Schoeps Microphones Launches CMD 42 Digital Microphone Amplifier for Colette Series

At the NAB Show 2024, Schoeps introduced the aptly named CMD 42 Digital Colette Amplifier, a product announcement supporting the (unfairly forgotten) AES42 digital interface standard. Something might explain why it took so long, since the Schoeps Colette microphone series is so popular in film sound and sound design, and the CMD 42 totally redefines the possibilities with AES42.

Audio Precision announced the new APx516B, a modular and affordable audio analyzer that expands electronic audio testing with even better performance and flexibility. The new Audio Precision APx516B Audio Analyzer is a budget-friendly solution to test both analog and digital audio with two analog generator/analyzer channels with performance suitable for testing consumer and professional audio devices, a digital interface module slot, and seamless integration with APx500 measurement software.

The MIDI Association has released details of the ongoing, industry-wide initiative by over 50 MIDI Association companies to develop MIDI 2.0 products and services. Despite the challenges presented by the pandemic, MIDI Association members persevered, and have addressed these challenges through global collaboration and cooperation. Following the demonstrations promoted by the MIDI Association at NAMM 2022, work on the latest USB MIDI 2.0 digital interface prototyping and testing tools continues.

The MIDI Association announced the addition of MIDI 2.0 capabilities to the Automotive Audio Bus (A2B) technology from Analog Devices, Inc. The technology will be showcased at the MIDI Association during the NAMM show in Anaheim, California on June 3-5, 2022, with a demonstration of a USB to A2B bridge, based on AmeNote's ProtoZOA prototyping board for MIDI 2.0. using open source firmware for developers to use in their own hardware and software products.

Chord Electronics introduced five new products at The Bristol Hi-Fi Show 2020, including the new ULTIMA PRE 2 preamp, ULTIMA 5 and ULTIMA 6 stereo power amps, plus the new 2go streamer/server and 2yu digital interface. Making its European debut, the new 2go streamer/server adds both Ethernet and wireless streaming, plus 4 TB of microSD card storage to Chord's Hugo 2 DAC/pre/headphone amp. The 2yu digital interface turns the 2go device into a standalone streamer.

Among the many interesting demonstrations of new audio solutions for developers presented by TDK at CES 2020, the T5808 MIPI standard SoundWire microphone stands out as a "world's first," using the MIPI Alliance SoundWire compliant digital interface which allows bi-directional data flow. The T5808 is a multi-mode, low noise digital MEMS microphone in a small package, consisting of a MEMS microphone element and an impedance converter amplifier followed by a fourth-order Σ-Δ modulator.