All items tagged with loudspeakers (184)

April 27, 2022 by Charlie Hughes

Properly Equalized: Best Practices for Loudspeaker Equalization and Tuning

Charlie Hughes knows about directivity control and how a loudspeaker system should sound good and measure accordingly. This article offers basic recommended guidelines that will not only help to develop good equalization and tuning practices, but also will go a long way in improving the overall sound quality, regardless of the application. This article was originally published in audioXpress, January 2022.

April 14, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

Alta Audio Debuts Adam Three-Way Floorstanding Speaker

Just before its presentation at AXPONA 2022, Alta Audio confirmed that it will soon ship Adam, a new floor standing three-way speaker that continues the company’s tradition of creating products with high impact sound reproduction. Alta Audio, is a NY-state company that since 2013 designs home audio loudspeakers using its own advanced technologies, the creation of industry veteran Michael Levy, its president and CEO.

April 11, 2022 by Joao Martins

Sonos Announces Acquisition of Dutch Speaker Company Mayht

Sonos announced the acquisition of Mayht Holding BV, a Netherlands-based company that invented a dual-driver topology speaker design that uses multiple motors, symmetrically distributed across the membrane, allowing for a shallow design. In demonstrations of its technology, dubbed Heartmotion, Mayht frequently compared the performance-to-size ratio with the nearest example from Sonos, and the company's advisory board included two former Sonos technical and sales executives.

February 21, 2022 by Audio Engineering_Society

COMSOL 6 For Speaker Design and Transducer Development Explained!

The AES Audio Product Education Institute (APEI) is presenting a new online event on Wednesday, March 2, exploring the latest updates to the Acoustics Module in COMSOL Multiphysics 6.0 and its possibilities for loudspeaker development. The session, presented by simulation expert Mads Jensen from COMSOL, will detail and explain the significant improvements introduced in the latest version, specifically focusing on transducers and all the great new features for speakers in general.

February 8, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

Celestion Introduces Updated Horn Design App HornWizard 2.0

Celestion announced the launch of HornWizard 2.0, the updated and enhanced version of the desktop and mobile application which is a portal to the company’s free powerful horn design software. The updates bring enhanced functionality and now allow users to design horns for Celestion’s 1.4" and 2" exit compression drivers, including the Axi2050, and adds horn length as a primary parameter. It also introduces the possibility to refine and compare multiple up to 3 designs, as well as design horns with Circular or Elliptical mouths.

January 13, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

Bang & Olufsen Offers Beolink Software Update That Connects Past With Present and Future Multiroom Products

Bang & Olufsen announced an automatic software update to its new generation of home speakers that ensures multiroom compatibility between products launched in the last 40 years. From Bang & Olufsen’s iconic loudspeakers, music systems and turntables of the 1980s to its modern wireless speakers, the new update to Beolink makes a generation of products across decades work seamlessly together, showcasing Bang & Olufsen’s commitment to longevity.

January 3, 2022 by James Croft

Patent Review: Loudspeaker Having a Passive Radiator US9426548B2

This article discusses a very interesting design and patent granted in August 2015 to Gary A. Rayner and James C. Larsen, as the inventors, on behalf of Treefrong Developments, from San Diego, CA. The patent abstract details a loudspeaker using one or more active drivers, with a passive radiator connected to each driver and dedicated processors and amplifier per channel - a slightly different approach to a familiar concept. This article was originally published in Voice Coil, November 2015.

January 3, 2022 by Geoff Hill

R&D Stories: The Tetrahedral Test Chamber Story (Part 2) - Consistent Loudspeaker Measurements

In this article Geoff Hill completes the Tetrahedral Test Chamber story, a concept born out of necessity, simple wavelength theory and Beranek's wedges, measurement theory, and building upon experience gained in designing chambers in Europe, US, and Asia. These chambers are now in use throughout the world, providing consistent, reliable, and accurate measurements of loudspeaker transducers and loudspeaker systems. This article was originally published in audioXpress, October 2021.

December 29, 2021 by Geoff Hill

R&D Stories: The Tetrahedral Test Chamber Story (Part 1) - Recognizing the Need for Consistent Measurements

This article revisits the story of the development of the Tetrahedral Test Chamber (TTC), by Geoff Hill, loudspeaker engineer, author, and inventor, in an effort to solve the longstanding problem of making consistent loudspeaker measurements. This innovative loudspeaker test chamber is now defined in international standards and in use throughout the world, scalable to any size of loudspeaker driver. This article was originally published in audioXpress, September 2021.

December 20, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Fulcrum Acoustic Releases DF4 Dual High-Frequency Horn Loudspeaker

Fulcrum Acoustic continues to create new innovative loudspeakers at an impressive pace. Now, the Massachusetts-based manufacturers has released the DF4 Dual High-Frequency Horn, a spot fill loudspeaker aimed at supplemental high frequency coverage for areas shaded by obstructions. Dual four inch diaphragm high frequency compression drivers provide substantial output suitable for mid to long throw applications. And the new DF443 is particularly effective in applications where supplemental HF coverage may be required due to occlusion from the primary loudspeakers by venue obstructions.

Properly Equalized: Best Practices for Loudspeaker Equalization and Tuning

Alta Audio Debuts Adam Three-Way Floorstanding Speaker

Sonos Announces Acquisition of Dutch Speaker Company Mayht

COMSOL 6 For Speaker Design and Transducer Development Explained!

Celestion Introduces Updated Horn Design App HornWizard 2.0

Bang & Olufsen Offers Beolink Software Update That Connects Past With Present and Future Multiroom Products

Patent Review: Loudspeaker Having a Passive Radiator US9426548B2

R&D Stories: The Tetrahedral Test Chamber Story (Part 2) - Consistent Loudspeaker Measurements

R&D Stories: The Tetrahedral Test Chamber Story (Part 1) - Recognizing the Need for Consistent Measurements​

Fulcrum Acoustic Releases DF4 Dual High-Frequency Horn Loudspeaker

R&D Stories: The Tetrahedral Test Chamber Story (Part 1) - Recognizing the Need for Consistent Measurements