, according to the system in place. This inspired Vance Dickason to begin a series of product reviews of multiple outboard DSP processors, and this article is a preamble for the project.
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Frontier Reports High Demand for its Auracast-Ready AURIA Audio Platform
February 21, 2025 by Joao Martins

Frontier Reports High Demand for its Auracast-Ready AURIA Audio Platform

Frontier is celebrating being first to market with its AURIA FS2345 module, which allowed the company to gain multiple design-ins over the past few months since its launch. Originally presented at IFA 2023, the AURIA module featuring a 5th generation Realtek Ameba SoC was launched in 2024 and allowed the company to be ahead in making available a Bluetooth LE Audio and Wi-Fi 6 module with support for Auracast.
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Powersoft Launches Ultra-Compact PoE Amplifier at ISE 2025
February 5, 2025 by Joao Martins

Powersoft Launches Ultra-Compact PoE Amplifier at ISE 2025

The latest announcement from Powersoft is called Nota, and it’s a versatile, ultra-compact PoE/PoE+ amplifier that the Italian manufacturer says was designed to meet current market needs. Those have to do with increasing requirements for fully networked audio environments, increasingly AES67-based. With PoE/PoE+ and USB-C connectivity, 140W of power, built-in DSP, and remote monitoring and control, Nota is feature-packed, easy-to-setup, and proof that it’s not about size, but what you do with it.
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Theory Professional Makes Official Debut at ISE 2025
February 3, 2025 by Joao Martins

Theory Professional Makes Official Debut at ISE 2025

From Orange County, CA to Barcelona, Theory Professional will make its official debut on the show floor at ISE 2025, with plans to demonstrate its high performance loudspeakers, subwoofers, and loudspeaker controllers. Visitors to the show will be able to find the latest DLC loudspeaker controllers with AES67 audio-over-IP connectivity, and the full family of Surface, In-Wall, In-Ceiling, Pendants and Soundbars. The company founded by Paul Hales is co-exhibiting with Jupiter Systems at stand 3N620.
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Voice Coil February 2025. From DSP to Cones and Domes.
January 28, 2025 by audioXpress Staff

Voice Coil February 2025. From DSP to Cones and Domes.

This issue includes a new product review in Vance Dickason’s Outboard DSP series, exploring the miniDSP Flex audio processor. And Dario Cinanni explains how to Enhance Loudspeaker Efficiency and Bl(x) Symmetry with the Virtual Voice Coil software from SpeakerLAB. As scheduled, Mike Klasco and Nora Wong compiled the 2025 Cone and Dome Directory. For this month’s Test Bench, Vance Dickason characterizes the Faital Pro 5PR120 5” Pro Midrange Driver.
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Texas Instruments Unveils New Automotive Audio Processors at CES 2025
January 8, 2025 by Joao Martins

Texas Instruments Unveils New Automotive Audio Processors at CES 2025

Texas Instruments (TI) introduced new integrated automotive chips to enable safer, more immersive driving experiences at any vehicle price point. A highly integrated automotive Arm-based microcontroller (MCU) and processor with TI’s vector-based C7x digital signal processor (DSP) core to achieve industry-leading processor performance. And TI’s new audio amplifier is the industry’s first with one-inductor (1L) modulation technology, allowing it to achieve Class-D performance with half the number of inductors.
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Shure Introduces MV7i Smart Microphone and Dual Channel Interface
January 7, 2025 by Joao Martins

Shure Introduces MV7i Smart Microphone and Dual Channel Interface

Shure introduced its new MV7i Smart Microphone and Interface at CES 2025. The MV7i is the first-of-its-kind microphone to serve as a dual-channel audio interface, allowing for two channels of recording and simplify the way creators record audio. The MV7i also features onboard DSP with auto level mode, real-time denoiser, a digital plosive filter and three adjustable reverb types, apart from MOTIV Mix desktop and MOTIV mobile app integration.
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EssilorLuxottica Acquires Competitor Startup Pulse Audition
January 3, 2025 by Joao Martins

EssilorLuxottica Acquires Competitor Startup Pulse Audition

EssilorLuxottica just expanded its presence in the hearing space with the acquisition of an AI-driven tech startup in France and its talented team. The company, Pulse Audition, is just one of hundred of startups currently pursuing the concept of hearing glasses, in this case adding an edge with unique AI-based speech enhancement and noise reduction processing technologies embedded in the frames. The technology promises to accelerate the Nuance Hearing Glasses project.
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Alango Unveils Hearing Augmentation Technology on Snapdragon S7 at CES 2025
December 20, 2024 by Joao Martins

Alango Unveils Hearing Augmentation Technology on Snapdragon S7 at CES 2025

Hearables and hearing augmentation applications are major trends for consumer electronics, and at CES 2025 Alango Technologies will reveal what the company describes as "a transformative breakthrough". As a member of the Qualcomm Voice and Music Extension Program, Alango will be one of the first companies to unveil a complete hearing augmentation solution running on Qualcomm Technologies' advanced Snapdragon S7 Sound platform. This collaboration allows Alango to bring a ready-to-market solution for personalized audio in true wireless earbuds.
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