All items tagged with home audio (292)
StreamUnlimited Delivers Google Assistant Integration Into Harman Kardon Citation Speaker Range
September 3, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

StreamUnlimited Delivers Google Assistant Integration Into Harman Kardon Citation Speaker Range

Harman Kardon launched their Citation range of multiroom and multi-channel speakers at IFA 2018, in Berlin. All products are voice activated, featuring a Google Assistant integration and Chromecast built-in developed with StreamSDK software from StreamUnlimited. The collaboration with the Austrian wireless audio development platform specialists allowed Harman to show nine different smart products at the European consumer electronics show in a short period of time.
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Bang & Olufsen Announces Beosound Edge to Reimagine the Home Speaker
August 30, 2018 by Joao Martins

Bang & Olufsen Announces Beosound Edge to Reimagine the Home Speaker

Among the most original of the audio products introduced at IFA 2018 in Berlin, Bang & Olufsen gets the award of the most minimalist design of what is actually a new powerful wireless speaker for the home from the luxury Danish brand. Physically, the circular shape of Beosound Edge allows for two placement options. Literally as a rolling piece on the floor, or placed on the wall as a true gravity-defying statement that divides spaces in the home.
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Sonos Announces All-New, Twice as Powerful Sonos Amp with AirPlay 2
August 30, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Sonos Announces All-New, Twice as Powerful Sonos Amp with AirPlay 2

Sonos announced the all-new Sonos Amp, a powerful and versatile home audio hub that powers traditional wired speakers with sound from nearly any source, and fully integrates these speakers into Sonos’ easy to use wireless home sound system and any wireless audio source. With the new Amp, Sonos also announced a new partnership with Sonance architectural speakers to connect with the new Sonos Amp and confirmed it will open its developer platform to potential partners for control and integration of Sonos solutions.
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Lessons Learned: Bose Introduces New Smart Speaker and Soundbars
August 29, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Lessons Learned: Bose Introduces New Smart Speaker and Soundbars

Bose announced what it claims to be "the next chapter" in the company's "legendary home audio history" with the introduction of a new wireless smart speaker and two new smart soundbars — the Bose Home Speaker 500 for music, and the Bose Soundbar 700 and Soundbar 500 for music and home theater. Each model combines size-defying performance with superior voice pickup and the power of Amazon Alexa now, other voice assistants to follow, and AirPlay 2 for simple streaming from Apple devices added in early 2019.
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Frontier Introduces Multi-Ecosystem Voice Control to Smart Speakers
August 24, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Frontier Introduces Multi-Ecosystem Voice Control to Smart Speakers

Frontier Smart Technologies, a pioneer in development platforms for wireless audio, digital radio and voice recognition solutions, announced a significant enhancement to its Minuet Smart Audio platform, which will be the first in the world to allow smart speakers, soundbars and AVRs to be simultaneously controlled by voice-enabled devices from Google, Amazon and Apple, helping manufacturers to differentiate, and not have to compete head on with 1st party devices.
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Bowers & Wilkins Announces New 600 Series Speakers with Continuum Drivers
August 21, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Bowers & Wilkins Announces New 600 Series Speakers with Continuum Drivers

More than four years since the latest 600 Series speakers were introduced, the sixth iteration of Bowers & Wilkins 600 Series was now announced with improved components and even more affordable prices, directly targeting a new generation of potential users looking for a complete coherent system, from bookshelf speakers to a 5.1 surround home theater configuration. The new 600 Series is updated with Continuum Drivers, directly borrowed from Bowers & Wilkins' 800 Series.
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Global Home Audio Market Continues to Grow in Shipments and Revenue Propelled by Wireless Audio
August 17, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Global Home Audio Market Continues to Grow in Shipments and Revenue Propelled by Wireless Audio

The Consumer Electronics (CE) team at Futuresource Consulting just unveiled some of the main trends included in the company's latest Home Audio Market Report, confirming that the global home audio market already broke the $13 billion barrier in 2017. According to the report, the global home audio market continues to climb, with hardware shipments increasing by 23% in 2017, and new emerging product categories likes wireless speakers and soundbars continuing to propel the business.
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Qualcomm Audio Consumer Insights Report Shows Rising Popularity of Wireless Headphones and Wireless Speakers
August 7, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Qualcomm Audio Consumer Insights Report Shows Rising Popularity of Wireless Headphones and Wireless Speakers

Qualcomm has released its annual The State of Play 2018 report, with valuable insights on the fast-moving world of personal and home audio technology - including expectations and product purchase drivers for American, British and Chinese consumers. The new report shows, for the second year in a row, that sound quality is by far the highest ranked buying consideration when choosing wireless headphones or speakers. More than half of participants surveyed (53%) said they are planning to purchase completely wire-free earbuds.
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Rembrandt Laboratories Patent-Pending Home Speaker Will Make You Cry
July 2, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Rembrandt Laboratories Patent-Pending Home Speaker Will Make You Cry

Rembrandt Laboratories is promoting its patent-pending speaker design Model V with the line "New Audio Technology With Sound So Beautiful, It Moves Listeners to Tears of Joy," claiming a level of realism that feels like the artist is in the room. Effectively, the outside of the Model V, in stained poplar tone wood, looks like one those early tube radios, but there's nothing vintage inside this active speaker, using a distributed mode planar driver with proprietary multiple internal tuned resonate chambers and bass reflex port.
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Worldwide Home Audio Market Research Shows Growth of 25%
June 14, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Worldwide Home Audio Market Research Shows Growth of 25%

Futuresource Consulting recently updated its research on the worldwide home audio market. On its latest quarterly report on "Worldwide Home Audio - A Landscape of Stark Contrasts and Opportunities: Pricing, Shipments, Regions and Brands," Futuresource reveals that 'home audio' shipments, including wireless speakers, soundbars and hi-fi systems, grew by 25%, accumulating a total of 27 million units during January to March 2018.
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