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Shure Announces Agreement to Acquire Audio Listening and Monitoring Software Company Wavemark Oy
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Shure Announces Agreement to Acquire Audio Listening and Monitoring Software Company Wavemark Oy

Shure has reached an agreement to acquire Ab Wavemark Oy, a software company that developed products for theater, film, TV, broadcast, and content streaming applications. The acquisition will expand Shure’s professional audio software portfolio. The company from Finland gained recognition for its Wavetool audio monitoring software that detects and solves sound level and RF issues, while its WTAutoMixer is a multichannel gainsharing automatic mixer plug-in with a built-in leveler, compatible with most DAWs.
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Presonus Refreshes Eris Family of Studio Monitors Including New Coaxial Pro Model for Dolby Atmos
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Presonus Refreshes Eris Family of Studio Monitors Including New Coaxial Pro Model for Dolby Atmos

PreSonus Audio Electronics, announced its refreshed line of Eris Studio Monitors that will now be available in three distinct tiers — Essential, Studio and Pro. This tier system is intended to ensure that any creator, from casual bedroom songwriters to home studios or project studios will be able to explore the best features of each product to further their craft. As the studio arm of Fender, PreSonus is reimagining its product portfolio with an increasing focus on musicians and music production.
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Audinate Ships a Record One Million Dante Units in Fiscal Year 2023
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Audinate Ships a Record One Million Dante Units in Fiscal Year 2023

Audinate Group Limited recently announced that during the company's 2023 fiscal year (FY23), which ended in June, it had shipped more than one million hardware and software units of its audio-and-video-over-IP solution (more audio than video), Dante. The one million units is the greatest number of Dante units ever shipped in a 12-month period and represents a 30% increase in shipments over 2022, signaling the end of supply chain challenges.
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Digigram Acquires Audio Networking Solutions Specialist AuviTran
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Digigram Acquires Audio Networking Solutions Specialist AuviTran

Digigram, the recognized provider of Audio over IP solutions has acquired Grenoble-based audio networking solutions specialist AuviTran. The French company aims to strengthen its position and expand its operations on audio markets with the direct involvement of Yves Ansade, founder and Managing Director of AuviTran, which historically has been deeply involved in the company's strategic R&D. In his early days at Digigram, Ansade initiated the Networked Audio Department and contributed, as an inventor, to the development of EtherSound.
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New Peak Amplification Product Line Presented at CEDIA Expo 2023
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New Peak Amplification Product Line Presented at CEDIA Expo 2023

Elytone Electronic the Taiwan-based producer of high-quality, custom audio solutions and magnetic components, has launched a new line of high-power, high-performance amplification products under its new division, Peak Amplification. The new Flexible Line consists of a series of amplifier modules and separate power supplies to support a wide variety of configurations for different consumer electronic and residential integration product applications.
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Sonical Partners with IDUN audio for Embedded Dynamic Spatial Audio
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Sonical Partners with IDUN audio for Embedded Dynamic Spatial Audio

Sonical, the Headphone 3.0 pioneer based in San Mateo, CA, and IDUN audio, the leading-edge startup from Copenhagen, Denmark, specializing in dynamic spatial audio for headphones, have formalized a strategic partnership. The two companies have been cooperating since 2022, and IDUN audio was part of the Sonical CES 2023 demos, with its dynamic spatial audio software running on Sonical's headphone operating system CosmOS - enabling unsurpassed spatialization with fast head tracking.
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Creative Technology Launches LE Audio Ready Wireless Headphones
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Creative Technology Launches LE Audio Ready Wireless Headphones

Creative Technology released its all-new range of Creative Zen Hybrid Pro wireless headphones and their accompanying bundles, the Creative Zen Hybrid Pro Classic and Creative Zen Hybrid Pro SXFI. Equipped with nifty features such as Hybrid Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) and Ambient Mode, a powerful 40mm Neodymium driver, and an impressive battery life of up to 100 hours, these latest headphones are also Bluetooth LE Audio Ready, thanks to the latest Airoha LE Audio (Mediatek) platform.
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Apple Updates AirPods Pro (2nd generation) with USB-C and Upcoming Lossless Wireless Audio Protocol
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Apple Updates AirPods Pro (2nd generation) with USB-C and Upcoming Lossless Wireless Audio Protocol

As expected, on September 12, Apple announced the new iPhone 15 series models, which now all have USB-C connectors (but only use USB3). More importantly, Apple introduced new AirPods Pro (2nd generation) with USB-C charging capabilities and anticipated new audio experiences to all AirPods Pro models with iOS 17 updates. Between the lines there is an announcement about an upcoming "groundbreaking wireless audio protocol" supporting lossless audio over 5GHz.
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Audio Pioneer xMEMS Promotes Seminar Series: xMEMS Live – China 2023
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Audio Pioneer xMEMS Promotes Seminar Series: xMEMS Live – China 2023

Semiconductor pioneer xMEMS Labs announced the launch of xMEMS Live – China 2023, a two-day seminar aimed at demonstrating the company's technology for Chinese consumer tech and audio brands through product demos, keynotes and in-depth tech-talk presentations. The seminars will take place September 18 at the Renaissance Caohejing Hotel in Shanghai, and on September 20 at the Westin Nanshan in Shenzhen. The seminar signal xMEMS significant expansion throughout Asia, North America, and Europe.
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audioXpress October 2023 Speaker Builder Issue Is Now Available!
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audioXpress October 2023 Speaker Builder Issue Is Now Available!

In the October 2023 issue of audioXpress, Jan Didden visits Dutch & Dutch, Reinhold Lutz shares a practical way to measure loudspeakers in any room with his AudioChiemgau Mode-Compensator, which is tested by Rens Tellers. We have two DIY open baffle projects from Perry Marshall and Charlie Laub, Richard Honeycutt writes about the Western Electric 91E, and Ethan Winer shares his Popping P Filter circuit. In the Sound Control column, Honeycutt explores Passive Variable Acoustics, and Chuck Hansen concludes his article series on Power Transformers. audioXpress October 2023 is now available in print, digital, and online.
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