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Celebrating Its 14th Year, audioXpress January 2015 Is Available Online
by Joao Martins

Celebrating Its 14th Year, audioXpress January 2015 Is Available Online

The January 2015 issue of audioXpress celebrates our 14th year. This edition includes our Rocky Mountain Audio Fest (RMAF) 2014 report, we assembled and tested the MOD 102 Guitar Tube Amplifier Kit by MOD Kits, invited Scott Dorsey to update his Kludge reamplifier box and Gerhard Haas explains how to build a Wah Wah effects device. Don’t miss it!
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Sennheiser Rethinks Portable Conferencing With New Speakerphones
by audioXpress Staff

Sennheiser Rethinks Portable Conferencing With New Speakerphones

While the videoconferencing market has pretty much been “eaten” by Skype and similar applications, we simply use voice-only communications in many situations, especially in group meetings. With VoIP, many audio companies are seeing opportunities and Sennheiser just announced its new SP 10 and SP 20 Speakerphones introducing a versatile and simple design for unified communications from just about anywhere.
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Conexant Launches New HD Audio Codec with Integrated AudioSmart Class-D Amplifier
by audioXpress Staff

Conexant Launches New HD Audio Codec with Integrated AudioSmart Class-D Amplifier

Conexant Systems recently announced the CX20952, a new HD Audio Codec that enables high quality audio on computers and tablets with low power consumption, two cap-free headphone amplifiers, and a fully-integrated Class-D amplifier. Part of Conexant’s AudioSmart family, the new CX20952 produces maximum sound pressure level without damage to speakers or other components.
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Prism Sound & Power Physics Present - How to Choose & Test Audio Power Amplifiers
by audioXpress Staff

Prism Sound & Power Physics Present - How to Choose & Test Audio Power Amplifiers

Audio test and measurement specialist Prism Sound and audio electronics specialist Power Physics have joined forces to promote a free webinar on “How to Choose & Test Audio Power Amplifiers”, as part of its series of web based seminars. The webinar explains how to select a power supply or amplifier for OEM speaker design.
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STMicroelectronics Accordo2 Automotive Audio Processor Shrinks Design Cycle and Time-to-Market
by audioXpress Staff

STMicroelectronics Accordo2 Automotive Audio Processor Shrinks Design Cycle and Time-to-Market

The new Accordo2 family from STMicroelectronics offers a fully integrated audio subsystem, including media decoding, audio routing, sound processing, and analog audio inputs and outputs, as well as an independent secure CAN (Controller Area Network) microcontroller subsystem. Until now, car infotainment manufacturers had to use multiple devices to achieve the same result that a single Accordo2 device delivers.
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Eventide Announces H9 Max Harmonizer Stomp Box Package
by audioXpress Staff

Eventide Announces H9 Max Harmonizer Stomp Box Package

Eventide has released the H9 Max, the ultimate addition to the acclaimed H9 Harmonizer stompbox line. Within the same physical hardware as existing H9’s, Eventide now ships all 45 currently-available processing algorithms pre-loaded, plus any new H9 exclusive algorithms in perpetuity, at no additional charge.
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Wireless Audio Market Worth $13.75 Billion by 2018
by audioXpress Staff

Wireless Audio Market Worth $13.75 Billion by 2018

According to a new market research report “Wireless Audio Device Market By Products, Technology and Application - Global Forecast & Analysis 2013 – 2018” published by MarketsandMarkets, the total market is expected to generate revenues of $13.75 billion by 2018, growing at an estimated CAGR of 24.02% from 2013-2018.
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2015 CES Best of Innovation Honorees in Consumer Audio Announced
by audioXpress Staff

2015 CES Best of Innovation Honorees in Consumer Audio Announced

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) announced its 2015 International CES Best of Innovation Honorees for outstanding design and engineering advancements across 28 consumer electronics product categories. Some of the consumer audio honorees include Bragi, Alfred & Partners, Pioneer, Axxess CE, AudioQuest and Philips.
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Hafler HA75 Tube Head Headphone Amplifier
by audioXpress Staff

Hafler HA75 Tube Head Headphone Amplifier

After over a decade of being dormant, Radial Engineering Ltd. purchased the Hafler brand in 2014 and announced it is re-launching a new series of high-fidelity audio products, already previewed at the 137th AES Convention in Los Angeles. One of the most interesting is the HA75 ‘Tube Head’ - a 12AX7 driven tube headphone amplifier with sufficient gain to power any type of headphone.
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The Audio Engineering Society Standards Committee Holds Successful AES67-2013 Standard “PlugFest” Event
by audioXpress Staff

The Audio Engineering Society Standards Committee Holds Successful AES67-2013 Standard “PlugFest” Event

At the end of October, the AES hosted its first AES67 interoperability “PlugFest” at the IRT in Munich. 15 people from 10 different companies gathered for 4 days, testing 15 different AES67 implementations for basic interoperability. The result was very promising, as all the implementations were able to interoperate with each other.
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