All items tagged with COVID-19 (69)

Global Headphones Market on Track for 27% Value Growth

May 4, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Global Headphones Market on Track for 27% Value Growth

The Consumer Electronics team at Futuresource Consulting shared the latest key trends from the company's Worldwide Headphone Market Report. Despite the impact of COVID-19, the worldwide headphones aftermarket will enjoy another year of strong growth in 2020. According to new figures released by Futuresource, the category is on track to end the year with a 10% year-on-year increase in volume and 27% in value.

Yamaha Unified Communications Launches New Work From Home Initiative and Website

April 30, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Yamaha Unified Communications Launches New Work From Home Initiative and Website

In recent weeks many companies have had to adapt to home working, with changes happening very quickly. To help, Yamaha Unified Communications (UC) is sharing many years of experience and offering a wide range of advice on a special Work From Home website. Many people know that working from a home office is often made more difficult due to poor sound quality. With its range of resources, the website can help to make things run more smoothly in these unprecedented times.

Consumer Electronics Retailers Ahead of the Online Curve Before COVID-19

April 28, 2020 by Futuresource Consulting

Consumer Electronics Retailers Ahead of the Online Curve Before COVID-19

The global spread of COVID-19 presents new challenges to consumer electronics (CE) vendors and retailers alike. However, in an industry already disrupted by changing consumer habits and a polarization of online and high street, CE retail appears to be faring well when compared with other retail segments. A new research report from Futuresource Consulting explores the retail journey of consumers when they buy headphones, TVs and wireless speakers, and points to a significant shift to online that began prior to the COVID-19 outbreak.

April 24, 2020 by Audio Engineering_Society

Audio Engineering Society Seeks Financial Support from Membership and Industry

The Audio Engineering Society has not proven immune to the havoc the COVID-19 pandemic is wreaking across the globe. The traditional cashflow of the Society, fueled by its events, has been severely disrupted. In response, the AES has launched a fundraising campaign to ensure the Society’s continued operation through the crisis. The goal of the initiative is to raise $500,000 USD by June 1.

Listen Presents Working from Home with SoundCheck Video Series

April 23, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Listen Presents Working from Home with SoundCheck Video Series

Recognizing that working from home, away from the audio lab, is restrictive for many audio engineers, the support team at Listen, Inc. has produced a series of videos outlining some of the things that users can do using SoundCheck without all their usual test hardware, enabling developers and audio engineers to be productive when working from home. The videos span from cleaning up test sequences, to exploring offline analysis, using the recall step, to learning the new SoundCheck 18 features and more.

audioXpress Opens Up During Lockdown! Free Access to Digital Editions

April 22, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

audioXpress Opens Up During Lockdown! Free Access to Digital Editions

As everyone adjusts to the pandemic challenges and a stay-at-home routine, audioXpress is making available the May, June and July 2020 issues in a dedicated digital subscription viewing platform - for FREE. Discover a new passion! And we are offering a one year extension (yes, 12 issues) for new subscriptions. Print subscribers have now full open access to our digital subscription platform as well. We hope that we can keep inspiring you.

Marshall Electronics Sees Surge in Demand for UC&C and Streaming Products

April 22, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Marshall Electronics Sees Surge in Demand for UC&C and Streaming Products

New trends in telepresence, remote workflows, and online education drives demand for high performance USB microphones, cameras, and conversion tools. Marshall Electronics Inc., a manufacturer of professional audio and video products for UC&C, professional AV, and broadcast markets, has experienced a significant spike in demand for products that address web conferencing and online communications. MXL Microphones, the professional audio division of Marshall, is scaling production and support to meet increased demand.

COVID-19 Drives Opportunities for Office Hearables in the Workplace

April 15, 2020 by Futuresource Consulting

COVID-19 Drives Opportunities for Office Hearables in the Workplace

As part of its COVID-19 Tech Briefing Series, Futuresource Consulting shared interesting insights on how the major shift in behavior caused by the pandemic could drive opportunities for hearables in the work place. At a moment when worldwide, end-users are working from home and using remote communication more than ever before, key brands have reported a significant surge in sales from businesses equipping their workforces during lockdown, and many anticipate significant changes in communication culture.

Broadcast-Quality Audio Over the Internet Using the Digigram IQYOA X/LINK-LE Codec

April 9, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Broadcast-Quality Audio Over the Internet Using the Digigram IQYOA X/LINK-LE Codec

French audio-over-IP specialists Digigram are promoting its existing IQYOA X/LINK-LE codec to allow sending professional-quality audio, with no dropouts, while broadcasting at home. Musicians and anyone looking to broadcast audio from their home can pair this codec with a free web streaming site, such as Caster.fm, and offer their listeners radio-quality broadcasts — eliminating the dropouts and poor audio quality they've run into while streaming on the various social media platforms.

Shelter-At-Home to Generate New Consumer Patterns in Headphones and Home Audio

April 9, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Shelter-At-Home to Generate New Consumer Patterns in Headphones and Home Audio

Parks Associates is predicting that headphones and earphones are likely to experience sales spikes with the world changing to Work at Home, Home Schooling, and Entertainment-In-Place. The company's research highlights the need for enhanced user experience to aid with device integration as audio market shifts from whole-room home theater systems to standalone connected devices. Podcast, music, and news consumption habits are also changing as a result of the current public health crisis with COVID-19.

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