All items tagged with headphones (583)
Meze Audio Launches Unique Headphone Stand and Boom Mic Accessories
August 22, 2024 by Joao Martins

Meze Audio Launches Unique Headphone Stand and Boom Mic Accessories

The headphone company from Romania, renowned for making great sounding headphones that captivate audio enthusiasts all over the world, expanded its offering with two new unique accessories. The Manta is a luxurious headphone stand sculpted from high-grade materials that is unlike any other headphone stand out there, and perfectly complements all its headphone designs. And because some of its users like Meze headphones so much that they want to be seen wearing them on Zoom and Skype calls, the company also launched a clever pluggable Boom Microphone.
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Diamond Coatings for Speakers, IEMs, and Headphones
August 21, 2024 by Mike Klasco

Diamond Coatings for Speakers, IEMs, and Headphones

This article explores a fascinating topic that is recurrent in the loudspeaker industry: diamond coatings. As speaker designers look to refine their products' sound quality through diaphragm treatments, there are benefits to be explored from diamond coatings, or more specifically diamond-like-coatings (DLC), which is a process that matured over the last half-century. The industry has now reached a stage where this technology becomes available and viable, particularly for microspeakers.
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EISA 2024-2025 Awards in Audio Categories Announced
August 15, 2024 by Joao Martins

EISA 2024-2025 Awards in Audio Categories Announced

The Expert Imaging & Sound Association (EISA) revealed the winners of its 2024-2025 Awards. Technical experts from over 56 leading specialist magazines and websites in 27 countries across the world have recognized and awarded the best products in their categories. The 42nd year of the awards recognizes stand-out products in hifi, home theater, mobile and car audio. This year there are again surprises and predictable winners, but also the unexplainable absence of leading products in home audio, personal audio, and particularly in the true wireless category.
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Harman Signs Strategic Partnership with Aqipa Group to Distribute and Market AKG Consumer Headphones in Europe
July 30, 2024 by Joao Martins

Harman Signs Strategic Partnership with Aqipa Group to Distribute and Market AKG Consumer Headphones in Europe

Harman International, an independent subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, announced a strategic distribution and marketing partnership with Aqipa for its AKG consumer headphones in Europe. The partnership with the consumer products logistics and marketing experts at Aqipa reflects Harman's plans to restore AKG's market position in headphones, with new products scheduled to be presented at IFA 2024.
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HearAngel and Sonical Announce Strategic Partnership to Integrate Smart Hearing Safeguarding for Headphones
July 25, 2024 by Joao Martins

HearAngel and Sonical Announce Strategic Partnership to Integrate Smart Hearing Safeguarding for Headphones

HearAngel (a LimitEar company) and Sonical announced a software licensing agreement to integrate the HearAngel smart hearing safeguarding solution into Sonical's CosmOS operating system for headphones. This collaboration allows manufacturers using the Sonical platform to offer hearing safeguarding either as a standard feature or user option. The announcement was just one in a series of new partnerships for CosmOS confirmed during CanJam London 2024.
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AMPACS Announces Industry's First 2-Way Over-Ear Headphone Reference Design Based on xMEMS MEMS Speakers
July 23, 2024 by Joao Martins

AMPACS Announces Industry's First 2-Way Over-Ear Headphone Reference Design Based on xMEMS MEMS Speakers

Furthering the integration of solid-state microspeakers in over-the-ear headphones, global ODM/OEM AMPACS announced a turnkey 2-way headphone solution designed in collaboration with MEMS pioneer xMEMS Labs. The patented 2-way module architecture improves spatial audio accuracy and reduces weight, among other benefits versus conventional single-driver architectures. Pre-production prototypes are ready now, and the production-ready solution will be available in September 2024.
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EDIFIER Announces STAX Spirit S5 Wireless Planar Magnetic Headphones
July 11, 2024 by Joao Martins

EDIFIER Announces STAX Spirit S5 Wireless Planar Magnetic Headphones

Edifier just unveiled its STAX Spirit S5 Wireless Planar magnetic headphones, its second product since it acquired the famous brand. The STAX Spirit S5 improves on the quality of the audio experience with its 2nd gen EqualMass wiring technology, 2μm thin film and a new calibration approach of the planar drivers, which Edifier say achieve a performance comparable to legendary electrostatic headphones. Based on the Qualcomm QCC5181 Snapdragon Sound Bluetooth audio SoC, the new Spirit S5 headphones also deliver an expanded range of wireless audio options.
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Aiming for Better: Cambridge Audio Melomania P100 Wireless ANC Headphones
July 3, 2024 by Joao Martins

Aiming for Better: Cambridge Audio Melomania P100 Wireless ANC Headphones

Cambridge Audio, the British hi-fidelity company always striving for an emotional connection to music, launched its first over-ear headphones. Appealing to users familiar with the brand and anyone looking for an improved "hifi" experience, the new Melomania P100 on wireless headphones combine premium 40mm 3-layer Mylar drivers, a Qualcomm Bluetooth 5.3 platform with aptX Lossless, aptX Adaptive, and active noise cancellation.
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Edifier Unveils W830NB ANC Headphones with Hybrid Active Noise Cancellation
July 1, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

Edifier Unveils W830NB ANC Headphones with Hybrid Active Noise Cancellation

Edifier International, the audio design powerhouse from Beijing, has announced its new W830NB over-ear headphones that are able to achieve -45dB of active noice cancellation and are packed full of outstanding features with all the latest technologies, while retailing for USD $79.99. According to Edifier, the upgraded hybrid digital ANC technology is able to achieve an 18% increase compared to its previous generation, blocking all surrounding noises for over 50 hours on a single charge.
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Unveiling the Impact of Ear Canal Geometry for In-Ear Headphone Testing
June 26, 2024 by GRAS Sound & Vibration

Unveiling the Impact of Ear Canal Geometry for In-Ear Headphone Testing

Frequency response is not the only important factor in testing in-ear headphones, and instead, the listening experience is largely influenced by how the pressure field is built up in the semi- or fully closed ear simulator, making leak and insertion position overshadowing parameters. This article shares the simulation work to assess the pressure field and its impact on different ear canal geometries, with surprising conclusions, fundamental to ensure consistency and repeatability when characterizing in-ear devices.
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