AudioControl Announces GaN-based Bijou Series Amplifiers with Integrated eARC

Ahead of the ISE 2025 show in Barcelona, AudioControl unveiled three new amplifier models bearing the Bijou Series name that originally helped the brand achieve global recognition in the residential market. The new Bijou Series offers a range of three high-performance GaN-based amplifiers for system installation professionals that combine improved audio quality with HDMI eARC and Dante connectivity from a discreet, space-saving but robust 1U footprint.

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AudioControl has introduced an eARC to Dante converter — a first-of-its-kind solution for custom integration professionals that connects the stereo audio signal from a video display via eARC to any Dante-enabled device for distribution to any zone. Unlike any other solution, AudioControl's compact eTV converter creates significant opportunity for integrators to easily distribute TV audio, especially from TV apps, synchronized across all Dante-equipped zones latency-free.

Seattle, WA-based AudioControl reports that its operations are now delivering best products and customer support in the brand’s nearly five-decade history across all critical phases of the company thanks to a significant investment by AVPro Global since the August, 2023 acquisition. New R&D, engineering, manufacturing, and customer service teams are now able to yield just-in-time delivery of multizone entertainment and home theater products to integrators.

AVPro Global, Inc., the parent company of AVPro Edge, AudioControl Pro, Murideo, and Bullet Train audio/video distribution products, announced the acquisition of THENAUDIO from X-VUE, expanding the AVPro Global footprint in the residential and commercial connectivity solutions market segments. Through the deal, AVPro Global assumes ownership of the THENAUDIO business, and X-VUE founder and CEO, Juha Nurminen joins AVPro Global as Director of Engineering, with an immediate focus on AudioControl Pro.

AVPro Global, a company that started as a distributor, and evolved to create its own brands of audio/video installation products, display calibration and HMDI cables, has announced the acquisition of the Home Audio division of AudioControl from AAMP Holdings, an aftermarket car audio company from Florida who had acquired the Seattle, WA company in April 2022. AVPro Global says that the AudioControl Home Audio Division makes sense in its strategy to accelerate its business in residential and commercial distributed audio and media rooms.