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Martin Audio Gears Up for Prolight+Sound 2016
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Martin Audio Gears Up for Prolight+Sound 2016

British sound reinforcement specialists Martin Audio are anticipating an exciting presence at the Prolight+Sound show in Frankfurt. Martin Audio promises to showcase exciting new products — both on their new stand and, for the first time, in a dedicated demo room. This follows the introduction of weatherised variants of its CDD install series, announced at ISE 2016.
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Rational Acoustics Smaart v8 Introduces new Software Environment
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Rational Acoustics Smaart v8 Introduces new Software Environment

Rational Acoustics, the developers of the world renowned Smaart Acoustic Test and Measurement Software have announced that Smaart v8, which the company says will be the most powerful, flexible and adaptable version to date, will be released March 15, 2016. The new v8 brings lots of new features and greatly expanded control of the software environment.
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Conexant Brings Far-Field Microphone Processing Software to Qualcomm Hexagon DSP
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Conexant Brings Far-Field Microphone Processing Software to Qualcomm Hexagon DSP

Conexant announced that their AudioSmart software has been integrated into Qualcomm’s Hexagon digital signal processor family, found in over a billion smart devices worldwide. With Conexant’s audio software inside, consumers will benefit from clearer voice communication and accurate speech recognition from their smart devices, even in noisy conditions, up to five meters away from the target device.
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AFMG Announces EASE Focus 3 now Supporting Subwoofer Array Modeling
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AFMG Announces EASE Focus 3 now Supporting Subwoofer Array Modeling

AFMG, the professional audio, room acoustics and structural physics simulation and measurement software specialist, confirmed that its new EASE Focus 3 solution will be released on March 10th, 2016. The third version of AFMG’s renowned free simulation tool has become a powerful software covering numerous aspects of for sound system design and optimization.
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IK Multimedia releases Lurssen Mastering Console for Mac & PC
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IK Multimedia releases Lurssen Mastering Console for Mac & PC

The new Lurssen Mastering Console software for Mac & PC lets musicians master their music with the same processor chain, expertly configured settings and professional know-how as the Grammy award-winning world-renowned Lurssen Mastering Studio in Los Angeles. This is a fully featured mastering software solution which can also be used as a plug-in and with an iPad app.
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embedded world Exhibition and Conference 2016 Closes with New Records
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embedded world Exhibition and Conference 2016 Closes with New Records

The biggest embedded world exhibition and conference ever, closed with new records. With 939 exhibitors and more than 30,000 trade visitors, the 2016 edition of the event, in Nuremberg, Germany, was again the place to be for the international embedded community - effectively influencing all current industry segments, including the audio industry.
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d&b audiotechnik Acquired by Private Investment Company, Targets New Expansion Stage
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d&b audiotechnik Acquired by Private Investment Company, Targets New Expansion Stage

German professional audio equipment manufacturer d&b audiotechnik GmbH announced that Ardian, an independent private investment company, is acquiring the company from previous owners, investment companies Odewald & Compagnie and COBEPA. The move intends to support d&b audiotechnik’s international growth strategy as defined by existing management, which also gets a stake in the company.
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation Launches Raspberry Pi 3
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation Launches Raspberry Pi 3

All over the world, electronics and computer programming enthusiasts are celebrating the launch of the new Raspberry Pi 3 platform, the first with built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.1, keeping with the tradition of an affordable computer for all, at just $35! The Raspberry Pi 3 features a 1.2GHz 64-bit quad-core CPU, giving about 10x the performance of a Raspberry Pi 1.
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2016 GSMA Mobile World Congress Surpasses Record 100,000 Visitors
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2016 GSMA Mobile World Congress Surpasses Record 100,000 Visitors

Visitors to the 2016 edition of the Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona, surpassed the 100,000 mark for the first time in the event’s history, with nearly 101,000 attendees, an increase of more than six per cent over last year, the GSMA reports. MWC2016 featured more than 2,200 exhibitors, and the conference program featured 12 keynote sessions and 48 in-depth track sessions over four days.
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ALMA, Eminence, Dayton Audio and Much More - Voice Coil March 2016 Is Ready for Download
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ALMA, Eminence, Dayton Audio and Much More - Voice Coil March 2016 Is Ready for Download

All about ALMA’s International Symposium & Expo (AISE) 2016. Audiomatica’s new CLIO Pocket is put through various measurement routines according to Voice Coil’s Test Bench speaker characterization protocol. Test Bench focuses on two Eminence compression drivers and horns, plus the Dayton LW-150 ultra-thin woofer. And much more, now available on Voice Coil March 2016!
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