All items tagged with consumer electronics (206)
Braun Returns to Audio with Engineering Support from Pure
July 18, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Braun Returns to Audio with Engineering Support from Pure

After nearly one hundred years of inspirational design across a range of sectors, Braun announced a long-awaited comeback to an esteemed category: audio. Responsible for the development and manufacture of Braun Audio, is British audio engineering firm Pure, working under license from Procter & Gamble. As its first project, Braun Audio returns with a reinvention of the timeless LE home speakers from 1959, one of the brand’s icons.
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Headphone Shipments Achieve Q1 2019 Revenues of $5.9 Billion
July 3, 2019 by Futuresource Consulting

Headphone Shipments Achieve Q1 2019 Revenues of $5.9 Billion

Consumer appetite for premium headphones continues to grow, with global revenues rising five times faster than shipments in Q1 2019, according to the latest market tracker report from Futuresource Consulting. As the CE Team at Futuresource highlights in its latest update of the Worldwide Headphone Market Report, headphone market revenues have reached $5.9 billion. True wireless maintained its ascendance, outperforming all other form factors with growth of 223% in units and 188% in value.
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Six Leading Global TV Manufacturers Embrace the WiSA Immersive Audio Standard
June 27, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Six Leading Global TV Manufacturers Embrace the WiSA Immersive Audio Standard

WiSA, the Wireless Speaker and Audio Association, comprised of more than 60 leading consumer electronics brands, announced it has expanded its reach to 6 top, global TV manufacturers. Its newest members include Compal, which ships TVs under the Toshiba brand, and Fengmi, an Xiaomi Technology ecosystem company and leading laser projection TV manufacturer. Together, they join LG Electronics, Foxconn, TCL, and Bang & Olufsen as WiSA members to bring WiSA Ready products that offer hi-definition, multi-channel audio home entertainment experiences.
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Futuresource Looks at Consumers Engagement with Audio Hardware & Content
June 25, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Futuresource Looks at Consumers Engagement with Audio Hardware & Content

Futuresource Consulting announced a brand new consumer market research program – Living with Audio: Consumer Engagement with Audio Hardware and Content. This new service from the market research firm provides an in-depth look at how consumers are engaging with home devices, headphones, smart speakers and audio content. The research answers questions around how many and what devices consumers own in their household, how they are currently using the devices and how often.
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IFA 2019 to Show Increasing Importance of Consumer Electronics in Society
June 14, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

IFA 2019 to Show Increasing Importance of Consumer Electronics in Society

For the second year, IFA (The International Funkausstellung) will take place in two fully occupied exhibition areas: the entire Berlin Exhibition Grounds as well as IFA Global Markets (for trade visitors only) at Station Berlin on Gleisdreieck. Europe's giant trade show for Consumer and Home Electronics will again underline the event’s unique global standing as a driving force for growth and innovation, and there's plenty of new exhibits and events.
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Wireless Speaker and Audio Realized - A Conversation with Tony Ostrom, President of WiSA
May 30, 2019 by Joao Martins

Wireless Speaker and Audio Realized - A Conversation with Tony Ostrom, President of WiSA

It's an exciting time for the Wireless Speaker and Audio (WiSA) Association, a consumer electronics consortium dedicated to creating interoperability standards utilized by leading brands and manufacturers to deliver immersive sound via wireless, intelligent devices. As anyone who has seen a demo agrees, WiSA Certified components from any member brand are finally helping to ensure robust, high definition, multi-channel, low latency wireless audio, while eliminating the complicated setup of traditional 5.1, 7.1, or immersive configurations in wired systems.
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Mimi Hearing Technologies Acquires 3D Sound Labs
April 11, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Mimi Hearing Technologies Acquires 3D Sound Labs

Mimi Hearing Technologies, a leading company in digital hearing tests and hearing-ability-based sound personalization, has announced the acquisition of French company 3D Sound Labs, the developers of 3D Audio technologies, including a HRTF (Head-Related Transfer Function) personalization service that improves the realism of the audio listening experience. According to Mimi, 3D Sound Labs has the know-how and intellectual property to help them further enhance Mimi Defined, the company’s state-of-the-art sound personalization technology.
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German Physiks Launches New High-End Electronics at AXPONA 2019
April 1, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

German Physiks Launches New High-End Electronics at AXPONA 2019

Announced in late 2018, German Physiks’ new Emperor Extreme range of high-end electronics will be launched in the U.S. at the AXPONA 2019 show. The range currently comprises a preamplifier, integrated amplifier and stereo and mono power amplifiers and will be further expanded soon with a DSP and Digital Electronic Crossover unit. Knows for its unique omnidirectional speakers and the development of the DDD driver, the German company will now expand into electronics.
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Virtual Assistants Establish Strategic Role in Multiple Categories
March 29, 2019 by Futuresource Consulting

Virtual Assistants Establish Strategic Role in Multiple Categories

Virtual Assistants (VAs) are poised to become the next-generation go-to interface, according to new market data and reporting from Futuresource Consulting. The company’s recent home audio quarterly tracker shows that products with integrated VAs grew to 41.8% of all home audio shipments in Q4 2018, an increase of nearly 50% on Q4 2017, with smart speakers increasing by 79%.
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WiSA Association Nearly Doubles Its Members in One Year
March 28, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

WiSA Association Nearly Doubles Its Members in One Year

WiSA LLC, the Wireless Speaker and Audio Association comprised of leading consumer electronics brands founded by Summit Wireless Technologies, announced unprecedented first quarter and year-over-year membership growth. Association membership now includes more than 60 of the industry’s leading consumer electronics, audio and original design manufacturer (ODM) brands, encouraged by the interoperability possibilities of the wireless multichannel audio technology.
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