Industry Watch: March

Passing of a Loudspeaker Pioneer It is with regret that Voice Coil notes the passing of a pioneering colleague. Clifford B. “CB” Digre, one of the audio industry’s stalwart loudspeaker manufacturers, died November 25, 2012, at age 89. More than …

February 12, 1923-February 25, 2013 Edward Dell, founder and former publisher of Audio Amateur Inc., died Monday, February 25, 2013, at the age of 90. After launching the company’s flagship publication, The Audio Amateur, in 1970, Dell published a number of specialized titles covering a wealth of subjects in audio. Proud to lead a force of some 700 authors worldwide — experts and enthusiasts in audio technology — he started audioXpress 31 years later, in 2001.

Coleridge Design Associates Introduces the aCUBE Tech start-up, Coleridge Design Associates (CDA), has launched a new transparent speaker system that combines balanced modal radiator (BMR) sound quality technology with stylish looks, convenience, and affordability. The aCube BMR speaker design features …

Oxford Digital and Prism Sound, in conjunction with the AES, LOUDSOFT and TTid, invite you to join our audio engineering masterclass. This is a unique opportunity to meet with some of the most experienced engineers in the industry, and to hear …

Gornik to Leave Thiel Audio Thiel Audio has been acquired by a private equity firm based in Nashville, TN. New Thiel CEO Bill Thomas has indicated that the brand focus will continue to be on premium-quality phase and time-coherent loudspeakers, …

New Wireless Speaker Takes Pocket-Portable Sound to the Next Level Soundmatters, a leader in high-quality, portable speakers, announced its entry-level aptX Bluetooth-equipped model, the foxLv2 aptX. Based on the foxLv2, the gold standard in hi-fi portable speakers (Time Magazine’s “Top …

HiWave develops new wireless speaker platform HiWave offers a Bluetooth wireless speaker demonstrator that runs for 100 hours at normal levels from a single charge cycle. HiWave Technologies, a provider of innovative audio amplifier ICs, full-frequency range speaker drivers, and …

Nortek Experiences Gain Most of this month’s industry news is financial and not much of it is all that good. However, Nortek, parent of multiple residential and commercial systems brands (e.g., Aton, Elan, Niles, SpeakerCraft, Sunfire, and Xantech), is the …

The Association of Loudspeaker Manufacturing and Acoustics (ALMA) Winter Symposium, “Product Development in the Global Paradigm: Acoustic Modeling, Measurement, and Manufacturing in the Modern Marketplace” will take place prior to CES, on January 6 and January 7, 2013, at The …

The 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) will be held from January 8-11, 2013, in Las Vegas, NV. (Now in its 45th year, the show debuted in June 1967 in New York, NY, with 200 exhibitors and 17,500 attendees.) The …