Get Connected to Speaker Intelligence in Voice Coil April 2023

The April 2023 issue of Voice Coil reveals the genesis of Echo Test + Measurement and its AIO Test System. As scheduled, there's an updated industry directory of Cable and Connector vendors, James Croft reviews a key Polk Audio patent that expands on its Polk SDA loudspeaker prior art now in a more compact enclosure. And on Test Bench, Vance Dickason focus on the characterization of the innovative TW045WA01 dual-diaphragm tweeter from Wavecor.

Swedish digital audio processing pioneer Dirac and Australian headphone company Nura announced a collaboration on the upcoming NuraTrue Pro wireless earbuds, featuring Dirac Virtuo spatial audio. The latest earbuds from Nura mark the first collaboration between the two companies and demonstrate Dirac’s growing leadership position in the headphone market – after establishing its technology in the automotive, home theater, and mobile markets. The NuraTrue Pro earbuds are now fully funded on Kickstarter.

The November 2021 edition of audioXpress looks at the latest industry trends in digital signal processing, and enabling fully adaptive audio DSP experiences. Roger Shively (JJR Acoustics) writes about how the unique acoustic space of the car interior can be defined by the use of DSP, and Al Clark (CEO, Danville Signal Processing) shares his company’s journey into the development of the dspNexus DSP Audio Processor. Now available for viewing online, download and in print.

Nugen Audio announced a new convolution reverb plugin. Paragon is described as "the world’s first 3D-compatible convolution reverb," and offers full control of the decay, room size and brightness via state-of-the-art re-synthesis, modeled on 3D recordings of real spaces. It also provides an unprecedented level of tweak-ability, with zero time-stretching – which means no artifacts. Additionally, Paragon features spectral analysis and precise EQ of the Impulse Responses (IR).

The Legend Series, the most advanced loudspeakers in Polk Audio’s history where undoubtedly one of the highlights at the 2019 Rocky Mountain Audio Fest (RMAF). The latest flagship speaker line from Polk Audio, the Legend Series represents the most sophisticated, and intensively engineered loudspeakers the company has ever introduced. The new Stereo Dimensional Array on the new L800 speakers was justifiably one of RMAF’s most popular demonstrations.