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Elk Audio Announces Availability and Pricing for Elk LIVE Realtime Remote Collaboration Music Service
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Elk Audio Announces Availability and Pricing for Elk LIVE Realtime Remote Collaboration Music Service

Swedish startup Elk, developers of the claimed "world’s lowest latency audio OS," announced the commercial availability of its Elk LIVE real time remote collaboration music service (formerly Aloha by Elk). The system, which promises to solve the constraints still restricting live-collaboration between musicians over the Internet, is available to pre-order now, with the hardware interface scheduled to start shipping in early Q4 2021.
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MSE Audio Now Shipping SoundTube IPD-TSB2.0 STNet Dante Soundbar
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MSE Audio Now Shipping SoundTube IPD-TSB2.0 STNet Dante Soundbar

MSE Audio is now shipping its SoundTube IPD-TSB2.0 STNet Dante-enabled soundbar. Built with high-quality materials and stylish brushed metal cosmetics, this slim soundbar brings Dante audio-over-IP connectivity from end-to-end in conferencing and boardroom video installations and is interoperable with all other Dante products. This gives integrators additional flexibility when designing and installing audio systems.
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VOXX International Confirms Joint Venture Agreement With Sharp To Acquire Onkyo Home Entertainment Business
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VOXX International Confirms Joint Venture Agreement With Sharp To Acquire Onkyo Home Entertainment Business

VOXX International announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Premium Audio Company, and Sharp have successfully entered into a joint venture to acquire certain assets of the audio/video business of Onkyo Home Entertainment Corporation. This follows the Asset Purchase Agreement signed by the parties as announced on May 3, 2021. Premium Audio will own Onkyo and Integra products, IP and brands, and will market and sell the Pioneer and Pioneer Elite brands worldwide, except in China.
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Tektronix Celebrates 75 Years of Innovation in Test and Measurement
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Tektronix Celebrates 75 Years of Innovation in Test and Measurement

Famed Oregon-grown company Tektronix is celebrating 75 years. Tektronix was established in 1946 by C. Howard Vollum and Melvin J. Murdock with the creation of the world’s first time-base triggered oscilloscope. Renowned globally for its contributions to major technology breakthroughs, from the invention of color television to space exploration, Tektronix is credited as one of the most influential test and measurement companies in history.
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Ashly Audio Expands AW Series On-Wall Speaker Line with Plus Models
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Ashly Audio Expands AW Series On-Wall Speaker Line with Plus Models

Ashly Audio is enhancing its AW Series On-Wall speaker line with new Plus models that include a higher power transformer to make the solution more flexible for integrations in larger spaces. Ashly's AW Series speakers are designed to deliver improved off-axis intelligibility and generate a wider dispersion in a range of frequencies suitable for music reproduction. The new model from the Webster, New York-based company is available for order immediately.
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Cutting-Edge Speaker Innovation and Glue Joints Inside Voice Coil July 2021
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Cutting-Edge Speaker Innovation and Glue Joints Inside Voice Coil July 2021

Voice Coil July 2021 is now available and full of valuable articles. Starting with Mike Klasco's insights on glue joints and attachment techniques used in speaker design. Followed by an updated and comprehensive directory of manufacturers and suppliers of adhesives, coatings, and treatments for the speaker industry. James Croft reviews the recent Bidirectional Speaker patent awarded to Resonado Labs, and Vance Dickason places the totally unique Purifi PTT6.5X04-NFA-01 midbass driver on Test Bench, followed by Beyma's 12LEX1300Nd 12” woofer with its unique Maltcross cooling system. Now available in print and online!
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Fane Announces Expansion Into Finished Systems with New Fane Pro Audio Products
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Fane Announces Expansion Into Finished Systems with New Fane Pro Audio Products

Fane Pro Audio, the sound systems division of Fane International has stayed busy over the past twelve months and invested in the development of new products. The first results are now visible with four completely new series of professional sound reinforcement solutions, including line arrays designs and KTV speakers, all designed and manufactured in-house using both Fane and Precision Devices transducers and speaker components and targeting an expansion into Asian markets.
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SVS Announces 3000 Micro Subwoofer With Dual Opposing 8-Inch Drivers
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SVS Announces 3000 Micro Subwoofer With Dual Opposing 8-Inch Drivers

SVS has announced the 3000 Micro subwoofer which challenges existing reference designs from a compact 10-inch cabinet, able to reach 23Hz. The 300 Micro, the company says, matches the company's reference SVS 16-Ultra sub, by using dual opposing 8-inch drivers combined with the 800 watt RMS, 2,500 watt Peak Power Sledge STA-800D2 amplifier with discreet MOSFET output. The new 3000 Micro subwoofer also includes the SVS control smartphone app for advanced tuning of the Analog Devices DSP.
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StreamUnlimited Licenses Fraunhofer’s MPEG-H Audio Decoder Software and Joins the MPEG-H Trademark Program
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StreamUnlimited Licenses Fraunhofer’s MPEG-H Audio Decoder Software and Joins the MPEG-H Trademark Program

Fraunhofer IIS, the primary inventor of the MPEG-H 3D Audio standard, and StreamUnlimited, a supplier of software solutions and hardware modules for connected audio products, have announced that MPEG-H 3D Audio Baseline Profile decoders have been integrated into the StreamSDK from StreamUnlimited. The Austrian company is already offering decoder implementations supporting the MPEG-H 3D Audio Baseline Profile and has joined the MPEG-H Audio System trademark program administered by Fraunhofer.
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CEVA Expands Wireless Connectivity Options for Developers with New RivieraWaves UWB Platform
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CEVA Expands Wireless Connectivity Options for Developers with New RivieraWaves UWB Platform

CEVA unveiled its new ultra-low power RivieraWaves UWB platform IP targeting mobile, automotive, consumer and IoT applications, lowering the entry barriers for companies to include UWB in their chip designs. With this new solutions, developers are able to benefit from CEVA's combined IP offering of Bluetooth and UWB technologies for new use cases in emerging high-volume applications.
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