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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RØDE Microphones Unveils AI-1 USB Type-C Audio Recording Interface
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RØDE Microphones Unveils AI-1 USB Type-C Audio Recording Interface

RØDE Microphones has released its first Audio Interface – the AI-1. For a leading microphone manufacturer, this might seem like an odd initiative, but the Australian company turned the announcement into a powerful audio recording proposition. The RØDE AI-1 is a simple computer 24-bit/96kHz USB bus-powered desktop interface, featuring a high-quality preamp with phantom power, one Neutrik XLR-1/4” analog combo input, two balanced outputs, and headphone amplifier, allowing direct monitoring.
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Pascal CEO Lars Fenger Receives Price Waterhouse Cooper’s Prize for Talent & Technology
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Pascal CEO Lars Fenger Receives Price Waterhouse Cooper’s Prize for Talent & Technology

Pascal A/S CEO, Lars Fenger, has been awarded the Price Waterhouse Cooper’s ‘Theme Prize’ for ‘Talent & Technology’. The regional prize – for the greater Copenhagen area, home to more than half the country’s companies – was given in recognition of Fenger’s leadership in shaping the modular power amplifier manufacturer’s far sighted employment practices and organizational culture.
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McIntosh MA252 First Ever Hybrid Integrated Amplifier is Now Available
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McIntosh MA252 First Ever Hybrid Integrated Amplifier is Now Available

The MA252 Integrated Amplifier is the first ever hybrid integrated amplifier design from McIntosh. Unveiled early November 2017, the MA252 is now shipping. The amp brings the benefits of vacuum tube (valve) to its preamp stage, with solid-state technology on the output stage, all with a visually stunning, integrated package, taking retro design cues from the legendary McIntosh MC275 Vacuum Tube Amplifier.
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    XMOS Announces First True-Stereo AEC Linear Voice Processor and Far-Field Voice Kit for Smart Devices
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    XMOS Announces First True-Stereo AEC Linear Voice Processor and Far-Field Voice Kit for Smart Devices

    XMOS announced the XVF3500 voice processor which delivers 2-channel full duplex acoustic echo cancellation (AEC), along with the world’s first stereo AEC far-field linear microphone array solution, the VocalFusion Stereo Evaluation Kit (XK-VF3500-L33). The XVF3500 voice processor is designed for developers working in the growing voice-enabled smart TV, soundbar, set-top box, and digital media adapter markets, all of which require stereo-AEC support for “across the room” voice-interface solutions.
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    Audinate Announces New Global Reseller Channel for Dante Domain Manager
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    Audinate Announces New Global Reseller Channel for Dante Domain Manager

    Audinate has announced its initial roster of over 20 resellers for Dante Domain Manager, its enterprise-grade system administration, network management solution. Audinate’s reseller channel is being developed to promote, sell, and support the Dante Domain Manager solution to end users as it becomes commercially released. Dante Domain Manager is offered as a software license and will be available for purchase through authorized resellers worldwide.
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    Danish Podspeakers Launches New Wireless MicroPod
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    Danish Podspeakers Launches New Wireless MicroPod

    The new MicroPod Bluetooth MKII is the first in a series of new and fully portable Podspeakers with Bluetooth and built-in battery from the famous Danish Podspeakers brand. The new small but powerful speaker combines Bluetooth and Truewireless technology, allowing perfect pairing with two units for a wireless stereo setup that can be taken anywhere thanks to the built-in battery.
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    Lattice Simplifies Audio Connectivity and Improves Performance with HDMI 2.1 Enhanced Audio Return Channel (eARC) Solutions
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    Lattice Simplifies Audio Connectivity and Improves Performance with HDMI 2.1 Enhanced Audio Return Channel (eARC) Solutions

    Shortly after the publication of the new HDMI 2.1 specification by the HDMI Forum, Lattice Semiconductor announced the release of the SiI9437 and SiI9438, the first HDMI 2.1 Enhanced Audio Return Channel (eARC) audio receiver and transmitter devices. This allows manufacturers to start implementing solutions that benefit from the self-discovering, self-configuring and fully automatic HDMI Audio Link for flawless home theater experiences.
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    A3E to Present The Future of Audio at The 2018 NAMM Show
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    A3E to Present The Future of Audio at The 2018 NAMM Show

    A3E, the Advanced Audio + Applications Exchange, will present a series of discussions dedicated to the future of advanced audio applications and new music technologies at The 2018 NAMM Show (January 25-28). The organization’s A3E Summit will feature 36 sessions, case studies and expert panel discussions delving into the developments transforming the music and audio industries, and the use of Audio + Applications in production and performance.
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    New HDMI Forum Version 2.1 Specification is Good News for Audio
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    New HDMI Forum Version 2.1 Specification is Good News for Audio

    Initially unveiled at CES 2017, Version 2.1 of the HDMI Specification is now published and brings so much more than just support for resolutions up to 10K and Dynamic HDR. In fact HDMI 2.1 is a huge leap forward, introducing a new Ultra High Speed HDMI Cable, which also supports Enhanced Audio Return Channel (eARC), multichannel uncompressed 24-bit/192 kHz audio, and support to advanced audio formats - including DTS Master, DTS:X, Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Atmos and more.
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    XMOS Extends Portfolio of Far-Field Voice Capture Solutions with New xCORE VocalFusion Speaker Linear Evaluation Kit
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    XMOS Extends Portfolio of Far-Field Voice Capture Solutions with New xCORE VocalFusion Speaker Linear Evaluation Kit

    XMOS announced commercial availability of the xCORE VocalFusion Speaker Linear evaluation kit as part of its range of innovative far-field voice capture solutions. Based on the XMOS VocalFusion XVF3100 voice processor, the kit is designed for developers, OEMs and ODMs integrating voice user interfaces into flat, or linear consumer electronics typically found at the “edge of the room”, such as smart home control panels and washing machines.
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