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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TIDAL High Fidelity Music Streaming Service Continues Rapid Expansion Preparing Launch in 22 New Countries
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TIDAL High Fidelity Music Streaming Service Continues Rapid Expansion Preparing Launch in 22 New Countries

TIDAL, the Norwegian High Fidelity lossless music streaming service with HD music videos and curated editorial, announced it will launch its service in 22 new countries during the first quarter of 2015. The company also confirmed twelve home audio integration partners are already live with TIDAL, namely, Sonos, Bluesound, Linn, Simple Audio, Auralic, Mirage, Squeezebox, Amarra sQ, Mcintosh, Wadia, Electrocompaniet and Meridian.
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Optocore Network Demonstration at ISE 2015
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Optocore Network Demonstration at ISE 2015

Optocore has created an elaborate fibre network for ISE 2015, connecting audio, video and intercom across multiple booths via a DiGiCo-Optocore/BroaMan network. The network ring starts with three connected DiGiCo consoles and continues to the Martin Audio booth, Allen & Heath’s booth, Renkus-Heinz and on the Powersoft booth and finally, on the Optocore booth itself.
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AudioQuest NightHawk Headphones Praised at 2015 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas
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AudioQuest NightHawk Headphones Praised at 2015 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

The new AudioQuest ‎NightHawk headphones, introduced at ‎CES 2015, are a bold effort to set new standards for performance, value and innovation. The NightHawk headphones have earcups made of Tecnaro’s “Liquid Wood” ARBOFORM composite material, use a 50mm pistonic driver with a biocellulose diaphragm, and feature a patented split-gap motor to minimize intermodulation distortion.
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    5th Annual Dante AV Networking World at ISE 2015
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    5th Annual Dante AV Networking World at ISE 2015

    The Integrated Systems Europe 2015 show in Amsterdam will be a decisive moment for Audinate and its Dante audio over IP media networking technology, adopted by nearly 200 leading OEM manufacturers. For the fifth consecutive year, Dante’s AV Networking World series of informative presentations and hands-on workshops will be held Monday, 9 February 2015.
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    New EKX Portable Loudspeakers from Electro-Voice
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    New EKX Portable Loudspeakers from Electro-Voice

    Electro-Voice introduced its latest portable sound family of speakers at the 2015 NAMM Show. The new EKX series targets live/club/installed sound applications and was engineered by EV to deliver best-in-class performance and reliability, using digital signal processing control, Signal Synchronized Transducers (SST) waveguide design, and Cardioid Control Technology for subwoofers.
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    Silicon Labs Acquires Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Connectivity Specialist Bluegiga
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    Silicon Labs Acquires Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Connectivity Specialist Bluegiga

    Silicon Labs announced the acquisition of Bluegiga Technologies Oy, a privately held company based in Espoo, Finland. The acquisition completed on January 30, 2015, significantly reinforces Silicon Labs position as a supplier of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi wireless ICs, modules, software and solutions for many applications, including wireless audio and Internet of Things.
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    Intel Acquires Lantiq to Expand Into the Connected Home
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    Intel Acquires Lantiq to Expand Into the Connected Home

    Intel Corporation has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Lantiq. Based in Munich, Germany, Lantiq offers a broad semiconductor product portfolio for next-generation networks and the digital home. The transaction reinforces Intel’s position with broadband network technologies in the home gateway business, telecom residential gateway and access network markets, where Lantiq is a leading provider.
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    Roland Announces Super UA Audio Interface for High-Resolution Personal Music Production
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    Roland Announces Super UA Audio Interface for High-Resolution Personal Music Production

    Roland launched the Super UA, a high-performance USB 2.0 audio interface with 1-bit DSD and 32-bit PCM playback, with up to four simultaneous channels of 24-bit PCM recording and a high-performance headphone amplifier with two outputs. The Super UA features an impressive die-cast metal design with detachable breakout module.
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    Crown Audio Announces “Empower by Crown” Amplifier Program Available to Third-party Manufacturers
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    Crown Audio Announces “Empower by Crown” Amplifier Program Available to Third-party Manufacturers

    Crown Audio announced its new Empower by Crown initiative, a new embedded amplifier program to provide third-party active loudspeaker manufacturers of finished product with special access to its portfolio of amplifier technology. The new Empowered by Crown Amplifier modules are built on the proprietary DriveCore platform and are designed for integration into virtually any loudspeaker configuration and application.
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    Riedel Joins RAVENNA and Accelerates Efforts to Provide AES67 Interoperability
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    Riedel Joins RAVENNA and Accelerates Efforts to Provide AES67 Interoperability

    Riedel Communications announced its support for the AES67 standard and the RAVENNA technology framework for real-time IP distribution of audio and other media content. By extending format support to include AES67/RAVENNA, the German company takes a key step forward in delivering the many benefits of standards-agnostic communications and signal-transport solutions.
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