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Symphonic Acoustics Debuts 2X8V Ultra High-End Studio Monitors
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Symphonic Acoustics Debuts 2X8V Ultra High-End Studio Monitors

Studio monitor company Symphonic Acoustics has unveiled its new Dual 8V ultra high-end monitors. The new 2X8V is the result of a longtime design and manufacturing collaboration between Symphonic Acoustics and several industry legends, including George Augspurger, John Storyk and others. Ideally suited for mixing and monitoring across a range of genres, each pair of monitors ship with a curated selection of power and DSP options.
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Puro Sound Labs Introduces PuroPro Volume-Limiting, Hybrid Active Noise Cancelling Headphones
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Puro Sound Labs Introduces PuroPro Volume-Limiting, Hybrid Active Noise Cancelling Headphones

Puro Sound Labs, the company better know for making volume-limiting headphones for children, now introduced the PuroPro hybrid active noise cancelling headphones into the UK and US market. Like previous products from the brand, the new Bluetooth 5 wireless headphones promote Healthy Ears, protecting adult hearing by limiting the volume to the maximum safe listening level, as recommended by the WHO, OSHA, and various other international organizations.
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audioXpress September 2020 Speaker Focus Edition Is Now Available!
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audioXpress September 2020 Speaker Focus Edition Is Now Available!

Our always popular loudspeaker edition is now available online and in print! audioXpress' Speaker Builder, Speaker Focus edition covers loudspeaker building, design, and testing with a balanced amount of DIY, speaker history, theory, R&D, and manufacturing articles. Read two articles about speaker history, a review of the Magnepan LRS, explore the details of two amazing speaker builds, and learn how to do loudspeaker measurements at home. And there's much more in speaker research and development, measurement, and production!
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Arylic Introduces New Up2stream Amp 2.1 Wireless Amplifier Board
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Arylic Introduces New Up2stream Amp 2.1 Wireless Amplifier Board

Arylic, an audio electronics company specialized in the needs of both the OEM/ODM market as well as the requirements of DIY music enthusiasts, announced the availability of its Up2stream Amp 2.1 Wireless Amplifier Board. This Class D stereo amplifier board with a powerful subwoofer output is able to generate 50W+50W+100W and deliver good results from low impedance speakers. And it adds the most advanced wireless technology, with WiFi, Bluetooth 5.0, Airplay, Spotify Connect, also with DLNA and UPnP protocols for wireless control.
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Audio-Technica Launches Redesigned Website With Complete Product Catalog and Online Store
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Audio-Technica Launches Redesigned Website With Complete Product Catalog and Online Store

Audio-Technica, a leading company in transducer technology for over 50 years, announced the launch of its newly redesigned website at www.audio-technica.com. Apart from updating the website technology and improving user experience, the brand focused on updating information on Audio-Technica’s comprehensive range of microphones, headphones, turntables, cartridges and commercial audio products, offering e-commerce options, and offering specific resources for consultants, contractors and system integrators.
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Tektronix Announces Entry-Level TBS1000C Digital Storage Oscilloscope
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Tektronix Announces Entry-Level TBS1000C Digital Storage Oscilloscope

Tektronix launched the new TBS1000C Digital Storage Oscilloscope, a cost-sensitive addition to the test and measurement company’s entry portfolio and an expansion of the TBS1000 series. With an expanded range of functions, a beautiful large size color display, in a compact and light chassis, the new TBS1000C series was designed to meet the needs of today’s educational institutions, embedded design engineers and anyone who needs a solid, ready-to-use oscilloscope in its workbench.
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Mcintosh Group and Alps Alpine Join Forces in Automotive Luxury Audio Strategy
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Mcintosh Group and Alps Alpine Join Forces in Automotive Luxury Audio Strategy

McIntosh Group Inc. and Alps Alpine have teamed up to deliver transcendent, luxury audio systems to the automotive industry. This announcement also signals that the McIntosh Group is returning to the automotive industry – bringing solutions from McIntosh Labs and Sonus Faber to vehicles. The partnership means that those automotive solutions are delivered by Alps Alpine in select vehicles.
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Sony Launches New WH-1000XM4 Headphones with Next Generation Adaptive Noise Canceling
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Sony Launches New WH-1000XM4 Headphones with Next Generation Adaptive Noise Canceling

Sony Electronics announced the WH-1000XM4 – the fourth-generation noise-canceling headphones from Sony's 1000X family. The popular wireless over-ear model shows a similar design to the previous WH-1000XM3, with subtle but effective changes in materials providing longer comfort and lighter weight. But the main improvement relies on Sony's latest processing, sensors and a new Bluetooth 5 SoC, providing the WH-1000XM4 with additional smart features that personalize music, improve noise cancelation and adjust ambient sound automatically.
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Steinberg Releases New VST 3.7 Software Development Kit
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Steinberg Releases New VST 3.7 Software Development Kit

Steinberg released the company's newest iteration of the Virtual Studio Technology (VST) Software Developer Kit (SDK), offering new capabilities to developers of host applications, audio plug-ins and virtual instruments. VST 3.7 introduces several enhancements of the SDK interface that allow new levels of integrations between VST 3 hosts and plug-ins, including the new VST 3 Project Generator, improved documentation as well as support for MIDI 2.0 and the development of plug-ins compatible with the new ARM-based Apple Silicon chips.
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Dirac Live Bass Control Expands Performance of Latest AudioControl AV Receivers and Processors
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Dirac Live Bass Control Expands Performance of Latest AudioControl AV Receivers and Processors

Swedish digital audio pioneer Dirac and the team of self-proclaimed obsessed audio experts at AudioControl announced that the brand's latest line of receivers and processors will include Dirac Live Bass Control for a more immersive home theater experience in any space. The collaboration between the two companies has resulted in expanding the Dirac Live Bass Control software to the new Concert Series receivers and Maestro Series AV processors, part of AudioControl's high end home audio range.
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