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Eclipse Audio Updates FIR Designer and Adds Support for AFMG, Storm Audio, LabGruppen IPX and Audio Weaver
by audioXpress Staff

Eclipse Audio Updates FIR Designer and Adds Support for AFMG, Storm Audio, LabGruppen IPX and Audio Weaver

Eclipse Audio continues to expand its partnerships and software, allowing the use of FIR filtering in DSP-driven loudspeakers, for loudspeaker design, live tuning, and system integration. The company founded by Michael John in 2016 now announced that its FIR Designer M (multichannel) software now has capabilities to build up to 6-way presets. Like the single channel FIR Designer, FIR Designer M now also added new branded IIR modes and expanded support with more DSP tools.
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Global Sources 2024 Hong Kong Shows With Record Number of Exhibitors and Less Visitors
by audioXpress Staff

Global Sources 2024 Hong Kong Shows With Record Number of Exhibitors and Less Visitors

The October 2024 Global Sources Hong Kong Shows at AsiaWorld-Expo have concluded after an intense month of activities. The three-phase show program, spanning multiple sectors including Consumer Electronics, Electronic Components, Smart Home, Lifestyle, Sports & Outdoor, and Baby & Children, attracted nearly 5,000 premium Asian suppliers and showcased over 500,000 innovative products, setting a new record for exhibitor participation.
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Alango Unveils Sound Processing Module for Qualcomm S7 SoC
by Joao Martins

Alango Unveils Sound Processing Module for Qualcomm S7 SoC

Alango Technologies announced a new digital sound processing module for Qualcomm's Bluetooth SoCs, including the latest S7 Gen1 Sound platform that features five times the compute power, three times the DSP processing power, and almost 100 times on-device AI processing power compared to previous solutions. According to Alango, this first to market platform offers a pre-integrated, ready-to-use modular solution for the latest generation of hearables and advanced audio designs.
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Bose Professional Announces Global Availability of EdgeMax LP In-Ceiling Asymmetrical Loudspeakers
by Joao Martins

Bose Professional Announces Global Availability of EdgeMax LP In-Ceiling Asymmetrical Loudspeakers

Bose Professional announced the global availability of EdgeMax EM90-LP and EM180-LP, expanding its EdgeMax line of premium in-ceiling directional loudspeakers. The new Bose EdgeMax LP models bring powerful sound and asymmetrical coverage to smaller rooms and more challenging spaces, and work together with the original EdgeMax loudspeakers, launched in 2017. These LP models deliver consistent high-quality performance across projects where specifications and installation conditions vary.
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Brane Audio RAD Speaker Technology Named in TIME’s Best Inventions of 2024
by Joao Martins

Brane Audio RAD Speaker Technology Named in TIME’s Best Inventions of 2024

As TIME revealed its annual list of the Best Inventions, which features 200 product, technologies and innovations changing our lives, there was a surprising mention of Brane Audio's Brane X portable speaker as a winner in the Entertainment & Gaming category. As audioXpress and Voice Coil readers learned earlier - and coincidently James Croft writes about in Voice Coil November 2024 - the company's Repel-Attract-Driver (RAD) that is part of the Brane X design, is indeed the first effective embodiment of a negative-spring woofer that bends Hofmann’s Iron Law.
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Knowles Teams up with Mimi to Deliver Personalized Audio for Breggz
by Joao Martins

Knowles Teams up with Mimi to Deliver Personalized Audio for Breggz

Since Dutch company Breggz introduced the concept of its luxury wireless hearables at CES 2024, the company has been evolving the project in partnership with key technology providers. The now called Breggz ZOHN-1 in-ears are leveraging Bragi's platform and Audio App Store concept to offer a future upgrade path, with new exciting options. Among those is the possibility to personalize the response to each user, thanks to a partnership with Mimi Hearing Technologies and Knowles, which supplies the balanced armature drivers
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Studio Six Digital Launches New SoundScope VR Module
by Joao Martins

Studio Six Digital Launches New SoundScope VR Module

Studio Six Digital announced the release of a new SoundScope VR module for its AudioTools professional audio test & measurement iOS app. SoundScope VR is an advanced acoustic analysis module that uses an advanced FFT algorithm to precisely analyze audio and offers a number of plotting options so that users can visualize the performance of an audio system in real time. Some of it's powerful features include an FFT 1/48th octave audio analyzer, RTA bar, line, and combo RTA+FFT plots, SPL measurements, and split-screen with Spectrograph.
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TEAC Launches Reference 500 Series Pure Analog Headphone Amplifier/Preamp
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TEAC Launches Reference 500 Series Pure Analog Headphone Amplifier/Preamp

TEAC announced the HA-507, a new component in its compact Reference 500 Series, which now adds a low distortion, pure analog headphone amplifier/preamplifier. Incorporating the brand's premium audio technologies, and equipped with an optimized power supply circuit, the HA-507 has exceptional headphone driving power and an extremely wide frequency response that cannot be imagined from its compact appearance.
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Sennheiser Profile Wireless Signals New Direction for the Brand
by Joao Martins

Sennheiser Profile Wireless Signals New Direction for the Brand

The new Sennheiser Profile Wireless is a 2-channel, 2.4GHz all-in-one microphone system, designed for content creators and videographers as a versatile tool to effortlessly capture high-quality audio. It's also the first product from the brand to signal a new direction since the German company decided to sell its consumer business. Sennheiser Profile Wireless competes head-on with the mighty of Røde and all the emerging Chinese brands disputing this segment.
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Reinforced Loudspeaker Performance in Voice Coil November 2024
by audioXpress Staff

Reinforced Loudspeaker Performance in Voice Coil November 2024

In Voice Coil November 2024, Anthony Caiazzo details Countervail's patented fiber-reinforced composite technology, Mike Klasco revisits solutions to achieve increased bass response, while James Croft reviews two patents from Clean Energy Labs and Brane Audio that seem to have finally broken Hofmann's Iron Law. In Test Bench, Vance Dickason characterizes the new MT19CP-8 7.5" coaxial driver from SB Acoustics' prestigious Satori line.
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