All items tagged with automotive audio (157)
General Motors Introduces Dolby Atmos Across its Entire 2026 EV Lineup
March 11, 2025 by audioXpress Staff

General Motors Introduces Dolby Atmos Across its Entire 2026 EV Lineup

Dolby Laboratories and General Motors announced that Dolby Atmos will be supported as an available feature across Cadillac's entire 2026 electric vehicle lineup. This will include the 2026 Escalade IQL, Escalade IQ, Lyriq-V, Optiq, Vistiq, and more. As previewed at CES 2025, select 2025 models will also receive Dolby Atmos through over-the-air software updates. Dolby reports over 2 million Dolby Atmos-enabled cars already on the roads.
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Harman Announces Leadership Transition: Christian Sobottka Appointed as New President and Chief Executive Officer
March 3, 2025 by audioXpress Staff

Harman Announces Leadership Transition: Christian Sobottka Appointed as New President and Chief Executive Officer

Harman International, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, announced that Michael Mauser will step down as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective March 31, 2025. The Board of Directors has unanimously elected Christian Sobottka, currently President of Harman's Automotive Division, to succeed Mauser as President and CEO, effective April 1, 2025.
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Powersoft Acquires K-Array and Signals Transition to Solution Provider
February 20, 2025 by Joao Martins

Powersoft Acquires K-Array and Signals Transition to Solution Provider

Powersoft, the Italian company that heads the Powersoft Group operating worldwide, announced the signing of a binding investment agreement to acquire 51% of the share capital of K-array from shareholder H.P. Sound Equipment. Powersoft says that the acquisition of K-Array expands and strengthens its position as a professional audio solutions provider, allowing the group to transition from a product focus into becoming a solution provider in existing and new markets.
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Bluacs Joins Audio Foundry and Licenses Its Fresh Air Technology to Tymphany
February 10, 2025 by Joao Martins

Bluacs Joins Audio Foundry and Licenses Its Fresh Air Technology to Tymphany

Audio Foundry, the collaborative automotive audio technology platform, announced Bluacs as its newest member. The leading speaker research company from Australia is widely recognized in the industry for its Fresh Air Speaker technology, applicable to woofer and subwoofer designs that leverage the full car cabin volume. As part of this collaboration, Tymphany will be licensing Bluacs' technologies to advance in-vehicle sound experiences.
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CES 2025: An Automotive Audio Perspective
January 23, 2025 by Roger Shively

CES 2025: An Automotive Audio Perspective

Roger Shively shares his Automotive Audio perspective of CES 2025. An evolutionary year, more tempered after the explosive nature of the software-defined vehicle becoming reality last year. Narrow and Deep AI, Machine Learning, and Generative AI had their roles in developing and maintaining most of the software and platforms for automotive audio at CES 2025. The “Ploughman's Lunch” of Automotive Audio, Shively was going to call his chronicle from the automotive-filled West Hall and the Beach Lot across the street.
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Automotive Acoustics Analysis Using COMSOL Multiphysics. Open Webinar, January 29
January 21, 2025 by Cristina Costa

Automotive Acoustics Analysis Using COMSOL Multiphysics. Open Webinar, January 29

The Audio Product Development Alliance (APDA) is hosting a new live webinar, this time with COMSOL, to discuss the latest developments in simulation technology for acoustic analysis of automotive environments. During the streaming event, Jinlan Huang, (Principal Applications Engineer, COMSOL) will discuss how to study the performance of a sound system and vehicle design thanks to the latest multiphysics tools now available.
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First Dirac-Enabled Denon Automotive Sound System Presented at CES 2025
January 14, 2025 by Joao Martins

First Dirac-Enabled Denon Automotive Sound System Presented at CES 2025

Building upon extensive collaborations in the home theater and headphone markets, Dirac and Denon have expanded their partnership to the automotive market. At CES 2025, the two companies showcased the first result of their automotive industry collaboration in a Denon Car Audio Concept System enabled by Dirac, showcasing upmixed, spatialized sound, in collaboration with other Audio Foundry partners Tymphany and Sonified by Trèves Group.
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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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Interview: Andreas Ehret - The Road to Dolby Atmos
December 31, 2024 by Joao Martins

Interview: Andreas Ehret - The Road to Dolby Atmos

A fascinating conversation with Andreas Ehret, Senior Director, Automotive at Dolby Laboratories, recapping his career and personal journey prior to and with Dolby, through truly pivotal moments in audio history. In this exchange we learn how Dolby Atmos evolved from the ultimate movie soundtrack format into the heart of consumer experience - for the very first time successfully challenging stereo reproduction. And how Dolby evolved its business model to become today's indispensable technology partner to both the media and the automotive industry.
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Gentex Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire VOXX International
December 19, 2024 by Joao Martins

Gentex Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire VOXX International

Gentex Corporation, a supplier of digital vision, connected car, dimmable glass and fire protection technologies, announced that it entered into a definitive agreement and plan of merger for Gentex to acquire VOXX International Corporation in an all-cash transaction. In the announcement, Gentex says that its expertise in high volume manufacturing will benefit the Premium Audio Company business and its Klipsch, Onkyo and Integra audio brands, and will increase its business in OEM automotive audio systems.
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