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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Sony Introduces New WF-1000XM3 Noise-Canceling True Wireless Headphones Featuring Dedicated Processor
by Joao Martins

Sony Introduces New WF-1000XM3 Noise-Canceling True Wireless Headphones Featuring Dedicated Processor

The race to lead the true wireless earbud market category is heating up, with the major brands introducing updated specifications and focusing on key selling points. The whole market recognizes that Apple has a clear lead due to its tight hardware integration and dedicated wireless chip, already in its second-generation. Now Sony enters the market with the new and improved WF-1000XM3 model - $229.99 - featuring also its own HD Noise-Canceling Processor QN1e processor, new Bluetooth chip and optimized antenna design.
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PreSonus Introduces Eris XT Monitors with Improved Frequency Response and Wider Dispersion
by audioXpress Staff

PreSonus Introduces Eris XT Monitors with Improved Frequency Response and Wider Dispersion

Suitable for both home recording studios and professional environments, PreSonus' Eris studio monitors are very affordable options with respectable specifications. Now, the company introduced two new Eris XT models with improved features, new drivers, a larger ported enclosure, and a new Elliptical Boundary Modeled (EBM) waveguide design, the work of Hugh Sarvis (WorxAudio). The Eris XT monitors are a substantial update, offering superior high-frequency response and wider 100-degree horizontal dispersion to create a broader sweet spot.
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Renkus-Heinz Now Shipping Advanced ICLive X Steerable Array Loudspeakers
by Joao Martins

Renkus-Heinz Now Shipping Advanced ICLive X Steerable Array Loudspeakers

During InfoComm 2019, Renkus-Heinz launched the all-new ICLive X series of high-powered steerable arrays, based on the new ICL-X and ICL-XS modules, both using Renkus-Heinz’s exclusive Acoustic Source Multiplier (ASM) waveguide. With greater power density, higher output, simple integrated hardware, and its unique coaxially mounted driver arrangement, the new ICLive X series is a new flexible solution for integrators, contractors, and production/rental houses.
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    Zylia Expands Technical and Operations Teams to Address 360-Degree Audio Recording Solutions
    by audioXpress Staff

    Zylia Expands Technical and Operations Teams to Address 360-Degree Audio Recording Solutions

    Zylia, the Polish company that developed the successful ZM-1 spherical microphone array, is expanding across technical and operational areas to address rapidly rising demand for the company’s innovative 3D audio recording and production solutions. Zylia has hired Maurizio Barausse as key account manager, Marek Kabacinski and Krzysztof Klos as software testers, Michal Huflejt as a research engineer, Wojtek Blachowiak as a technical customer service expert, and Lidia Wojciechowska as office manager.
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    Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 6 Now Available with New Interface and More Spectral Editing Features
    by audioXpress Staff

    Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 6 Now Available with New Interface and More Spectral Editing Features

    Steinberg announced the immediate availability of SpectraLayers Pro 6. First distributed by Sony Creative Software and then by Magix Software, the developers behind SpectraLayers have now joined forces with Steinberg to release its sixth iteration. Now as part of the comprehensive Steinberg software portfolio, SpectraLayers Pro 6 comes with exciting new features and workflow integrations, providing an innovative way to edit audio in the spectral domain.
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    Headphone Shipments Achieve Q1 2019 Revenues of $5.9 Billion
    by Futuresource Consulting

    Headphone Shipments Achieve Q1 2019 Revenues of $5.9 Billion

    Consumer appetite for premium headphones continues to grow, with global revenues rising five times faster than shipments in Q1 2019, according to the latest market tracker report from Futuresource Consulting. As the CE Team at Futuresource highlights in its latest update of the Worldwide Headphone Market Report, headphone market revenues have reached $5.9 billion. True wireless maintained its ascendance, outperforming all other form factors with growth of 223% in units and 188% in value.
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    Focusrite Announces New Generation of Scarlett Audio Interfaces with USB-C
    by audioXpress Staff

    Focusrite Announces New Generation of Scarlett Audio Interfaces with USB-C

    Focusrite has enjoyed enormous success with its affordable range of USB Scarlett audio interfaces. From home and project studios to radio stations and anyone who needs a simple to use and reliable audio interface with good microphone preamps, the Scarlett range was the epitome for "good-enough" studio equipment from a respected brand. Now in its 3rd Generation, Focusrite updated the interface itself to USB 3.1 and using a USB-C connector and matched updated 24-bit audio circuits so they'll sound better than ever.
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    KEF Launches Mounting Accessories for LSX Wireless Speakers
    by audioXpress Staff

    KEF Launches Mounting Accessories for LSX Wireless Speakers

    The LSX compact two-speaker wireless music system from KEF truly depicts what a modern fully integrated wireless music playback system should encompass. A great pair of active speakers that directly support music streaming services, decent amplification and DAC, and truly convenient to use. Now, KEF announced the arrival of the LSX Accessories range expanding that convenience even more. The accessories include the S1 Floor Stand, the B1 Wall Bracket, and the P1 Desk Pad, available from August 2019.
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    RME Updates ADI-2 Pro Firmware with User-Requested Features
    by audioXpress Staff

    RME Updates ADI-2 Pro Firmware with User-Requested Features

    RME released a new firmware for their ADI-2 Pro series, including ADI-2 Pro AE and FS. The ADI-2 Pro is a measurement quality AD/DA converter, a high-end DAC, and an unbelievably clean and powerful headphone amp. Based on sample rates up to 768kHz and DSD256 playback and recording, up to 6 input and 8 output channels of mixed digital and analog domain, and a powerful DSP providing a multitude of audio processing functions, the unit has been extremely successful and is still growing in popularity.
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    Celestion CDV1-1757 Compression Driver Designed for Vocal Applications Now Shipping Worldwide
    by audioXpress Staff

    Celestion CDV1-1757 Compression Driver Designed for Vocal Applications Now Shipping Worldwide

    Celestion announced the worldwide availability of the CDV1-1757 compression driver. The CDV1-1757 was designed for optimum vocal clarity across the critical vocal band, which makes this driver especially well suited to applications such as mass notification systems, emergency evacuation systems as well as long-distance call to prayer loudspeakers. It features a next- generation proprietary Sound Castle diaphragm clamping system for improved reliability, while a standard 1.38” (35mm) screw fitting provides maximum compatibility with a range of Celestion and third party horn flares.
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