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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Rehear Audiology Promotes AI Revolution in the Hearing Industry

Rehear Audiology Promotes AI Revolution in the Hearing Industry
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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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Design, Simulations, and Measurements in Voice Coil December 2024

Design, Simulations, and Measurements in Voice Coil December 2024
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USB 3.0 Promoter Group Announces USB 3.2 Specification Update
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USB 3.0 Promoter Group Announces USB 3.2 Specification Update

The USB 3.0 Promoter Group announced the pending release of the USB 3.2 specification, an incremental update that defines multi-lane operation for new USB 3.2 hosts and devices, effectively doubling the bandwidth to extend existing USB Type-C cable performance. During the upcoming USB Developer Days 2017 event, the promoters will provide detailed technical training covering USB 3.2, fast charging advancements in USB Power Delivery, and other topics.
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PreSonus Ships StudioLive 24 Series III Digital Console/Recorder
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PreSonus Ships StudioLive 24 Series III Digital Console/Recorder

PreSonus is keeping its new product introductions at a steady pace, and they have an announcement that deserves full attention from musicians and many project studio owners. The new StudioLive 24 digital console/recorders are now shipping, adding to the company’s third-generation StudioLive Series III line, which launched earlier this year with the StudioLive 16 and StudioLive 32. A complete 32-track mixing and recording system for just $2,499.95 (U.S. MAP).
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Hartke Celebrates 10 Years of HyDrive Speaker Technology with Improved HyDrive HD Series Bass Cabinets
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Hartke Celebrates 10 Years of HyDrive Speaker Technology with Improved HyDrive HD Series Bass Cabinets

Bass amplification specialist, Hartke (part of Samson Technologies) released the HyDrive HD Series Bass Cabinets, with four models featuring an enhanced version of Hartke’s patented HyDrive Speaker Technology of paper/aluminum hybrid cone drivers. The drivers feature outside curved, Kevlar-loaded paper cones with an inner straight, anodized aluminum section, now featuring a new double-roll, curvilinear surround that limits the drivers from over excursion, an updated ferrite magnet assembly and steel chassis design.
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    James Loudspeaker Unveils Ultra High-Performance Q-Series Floor-Standing Speakers
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    James Loudspeaker Unveils Ultra High-Performance Q-Series Floor-Standing Speakers

    James Loudspeaker, designers and manufacturers of high-performance installation speakers, has announced the introduction of the new Q-Series floor-standing loudspeakers, a built-to-suit array of three models, combining Beryllium quad tweeter arrays in a powerful three-way design. Superb craftsmanship in a refined, customizable loudspeaker to fit any room, leveraging the company's know-how in 2-channel and multi-channel residential solutions.
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    Key Industry Knowledge for Loudspeaker Professionals in Voice Coil August 2017
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    Key Industry Knowledge for Loudspeaker Professionals in Voice Coil August 2017

    Voice Coil August 2017 is now available. Read an excellent tutorial from Charlie Hughes about optimizing loudspeaker directivity through the crossover region, and read James Croft’s review of a new bass-reflex speaker cabinet design. In Test Bench, we learn more about are Tymphany's new DFM-2535R00-08 compression driver and Volt Loudspeakers' new VM527 dome midrange. And don't miss the updated directory of OEM/ODM Voice Coil Manufacturers.
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    RØDE Microphones Announces Videomic Pro+ On-Camera Microphone
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    RØDE Microphones Announces Videomic Pro+ On-Camera Microphone

    The Videomic on-camera microphone was undoubtedly one of the microphones that help propelled the Australian microphone brand to a leading position in the global market. Continuously updated and improved, RØDE Microphones has now announced the VideoMic Pro+, part of the products unveiled at the company's RØDEShow 2017, Freedman Electronics 50th anniversary celebration. The new VideoMic Pro+ is set to consolidate RØDE Microphones' position in the prosumer filmmaker market.
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    Audified Introduces SYNERGY R1 500 Series Software/Hardware Hybrid Digital/Analogue Processor
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    Audified Introduces SYNERGY R1 500 Series Software/Hardware Hybrid Digital/Analogue Processor

    Audified’s SYNERGY R1 represents the company's first foray into hardware with a ‘remote-controlled’ software/hardware hybrid digital (Reverb) / analogue (Saturator) processing module for the 500 series modular rack frame format popularized by API (Automated Processes, Inc.). The new processor comes with a dedicated Mac and PC plug-in to control, automate, and save all hardware parameters.
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    IEEE Publishes 802.11ah-2016 Standard Amendment Extending Range and Improving Energy Efficiency in the Sub 1 GHz Band
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    IEEE Publishes 802.11ah-2016 Standard Amendment Extending Range and Improving Energy Efficiency in the Sub 1 GHz Band

    IEEE and the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) announced the availability of the IEEE 802.11ah-2016 standard amendment, providing for an extended range Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) in the sub 1 GHz band. IEEE 802.11ah-2016 significantly lowers propagation loss through free space, walls and other obstructions, and offers a networking alternative to augment the heavily congested 2.4 GHz band and the shorter-range 5 GHz band used today. This is critical for smart home and many other applications.
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    Audio-Technica Starts Shipping ATH-DSR9BT Pure Digital Drive Bluetooth Headphones
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    Audio-Technica Starts Shipping ATH-DSR9BT Pure Digital Drive Bluetooth Headphones

    Audio-Technica is now shipping its ATH-DSR9BT Wireless Headphones with Pure Digital Drive technology. Winner of a CES 2017 Innovation award, the ATH-DSR9BT is one of the first headphones with Bluetooth wireless technology to employ Audio-Technica's new Pure Digital Drive system, which keeps the audio signal completely digital from source to driver to offer a new level in sound quality.
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    HMS II.3 Artificial Head Measurement System Supports Super-Wideband Testing
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    HMS II.3 Artificial Head Measurement System Supports Super-Wideband Testing

    HEAD acoustics announced that its HMS II.3 Artificial Head measurement system is able to transmit real speech equalized up to almost 20 kHz. According to the German company, the HMS II.3 Artificial Head, designed for measurement of close to-the-ear transducers, such as handsets, headsets, headphones, hearing protectors and hearing aids, is perfectly suited for testing the upcoming generation of VoLTE mobile phones, among many other applications that require super-wideband capabilities.
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