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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RHA TrueConnect True Wireless Earbuds Now Available in White and Blue
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RHA TrueConnect True Wireless Earbuds Now Available in White and Blue

Not every company can afford to just keep one single SKU of a tremendously best-selling product and make available every single color as long as its... white. Black, in the case of the well designed TrueConnect true wireless earbuds from Scottish personal audio specialist RHA. For those looking to make a statement, RHA now announced that the TrueConnect TWS are now available in Navy Blue, Cloud White and the original Carbon Black.
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Audinate Announces Dante Reference Design for Popular NXP i.MX 8M Mini ARM-based Applications Processor
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Audinate Announces Dante Reference Design for Popular NXP i.MX 8M Mini ARM-based Applications Processor

Audinate and NXP Semiconductors have collaborated to introduce a new reference design kit for the popular NXP i.MX 8M Mini QuadLite SoC – providing Dante audio-over-IP to OEMs as on-chip software. Following the announced shift from purpose-built hardware to software-based solutions running on standardized hardware, and a similar agreement to supply software running on Linux for x86 and ARM processors, Audinate now extends the support to NXP’s i.MX 8M processors.
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CEVA Acquires Hillcrest Labs Intelligent Sensor Technologies Business from InterDigital
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CEVA Acquires Hillcrest Labs Intelligent Sensor Technologies Business from InterDigital

CEVA announced the acquisition of the Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc. (Hillcrest Labs) business from InterDigital. Hillcrest Labs is a leading global supplier of software and components for sensor processing in consumer and IoT devices, and the acquisition extends CEVA’s connected technology portfolio with highly complementary sensor processing technologies that have powered more than 100 million devices.
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    Current Smart Speaker Consumers Value Sound Quality
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    Current Smart Speaker Consumers Value Sound Quality

    Apparently Apple got it right. Once again. As smart speaker adoption continues to climb, more than half of existing owners would like to have a smart speaker with better sound quality than their current device, while a similar number would pay more for it. That’s one of the findings from the new “Audio Tech Lifestyles” consumer survey from Futuresource Consulting, conducted in the USA, UK, Germany, Japan and China.
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    IK Multimedia iLoud MTM Compact Nearfield Reference Monitors Are Now Available
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    IK Multimedia iLoud MTM Compact Nearfield Reference Monitors Are Now Available

    IK Multimedia announced the availability of its iLoud MTM compact reference monitors, the larger and much improved version of the iLoud Micro monitors, designed for the modern professional and home studio. Yes, they look like cheap plastic, but don’t get fooled. The iLoud MTM monitors deliver sound quality that rivals monitors several times the price and provides innovative features not found anywhere else.
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    Avid Expands Audio Control Surface Portfolio with New S4 and S1 Models
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    Avid Expands Audio Control Surface Portfolio with New S4 and S1 Models

    During its own Avid Connect Live event in Nashville, anticipating another edition of Summer NAMM 2019, Avid unveiled two new audio control surfaces — the Avid S4 and Avid S1 — designed for professionals at smaller facilities and project studios. These incredibly sophisticated, powerful, and versatile modular products provide audio engineers, producers and musicians with the most integrated and yet affordable control solutions, both scheduled to be available later in 2019.
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    DSP Concepts and CEVA Partner to Streamline Audio/Voice DSP Software Development for High-End Sound Applications
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    DSP Concepts and CEVA Partner to Streamline Audio/Voice DSP Software Development for High-End Sound Applications

    CEVA and DSP Concepts announced that DSP Concepts’ industry-leading Audio Weaver tools and TalkTo voice front-end now support the CEVA-X2 and CEVA-BX family of DSPs. Audio Weaver is already being used by a number of companies who are leveraging the design tool to develop advanced audio and voice applications for their CEVA DSP based designs.
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    KRK Systems Launches Audio Tools App for Studio Monitor Setup
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    KRK Systems Launches Audio Tools App for Studio Monitor Setup

    KRK Systems, (still) part of the Gibson family of brands, introduced its new KRK Audio Tools App for iOS and Android. The free suite of professional studio tools includes five useful and professional analysis-based components that work with any monitor setup, and one powerful tool (EQ Recommendation) that helps acclimate the new KRK ROKIT G4 monitors to their individual acoustic environment.
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    Braun Returns to Audio with Engineering Support from Pure
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    Braun Returns to Audio with Engineering Support from Pure

    After nearly one hundred years of inspirational design across a range of sectors, Braun announced a long-awaited comeback to an esteemed category: audio. Responsible for the development and manufacture of Braun Audio, is British audio engineering firm Pure, working under license from Procter & Gamble. As its first project, Braun Audio returns with a reinvention of the timeless LE home speakers from 1959, one of the brand’s icons.
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    HEAD acoustics Provides World’s First Certified Test Solution for Super-Wideband-Capable Mobile Devices
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    HEAD acoustics Provides World’s First Certified Test Solution for Super-Wideband-Capable Mobile Devices

    HEAD acoustics is the world´s first - and up to now the only - manufacturer of measurement technology to have received approval from the Global Certification Forum (GCF) and the PCS Type Certification Review Board (PTCRB) responsible for North America for its test solution for super-wideband-capable mobile devices. The successfully certified test platform TP 190 encompasses two HEAD acoustics’ communication quality analysis system ACQUA, and labCORE hardware platform.
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