All items tagged with 360 reality audio (42)

Sony Introduces SRS-NS7 Wireless Neckband Personal Theater

October 5, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Sony Introduces SRS-NS7 Wireless Neckband Personal Theater

Sony Electronics announced the new SRS-NS7 wireless neckband speaker, the latest addition to its around-the-neck speaker lineup. When connected to the WLA-NS7 wireless transmitter, the SRS-NS7 provides an immersive home theater experience, with sound tailored for personal listening. This is the second wireless neckband design from Sony, short after the announcement of the SRS-NB10, targeted at work from home, conference calls, and home music listen in total comfort.

McIntosh Announces 8K Upgrade to MX123 AV Processor

September 8, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

McIntosh Announces 8K Upgrade to MX123 AV Processor

Since it was launched in October 2019, the McIntosh MX123 has become a popular audio and video processor for countless home theaters. It launched with 4K/60Hz compatibility, but as technology has progressed, the company now announced an 8K compatibility upgrade for the MX123 A/V Processor. The upgrade also introduces other enhanced HDMI video features, including expanded HDR and Dolby Vision support.

Sony Raises the Bar for Immersive Sound with New HT-A9 Wireless Home Theater System and Flagship HT-A7000 Soundbar

July 21, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Sony Raises the Bar for Immersive Sound with New HT-A9 Wireless Home Theater System and Flagship HT-A7000 Soundbar

Sony Electronics introduced its new premium HT-A9 home theater system and flagship HT-A7000 soundbar, introducing new more convincing immersive audio sound experiences to the home. With a soundbar equipped with up-firing drivers and wireless surround speakers and subwoofers, the new Sony systems for the living room make it easier for households to enjoy all types of content with an incredibly immersive home theater and soundscape experience. Support for High-Resolution Audio and 360 Reality Audio, and other "spatial audio" formats included.

Sony WF-1000XM4 Sets New Standard for True Wireless Earbuds with ANC

June 9, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Sony WF-1000XM4 Sets New Standard for True Wireless Earbuds with ANC

Sony unveiled the new WF-1000XM4 true wireless earbuds. Having lead the active noise cancelling category on headphones since the original WH-1000X headphones and until recently with the WH-1000XM4, Sony is now focused on leading in noise canceling and audio quality in TWS earbuds, starting with a newly designed V1 Integrated Processor, support for high-resolution audio and 360 Reality Audio, better call quality, and smart listening features, matched with an impressive 8 hour battery life with ANC.

Amazon Reacts To Apple’s Announcement and Confirms Music HD For All at No Extra Cost

May 17, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Amazon Reacts To Apple’s Announcement and Confirms Music HD For All at No Extra Cost

Subscribers to Amazon Music Unlimited can now upgrade to the highest quality streaming audio available, for free. Reacting to the fact that Apple Music announced it will offer lossless audio streaming as standard starting in June, Amazon also announced that Amazon Music HD Lossless Audio, previously available at an additional cost, is now standard for Unlimited Tier subscribers.

Sound Design to Audio Product Design - What Can We Do With Spatial Audio?

May 5, 2021 by Joao Martins

Sound Design to Audio Product Design - What Can We Do With Spatial Audio?

What do we expect exactly from Spatial Sound? A true tri-dimensional representation of sound in space? An effective way to translate virtual acoustics? A limitless soundstage for infinite creativity? What about sound “in your head”? I started to write about this topic with audio product developers in mind. But the questions equally apply to content creators, because basically we all have the same doubts.

Sennheiser AMBEO Soundbar Adds Support for Sony 360 Reality Audio

April 26, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Sennheiser AMBEO Soundbar Adds Support for Sony 360 Reality Audio

In addition to 3D audio formats Dolby Atmos, MPEG-H and DTS:X, Sennheiser's flagship AMBEO Soundbar now also supports Sony’s 360 Reality Audio, which is directly targeted at music and uses Sony’s object-based 360 Spatial Sound technology, basically an MPEG-H 3D Audio scheme, to place individual sounds in a spherical sound field.

Deezer Expands Lossless CD-Quality Streaming with HiFi Family Package

March 26, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Deezer Expands Lossless CD-Quality Streaming with HiFi Family Package

With Spotify promising to evolve its leading music streaming service from its lossy Ogg Vorbis codec to CD-Quality lossless in its new HiFi tier, other music streaming services who have embraced FLAC streaming earlier, are expanding its options to reward existing subscribers and hopefully gain new customers. Deezer expanded its Deezer HiFi tier as a Family package for just $19.99, enabling up to six users to enjoy CD-quality FLAC streaming (1411kbps). For those who never tried Deezer HiFi, there's also a 3-months free offer.

Sony Goes Spatial With New SRS-RA5000 and SRS-RA3000 Wireless Home Speakers

January 13, 2021 by Joao Martins

Sony Goes Spatial With New SRS-RA5000 and SRS-RA3000 Wireless Home Speakers

"Change the Way You Listen to Music" is Sony's pitch for CES 2021, reinforcing the company's past research efforts in spatial audio and specifically its 360 Reality Audio and Immersive Audio Enhancement technologies. The concept was so far implemented in binaural mode with headphones, but Sony demonstrated some concepts with speakers able to generate "ambient room-filling sound" since CES 2019. With users spending more time at home, Sony decided it was time to launch the new 360 Reality Audio wireless speakers, model SRS-RA5000 and SRS-RA3000.

Deezer Creates HiFi Room to Promote FLAC Streaming Quality

October 30, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Deezer Creates HiFi Room to Promote FLAC Streaming Quality

Music streaming platform Deezer announced a new curated section, with curated playlists and albums just for high fidelity fans. The new HiFi Room on Deezer features hand-picked tracks to draw out the rich sounds streaming in lossless FLAC quality. The company says it currently offers more than 52 million files encoded on FLAC on the platform, and it made sense to offer a curated selection for its premium subscribers to easily find this content in one place, now offering more than 15 exclusive playlists, album recommendations and reissues (remasters).

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