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Silicon Labs Acquires Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Connectivity Specialist Bluegiga
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Silicon Labs Acquires Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Connectivity Specialist Bluegiga

Silicon Labs announced the acquisition of Bluegiga Technologies Oy, a privately held company based in Espoo, Finland. The acquisition completed on January 30, 2015, significantly reinforces Silicon Labs position as a supplier of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi wireless ICs, modules, software and solutions for many applications, including wireless audio and Internet of Things.
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Roland Announces Super UA Audio Interface for High-Resolution Personal Music Production
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Roland Announces Super UA Audio Interface for High-Resolution Personal Music Production

Roland launched the Super UA, a high-performance USB 2.0 audio interface with 1-bit DSD and 32-bit PCM playback, with up to four simultaneous channels of 24-bit PCM recording and a high-performance headphone amplifier with two outputs. The Super UA features an impressive die-cast metal design with detachable breakout module.
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Intel Acquires Lantiq to Expand Into the Connected Home
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Intel Acquires Lantiq to Expand Into the Connected Home

Intel Corporation has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Lantiq. Based in Munich, Germany, Lantiq offers a broad semiconductor product portfolio for next-generation networks and the digital home. The transaction reinforces Intel’s position with broadband network technologies in the home gateway business, telecom residential gateway and access network markets, where Lantiq is a leading provider.
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Crown Audio Announces “Empower by Crown” Amplifier Program Available to Third-party Manufacturers
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Crown Audio Announces “Empower by Crown” Amplifier Program Available to Third-party Manufacturers

Crown Audio announced its new Empower by Crown initiative, a new embedded amplifier program to provide third-party active loudspeaker manufacturers of finished product with special access to its portfolio of amplifier technology. The new Empowered by Crown Amplifier modules are built on the proprietary DriveCore platform and are designed for integration into virtually any loudspeaker configuration and application.
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A Comparative Measurement Microphone Study
by Vance Dickason

A Comparative Measurement Microphone Study

In mid-August 2013, the SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden undertook a study to compare four brands of measurement microphones. The standards bureau had been asked to purchase four microphones of the same type from four different measurement microphone manufactures — Brüel & Kjær, BSWA, G.R.A.S. Sound and Vibration A/S, and PCB Piezotronics.
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Mackie And Audinate Announce Dante Expansion Card For DL32R Mixer
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Mackie And Audinate Announce Dante Expansion Card For DL32R Mixer

During the 2015 NAMM Show, Mackie promoted its new iPad-controlled DL32R digital mixer, which now easily networks with any Dante-enabled audio solutions. Mackie and Audinate joined forces to bring high performance networked audio to the DL32R with the new DL Dante Expansion Card.
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Riedel Joins RAVENNA and Accelerates Efforts to Provide AES67 Interoperability
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Riedel Joins RAVENNA and Accelerates Efforts to Provide AES67 Interoperability

Riedel Communications announced its support for the AES67 standard and the RAVENNA technology framework for real-time IP distribution of audio and other media content. By extending format support to include AES67/RAVENNA, the German company takes a key step forward in delivering the many benefits of standards-agnostic communications and signal-transport solutions.
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Powersoft to Unveil New Ottocanali Series at ISE 2015 and foster Training & Education
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Powersoft to Unveil New Ottocanali Series at ISE 2015 and foster Training & Education

Powersoft will once again be exhibiting at the Integrated Systems Europe show in Amsterdam, in collaboration with its Dutch partner TM Audio. Powersoft will introduce three new Ottocanali DSP+D installation amplifiers. The new 8-Channel power amplifiers feature two redundant Dante digital streams and take up just two rack spaces.
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Soundcraft New Signature Series Range of Analog Mixing Consoles
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Soundcraft New Signature Series Range of Analog Mixing Consoles

Soundcraft unveiled its Signature Series and Signature Series Multi-Track analog mixing consoles at the 2015 NAMM Show. The new Signature Series consoles are available in four frame sizes: 10-channel, 12-channel, 16-channel, and 22-channel while the Signature Series Multi-Track consoles are available in 12-channel (14-in/12-out USB interface) and 22-channel (24-in/22-out USB interface).
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RCF To Showcase New EN54-Compliant EVAC Systems At ISE 2015
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RCF To Showcase New EN54-Compliant EVAC Systems At ISE 2015

RCF spa will present a wide range of products at the ISE 2015 Show, including the new flagship DXT 9000 and DXT 3000 digital voice alarm systems, certified to EN 54-16 and EN 54-4 standards, featuring amplification, control, routing, monitoring and power supply all integrated. RCF will also launch a new white installation version of the company’s HDL 10-A active line array.
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