All items tagged with home audio (341)
CEDIA Expo 2025 Returns to Denver, September 4-6
April 25, 2025 by audioXpress Staff

CEDIA Expo 2025 Returns to Denver, September 4-6

CEDIA Expo, the residential technology integration trade show, takes place September 4-6, 2024, at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, CO. CEDIA Expo is the platform where residential technology integration, designers, and construction professionals connect, learn, and engage. Once again, CEDIA Expo will be expanded with the Commercial Integrator Expo. Over four days, attendees will have the opportunity to network and explore innovative products, technologies, and solutions.
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Schiit Audio Introduces Mimir Affordable DAC and Digital Preamp
April 25, 2025 by audioXpress Staff

Schiit Audio Introduces Mimir Affordable DAC and Digital Preamp

Schiit Audio recently surprised with the introduction of its Forkbeard wireless control and monitoring solution, which the manufacturer is now expanding to more products. The latest example is the Mimir, a new affordable USB DAC that debuts a Forkbeard-controlled preamp functionality and is also the company’s first to feature what they call a Mesh filter, implemented on a standard ESS Sabre chip.
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Rotel Expands Personal Audio Series with DX-5 Stereo Integrated Amplifier
April 10, 2025 by audioXpress Staff

Rotel Expands Personal Audio Series with DX-5 Stereo Integrated Amplifier

Rotel announced availability of its DX-5 Stereo Integrated Amplifier, a compact Class AB powerhouse delivering 33 watts per channel into 4 ohms (25W/channel at 8 ohms) in its new modern style, compact chassis. Powered by an in-house toroidal transformer and high-current transistors, it also incorporates a 768kHz-capable ESS ES9039Q2M Sabre DAC, with specifications promising ultra-low noise (100 dB SNR) and superior reproduction characteristics - as typical of products from the Japanese brand.
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Victrola Now Owns Legendary Audio Brand KLH Audio
April 7, 2025 by Joao Martins

Victrola Now Owns Legendary Audio Brand KLH Audio

Victrola, a leading brand in audio since 1906, and the original manufacturer of the first in-home record player in the US, is now connected to another legendary American brand: KLH Audio. A revered name in high-fidelity loudspeakers, KLH was the company established in 1957 by audio pioneers Henry Kloss, Malcolm S. Low, and Josef Anton Hofmann. Today, Victrola is actually Innovative Technology Electronics, LLC, a Denver-based company that carries on the venerable legacy of the brand in modern turntables, and which now intends to do the same with KLH.
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Schiit Announces Two New Digitally Controlled Phono Preamps
March 25, 2025 by Joao Martins

Schiit Announces Two New Digitally Controlled Phono Preamps

Schiit Audio continues to expand on its vision to design sensible hifi with innovative features. That includes expanding its Forkbeard complete control products with the announcement of the Stjarna and Skoll F phono preamps. Stjarna is an all-out, limited-production, all-tube design that offers top-of-class performance, while Skoll F adds Forkbeard to the company’s existing all-discrete, zero-feedback, high-voltage-rail phono preamp.
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A More Powerful, Simpler Amp from WiiM! New 100W Vibelink Amp and DAC
March 18, 2025 by Joao Martins

A More Powerful, Simpler Amp from WiiM! New 100W Vibelink Amp and DAC

WiiM, the connected audio home brand created by Linkplay Technology, is moving fast and expanding its portfolio of solutions. The new WiiM Vibelink Class-D amplifier is the latest component in the WiiM ecosystem, offering nearly 67% more power than the existing WiiM Amp Pro, plus a built-in premium 24-bit/192kHz DAC, digital optical, and coaxial inputs with support for variable resolutions and sample rates, with clean switching, ensuring no pop noise even when audio resolution changes.
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Rotel Launches DX-3 Headphone Amplifier, Preamp and DAC
March 6, 2025 by Joao Martins

Rotel Launches DX-3 Headphone Amplifier, Preamp and DAC

In hifi circles, Rotel is renowned for its stereo amplifiers. But the Japanese company recognized growing demand for high-quality headphone listening experiences and the fact that more people are spending time at home or by their computers. The Rotel DX-3 Headphone Amplifier introduces a new product category with a new, modern, fully balanced design. The built-in ESS Sabre ES9028PRO DAC renders music via USB input (32-bit/384kHz), coaxial/optical (24-bit/192kHz), aptX HD Bluetooth, and legacy audio equipment via an AUX RCA input.
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High End 2025 International Audio Show, May 15-18, MOC Munich
February 24, 2025 by audioXpress Staff

High End 2025 International Audio Show, May 15-18, MOC Munich

The 42nd edition of the High End will mark a milestone in the long history of the international audio trade show. The High End will take place in Munich, Germany once again before moving from the MOC to the Austria Center Vienna next year. But before that will happen, it's time to say “Welcome to Munich” once again! With every corner of the MOC Event Center sold out, the 2025 High End promises to be another major moment for the audio industry.
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Frontier Reports High Demand for its Auracast-Ready AURIA Audio Platform
February 21, 2025 by Joao Martins

Frontier Reports High Demand for its Auracast-Ready AURIA Audio Platform

Frontier is celebrating being first to market with its AURIA FS2345 module, which allowed the company to gain multiple design-ins over the past few months since its launch. Originally presented at IFA 2023, the AURIA module featuring a 5th generation Realtek Ameba SoC was launched in 2024 and allowed the company to be ahead in making available a Bluetooth LE Audio and Wi-Fi 6 module with support for Auracast.
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Test Bench: The New 7.5” MT19CP-8 Coincident Coaxial Driver from the SB Acoustics Satori Line
February 12, 2025 by Vance Dickason

Test Bench: The New 7.5” MT19CP-8 Coincident Coaxial Driver from the SB Acoustics Satori Line

The new 7.5" coaxial driver from SB Acoustics' prestigious Satori line is built on a rather stylish aluminum-cast frame, totally open below the spider, with a cone featuring SB's proprietary Egyptian Papyrus material with a three-roll coated cloth-type surround, driven with a 1.52" diameter voice coil and neodymium magnet. The 1" tweeter is comprised of a coated cloth-type dome diaphragm, powered by a neodymium motor, which incorporates a resonant back chamber design.
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