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Faital Presents FEM Thermal Model of a Compression Driver at AES Convention in Milan
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Faital Presents FEM Thermal Model of a Compression Driver at AES Convention in Milan

Milan will host the 144th International AES Convention from May 23-26, and Italian manufacturer of automotive and professional loudspeakers, Faital, will present a new technical report entitled: “FEM thermal model of a compression driver: comparison with experimental results.” The presentation details Faital's successful experiments in developing a predictive model using Finite Element Analysis to improve the design of magnet assemblies in a loudspeaker.
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Audinate Announces Over 400 Products Are Now Dante Domain Manager Ready
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Audinate Announces Over 400 Products Are Now Dante Domain Manager Ready

Audinate announced over 400 Dante-enabled products from top AV manufacturers now feature upgraded firmware that supports Dante Domain Manager. With thousands of products currently supporting Audinate's audio networking technology, manufacturers across nearly every product category have recognized the power of Dante Domain Manager software, and have upgraded their firmware to be compliant.
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McIntosh Announces Luxury Music Streamer and New Flagship CD/SACD Player
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McIntosh Announces Luxury Music Streamer and New Flagship CD/SACD Player

McIntosh continues to consistently update its range of reference-level home entertainment source components, this time with two "best-in-class" solutions for high-quality music streaming and CD playback. Keeping up with its 65 years of tradition in the high end audio market, McIntosh announced the MCD600 SACD/CD Player and the MS500 Music Streamer, both retailing for approximately $7,000 USD.
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2018 AES International Conference on Audio Archiving, Preservation & Restoration
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2018 AES International Conference on Audio Archiving, Preservation & Restoration

The 2018 Audio Engineering Society International Conference on Audio Archiving, Preservation & Restoration will take place in Culpeper, VA, June 28-30. This conference will present an opportunity to bring researchers and practitioners together for three days to discuss critical preservation issues and focus on strategies that will support and encourage collaboration and interoperability between industry and the preservation, restoration and archiving communities.
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zplane.development Announces élastiqueAAXtce And Price Reductions
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zplane.development Announces élastiqueAAXtce And Price Reductions

Berlin-based audio software specialists zplane.development announced élastiqueAAXtce, a new time manipulation plug-in designed exclusively for Pro Tools. élastiqueAAX and élastiqueAAXtce, now in version 2.1, are now available, with the new tce version as a stripped down version of the already known élastiqueAAX TC/E algorithm option in Pro Tools, with only time-stretching supported.
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L-com Introduces New IP67 Category5e/6 Dual Use Waterproof Ethernet Cables
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L-com Introduces New IP67 Category5e/6 Dual Use Waterproof Ethernet Cables

L-com Global Connectivity, the manufacturer of wired and wireless connectivity products, announced that it has launched a new series of IP67 rated waterproof Ethernet cables designed to address harsh environment networking applications. The new cables respond to the highest demands on industrial and military applications and will be a valuable choice on outdoor entertainment applications and fixed installations.
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Silicon Mitus New High Efficiency Switched Capacitor for USB Type-C Fast Charging Applications
by Cristina Costa

Silicon Mitus New High Efficiency Switched Capacitor for USB Type-C Fast Charging Applications

Silicon Mitus released the SM5428, a Switched Capacitor Battery Charger. The new DC-DC converter from the company has been highly optimized to meet the demands of the emerging fast charging applications in the USB Type-C market, offering a higher efficiency that allows for a reduced time to charge the battery and better management of the thermal dissipation during the recharging cycle of the device. A solution tailored specifically for smartphones, tablets and any other battery powered consumer devices.
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Radial Presenter Compact Mixer and Interface is Now Shipping
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Radial Presenter Compact Mixer and Interface is Now Shipping

Radial Engineering, the imaginative audio solutions company from Vancouver, BC, already offers many unique solutions for any type of presentation event, from versatile DI boxes and converters to press boxes, and even new Dante boxes that are ideal for connecting all sorts of sources into the audio networking systems that are common with audio crews these days. But for more basic needs at the podium, now there's the Radial Presenter compact mixer, now shipping.
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Corporate End User and Buyer Behavior in Corporate Meeting Rooms - Making Sense of Meeting Room Technology Spend
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Corporate End User and Buyer Behavior in Corporate Meeting Rooms - Making Sense of Meeting Room Technology Spend

Futuresource Consulting has announced the availability of its brand new Meeting Room Technology - Corporate End User Study, which highlights the opportunities for an ever-broadening range of suppliers to the this rapidly evolving and developing market sector. The new study highlights corporate end user and buyer behavior in the Corporate Meeting Room markets in USA, UK, France and Germany.
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Tascam Introduces BO Expansion Boxes for ML-Series Dante Converters
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Tascam Introduces BO Expansion Boxes for ML-Series Dante Converters

With many studios and professional audio companies embracing Dante audio networking solutions, digital connectivity becomes a simple, versatile, and reliable process. Responding to that trend, in 2017 Tascam introduced a complete line of Dante-enabled offerings. Now, Tascam is shipping its BO-series I/O expansion boxes for the Tascam ML-32D and ML-16D professional analog/Dante converters, and other D-Sub equipped devices. Three BO-series models are now available.
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