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Allen & Heath Announces New CQ Series Digital Mixers Without Faders
by Joao Martins

Allen & Heath Announces New CQ Series Digital Mixers Without Faders

Allen & Heath is one of the manufacturers with the largest number of digital mixer series and models, for all sizes and possibilities. Now, the British company announced its new CQ Series mixers, targeting simpler applications, where control is totally done on built-in touch screens or through a remote app for iPad. The CQ series includes the compact CQ-12T 12 inputs to 8 outputs digital mixer, the CQ-18T with 18/18 channels and built-in dual band Wi-Fi, and the CQ-20B 20in/8out digital mixer with Wi-Fi but no touch-screen, depending completely of the CQ MixPad remote app.
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Bang & Olufsen Launches The Ferrari Collection
by audioXpress Staff

Bang & Olufsen Launches The Ferrari Collection

As anticipated, Bang & Olufsen unveiled a new collection with motorsport pioneers Ferrari. The collection champions Bang & Olufsen's excellence in aluminum material and celebrates the two brands' shared passion for poise, power, and precision by reimagining a series of headphones and speakers: the Beosound 2 home speaker, Beoplay H95 headphones, Beoplay EX earphones and the portable speaker Beosound Explore. All are red and features the Ferrari brand signature.
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Crestron Updates Home OS 4 Control Platform and Launches New DM NAX Audio-over-IP Products
by Joao Martins

Crestron Updates Home OS 4 Control Platform and Launches New DM NAX Audio-over-IP Products

Crestron Electronics announced Crestron Home OS 4 will debut at CEDIA Expo 2023 reinforcing the company's position in the global home automation market. The updated platform refines the smart home experience, showcasing a new look and feel with further personalization. Crestron Home OS 4 includes the ability for dealers to add almost any third-party lighting device to the system, and allows homeowners to do more without the need to call for assistance. Crestron is also introducing new DM NAX AoIP devices, including its first GaN multizone amplifier and more useful audio peripherals.
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StormAudio to Promote Fully AES67 Audio-over-IP (AoIP) Home-Theater Demonstration at CEDIA Expo 2023
by Joao Martins

StormAudio to Promote Fully AES67 Audio-over-IP (AoIP) Home-Theater Demonstration at CEDIA Expo 2023

StormAudio is inviting all attendees to an historical moment for the company at CEDIA Expo 2023. StormAudio will debut a complete immersive multichannel installation connected using the AES67 Audio-over-IP (AoIP) standard and using exclusively digital signals throughout. With six different demonstrations at the Denver show, StormAudio will also be updating its range of immersive sound processors with demonstrations of the latest receiver Fusion 20 and the ISP Evo sound processor.
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MediaTek Enhances On-Device Generative AI Processing
by Cristina Costa

MediaTek Enhances On-Device Generative AI Processing

MediaTek is already powering more than two billion connected edge devices every year and now the company confirmed that it is working closely with Meta's Llama 2 next-generation open-source Large Language Model (LLM). Combining this recently announced LLM with its latest APUs and NeuroPilot AI Platform, MediaTek aims to build a complete edge computing ecosystem designed to accelerate AI application development on smartphones, consumer connected devices, vehicles, smart home, etc.
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USound and Luxshare-ICT Deliver Dual-Driver Audio Module for TWS
by Joao Martins

USound and Luxshare-ICT Deliver Dual-Driver Audio Module for TWS

Luxshare-ICT, one of the largest manufacturers and supplier for global consumer electronics brands, and Austrian MEMS pioneer USound have developed Gemini, an innovative hybrid audio module that offers numerous advantages through its 2-way audio technology combining a MEMS and a dynamic driver coaxially aligned. The solution not only enhances sound quality but allows effective active noise cancellation (ANC) applications with MEMS drivers.
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Mackie Debuts Firmware Update With NDI and Multi Language Support for DLZ Creator All-in-One Podcast Mixer
by audioXpress Staff

Mackie Debuts Firmware Update With NDI and Multi Language Support for DLZ Creator All-in-One Podcast Mixer

Timed with IFA 2023, Mackie announced multi-language support for its DLZ Creator, the company's recently launched all-in-one podcasting and streaming audio solution for content creators of any experience level. The new 1.1 firmware update introduces support for the increasingly popular NDI networking protocol over Ethernet, and includes a localized user interface in English (default), Chinese (simplified Mandarin), Japanese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
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Sony Interactive Entertainment to Acquire Audeze and Launch New Lossless Wireless Audio Products
by Joao Martins

Sony Interactive Entertainment to Acquire Audeze and Launch New Lossless Wireless Audio Products

Sony Interactive Entertainment - the Sony division responsible for the PlayStation products - announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Audeze, the renowned planar magnetic headphone manufacturer, which has been increasingly also recognized in the high-end gaming headphones space. Sony also announced its latest PlayStation Portal device which connects to new wireless earbuds, and also the new Pulse Elite headset, which uses planar magnetic drivers from Audeze - all launching later in 2023 using a new proprietary wireless lossless audio technology developed by Sony.
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SB Acoustics New 7.5" MT19CP-8 Satori Coaxial Driver Expands High Quality Options for Speaker Designers
by Joao Martins

SB Acoustics New 7.5" MT19CP-8 Satori Coaxial Driver Expands High Quality Options for Speaker Designers

The latest product in the growing SB Acoustics Satori high quality transducer range is the 7.5" Satori MT19CP-8 coaxial driver featuring an Egyptian papyrus fiber cone developed and perfected in its own cone/spider facility in Indonesia, matched with a dedicated 26mm high performance soft dome tweeter. A well-engineered driver for refined home audio designs that leverages on the extensive R&D that already characterizes the Satori speaker driver range.
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Volt Introduces 10" Radial Triple Suspension Midbass Driver
by Joao Martins

Volt Introduces 10" Radial Triple Suspension Midbass Driver

British OEM speaker manufacturer Volt Loudspeakers launched the new RV2501 Radial Midbass driver, its first 10" Radial model, designed to deliver into applications that need consistent performance with its larger counterparts. With 91dB/W/m sensitivity, a frequency response between 30Hz to 800Hz at 8 Ohms - which enables its use well into the midbass range - and rated for 250 watts AES power, the new RV2501 not only expands the Volt range for monitoring solutions in smaller studios, it could also find its way into home hi-fi designs.
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