All items tagged with listening rooms (18)

AXPONA 2024 Showcases The Very Best In High-End Audio Equipment

March 18, 2024 by Joao Martins

AXPONA 2024 Showcases The Very Best In High-End Audio Equipment

AXPONA, the largest consumer audio show in North America, returns to the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center and Hotel April 12-14. The show attracts nearly 300 exhibitors featuring 700 brands coming from 40 different countries including dozens of first-time exhibitors. For the 2024 edition, the promoters have confirmed over 200 listening rooms and the largest ever number of companies exhibiting. And Vance Dickason will be there to promote the 8th Edition of The Loudspeaker Design Cookbook!

GGNTKT Launches New Model M3 Active Mastering Monitor With Cardioid Bass

March 13, 2024 by Joao Martins

GGNTKT Launches New Model M3 Active Mastering Monitor With Cardioid Bass

German loudspeaker design house GGNTKT Audio launched a freestanding 4-way active loudspeaker as the flagship model in its M family. The new Model M3 is described as an active mastering monitor with cardioid radiation behavior, directly reflecting the company's philosophy of designing systems that remain true in the studio, home theater or private listening environments, delivering authentic reproduction and the unforgettable "you-are-there" effect.

AXPONA 2024 Audio Expo Returns in Full Force

February 19, 2024 by Joao Martins

AXPONA 2024 Audio Expo Returns in Full Force

What is now the largest hifi and high end audio show in North America, will take place April 12-14 to the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel & Convention Center, Schaumburg, IL (Chicago area). Anticipating by a month the Munich show in Europe, AXPONA (Audio Expo North America) is where many of the US brands reveal their latest and greatest gear. For the 2024 edition, the promoters have confirmed over 200 listening rooms and the largest ever number of companies exhibiting.

McIntosh Group Announces New House of Sound Experience Center

September 25, 2023 by audioXpress Staff

McIntosh Group Announces New House of Sound Experience Center

The McIntosh Group unveiled its one-of-a-kind experience center — House of Sound, in Chelsea NYC. A thoughtfully curated multi-sensory townhouse that highlights the group's brands and premium audio innovations, the space combines reference listening rooms with areas that reimagine how consumers experience audio in the modern era. The House of Sound showroom features the latest designs in cutting-edge audio technology across the McIntosh Group portfolio, which includes McIntosh, Sonus faber, Rotel, Pro-Ject Audio Systems, and Sumiko Phono.

SubZone Subwoofer Placement Optimizer App Now Available

July 19, 2023 by audioXpress Staff

SubZone Subwoofer Placement Optimizer App Now Available

British start-up Sonic Baume has launched SubZone – a mobile app that finds the optimum position for a subwoofer in the room using acoustic simulation. Once the user enters some simple details about the room and listening position, the app predicts the effect of room modes for every possible position of the subwoofer. It then presents a heatmap of the room showing where the user should aim to put the subwoofer, and where to avoid placing it.

IsoAcoustics Introduces V120 Mount Isolation and Aiming Solution for Immersive Audio

November 1, 2022 by Joao Martins

IsoAcoustics Introduces V120 Mount Isolation and Aiming Solution for Immersive Audio

Following a first presentation at the NAMM Show, in June 2022, IsoAcoustics announced the official release of the new V120 Mount for wall and ceiling-mounted speakers in professional and home project studios. This is a much-needed, and extremely useful solution for immersive audio installations in studios or any type of listening rooms, based on established IsoAcoustics' patented isolation technology, combined with a range of mounting and aiming accessories.

R&D Stories: Acoustic Diffusion Research

September 15, 2022 by Norman Varney

R&D Stories: Acoustic Diffusion Research

This article offers a valuable inside perspective about developing new diffuser solutions, and lessons learned while designing countless critical listening rooms around the world. A journey that lead to the creation of the PolyFlex diffuser, which will scatter either horizontally or vertically, depending on the orientation, and improve clarity in speech and spatial focus without making a room sound dead and/or small. The author was actively involved in multiple acoustics standards committees, including for testing procedures.

AXPONA 2022 Audio Expo Returns In-Person Stronger Than Ever

April 14, 2022 by Joao Martins

AXPONA 2022 Audio Expo Returns In-Person Stronger Than Ever

North America's largest high end audio expo, AXPONA returns in-person April 22-24, 2022 to the Chicago Area. The whole audio industry has been anticipating the return of this event, which in its 11th edition promises already 500+ exhibitors and brands, 130+ interactive listening rooms, an expanded Expo Hall, a dedicated headphone area, live concerts, seminars and much more. Once again at the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel and Convention Center.

You Can DIY! An Introduction to Measuring Rooms

September 8, 2021 by Ethan Winer

You Can DIY! An Introduction to Measuring Rooms

"Before you start measuring and playing around with your new speakers, maybe you should know your room." The statement, inspired Ethan Winer to write this article from a very practical perspective, helping us to understand the acoustics of our own listening rooms, and how measurements will help us. The examples contained in the article use the popular Room EQ Wizard (REW) software. This article was originally published in audioXpress, August 2021.

Vicoustic Creates Next-Generation VicAudiophile VMT Kit to Address Acoustics, Health and Safety of Listening Spaces

April 20, 2021 by Joao Martins

Vicoustic Creates Next-Generation VicAudiophile VMT Kit to Address Acoustics, Health and Safety of Listening Spaces

Vicoustic developed a new generation of eco-friendly, advanced sound absorption and diffusion solutions to treat any listening room, allowing users to truly enjoy a hi-fi system. The new VicAudiophile VMT Kit is an upgradable approach to acoustic kits, created to maximize the conditions of a room, without compromising health, comfort and safety. Users can freely select how many kits they apply, according to the chosen configuration.

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