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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Smart Home Devices and Appliances - The Battle of the ‘Smart Home’ Trojans Continues
by Futuresource Consulting

Smart Home Devices and Appliances - The Battle of the ‘Smart Home’ Trojans Continues

Futuresource Consulting released a new consumer electronics (CE) consumer study about "Smart Home Devices and Appliances: Consumer Ownership and Attitudes." The study took representative households across the UK, France, Germany and the US and assessed ownership, perceptions and use of smart home and smart appliances. The report reveals key triggers and obstacles surrounding the development of this market, which has demonstrated strong double digit growth of around 40% year-on-year between 2016-2019.
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Dialog Semiconductor’s SmartBeat SoC Enhances Jabra Engage Headset Series
by audioXpress Staff

Dialog Semiconductor’s SmartBeat SoC Enhances Jabra Engage Headset Series

Jabra turned to Dialog Semiconductor’s SmartBeat audio system-on-chip (SoC) for its newest range of Jabra Engage professional wireless headsets. As the first company to deploy Dialog’s SmartBeat DA14495 SoC, Jabra was able to make use of the SoC’s support for the DECT 1.9GHz standard, as well as a flexible audio API, to connect three times as many users as before with industry-leading call performance at a range of up to 490 feet.
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Western Electric to Reintroduce Famous 300B Electron Tube
by Joao Martins

Western Electric to Reintroduce Famous 300B Electron Tube

The 150-year-old Western Electric will reintroduce its flagship product to market, the famous 300B electron tube. In time for its 80th anniversary, the 300B is returning to production this year, and the Rossville-based company announced they will restart the manufacturing in a brand new facility. Charles Whitener, Western Electric CEO, also confirmed the company will unveil a new single-ended amplifier called the 91E, as an homage to its famous predecessor the 91A, first introduced in 1936.
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    Bose Professional Introduces T8S and T4S ToneMatch Stereo Mixers
    by audioXpress Staff

    Bose Professional Introduces T8S and T4S ToneMatch Stereo Mixers

    Bose Professional is now shipping the latest additions to its ToneMatch audio engine series, the Bose T8S and T4S compact digital audio mixers, which are the company says are the ultimate on-stage companion for performing artists. They certainly don't look like any conventional audio mixers, but that's not the Bose way of doing things. Like their unique family of PA systems, the ToneMatch mixers are loaded with a powerful DSP engine for studio-quality EQ, dynamics and effects.
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    THX Launches THX Standard as Consumer Electronics Rating Resource
    by audioXpress Staff

    THX Launches THX Standard as Consumer Electronics Rating Resource

    THX Ltd., renowned for the certification of world-class cinemas and consumer electronics, announced the launch of THX Standard, a consumer electronics rating website that provides objective and data-driven evaluations of the audio and visual fidelity of consumer electronics to help consumers make informed purchase decisions. The THX Standard rating differs from the THX Certified logo attribution, which is only applied to products passing the THX certification process.
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    Yamaha Unveils First AV Receivers, Wireless Speakers and Subwoofer with Wireless Surround
    by audioXpress Staff

    Yamaha Unveils First AV Receivers, Wireless Speakers and Subwoofer with Wireless Surround

    Yamaha introduced three new 4K AV receivers — the 5.1-channel RX-V485 and 7.2-channel RX-V585 and RX-V685 — two new speakers, the MusicCast 20 and MusicCast 50, and the new MusicCast SUB 100 subwoofer, all featuring a new wireless technology called MusicCast Surround. An enhancement of the company's MusicCast wireless multi-room audio system, MusicCast Surround allows a user to build an AV receiver-based 5.1-channel surround sound system with wired speakers for the front channels, wireless speakers for the surrounds, and the option of using a wireless subwoofer.
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    GRAS Sound & Vibration Announces New 1/2” CCP Low-noise Microphone
    by audioXpress Staff

    GRAS Sound & Vibration Announces New 1/2” CCP Low-noise Microphone

    GRAS Sound & Vibration introduced a new, 1/2” CCP low-noise microphone that is particularly well suited for the consumer electronics industry. GRAS offers an extensive line of low-noise microphones for measuring low noise in confined spaces, or environments with a low noise floor. Now, the world-renowned manufacturer of high quality measurement microphones and related acoustic sensors, confirmed the availability of the 47HC model that is particularly well suited for use in the automotive NVH and consumer electronics industries.
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    Comhear to Complete Successful $1.1 Million Fundraising Campaign for YARRA 3DX Soundbar
    by audioXpress Staff

    Comhear to Complete Successful $1.1 Million Fundraising Campaign for YARRA 3DX Soundbar

    Comhear Inc., a San Diego-based audio technology company, announced it will complete its successful crowdfunding campaign for the YARRA 3DX immersive audio soundbar on May 4, 2018. Having raised nearly $1.1 million to-date, the company is starting the production of its 3D audio soundbar, with plans to deliver the first production units to crowdfunding participants, followed by a retail launch of the product on Amazon in Summer 2018.
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    The Dynaco ST-70 Series 3 Tube Amplifier is Now (Finally!) Shipping
    by Joao Martins

    The Dynaco ST-70 Series 3 Tube Amplifier is Now (Finally!) Shipping

    Previewed in 2016, and originally scheduled for Spring 2017, Dynaco (a division of Radial Engineering Ltd.) announced the ST-70 Series 3 tube amplifier is now shipping. Since acquiring the legendary Hafler and Dynaco brands in 2014, Radial Engineering has been carefully working on the Dynaco ST-70 Series 3 tube amplifier, in an effort to create a truly worthy successor of one of the most successful tube amplifiers of all time. The result is finally available!
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    Shure Expands Electrostatic Product Line with the More Affordable KSE1200 Earphone System
    by audioXpress Staff

    Shure Expands Electrostatic Product Line with the More Affordable KSE1200 Earphone System

    Shure announced the introduction of the KSE1200 Electrostatic Earphone System, a premium, portable audio-amplification solution for consumers of high-resolution audio. The new model is based on the KSE1500 — the world’s-first Sound Isolating electrostatic earphone system previously released by Shure — but featuring only the analog input for use with premium audio players. By removing the USB input and integrated DAC and DSP, Shure was able to make the KSE1200 considerably more affordable.
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