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L-Acoustics Expands L-ISA Immersive Audio Demonstration and Production Centers Globally
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L-Acoustics Expands L-ISA Immersive Audio Demonstration and Production Centers Globally

Recognizing that immersive audio technology is in ever-increasing demand, L-Acoustics is rolling out L-ISA Auditoria in strategic locations around the globe. Demonstrations, training or mixing sessions of L-ISA Immersive Hyperreal Sound technology are now available in dozens of locations in L-ISA Auditoria designed to stringent L-Acoustics specifications. Content pre-production is among the key services available at this locations.
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DiGiCo Introduces New Dante AoIP Wall and Stage I/O Racks
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DiGiCo Introduces New Dante AoIP Wall and Stage I/O Racks

DiGiCo announced two new I/O Racks, the A164D Wall LCD and A168D Stage, for its acclaimed 4REA4 processing engine for networked audio in installations. Both Racks bring all the connectivity of the original A164 Wall LCD and A168 Stage, but with the additional advantage of Dante connectivity. The two new solutions are center pieces at the company's booth during ISE 2020 in Amsterdam, highlighting the importance of open connectivity and IP solutions in the installation market.
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Scan-Speak Expands Product Catalog with New Revelator Dome Tweeter and Classic Midwoofer
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Scan-Speak Expands Product Catalog with New Revelator Dome Tweeter and Classic Midwoofer

Scan-Speak announced two new drivers, each one strategically filling a gap in one of the brand's driver families. On the higher frequency range, Scans-Speak launched the Revelator 19 mm Dome Tweeter, D2104/712000, featuring the company's patented Symmetrical Drive (SD-2) motor, with a neodymium ring magnet system with double vent and coated textile diaphragm. The other driver is a brand new 15 cm midwoofer, the 15W/8534T00, expanding the established Classic line.
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Fraunhofer Software Helps Power Immersive Music Services for Amazon Echo Studio Smart Speaker
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Fraunhofer Software Helps Power Immersive Music Services for Amazon Echo Studio Smart Speaker

Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, the inventor of mp3 and primary developer of AAC, MPEG-H Audio and other MPEG standard audio codecs, revealed that Amazon has become an important music-centric licensee of its MPEG-H audio decoder software, included in the new Echo Studio. MPEG-H is the audio scheme used for new immersive music services including those based on the Sony 360 Reality Audio format.
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RCF Introduces Business Music Installation Series at ISE 2020
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RCF Introduces Business Music Installation Series at ISE 2020

RCF announced an expansion of its audio installation solutions catalog to be unveiled at Integrated Systems Europe. The new new RCF Business Music line was designed to assist the architect and installer with a new application-focused series of high-quality products, including new speaker designs and innovative new integrated mixer amplifiers with built-in DSP, combining the latest RCF technologies and designs for Commercial Audio systems.
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Brüel & Kjær Launches New Tabletop HATS Type 5128-B Head
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Brüel & Kjær Launches New Tabletop HATS Type 5128-B Head

Brüel & Kjær Sound & Vibration Measurement A/S has released a new HATS for speech and sound testing, allowing accurate high-frequency testing at desks or in small anechoic chambers where space is limited. This is a solution that will interest all serious headphone reviewers and companies dealing with large volumes of headphones to compare, mainly requiring only the head section of the simulator, but still requiring reliable measurements and operational compliance.
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Audinate Confirms Dante AV Product Design Suite for Dante AV Available to Manufacturers
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Audinate Confirms Dante AV Product Design Suite for Dante AV Available to Manufacturers

Audinate, the company behind the industry-leading Dante audio networking technology, announced that the new Dante AV Product Design Suite (“Dante AV PDS”), a complete development kit solution, will be shipping in Q1 2020 to manufacturers who have ordered. This will allow even more companies to develop new AV-over-IP products that employ Dante AV technology, which combines a video signal with uncompressed Dante audio.
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Eminence New N314X-8 Compression Driver Leads the Way with Textreme Diaphragm
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Eminence New N314X-8 Compression Driver Leads the Way with Textreme Diaphragm

Recently, Eminence announced that it had already successfully implemented and tested a new compression driver using the new thin ply carbon diaphragm from Textreme. The announcement of the new Eminence N314X-8 Compression Driver confirms that the Kentucky company is now ready to offer the world's first driver using the new lighter diaphragm material, promising "goosebumps" for those who have the opportunity to listen to the the latest in high frequency driver technology.
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Registration for Klippel's Sound Quality of Audio Systems 2020 Lecture Is Now Open!
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Registration for Klippel's Sound Quality of Audio Systems 2020 Lecture Is Now Open!

Sound Quality of Audio Systems: Modeling, Measurement & Control, is the title for the 2020 edition of the lecture presented by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Klippel. Already an annual tradition, this three-day event combines both theory and practice, and will take place March 9-11, 2020, at the Technical University Dresden, in Germany. Registrations for the lecture are now open for a fee for general admission, and are free for students.
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L-Acoustics Introduces New Immersive Island Prestige Experience at ISE 2020
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L-Acoustics Introduces New Immersive Island Prestige Experience at ISE 2020

L-Acoustics Creations, a division of L-Acoustics, announced the introduction of Island Prestige, a new "sound space" solution for luxury residential and architectural installations at ISE 2020. This is a completely self-contained, personal auditorium, that L-Acoustics describes as a new high-performance and versatile approach to media room design. The French company also believes the concept will encourage home integrators to deliver the ultimate audio experience as part of their projects.
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