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M-Audio Captures Every Recording Need with Studio-Quality Uber Mic
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M-Audio Captures Every Recording Need with Studio-Quality Uber Mic

A serious USB microphone? USB microphones have been so far restricted in use for VoIP and conferencing applications, or basic use on podcasting and home-recording. M-Audio thinks it is time to take USB microphone designs a step further. Its new Uber Mic combines a serious large diaphragm condenser capsule with 4 selectable polar patterns, USB/direct mixing control, internal headphone amp and LCD display, creating the perfect setup for recording music, podcasts and broadcasting.
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Antlion Audio Announces ModMic Business Universal Detachable Boom Mic
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Antlion Audio Announces ModMic Business Universal Detachable Boom Mic

Portland-based Antlion Audio, maker of customizable boom mics for gaming, streaming and VoIP, announced their new ModMic Business, Antlion's first product for small office/home office use, allowing users to pair their favorite pair of headphones with a universal detachable boom mic optimized for personal/conference calls. Available for just $49.95 (MSRP), the ModMic Business combines an optimized uni-directional microphone capsule, with noise-cancelling and USB adapter.
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Ideas, Focus, and Innovation, Available with audioXpress November 2017
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Ideas, Focus, and Innovation, Available with audioXpress November 2017

Discover some outstanding speaker designs in the Midwest Audiofest 2017 Speaker Competition with audioXpress November 2017. In this edition, audioXpress also features one of the most eagerly awaited reviews: the OPPO Digital UDP-205 4K Ultra HD Audiophile Blu-ray Disc Player. Focusing on audio processing, we discuss active noise control for headphones, and we address "Measurement of Audio Devices" that use automatic gain control (AGC). In our "You Can DIY!" article, Dan Joffe describes a 1 kHz oscillator with less than 2 PPM distortion. And much more...
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Yamaha Launches the MMP1 Studio Monitor Management System
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Yamaha Launches the MMP1 Studio Monitor Management System

Responding to the needs of studios that have to deal with increasing numbers of multichannel and immersive formats, Yamaha Professional Audio announced the international release of its MMP1 Studio Monitor Management System. With advanced audio routing capabilities and DSP features that are ideally suited to configure and manage monitor environments from stereo up to complex immersive audio configurations, the MMP1 will play a major role in music and post production studios around the globe.
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Dynaudio Unveils Music Wireless Multiroom Music System
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Dynaudio Unveils Music Wireless Multiroom Music System

Dynaudio announced its first wireless multiroom music system. A series of speakers that bridge the best concepts of what is now called "smart speakers," and the best use of standard wireless technologies for a high quality listening experience. After all, the new Dynaudio system is called simply "Music," and the Danish company highlights the fact that this is an intelligent wireless multiroom music system that automatically learns our tastes, our home and our lifestyle.
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McIntosh Introduces new MHA50 Portable Decoding Amplifier with aptX Bluetooth 4.1
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McIntosh Introduces new MHA50 Portable Decoding Amplifier with aptX Bluetooth 4.1

McIntosh has announced its first Portable Decoding Amplifier (DAC/headphone amp) the MHA50, which offers wireless connectivity to devices via aptX Bluetooth 4.1. With a price tag close to that of a top of the range smartphone, this portable music playback device is targeted at enthusiasts of the famous brand, also looking to match their McIntosh headphone experience everywhere. The new device features a high-quality amplifier plus a high-performance 32-bit digital-to-analogue converter (DAC) with high-res audio playback.
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Infineon High SNR MEMS Microphones Complement Amazon AVS Far-Field Development Kit from XMOS
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Infineon High SNR MEMS Microphones Complement Amazon AVS Far-Field Development Kit from XMOS

XMOS' VocalFusion 4-Mic Dev Kit for Amazon Alexa Voice Service (AVS) for far-field applications integrates Infineon’s high SNR MEMS microphones to ensure highest performance and reliability, creating the first Amazon AVS development kit with a linear mic array for far-field applications. The 4-Mic Development Kit features crystal clear voice capturing even in noisy environments. This enables commands to be accurately captured from across the room for processing by the Alexa cloud-based speech recognition system.
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iZotope Releases Ozone 8 and Neutron 2 Mixing and Mastering Software
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iZotope Releases Ozone 8 and Neutron 2 Mixing and Mastering Software

iZotope introduced its new generation of mixing and mastering software with the joint release of Neutron 2 mixing console and Ozone 8 complete mastering suite, plus the Music Production Suite. Combining over fifteen years of innovations with new machine learning and inter-plugin communication, the new software tools boast innovative workflows, and groundbreaking visual and analysis tools, creating completely new ways of working.
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New COMSOL Multiphysics Software Unveiled with Major Acoustics Improvements
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New COMSOL Multiphysics Software Unveiled with Major Acoustics Improvements

Once again, the 2017 COMSOL Conference in Boston brought together the COMSOL community. Attendees got a chance to test the latest features for COMSOL Multiphysics 5.3a and COMSOL Server, scheduled to be released in Q4 2017. New features include acoustics and acoustic-structure interactions based on a hybrid boundary element-finite element (BEM-FEM) method, impulse response for ray acoustics, magnetostatics, shape memory alloy (SMA) materials for structural analysis, and much more!
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Sound Devices Expands MixPre Series with New MixPre-10T Audio Recorder
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Sound Devices Expands MixPre Series with New MixPre-10T Audio Recorder

When it comes to field recording, Sound Devices continues to push the envelope with its expanded range of solutions. With the new MixPre-10T, the Reedsburg, Wisconsin, -based company now offers a compact, 10-input/12 tracks of polyphonic WAV file recording and mixer with an expanded feature set, including built-in Timecode generator and reader, balanced outputs, diverse powering, and auto copying. An ideal solution for production sound mixers, field recordists, sound designers, and musicians.
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