audioXpress January 2025. Innovations in Audio. Product Development. The Best in DIY Audio

audioXpress January 2025. Innovations in Audio. Product Development. The Best in DIY Audio
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Start the Loudspeaker Year with Voice Coil January 2025

Start the Loudspeaker Year with Voice Coil January 2025
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The Audio Voice - Weekly Newsletter for audioXpress and Voice Coil Communities

The Audio Voice - Weekly Newsletter for audioXpress and Voice Coil Communities
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Bluetooth Wireless Audio, Innovations in Audio, and More in audioXpress December 2024

Bluetooth Wireless Audio, Innovations in Audio, and More in audioXpress December 2024
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Auricle Debuts Groundbreaking awareONE Open-Ears at CES 2025
by Joao Martins

Auricle Debuts Groundbreaking awareONE Open-Ears at CES 2025

Six years since its foundation and more than three years since a successful crowdfunding campaign that enabled the company's vision to proceed, Auricle will finally debut awareONE at CES 2025. A first-of-its-kind innovation in audio technology, combining multi-sensory sound with cutting-edge cartilage conduction, awareONE is a completely new approach to open-ear headphones. Due to its unique technology and implementation, Auricle opted to manufacture and assemble awareONE completely in Denmark.
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ARIA Sensing Unveils Hydrogen 3D UWB Radar System-On-Chip for 3D Detection
by Cristina Costa

ARIA Sensing Unveils Hydrogen 3D UWB Radar System-On-Chip for 3D Detection

Italian company ARIA Sensing announced the launch of Hydrogen, a groundbreaking Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Radar System-On-Chip (SoC) that sets a new benchmark as the first to offer 3D beamforming with programmable bandwidth up to 1.8GHz. The new UWB radar SoC delivers scalable 1D/2D/3D detection and unparalleled radar-waveform features, becoming an ideal device to sense presence, position, vital-signs, and gestures, with the world's highest resolution and ultra-low power consumption.
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Start the Loudspeaker Year with Voice Coil January 2025
by audioXpress Staff

Start the Loudspeaker Year with Voice Coil January 2025

The first issue of Voice Coil for 2025 is now available and includes a new article by Claus Futtrup about computation of alignments, Dave Morrison discussing Spikes & Isolation for Speaker Decoupling and another valuable directory of Earphone and Headphone Manufacturers and parts. On his Test Bench, Vance Dickason characterizes the new Scan-Speak D3004/666000 metamodal TPCD dome tweeter and the Dayton Audio UMII10-22 Ultimax II 10" Subwoofer.
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    Airoha Technology Launches Flagship Wireless AI Audio SoC
    by Joao Martins

    Airoha Technology Launches Flagship Wireless AI Audio SoC

    Airoha Technology announced the launch of a new flagship wireless audio chip with integrated AI processing. The AB1595 chip integrates essential functions that currently require multiple chips into one single system-on-chip (SoC). The announcement follows a recent press conference where the MediaTek subsidiary confirmed its intention to lead the market as a Bluetooth audio supplier and to outgrow the industry with AI-powered solutions in 2025.
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    Knowles Completes the Sale of Its Consumer MEMS Microphone Business to Syntiant
    by Joao Martins

    Knowles Completes the Sale of Its Consumer MEMS Microphone Business to Syntiant

    Knowles Corporation announced that the sale of its Consumer MEMS Microphones (CMM) business to Syntiant Corp has successfully closed. As the trends towards edge AI integration into MEMS microphones accelerates, the acquisition enables Syntiant to deliver on its vision of end-to-end solutions integrating sensors, processors and software, while Knowles offloads its low or no-margin business in a still favorable market moment.
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    audioXpress.com - The Most Popular Stories of 2024
    by audioXpress Staff

    audioXpress.com - The Most Popular Stories of 2024

    We looked at the popular articles of 2024 in audioXpress.com (including selected articles from audioXpress and Voice Coil magazines), and we created this Top 11 list of news stories and online articles. As the number of visitors and pageviews registered by audioXpress.com continues to break records every year, visitors from all over the world returned more often to read the more than 10,400 stories available. Which of the topics and stories published online in 2024 were the most popular? Here are the results!
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    WiSA Technologies Changes Name to Datavault and Acquires Company That Manages Registration for CES, InfoComm, and NAB Trade Shows
    by Joao Martins

    WiSA Technologies Changes Name to Datavault and Acquires Company That Manages Registration for CES, InfoComm, and NAB Trade Shows

    WiSA Technologies, the company that makes the most important wireless audio multichannel technology for home cinema, recently bought and merged with Datavault, a blockchain data intelligence business, and announced that WISA will be called Datavault in the future. Now, WISA acquired CompuSystems, the company that provides registration and lead management for more than 250 trade shows including CES.
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    PIMIC and ZillTek Launch Integrated Edge AI and Microphone Noise Cancellation Solution
    by Joao Martins

    PIMIC and ZillTek Launch Integrated Edge AI and Microphone Noise Cancellation Solution

    PIMIC, a new company working on ultra-low-power AI technology, unveiled the Clarity NC100, a Deep Neural Network (DNN)-based Environmental Noise Cancellation (ENC) chip that sets a new benchmark for performance and edge AI compute efficiency. Working in partnership with Taiwan-based MEMS microphone developer ZillTek, at CES 2025 the Californian company will present an integrated edge AI chip and digital microphone designed to address noise cancellation challenges in a single package.
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    SonicEdge Presents Integrated MEMS Speaker and Microphone Solution at CES 2025
    by Joao Martins

    SonicEdge Presents Integrated MEMS Speaker and Microphone Solution at CES 2025

    To be unveiled at CES 2025 is a new example of a MEMS microspeaker company that now offers an integration with a MEMS microphone. SonicEdge, the startup that pioneered ultrasound MEMS drivers and has yet to enter the market, will present SonicTwin, an integrated speaker-microphone in a single package. Combining the company's patented modulated ultrasound technology that eliminates traditional mechanical vibrations, makes the integration with a microphone and sensors much easier with potential benefits also for ANC and lower-power in TWS earbuds and headphones.
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    L-Acoustics Celebrates 40th Anniversary Year and Announces Future Americas Operations at Nashville Yards
    by audioXpress Staff

    L-Acoustics Celebrates 40th Anniversary Year and Announces Future Americas Operations at Nashville Yards

    Capping off a year of celebrations marking the company’s 40th anniversary, L-Acoustics announced a significant milestone with the addition of its 1,000th team member. The French manufacturer of professional sound systems and global market leader in the touring and large performance segment also announced the opening of new headquarters for North America, sharing space with entertainment company AEG Presents and Creative Artists Agency at the Nashville Yards office complex.
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