Rembrandt Laboratories Patent-Pending Home Speaker Will Make You Cry
Rembrandt Laboratories is promoting its patent-pending speaker design Model V with the line "New Audio Technology With Sound So Beautiful, It Moves Listeners to Tears of Joy," claiming a level of realism that feels like the artist is in the room. Effectively, the outside of the Model V, in stained poplar tone wood, looks like one those early tube radios, but there's nothing vintage inside this active speaker, using a distributed mode planar driver with proprietary multiple internal tuned resonate chambers and bass reflex port.
Work Pro Audio Introduces SoundNut Pendant Speaker Range
First unveiled at InfoComm 2018, the new SoundNut range, a new series of stylish, high-powered pendant loudspeakers for installation applications from Spanish manufacturer Work Pro Audio, is now available and represents an innovative approach to speaker design from the Valencia-based company. The SoundNut SN8 is the first product in the range, a two-way 400W coaxial pendant speaker with an 8-inch bass driver.
Cypress Introduces First 7-Port USB-C Hub Controller With USB Power Delivery
Cypress Semiconductor announced the industry’s first 7-port USB-C hub controller with USB Power Delivery (PD). The programmable EZ-USB HX3PD hub controller simplifies USB-C dock system designs by integrating the functionality of five chips into one, lowering bill-of-materials (BOM) and reducing board size by as much as 50%. The highly-integrated controller is ideal for notebook and tablet docking stations, monitor docks and multi-function USB-C peripherals.
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New Qualcomm QCC3026 Bluetooth Audio System-on-Chip Now Available
Qualcomm announced the QCC3026, a flash-programmable Bluetooth Audio System-on-Chip (SoC) that is designed to reduce power consumption by up to 50% compared to previous generation entry-level flash devices. The new SoC is also engineered to help manufacturers simply and quickly develop and commercialize feature optimized truly wireless headsets, and extends the Company’s portfolio of low power Bluetooth audio solutions following the announcement of the flagship QCC5100 Bluetooth SoC series earlier this year.
DSP Group Announces Ultra-Low-Power Development Kit with Far-Field Speech Accuracy for Amazon Alexa Voice Service
Wireless communications chipset solutions specialists DSP Group announced the availability of its HDClear 3-Microphone Development Kit for Amazon Alexa Voice Service (AVS). This Alexa certified solution features DBMD5, DSP Group’s advanced audio/voice processor, and its best-in-class HDClear voice enhancement processing technology, creating a complete development platform for low-power applications, including smart speakers, wearable computing devices, smart home devices and remote controls.
Radial Engineering Launches New Website with Improved Experiences
Just as it has been quietly doing with its other brands, Primacoustic, Jensen Transformers, Hafler, and Dynaco, Radial Engineering has launched its new website at www.radialeng.com. The new much improved website front has several features to make the user experience better, while maintaining the information rich content that Radial users have come to expect and rely upon. New 'personas' on the Home page are just one of several features improving user experience.
CEntrance MixerFace R4 Mobile Audio Recording Interface Now In Production
The MixerFace R4 mobile recording interface (MSRP $349.99) that CEntrance debuted at NAMM 2018 is now in production and is set to ship in July to dealers and distributors worldwide. The battery-powered device turns a smartphone into a multitrack DAW with software such as Apple's GarageBand for 24-bit recording. The MixerFace R4 can also work with software running on selected Android devices, Apple iOS, macOS and Windows, creating a versatile solution for multitrack field recording.
Sennheiser Announces New X Massdrop HD 58X Jubilee Exclusive Headphones
Following the success of previous collaborations, Sennheiser and Massdrop, a community-driven commerce platform, announced the latest result of the companies’ ongoing partnership: the Massdrop x Sennheiser HD 58X Jubilee. The new exclusive headphone is a tribute to the Sennheiser HD 580 Jubilee, an open, dynamic headphone that helped pave the way for a successful range of audiophile headphones including the HD 600 and the HD 650.
SD Memory Cards Now a Faster Alternative with New SD Express Format
The SD Association announced its new SD Express format, which adds the popular PCI Express and NVMe interfaces to the legacy SD interface. This revolutionary innovation for SD memory cards achieves up to 985 MB/sec transfer rate, while keeping compatibility with existing billions SD hosts in the market. With growing storage capacities this might be an attractive alternative to USB memories for many portable storage applications.
Aaware and Infineon Form Partnership to Develop Next-Generation Voice Solutions
Infineon Technologies, and Aaware, Inc., an emerging supplier of sound capture technology for far-field, voice-enabled digital products, announced the formation of a partnership to launch a next-generation voice development platform to be released later this summer. Aaware’s Acoustically Aware technology is highly synergistic with Infineon’s digital MEMS microphone technology, combining to bring the best sound capture for extremely noisy environments in commercial and industrial applications.