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Consumer Technology Association CES 2022 Innovation Awards Audio Highlights
by Joao Martins

Consumer Technology Association CES 2022 Innovation Awards Audio Highlights

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced the CES 2022 Innovation Awards honorees, including those recognized as Best of Innovation honorees. The CES Innovation Awards is an annual initiative honoring outstanding design and engineering in consumer technology products across 27 product categories. The CES 2022 Innovation Awards program received a record-high number of over 1800 submissions. audioXpress highlights the audio-related awards.
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New Soundscape Spatial Modeling and Simulation Tool from d&b audiotechnik
by audioXpress Staff

New Soundscape Spatial Modeling and Simulation Tool from d&b audiotechnik

German audio technology and solutions company, d&b audiotechnik announced the latest addition to its powerful software toolkit - Soundscape Simulation, SPL and localization mapping within an object-based workflow. As part of d&b’s ArrayCalc simulation software, this new intuitive visualization tool, accurately models a Soundscape system’s real and perceived acoustical performance within a space.
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Spotify Expands to Audiobook Market with Acquisition of Findaway
by audioXpress Staff

Spotify Expands to Audiobook Market with Acquisition of Findaway

Spotify Technology announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Findaway, a leading digital audiobook distribution company based in Ohio. Already a strong platform for podcasting and spoken word content, Spotify wants to expand now into audiobooks, greatly increasing the perceived value for it's streaming services. Essentially an audio technology company, Findaway offers a complete audiobook creation and publishing platform.
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New Approaches to Speaker Optimization in audioXpress December 2021
by audioXpress Staff

New Approaches to Speaker Optimization in audioXpress December 2021

audioXpress December 2021 is now available. Learn how Room Correction and Speaker Calibration is influencing efforts towards the Self-Calibrating Loudspeaker, Dirac's take on Spatial Room Correction Technology, and how to Measure Directivity of In-Wall Loudspeakers. Richard Modafferi describes his unique crossover design build, Frans de Wit talks about DC Power Supplies, Morty Tarr discusses important aspects of amplifier design, and Michel Nieuwenhuizen offers an Arduino-based motor control for turntables. Start reading online or in print.
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Meridian Unveils Next Generation DSP8000 XE Digital Active Loudspeakers
by audioXpress Staff

Meridian Unveils Next Generation DSP8000 XE Digital Active Loudspeakers

Meridian Audio has launched its new flagship loudspeaker, the DSP8000 XE, announcing major advances in platform design, audio engineering and performance for the company’s DSP digital active loudspeakers. Within the familiar shape of Meridian's high-end loudspeakers, the new DSP8000 XE combines a 5mm beryllium dome with silver voice-coil tweeter plus one midrange driver, and 6 long-throw woofers, in a fully integrated design with analog balanced and digital audio inputs, plus USB (Type C) supporting up to 24-bit/384kHz.
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Sonarworks Partners with Wayne Jones Audio for SoundID Reference Integration in Studio Monitors
by Joao Martins

Sonarworks Partners with Wayne Jones Audio for SoundID Reference Integration in Studio Monitors

Sonarworks has announced that its SoundID Reference correction software will now be integrated into the highly acclaimed Jones-Scanlon Studio Monitors. The partnership with Wayne Jones Audio, an Australian manufacturer of bass guitar speaker cabinets and high-end studio monitors, allowed the first direct integration of the calibration software to run straight from the monitor's built-in DSP SHARC processors. SoundID Reference (Reference 4 software), will now be integrated into select Wayne Jones Audio monitors.
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Knowles Celebrates 75 Years of Voice and Audio Technology Integration
by audioXpress Staff

Knowles Celebrates 75 Years of Voice and Audio Technology Integration

Knowles Corporation is celebrating the company's 75th anniversary. Knowles pioneered many industry-firsts including balanced armature drivers for the first hearing aids in 1954, and the first MEMS microphones used in everything from the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover to the latest true wireless earbuds. Today, Knowles products and solutions are in cell phones, laptops, wearables, smart speakers, or any device with voice control. And Knowles leverages its 75 years of success and expertise to expand in audio processing, the smart home or automotive applications.
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Eventide Refines Audio Equalization Possibilities with SplitEQ
by audioXpress Staff

Eventide Refines Audio Equalization Possibilities with SplitEQ

Eventide has released SplitEQ, an advanced equalization plug-in featuring a new Structural Split patented technology. At first glance, it’s a parametric EQ with 8-bands of filters, but the Structural Split engine divides the incoming audio into separate Transient and Tonal streams that feed the 8 bands. This approach makes common EQ problems easy to solve — even in a complex mix.
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Flexound Augmented Audio Appoints Isak Olevic as Chief Executive Officer
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Flexound Augmented Audio Appoints Isak Olevic as Chief Executive Officer

Flexound Augmented Audio, the innovative haptics audio company from Finland, appointed Isak Olevic as the new CEO. Olevic, an experienced automotive and audio business executive, comes from Sweden and has a vast executive experience at Volvo, Harman International, and Ericsson. He will assume responsibilities for Flexound on January 1, 2022, succeeding Flexound co-founder Mervi Heinaro, who was recently appointed as the Deputy Mayor of the City of Espoo, Finland. Mervi remains a partner in the company as well as a member of the Advisory Board.
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Audix Shoots for New Gold Standard with A231 Studio Vocal Microphone
by audioXpress Staff

Audix Shoots for New Gold Standard with A231 Studio Vocal Microphone

Audix is executing the most ambitious product catalog expansion in its history. The Wilsonville, OR-based company announced its latest large-diaphragm studio vocal microphone, the A231, which is set to establish a new standard for capturing the human voice. Sporting the distinctive gold-plated brass band made famous on the its renowned SCX25A instrument microphone, the new A231 was designed to open up new creative possibilities in the realm of lead and backing vocals, spoken word and voiceover applications, as well as acoustic instrument miking.
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