All items tagged with home theater (373)
New Company PerListen Audio Aims Higher with Advanced Loudspeaker Designs
March 22, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

New Company PerListen Audio Aims Higher with Advanced Loudspeaker Designs

PerListen Audio, a new audio company founded by an experienced team of industry professionals, announced its intention to develop and bring to market a full line of THX Certified loudspeakers, bridging the gap between large home theater speakers and those used in movie theaters worldwide. All the new PerListen speakers feature state-of-the-art drivers, including beryllium tweeters, TexTreme woofers and carbon fiber midranges with advanced waveguides, all designed using advanced Comsol acoustic modeling.
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Bold North Audio Launches BWF-8001 Abaca Fiber Cone 8-Inch Woofer
March 16, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Bold North Audio Launches BWF-8001 Abaca Fiber Cone 8-Inch Woofer

With a Klippel optimized abaca fiber cone and rubber surround, the newest Bold North Audio 8" subwoofer, the BWF-8001, delivers heavy duty power and robust sound for two-way systems, tower speakers, or high-end home theaters. This latest design from MISCO, the St. Paul, MN-headquartered company, is an 8" (203 mm) stamped frame subwoofer, rated for 150 Watts program power and totally designed and assembled in the US. Another valuable option in the Bold North Audio range for speaker designers.
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Paradigm Introduces Founder Series Premium Loudspeaker Series
March 4, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Paradigm Introduces Founder Series Premium Loudspeaker Series

Canadian audio specialist Paradigm launched its Founder Series, a six-model range of premium loudspeakers that brings high-end performance and luxurious style to hi-fi and home cinema systems. Designed for today’s modern living spaces, the Founder Series is a foundational development of all speaker design aspects aiming for precise control and game-changing dynamics in music and media reproduction. Every single speaker features totally new driver designs.
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Enclave Audio Now Shipping Add-on Subwoofers for CineHome Wireless Audio Systems
March 3, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Enclave Audio Now Shipping Add-on Subwoofers for CineHome Wireless Audio Systems

Enclave Audio, the Californian manufacturer of immersive wireless audio systems for home entertainment environments, announced it is now shipping add-on wireless subwoofers for its CineHome II and THX Certified CineHome PRO wireless home theater systems. This includes additional 8" wireless subwoofers available for CineHome II systems and 10" models for CineHome PRO systems. Both CineHome systems support up to four (4!) wireless subwoofers to enable configurations of up to 5.4 channels.
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Alcons Audio Introduces New CRMS Wide Dispersion Cinema Speaker
February 25, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Alcons Audio Introduces New CRMS Wide Dispersion Cinema Speaker

Dutch sound innovator Alcons Audio continues to expand its range of cinema speakers, now introducing the CRMS-SRIW/9090 model to enable more output and coverage from less depth. The new versatile, wide dispersion design can be used as a reference main / screen system, or a compact surround system in immersive sound-for-picture applications. The Alcons CRMS-SRIW/9090 can also be used as full-range sound system in any installed audio application, where a very high quality sound reproduction with inconspicuous in-wall or on-wall mounting is required.
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Summit Wireless Technologies Presents Wireless Multi-Channel Home Theater Audio Design Considerations for TV Applications
February 9, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Summit Wireless Technologies Presents Wireless Multi-Channel Home Theater Audio Design Considerations for TV Applications

Summit Wireless Technologies, the company providing immersive, wireless sound technology for intelligent devices and next-generation home entertainment systems and the founding member of the WiSA Association, will present an online event about wireless multichannel audio for home theaters. The presentation, scheduled for February 10, 2021, is promoted by the SID – Society for Information Display.
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GGNTKT Model S1 Self-Powered In-Wall Loudspeaker for Full Multichannel Immersion and Dynamics
December 16, 2020 by Joao Martins

GGNTKT Model S1 Self-Powered In-Wall Loudspeaker for Full Multichannel Immersion and Dynamics

GGNTKT (the name stands for "Gegentakt" or push-pull) is an interesting new loudspeaker company with a refreshing attitude towards high-end audio. The company's new product, the Model S1, is a self-powered, in-wall, 2-way custom installation design for home theaters. The GGNTKT Model S1 is a high output design for front/LCR and surround channels of small to medium-sized home theaters and professional multichannel monitoring in studio facilities.
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Patent Review: Single Enclosure Surround Sound Loudspeaker
December 10, 2020 by James Croft

Patent Review: Single Enclosure Surround Sound Loudspeaker

James Croft reviews a patent claimed by Polk Audio and granted in 2015, describing “a single-enclosure loudspeaker system that projects multichannel surround sound into a listener’s room, and so replaces multiple conventional surround channel loudspeakers.” The patent also describes, in one embodiment of the invention, that the “surround channel program material is pre-processed by an integrated wireless transmission device that performs certain digital signal processing and channel mixing steps in advance of wireless surround signal broadcast to a receiver.” This article was originally published in Voice Coil, January 2015.
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SoundSend WiSA Wireless Multichannel Transmitter Now Available for WiSA Partners, Distributors and Retailers
December 2, 2020 by Joao Martins

SoundSend WiSA Wireless Multichannel Transmitter Now Available for WiSA Partners, Distributors and Retailers

Consumer electronics consortium Wireless Speaker and Audio Association (WiSA), announced that SoundSend, the Association's first branded product, is now available at $179 US MSRP. This means that consumer electronic brands can now offer wireless multichannel surround sound 5.1 systems hard bundled with SoundSend or co-promote with premium audio speakers or TVs. The new "hockey puck" device is truly a strategic product. It's a big deal for the promotion of the technology and for making WiSA truly mainstream.
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Meridian Audio Announces Array Configuration Upgrades For Architectural Speaker Range
December 1, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Meridian Audio Announces Array Configuration Upgrades For Architectural Speaker Range

Meridian Audio continues to challenge convention and break new ground through research both in speaker design and digital signal processing technologies. Now, the British company announced the launch of High-Power Array (HPA), a technology upgrade for residential applications that leverages both fields to optimize the output and coverage of sound when three Meridian architectural loudspeakers are arranged in a close-proximity array configuration.
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