All items tagged with loudspeaker design (211)
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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ISEAT 2019 - International Symposium on ElectroAcoustic Technologies - A Report from the Center of Global Speaker Manufacturing
November 27, 2019 by Mike Klasco

ISEAT 2019 - International Symposium on ElectroAcoustic Technologies - A Report from the Center of Global Speaker Manufacturing

Loudspeaker engineers have few choices for professional forums. The Audio Engineering Society (AES) is an outstanding international organization although not entirely focused on speakers. ALTI (formerly ALMA) is loudspeaker-centric but does not have a strong base in China. And although you may not have heard about iSEAT, for most Chinese speaker engineers that is their preferred professional organization. The International Symposium on Electro-Acoustic Technologies (ISEAT), founded in 2007, is held every two years and has successfully conducted six sessions.
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Pascal Announces U-A1 Extension Modules for Studio Monitor Designs
October 3, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Pascal Announces U-A1 Extension Modules for Studio Monitor Designs

Pascal announced availability of its latest U-A1 and U-A1D amplifier extension modules , which complement the company’s solutions offering to include 3-way studio monitor designs, augmenting its U-PRO series modules to provide an additional HF channel power option. The U-A1 and U-A1D are single channel amplifier modules without Switch Mode Power Supplies, directly interfacing with U-PRO series modules (from which they draw mains power) to offer 3-channel amplification configurations.
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Fulcrum Acoustic Enlists Kirk Lombardo as Loudspeaker Engineer
October 2, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Fulcrum Acoustic Enlists Kirk Lombardo as Loudspeaker Engineer

Fulcrum Acoustic has announced the appointment of loudspeaker designer Kirk Lombardo to their expanding engineering team. An industry veteran, Kirk has participated in Professional and Consumer audio, working with such companies as Electro-Voice, Altec Lansing, and Velodyne. In addition to his design work, Lombardo has worked in other roles including product management and contract manufacturer/supply chain management.
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Loudspeakers for Vented Enclosures: A Backward Approach for Speaker Selection (LoVE BASS)
September 18, 2019 by Francisco Castells

Loudspeakers for Vented Enclosures: A Backward Approach for Speaker Selection (LoVE BASS)

In this article for Voice Coil, the authors explore the problem of designing vented enclosures, describing a backward concept they call LoVE BASS, which they found to save a substantial amount of engineering hours during the process of speaker box design. As opposed to taking a given driver and designing an enclosure, the authors define the system’s target performance in terms of physical volume, lower cut-off frequency, ripple and maximum achievable SPL, after which they look for candidate drivers that allow for such a design. This article was originally published in Voice Coil, July 2019.
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Sonus Faber Launches Olympica Nova Speaker Collection at RMAF 2019
September 5, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Sonus Faber Launches Olympica Nova Speaker Collection at RMAF 2019

Sonus faber announced the launch of their Olympica Nova high end speaker collection, with seven completely new models, at the 16th Annual Rocky Mountain International Audio Fest (RMAF). The newly expanded Olympica Nova series embraces the authentic values that inspired the original Olympica line while adding a substantial amount of freshly developed technology, from new drivers and crossovers, to a new cabinet structure and internal volume tuning, and a new exterior look.
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SEAS Launches New Prestige Titan L19RNX1 Woofer
August 30, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

SEAS Launches New Prestige Titan L19RNX1 Woofer

SEAS Fabrikker continues to deliver on its promise to completely renew its product portfolio since the company revitalized its production, moving manufacturing from Taiwan to a new production line in Moss, Norway. Following the announcement in May 2019 of a completely new product-size of woofer in the Excel Graphene Woofer Series, named the 19-series, SEAS now launches the L19RNX1 (H1878-08) in the affordable Prestige Titan Series. The new L19RNX1 woofer was designed to respond to the challenges of high-res audio reproduction with improved clarity and dynamic capability.
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audioXpress September 2019 Speaker Focus Edition Now Available
August 8, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

audioXpress September 2019 Speaker Focus Edition Now Available

The September edition of audioXpress is our always popular Speaker Builder - Speaker Focus edition. Once again, audioXpress focuses on loudspeaker building, design, and testing and for this issue we have combined two great DIY articles with a review of the PureAudioProject Trio15 Heil AMT speaker system. Ward Maas reports from the High End 2019 show in Munich, Jan Didden met with Purifi Audio's Bruno Putzeys and Lars Risbo and comments on the company's research, and much more.
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Loudspeaker Enclosure Materials (Part 1)
July 24, 2019 by Mike Klasco

Loudspeaker Enclosure Materials (Part 1)

In this article for Voice Coil, Mike Klasco (Menlo Scientific, Ltd.) reviews and looks ahead at all the materials and design approaches for loudspeaker enclosures. This article discusses enclosures using wood, MDF, plastic, plastic composites, moldable materials, coatings and pairings for those materials, while also looking at new cutting-edge bio-plastics materials. This article was originally published in Voice Coil, March 2019.
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CODA Audio Introduces N-APS Loudspeaker System at InfoComm 2019
June 24, 2019 by Joao Martins

CODA Audio Introduces N-APS Loudspeaker System at InfoComm 2019

CODA Audio had a busy demo room all through the InfoComm 2019, with continuous presentations of the many sound reinforcement solutions from the German brand for the professional audio market, and particularly for the US market. The company reported an excellent reception for the patented APS technology, implemented in CODA's new N-APS loudspeaker system, which was the main focus for the Orlando show, reinforced by the N-SUB compact subwoofer.
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