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Allen & Heath Announces New Avantis 96kHz Digital Mixing Console for Touring and Live Events
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Allen & Heath Announces New Avantis 96kHz Digital Mixing Console for Touring and Live Events

Allen & Heath has revealed a new stunning new mixing console design. Avantis is the third model to be based on the company's XCVI FPGA engine, allowing 96kHz operation and puts this next-generation technology available across all its 64 channels and 42 configurable busses, with twin Full HD touchscreens, extensive I/O options and processing from the company's flagship dLive mixing system. The new console is also designed with a surprisingly robust all-metal structure inspired by tubular exo skeletons of super-bikes!
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NXP Announces New Dual-Core Arm Cortex-M Based GHz Crossover Microcontroller for Advanced Machine Learning Applications
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NXP Announces New Dual-Core Arm Cortex-M Based GHz Crossover Microcontroller for Advanced Machine Learning Applications

NXP Semiconductors announced the i.MX RT1170 family of crossover MCUs that combines unprecedented levels of performance, reliability, and integration to propel industrial, automotive and consumer machine learning applications. The NXP i.MX RT1170 family reinforces NXP’s commitment to advance edge computing with its EdgeVerse portfolio of solutions and marks a technology breakthrough with MCUs that run up to 1GHz while maintaining low-power efficiency.
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HIFIMAN Electronics Now Shipping ANANDA-BT High-Resolution Bluetooth Headphones
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HIFIMAN Electronics Now Shipping ANANDA-BT High-Resolution Bluetooth Headphones

HIFIMAN is a brand revered for its high end planar magnetic and electrostatic headphone solutions. Recently, the company surprised us with the announcement of a TWS model, and now the company confirmed that is now shipping a new wireless version of its acclaimed Ananda open-back planar headphones, an attempt to create a high fidelity personal audio solution that translates the highest possible quality from high resolution audio sources, wired and wireless.
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iZotope Releases Ozone 9 Mastering Software with Improved Machine Learning Features
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iZotope Releases Ozone 9 Mastering Software with Improved Machine Learning Features

iZotope launched Ozone 9, the company's flagship mastering solution. Building on a seventeen year legacy in audio mastering, Ozone 9 reinforces the tool's processing abilities with never-before seen low end algorithms, new real-time instrument separation, and lightning-fast workflows powered by machine learning. Ozone 9 also introduces Native Instruments NKS support, and is faster and easier to use, with a modernized resizable interface, fluid metering, and an expanded module chain.
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TDK Announces Availability of the Chirp SmartSonic Platform Family of MEMS-based Ultrasonic ToF Sensors
by Cristina Costa

TDK Announces Availability of the Chirp SmartSonic Platform Family of MEMS-based Ultrasonic ToF Sensors

Following its acquisition of Chirp Microsystems in February 2018, TDK Corporation now announced the immediate availability of the latest Chirp SmartSonic platform family of ultrasonic sensor time-of-flight (ToF) solutions. The SmartSonic platform is currently available with the Chirp CH-101, an ultra-low power ultrasonic ToF range sensor that provides millimeter-accurate range measurements up to 1.2m, independent of target color and transparency.
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Chirp and Linkplay Partner To Create Audio-Based Connectivity Solutions for Consumer Products
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Chirp and Linkplay Partner To Create Audio-Based Connectivity Solutions for Consumer Products

Combining the capabilities of embedded data-over-sound with Wi-Fi audio technology, Chirp and Linkplay Technology have delivered a software-defined connectivity solution which removes any device set up, pairing or configuration requirements. Leveraging Chirp’s ultrasonic audio protocol, smart-enabled devices integrated with Linkplay’s Wi-Fi Audio modules enables seamless, secure network provisioning for consumer applications in close proximity, without the need for additional hardware.
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Pascal Announces U-A1 Extension Modules for Studio Monitor Designs
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Pascal Announces U-A1 Extension Modules for Studio Monitor Designs

Pascal announced availability of its latest U-A1 and U-A1D amplifier extension modules , which complement the company’s solutions offering to include 3-way studio monitor designs, augmenting its U-PRO series modules to provide an additional HF channel power option. The U-A1 and U-A1D are single channel amplifier modules without Switch Mode Power Supplies, directly interfacing with U-PRO series modules (from which they draw mains power) to offer 3-channel amplification configurations.
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Soundcore Unveils True Wireless Earbuds with New Coaxial Driver Design
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Soundcore Unveils True Wireless Earbuds with New Coaxial Driver Design

Soundcore, Anker Innovations’ premium audio brand, recently announced the Liberty 2 Pro, the flagship model in its next generation Liberty true wireless lineup, which includes five other different products targeting different usage profiles. The Liberty 2 Pro earbuds will appeal directly to users looking for the best possible audio quality, and are based on a first-of-its-kind coaxial driver design, where Soundcore’s engineers successfully marry a custom-tuned balanced armature (BA) driver from Knowles with an oversized 11mm dome dynamic driver.
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From 1975 to a New Benchmark with the Luxman CL-1000 Tube Control Amplifier
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From 1975 to a New Benchmark with the Luxman CL-1000 Tube Control Amplifier

Luxman’s new flagship control amplifier, the CL-1000 is the spiritual heir to the legendary C-1000, launched in 1975. Yet even as it salutes the past, the new preamp looks forward with an all-new LECUTA volume control system, a nanocrystal core transformer, Luxman’s proprietary oil-impregnated capacitors and more. “The CL-1000 represents everything Luxman knows about vacuum tube audio,” says Jeff Sigmund, president of Luxman America. “It’s not just our newest preamp, it’s our new benchmark.”
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M-Audio Announces High-Performance Air Series USB-C Audio Interfaces
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M-Audio Announces High-Performance Air Series USB-C Audio Interfaces

M-Audio announced the introduction of its new AIR Series USB-C audio interfaces, designed to provide affordable options to music producers, composers and musicians the ability to work in 24-bit/192kHz studio-quality computer-based recordings with an intuitive, easy-to-use interface. With a range of five models, all the interfaces feature M-Audio’s exclusive Crystal microphone preamps and are complemented with a powerful software bundle, which includes Pro Tools First M-Audio Edition.
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