All items tagged with wireless audio (386)
Enclave Audio Unveils The First-Ever WiSA-Certified Affordable 5.1 Wireless Surround Sound System
January 6, 2015 by audioXpress Staff

Enclave Audio Unveils The First-Ever WiSA-Certified Affordable 5.1 Wireless Surround Sound System

Poised to turn up the volume on wireless surround sound, Enclave Audio debuted the world’s first WiSA certified 5.1 wireless audio speaker system for the mass market at the Consumer Electronics Show 2015 in Las Vegas. A complete 24-bit, 96kHZ uncompressed, wireless home theater experience at affordable prices.
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Imagination’s Caskeid Wireless Audio Platform to Support Meridian’s MQA Technology
January 6, 2015 by audioXpress Staff

Imagination’s Caskeid Wireless Audio Platform to Support Meridian’s MQA Technology

Imagination Technologies announced at the 2015 International CES Show that its Caskeid wireless audio IP platform is set to be the first multiroom streaming solution to support MQA (Master Quality Authenticated), the encoding technology developed by Bob Stuart, founder of Meridian Audio, allowing true reconstruction of studio quality audio.
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Devialet Invents a Better Wheel With the Phantom Loudspeaker
December 29, 2014 by Joao Martins

Devialet Invents a Better Wheel With the Phantom Loudspeaker

Devialet surprised the high-end world two weeks before the CES 2015 with the announcement of a completely new loudspeaker concept: the Phantom speaker. In their own words, the Devialet Phantom is “a sound center, meaning, a system that receives via Wi-Fi music from your everyday devices, it processes the signals and emits sound replacing your speakers … and it’s also the most efficient speaker in the world!
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Microchip JukeBlox Platform Now Supports Qobuz Connect Lossless Wireless Audio
December 18, 2014 by audioXpress Staff

Microchip JukeBlox Platform Now Supports Qobuz Connect Lossless Wireless Audio

Microchip Technology Inc., announced the support of Qobuz Connect in the Microchip JukeBlox Platform. The combined solution delivers lossless audio in CD quality directly to wireless speakers and AV receivers for an enjoyable music listening experience.
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Optoma Acquires Acclaimed Californian Consumer Audio Company NuForce
December 17, 2014 by audioXpress Staff

Optoma Acquires Acclaimed Californian Consumer Audio Company NuForce

Leading international projector brand, Optoma, announced it has acquired NuForce Inc. the California-based maker of premium consumer audio products. NuForce develops products in the audio and AV tech space and the brand’s catalogue includes award-winning switching amps, audiophile-grade earphones, earphone amps, and digital-to-analog converters.
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New Microchip JukeBlox 4 Wi-Fi Platform for Streaming Audio
December 10, 2014 by audioXpress Staff

New Microchip JukeBlox 4 Wi-Fi Platform for Streaming Audio

Microchip Technology’s fourth-generation JukeBlox platform enables product developers to build low-latency systems, such as wireless speakers, sound bars, AV receivers, micro systems, and more. The JukeBlox 4 Software Development Kit (SDK) in combination with the CY920 Wi-Fi & Bluetooth Network Media Module features dual-band Wi-Fi technology, multi-room features, AirPlay and DLNA connectivity, and integrated music services.
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Celebrating Its 14th Year, audioXpress January 2015 Is Available Online
November 30, 2014 by Joao Martins

Celebrating Its 14th Year, audioXpress January 2015 Is Available Online

The January 2015 issue of audioXpress celebrates our 14th year. This edition includes our Rocky Mountain Audio Fest (RMAF) 2014 report, we assembled and tested the MOD 102 Guitar Tube Amplifier Kit by MOD Kits, invited Scott Dorsey to update his Kludge reamplifier box and Gerhard Haas explains how to build a Wah Wah effects device. Don’t miss it!
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Wireless Audio Market Worth $13.75 Billion by 2018
November 27, 2014 by audioXpress Staff

Wireless Audio Market Worth $13.75 Billion by 2018

According to a new market research report “Wireless Audio Device Market By Products, Technology and Application - Global Forecast & Analysis 2013 – 2018” published by MarketsandMarkets, the total market is expected to generate revenues of $13.75 billion by 2018, growing at an estimated CAGR of 24.02% from 2013-2018.
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Sonos Sues D&M Holdings for Patent Infringement of Wireless Audio Products
November 21, 2014 by Vance Dickason

Sonos Sues D&M Holdings for Patent Infringement of Wireless Audio Products

This may be from my “word-to-the-wise” department, given the number of Sonos clone products that have proliferated in the market place, but Sonos has filed a lawsuit against D&M Holdings in the state of Delaware over Denon’s HEOS wireless home audio product line. Sonos says D&M Holdings infringes on at least four of its patents.
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Summit Semiconductor Extended Distance Modules Support WiSA Whole House Audio Specification
November 17, 2014 by audioXpress Staff

Summit Semiconductor Extended Distance Modules Support WiSA Whole House Audio Specification

Providing advanced wireless audio technologies to the industry with support to the Wireless Speaker and Audio (WiSA) Association’s recently updated compliance and interoperability teste specifications, Summit Semiconductor already has extended distance transmit and receive modules available for multi-zone home theater and whole home audio applications.
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