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Deezer Creates HiFi Room to Promote FLAC Streaming Quality
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Deezer Creates HiFi Room to Promote FLAC Streaming Quality

Music streaming platform Deezer announced a new curated section, with curated playlists and albums just for high fidelity fans. The new HiFi Room on Deezer features hand-picked tracks to draw out the rich sounds streaming in lossless FLAC quality. The company says it currently offers more than 52 million files encoded on FLAC on the platform, and it made sense to offer a curated selection for its premium subscribers to easily find this content in one place, now offering more than 15 exclusive playlists, album recommendations and reissues (remasters).
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L-Acoustics and Jerry Harvey Unveil Contour XO Limited-Edition In-Ear Monitors
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L-Acoustics and Jerry Harvey Unveil Contour XO Limited-Edition In-Ear Monitors

French touring market leader L-Acoustics continues its brand diversification and marketing efforts now getting into the vibrant and fast growing In-Ear Monitor (IEM) market, that serves musicians, sound engineers and stage technicians, while also catering for the personal audio diehards and music enthusiasts. To turn this highly synergetic concept a reality, L-Acoustics reached out to IEM pioneer Jerry Harvey and its brand JH Audio, long serving musicians and the live performance industry.
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PMC Opens New Factory To Meet Demand For Custom Installation Products
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PMC Opens New Factory To Meet Demand For Custom Installation Products

Acclaimed British loudspeaker manufacturer PMC has opened a new factory in Bedfordshire, UK, to cope with burgeoning demand for its expanding Custom Installation (CI) Monitor series. Since launching in September 2019, PMC's CI monitors have proved hugely popular with the installation market where they are answering the demand for delivering Hollywood studio audio quality. The British manufacturer is also expanding its staff resources to support this expansion.
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inMusic Brands Expands Market Reach with Acquisition of ArKaos
by Joao Martins

inMusic Brands Expands Market Reach with Acquisition of ArKaos

Florida-based inMusic Brands, the music technology hardware and software company founded by Jack O'Donnell, which already owns some of the most powerful brands in the DJ, Music Production and Musical Instrument industries, announced the acquisition of Belgium company ArKaos, the world's reference in VJ software and the pioneer in combining light, video and LED in a single visual server and control software solution. ArKaos is also the company who introduced the Kling-Net protocol, a global de-fact standard for lighting control and Remote Device Management (RDM).
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Qualcomm Announces New Modular Immersive Home Platform for Next-Generation Wi-Fi 6E Mesh Wi-Fi Networks
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Qualcomm Announces New Modular Immersive Home Platform for Next-Generation Wi-Fi 6E Mesh Wi-Fi Networks

Qualcomm Technologies unveiled the Qualcomm Immersive Home Platforms, a successor to the company’s pioneering mesh networking solutions which are currently present in all modern Wi-Fi 6 Mesh routers. The new Qualcomm modular chip architecture is intended to power high-performance, cost-effective Wi-Fi 6E mesh deployments, designed to deliver wireless Gigabit speeds throughout the connected home, benefiting from the latest 6GHz technology introduced earlier in 2020.
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Enclave Audio CineHome Are First Roku TV Ready Certified Wireless 5.1 Surround Sound Systems
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Enclave Audio CineHome Are First Roku TV Ready Certified Wireless 5.1 Surround Sound Systems

Both CineHome systems from Enclave Audio - the CineHome II and the THX Certified CineHome PRO - are now the first Roku TV Ready certified wireless 5.1 channel surround solutions. Available now in the U.S. market, these speaker systems from Enclave Audio will promote an easier way for consumers to enjoy surround sound with all the convenience of wireless, simple installation, and robust, high resolution, low latency audio delivered by the Wireless Speaker and Audio Association (WiSA) technology.
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Bose Unveils New L1 Pro Portable Line Array Family Filling Both Backstage and Sound Reinforcement Duties
by Joao Martins

Bose Unveils New L1 Pro Portable Line Array Family Filling Both Backstage and Sound Reinforcement Duties

Bose Professional introduced the Bose L1 Pro portable line array systems, the next-level advancement of a PA category invented by Bose 17 years ago with the release of the original L1. The fourth refresh in this original Bose concept that inspired countless similar products without never really achieving much success, now introduces three refined Bose Portable PA solutions with many enhancements, including much better vertical speaker arrays, wireless mixer control and a new space-saving modular RaceTrack design.
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Merging Technologies Introduces New MAD ASIO Driver for Windows With Enhanced Network Infrastructure Features
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Merging Technologies Introduces New MAD ASIO Driver for Windows With Enhanced Network Infrastructure Features

Merging Technologies has gained a justifiable reputation for supplying enabling tools for AES67/Ravenna AoIP networks that have more recently been incorporated into the ST2110 standards. The freeware CoreAudio VAD has been downloaded thousands of times and the Linux ALSA driver has found favor with a number of OEMs. Meanwhile, the ASIO driver supplied with Merging interfaces was beginning to show its age and lacked some key features. In response, Merging introduced a new Merging Audio Device (MAD) driver, which totally redefines possibilities and introduces a new enhanced MAD Infrastructure option.
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Shure Introduces MV7 Hybrid XLR/USB Microphone for Recording and Streaming
by Joao Martins

Shure Introduces MV7 Hybrid XLR/USB Microphone for Recording and Streaming

Inspired by the Shure SM7B, which quickly became an icon among many musicians, podcasters and creatives forced to work from home, the new Shure MV7 is a dynamic microphone with both USB and XLR outputs for use with computers and professional interfaces alike. Basically, the MV7 expands on the famous cardioid studio microphone with software features. Users can connect via USB and explore additional set-up features and Auto Level Mode within the complementary ShurePlus MOTIV app, which allows controlling vocal tone, and distance-effect from the microphone.
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Orchard Audio Announces PecanPi Streamer Ultra With Touchscreen
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Orchard Audio Announces PecanPi Streamer Ultra With Touchscreen

Following the successful launch of the original PecanPi Streamer and Streamer USB, which was quickly followed with the Starkrimson (formerly BOSC) monoblock GaN-based amps, New Jersey-based Orchard Audio is now promoting the launch of PecanPi Streamer Ultra. The Ultra builds upon the affordable and highly reviewed PecanPi Streamer by adding a 5” touchscreen, built-in RCA connectors, and moving all of the connections to the back of the device.
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