All items tagged with loudspeaker design (210)
Australian Design Firm Pantheone Audio Launches Pantheone I Amazon Alexa-Enabled Speaker
July 9, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Australian Design Firm Pantheone Audio Launches Pantheone I Amazon Alexa-Enabled Speaker

Pantheone Audio, a new Australian design firm that focuses on creating beautifully designed pieces of art and décor that also serve as state-of-the-art sound systems, launched its first product in the United States, Pantheone I. Created by international designers and engineers, Pantheone I is the largest multi-room, Alexa-enabled sound system that is built into a minimalistic, handmade resin sculpture that seamlessly fits into home interior designs.
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New Speakerbench Online Tool for Assisting in Speaker Design Calculations
June 19, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

New Speakerbench Online Tool for Assisting in Speaker Design Calculations

Speakerbench is a web-based application created by Jeff Candy (San Diego, CA) and Claus Futtrup (SEAS, Norway), combining several special-purpose modules aimed at low-frequency analysis and design of loudspeakers. According to the authors, the online tool is made available to whoever might find it useful, including the loudspeaker DIY community. The authors encourage user feedback and even invite software developers to implement the techniques.
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Fresh From the Bench: Dayton Audio Test System (DATS) V3
April 22, 2020 by David Logvin

Fresh From the Bench: Dayton Audio Test System (DATS) V3

After a decade of widespread use, the Dayton Audio Test System (DATS) has acquired an impressive reputation for fast and accurate testing. Now, Dayton Audio has taken the easy-to-use audio test system and improved it in almost every way when creating the DATS V3 Computer-Based Audio Component Test System. This is an ultraportable audio test system that provides a reliable method for collection of Thiele-Small parameters, loudspeaker measurements and component measurements. This article was originally published in audioXpress, March 2020.
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LoudSoft Updates FINECone 2020 Simulation Software
April 17, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

LoudSoft Updates FINECone 2020 Simulation Software

The new release of LoudSoft's FINECone 2020 software is a welcome and important update for the loudspeaker industry. LoudSoft seems to have listened to its customers and added a new Geometry Modeler, which makes simulating cone frequency response much easier for engineers using FINECone. FINECone is an acoustic Finite Element dome/cone simulation application to assist on the design of new drivers, calculating frequency responses and detecting problems in existing designs.
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Alcons Audio Introduces New CRMS-SRHV Surround Speaker and QB242 Arrayable Subwoofer
April 15, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Alcons Audio Introduces New CRMS-SRHV Surround Speaker and QB242 Arrayable Subwoofer

Alcons Audio has two very interesting new speaker designs. The CRMS-SRHV surround is a 2-way passive-filtered loudspeaker, featuring the patented Alcons pro-ribbon driver technology, and designed to meet all requirements of current and future immersive surround sound formats. Alcons Audio also introduced the QB242 Arrayable Subwoofer, a modular bass element, designed as a fully-scalable low-frequency extension (LFE) system to the QR24 line-source column system, or as arrayable LFE system with any Alcons pro-ribbon system.
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Fast, Quality Testing of Loudspeaker Suspension Parts
March 4, 2020 by Wolfgang Klippel and Robert Werner

Fast, Quality Testing of Loudspeaker Suspension Parts

This article discusses an approach for time-efficient testing of loudspeaker suspension parts, close to their final operating conditions. It refers to the Linear Suspension Test set (LST Lite), a hardware and software add-on for the Klippel QC loudspeaker end-of-line testing system. The system may be applied to 100% of the parts or to a random sample. This article was originally published in Voice Coil, December 2012 (with some updates introduced from 2019 documents).
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Voice Coil Spotlight: The Smith & Larson Audio Analyzers
February 12, 2020 by Dean Rivera

Voice Coil Spotlight: The Smith & Larson Audio Analyzers

The “Woofer Tester” range of speaker test solutions from Smith & Larson Audio is one of those systems that thousands of speaker designers have learned to use and continue to rely upon in their daily activities or hobbies. This review looks at the system's possibilities and compares the company's Woofer Tester 2, Speaker Tester, and Woofer Tester Pro products. This article was originally published in Voice Coil, March 2012.
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Registration for Klippel's Sound Quality of Audio Systems 2020 Lecture Is Now Open!
February 6, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Registration for Klippel's Sound Quality of Audio Systems 2020 Lecture Is Now Open!

Sound Quality of Audio Systems: Modeling, Measurement & Control, is the title for the 2020 edition of the lecture presented by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Klippel. Already an annual tradition, this three-day event combines both theory and practice, and will take place March 9-11, 2020, at the Technical University Dresden, in Germany. Registrations for the lecture are now open for a fee for general admission, and are free for students.
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Peter Thomas Is Honored By The Institute of Professional Sound
December 23, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Peter Thomas Is Honored By The Institute of Professional Sound

PMC’s founder and CEO Peter Thomas, whose inventions have helped push the boundaries of modern loudspeaker design, has been awarded a Fellowship by the Institute of Professional Sound (IPS) and awarded a coveted IPS trophy in recognition of his contribution to the professional audio industry. The Institute recognizes Peter Thomas transformative work, and significant impact on the audio industry through pushing the boundaries of monitor design to achieve more accuracy, particularly at higher volumes.
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Redefining the Shape of Sound: Resonado Introduces Flat Core Speaker Technology at CES 2020
December 19, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Redefining the Shape of Sound: Resonado Introduces Flat Core Speaker Technology at CES 2020

Resonado, a South Bend, Indiana company founded at the University of Notre Dame, has a new take on electrodynamic speaker topology. The company developed a reconfigured speaker with a planar voice coil mounted perpendicularly to its flat “race track” diaphragm, to which Resonado calls Flat Core Speaker (FCS) technology. The ingenious architecture enables slightly thinner, lighter, and more efficient speakers than conventional equivalents. Applications are wide-ranging from soundbars, home theater, column speakers, automotive to headphone drivers.
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