All items tagged with noise reduction (86)
PKparis Releases K’asq Wireless Earbuds with 5 Hours of Continuous Play
June 22, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

PKparis Releases K’asq Wireless Earbuds with 5 Hours of Continuous Play

Another company has launched a new attempt to break the full-wireless earbuds challenge. This time, French start-up PKparis launched the K’asq Bluetooth 4.1 stereo wireless earbuds, featuring the industry’s longest battery life: 5-hours on-the-go to listen to music or calls. The PKparis earbuds also combine high quality sound with up to -40% noise reduction, anti-fall system and IP55 waterproof and a clever USB 2.0 chargebox providing 8 hours extra charge.
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MAGIX Acquires Sony Creative Software Products and Gets Hold of Sound Forge and ACID
May 25, 2016 by Joao Martins

MAGIX Acquires Sony Creative Software Products and Gets Hold of Sound Forge and ACID

German software house MAGIX Software GmbH announced it is acquiring a majority of the Sony Creative Software (SCS) products, including the popular audio editing and music production applications Sound Forge Pro and ACID Pro. Sony Creative Software was created from the acquisition of Sonic Foundry, in 2003, and has remained a separate division within Sony Professional.
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ZUK Z1 Smartphone Uses High-Performance ams Noise Cancellation Chip for USB Type-C Earbuds
October 6, 2015 by audioXpress Staff

ZUK Z1 Smartphone Uses High-Performance ams Noise Cancellation Chip for USB Type-C Earbuds

Lenovo’s new subsidiary, ZUK, is using ams’ Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) analog speaker driver for the earbuds of its new Z1 smartphone. This is also the first ANC headset in the world to feature the new USB Type-C connector rather than the traditional 3.5mm audio jack. The fully-integrated ams device offers noise cancellation with very low power consumption, making it ideal for headsets, headphones and ear pieces.
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Next Generation Universal-Fit Personal Monitors from Future Sonics
June 8, 2015 by audioXpress Staff

Next Generation Universal-Fit Personal Monitors from Future Sonics

The new Spectrum Series model G10 universal-fit professional personal monitors from Future Sonics signal the brand’s return to an universal-fit platform solution. For the new professional personal monitors, Future Sonics used a wide-spectrum, micro-sized, armature-free voice coil infrastructure and a new miniature dynamic transducer.
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New PCB Piezotronics 1/2” Random Incidence Microphone Covers More of the Human Audible Range
April 30, 2015 by Joao Martins

New PCB Piezotronics 1/2” Random Incidence Microphone Covers More of the Human Audible Range

The new PCB Random Incidence Microphone (Model 377C20) from PCB Piezotronics covers a frequency range up to 16 kHz (+/- 2dB), the hearing range for most adults. The new microphone is ideal for noise reduction testing and general room acoustics measurements as well as calculating transmission loss with different materials.
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Cedar Audio and Merging Technologies Agreement on Retouch Technology
March 11, 2015 by audioXpress Staff

Cedar Audio and Merging Technologies Agreement on Retouch Technology

Cedar Audio and Merging Technologies have agreed on a patent license and now announced the development of a new, 64-bit CEDAR for Pyramix. Cedar Audio’s Retouch introduced the concept of spectral editing in February 2002. Since then, many software companies have licensed the CEDAR's technology and, in 2014, after a dispute with a US company, “the Retouch patent”, was validated.
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