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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Behringer X Air Series Takes Stage Box Format Mixers Mainstream
by Joao Martins

Behringer X Air Series Takes Stage Box Format Mixers Mainstream

We’ve recently seen a series of announcements from Mackie and PreSonus introducing digital stage box format mixers - basically replacing the physical control surfaces with iPads and wireless control. In a way, challenging the tremendous success of the very affordable but extremely powerful Behringer X32 digital console family. In response, Behringer now announced its own X Air Series stage box format mixers.
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Genelec Expands Smart Active Monitoring Range with 8320 and 8330 Monitors and 7350 Subwoofer
by audioXpress Staff

Genelec Expands Smart Active Monitoring Range with 8320 and 8330 Monitors and 7350 Subwoofer

Gradually, Genelec has updated his monitor series with Smart Active Monitoring (SAM) auto-calibrating systems. Along with the advanced concept recently introduced in the new 8351 Acoustically Coaxial Smart Active Monitor, at the recent 137th AES convention, Genelec also introduced the new 8320 and 8330 compact monitors and a SAM subwoofer, 7350.
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MOTU Expands AVB Interface Range with 24-Channel Units
by Joao Martins

MOTU Expands AVB Interface Range with 24-Channel Units

In July 2014, Mark of The Unicorn (MOTU) surprised the industry announcing a range of USB/Thunderbolt audio interfaces complemented with Audio Video Bridging (IEEE 802.1 AVB) network technology. Since AVB requires the use of dedicated (AVB-certified) routers and switchers, MOTU also announced its own AVB Switch. Now, MOTU reinforced the range with two new AVB 24-channel interfaces.
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    Dante PCIe Now Includes Thunderbolt Expansion Support
    by Joao Martins

    Dante PCIe Now Includes Thunderbolt Expansion Support

    Audinate has released its latest firmware update for the Dante PCIe soundcard. Version 3.7.1 delivers a range of new features, including audio signal presence indicators, latency statistics monitoring and packet error detection. In addition, the Dante PCIe high performance soundcard may now be used with several popular Thunderbolt expansion chassis from Magma, Sonnet Technologies and OWC.
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    NimbX SoGo Mini Speaker Portable Speaker with RGB Lights
    by audioXpress Staff

    NimbX SoGo Mini Speaker Portable Speaker with RGB Lights

    NimbX Technology is currently promoting its new customizable Bluetooth portable speaker concept, with built-in RGB lights and Bone Conductive Technology - using surface vibration to increase volume and bass. The SoGo Mini also features a customizable app to control volume, the RGB lights and other functions. NimbX is currently looking to fund the SoGo Mini on Kickstarter.
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    Burl Audio Promotes Studio Integration With Dante
    by Joao Martins

    Burl Audio Promotes Studio Integration With Dante

    At the 137th AES Convention in Los Angeles, Burl Audio announced Dante connectivity for its range of converter products, the B2 Bomber ADC, B2 Bomber DAC and the B80 Mothership modular system. The Santa Cruz, CA company, known for its high-quality converter design has adopted Audinate’s audio-over-IP format, allowing for any number of interfaces and computers to speak to one another on a standard network and route digital audio to allow true multiroom integration.
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    Yamaha’s Vocaloid Brings Back a Singing Voice from the Past
    by audioXpress Staff

    Yamaha’s Vocaloid Brings Back a Singing Voice from the Past

    Yamaha re-created the singing voice of deceased Japanese musician “hide” (Hideto Matsumoto) using its unique singing voice synthesizer technology Vocaloid to complete unrecorded and unreleased songs. Analyzing in detail the massive amount of digital vocal data that the Japanese singer recorded during his lifetime, Yamaha was able to re-create his voice using Vocaloid technology.
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    Skyworks Introduces High-Fidelity Solutions for Streaming Music Platforms at Bose and Sonos
    by audioXpress Staff

    Skyworks Introduces High-Fidelity Solutions for Streaming Music Platforms at Bose and Sonos

    Ramping in volume production across all key customers, Skyworks Solutions recently introduced a new generation of highly advanced front-end solutions for 802.11 wireless audio applications. The semiconductor company confirms increasing demand from OEM’s, including industry leaders in the streaming music platforms such as Bose and Sonos.
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    Micro Electronic-Acoustics Component Market (Global & China)
    by audioXpress Staff

    Micro Electronic-Acoustics Component Market (Global & China)

    A new analysis for 2014 titled “The Global and China Micro Electronic-Acoustics Component Industry Report, 2013-2014” was published in October 2014 by Research in China and shows that the earphone and headphone categories have been the main growth areas since the second half of 2013. The 95 pages report provides the most recent data and information on the micro electronic-acoustics industry, detailing profiles of 21 micro electronic-acoustics manufacturers.
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    Alcons Introduces CRS12 High-Output Pro-Ribbon Surround Loudspeaker
    by audioXpress Staff

    Alcons Introduces CRS12 High-Output Pro-Ribbon Surround Loudspeaker

    Dutch company Alcons Audio develops and manufactures high-quality professional sound systems for cinema, installation and the touring industry leveraging its proprietary high-power ribbon technology. Expanding its extensive range of cinema sound solutions in response to immersive surround sound formats, Alcon’s just introduced the new CRS12GT 2-way passive-filtered loudspeaker.
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