Heavy-duty CAT5e and CAT6 Ethernet Cables from Io Audio Technologies Support etherCON Standard

Io Audio Technologies, a division of Knight Electronics, Inc., has developed a family of heavy-duty CAT5e and CAT6 Ethernet cables addressing the needs of the working musician and professional sound technician in today's audio networking environments. The Professional Series Shielded CAT5e and CAT6 etherCON cables are designed for solid digital audio connections such as digital snakes, AES50, & MADI or lighting protocols like DMX512 and ARTNET.

Io Audio Technologies, a division of Knight Electronics, Inc., has developed a family of 3-pin XLR cables that offer high-quality design and high performance with pricing that speaks for itself. Available in three grades, Premium, Professional and Performance, these audio cables deliver high-quality sound performance with different budgets in mind. The 3-pin XLR cable family provides excellent EMI resistance for low noise performance and uses rugged locking connectors to ensure safe and secure connectivity.

Red Pitaya, the company from Ljubljana, Slovenia, that pioneered the move to low cost, open-source, reconfigurable test & measurement instrumentation with its credit-card-sized STEMlab platform, launched a VNA new bridge module and application that enables STEMLab to function as an affordable vector network analyzer (VNA), a precision measuring tool that tests the electrical performance of high frequency components in the radio frequency.

Have questions about cables? Heading to the T.H.E. Show Newport, on June 3-5, 2016 at the Hotel Irvine, Irvine, CA? Then, you don’t want to miss the opportunity to attend one of the Audio and Headphone Cable Polygraph sessions promoted by Wireworld’s founder and industrial designer David Salz, allowing attendees to hear exactly what cables do to the sound.

At the RMAF 2014 show in Denver, Sony introduced an expanded range of portable audio options to enjoy Hi-Res sound anywhere. This includes three new headphones – the MDR-Z7 headband type Hi-Res Headphones, MDR-1ADAC Hi-Res Headphones with Integrated DAC/Amplifier, and XBA-Z5 Hi-Res In-Ear Headphones – as well as the PHA-3 Portable Headphone DAC/ Amplifier, and several headphone cables including models engineered with Kimber Kable.

Mackie announced a new series of very affordable “multimedia monitors. The new Mackie Creative Reference series features 3-inch or 4-inch woofers and 3/4-inch silk-dome tweeters in two similar very compact designs. Sold in pairs, the new CR3 and CR4 even include cables and a pair of acoustic isolation pads.

Software provider Stardraw.com has just announced a major upgrade to their design and documentation software, Stardraw Design 7, publically unveiled at InfoComm 2014 in Las Vegas. Stardraw Design 7.1 includes a host of important new features, including a drawing mode that shows where cables cross without intersecting.