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Dutch Speaker Company Mayht Receives Investment from Swedish Solar Cell Company Exeger
by Joao Martins

Dutch Speaker Company Mayht Receives Investment from Swedish Solar Cell Company Exeger

Swedish company Exeger - the company behind the Powerfoyle solar cell material already powering self-charging consumer electronic devices - venture capital firm Forward.One, and music producer and DJ Martin Garrix, have led the latest funding round of investment in the innovative Dutch audio-tech start-up, Mayht. The Series A follow-on round takes investment in the firm to nearly USD $10 million so far.
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Schiit Audio Announces Loki Max High-End, Remote-Controlled Equalizer
by Joao Martins

Schiit Audio Announces Loki Max High-End, Remote-Controlled Equalizer

Listen to music as you (not the artist) intended. Schiit Audio announced the availability of Loki Max, a 6-band equalizer designed to meet the needs of the highest-end systems. Featuring remote control with relay potentiometers, a pure inductor-capacitor topology, and a fully discrete design with high voltage power supply, Loki Max was designed to be one of the best home listening EQs, ever - available at schiit.com for $1499.
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Austrian Audio Launches Hi-X60 Professional Headphones for Loud Listening Environments
by audioXpress Staff

Austrian Audio Launches Hi-X60 Professional Headphones for Loud Listening Environments

Austrian Audio has extended its existing Hi-X6 headphone range with the new Hi-X60 model. The Hi-X60 headphones are professional, closed-back reference over-ears designed for recording, music production, and studio, ideally suited for use in loud environments like front-of-house mixing positions where the high passive-noise suppression ensures an optimum signal-to-noise ratio creating an accurate and hearing-friendly sonic environment.
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Meridian Audio Signals 10 Years of Partnership With Range Rover
by audioXpress Staff

Meridian Audio Signals 10 Years of Partnership With Range Rover

For the past 10 years, Meridian Audio designed the audio systems for Range Rover vehicles. The brand-new 2022 Range Rover delivers peerless refinement and luxury, featuring 3 new levels of audio performance from Meridian plus a unique Tailgate Event Suite for musical enjoyment outside the vehicle. The 3 Meridian audio systems offered in the new Range Rovers are the Meridian Signature System, Meridian 3D Surround Sound and Meridian Sound System.
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Sennheiser Launches HD 400 PRO Reference-Grade Studio Headphones
by audioXpress Staff

Sennheiser Launches HD 400 PRO Reference-Grade Studio Headphones

At a time when virtually all audio companies are offering headphones for use at home or in the studio, mostly without distinctive features, Sennheiser correctly decided to look at its own portfolio full of original designs and excellent drivers. Seemingly inspired by the highly awarded Sennheiser HD 560S reference headphones, the German specialist launched the new HD 400 PRO dynamic, open studio professional headphones for mixing, editing, and mastering.
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Questyle Audio Engineering Releases CMA Fifteen Current Mode Amplification Headphone Amp and DAC
by Joao Martins

Questyle Audio Engineering Releases CMA Fifteen Current Mode Amplification Headphone Amp and DAC

Questyle Audio Engineering, the innovative company who first transitioned the concept of current amplification from video to audio fifteen years ago via Current Mode Amplification, is commemorating the engineering achievement with the release of their evolution flagship product, the CMA Fifteen. This new headphone amplifier and DAC is the result of 3 years of research, leading Questyle to select the flagship ESS ES9038PRO, DAC, enabling the CMA Fifteen to support 32-bit/768KHz and DSD512 formats.
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STMicroelectronics Upgrades NanoEdge AI Studio to Streamline Machine-Learning Software Development for Connected Devices
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STMicroelectronics Upgrades NanoEdge AI Studio to Streamline Machine-Learning Software Development for Connected Devices

Global semiconductor powerhouse STMicroelectronics announced the availability of Version 3 of NanoEdge AI Studio, the first major upgrade of this software tool for machine-learning applications that ST acquired with Cartesiam earlier this year. The updates introduce new algorithms, better support for sensor data acquisition and management using an ST development board, and an enhanced user interface to make machine-learning implementation easier for embedded developers with no data-science skills.
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Audio Precision Releases APx v7.0 Audio Measurement Software and Introduces New Subscription Model
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Audio Precision Releases APx v7.0 Audio Measurement Software and Introduces New Subscription Model

Audio Precision released the latest update to its APx500 audio measurement software, version 7.0, adding new enhancements suited to a wide range of audio test applications, whether analog, digital, or acoustic. In parallel with release 7.0, Audio Precision is also introducing APx500 software subscriptions, offering APx users an alternative in how they license APx software, and access nearly any software version and option.
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GRAS Sound & Vibration Launches SysCheck2 Intelligent Acoustic Sensor System with Built-in Self-verification
by audioXpress Staff

GRAS Sound & Vibration Launches SysCheck2 Intelligent Acoustic Sensor System with Built-in Self-verification

Danish measurement microphone specialists GRAS Sound & Vibration, now a part of Axiometrix Solutions, announced two new microphones with SysCheck2 functionality allowing for remote-controlled health check of an entire measurement chain. The new microphones are the GRAS 246AE 1/2" CCP Free-field Standard SysCheck2 Microphone Set, and the GRAS 246AO 1/2" CCP Pressure Standard SysCheck2 Microphone Set, both featuring self-verification.
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xMEMS Announces Tomales MEMS Tweeter for Smart Glasses and Extended Reality Headset Applications
by Joao Martins

xMEMS Announces Tomales MEMS Tweeter for Smart Glasses and Extended Reality Headset Applications

xMEMS Labs introduced Tomales, a new monolithic, 1mm-thin profile MEMS tweeter µspeaker, available with top and side-firing package options that simplify speaker placement and positioning to direct audio toward the ear in smart glasses and augmented/extended reality headset applications. This new MEMS driver, which uses the company second generation M2 speaker cell architecture, has an IP58 rating for dust/water that simplifies system integration in these designs.
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