AURO-3D Showcases AURO-CX Scalable Immersive Audio Codec at CES 2024

AURO-3D is going to CES 2024 with a different type of technology. The Belgian company will showcase AURO-CX, its new Next Generation Audio codec, which the company says is able to deliver scalable quality, channel count, sample rate, and objects, all in one powerful bitstream. From January 9–12, at The Venetian hotel, AURO-3D will provide demonstrations of this new scalable immersive audio codec with many potential applications.

To make it easier for all developers to include MPEG-H Audio playback into their applications, the MPEG-H Audio decoder software implementation from Fraunhofer IIS is now available as source code on GitHub. As the research institute explains, the release is intended to facilitate the broad adoption of advanced audio formats with immersive audio and personalization capabilities. The MPEG-H Audio System development team was recently awarded the Joseph von Fraunhofer Prize 2023 for their work.

We looked at the popular articles of 2021 in audioXpress.com (including selected articles from audioXpress and Voice Coil magazines), and we created this Top 10 list of news stories and online articles. Once again 2022 expanded slightly on the record-breaking year that was 2021 for audioXpress.com, in terms of number of visits and regular users of the website. Visitors from all over the world returned more often to read the more than 8.650 stories available. Which of the topics and stories published online in 2022 were the most popular? Here are the results!

The September 2022 Speaker Focus issue of audioXpress discusses speaker design and testing tools and features two fascinating speaker R&D stories on the Holoplot X1 Matrix Array and Motion Feedback Desktop Subwoofers for nearfield studio application. Geoff Hill explains the latest IEC loudspeaker measurement standards, Roger Shively reports from the AES 2022 Automotive Audio conference, Christoph Sladeczek writes about Audio Objects as Platform Technology in Vehicles, and much more.