All items tagged with loudspeakers (186)
Clean Earth Magnets Manufactured in Minnesota
November 7, 2024 by Mike Klasco

Clean Earth Magnets Manufactured in Minnesota

Mike Klasco writes about Niron Magnetics' first commercial pilot plant in Minnesota. The opening of this 70,000 square-foot Minneapolis facility took place in October 2024 and is a key milestone in Niron Magnetics's path to scaled production of its Clean Earth Magnet technology and the company’s ability to bridge the acute supply and demand gap for permanent magnets. A significant step forward in the company's mission to produce sustainable, rare-earth-free permanent magnets.
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Eclipse Audio Updates FIR Designer and Adds Support for AFMG, Storm Audio, LabGruppen IPX and Audio Weaver
November 5, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

Eclipse Audio Updates FIR Designer and Adds Support for AFMG, Storm Audio, LabGruppen IPX and Audio Weaver

Eclipse Audio continues to expand its partnerships and software, allowing the use of FIR filtering in DSP-driven loudspeakers, for loudspeaker design, live tuning, and system integration. The company founded by Michael John in 2016 now announced that its FIR Designer M (multichannel) software now has capabilities to build up to 6-way presets. Like the single channel FIR Designer, FIR Designer M now also added new branded IIR modes and expanded support with more DSP tools.
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The Loudspeaker Sourcing Show 2024 is Postponed
August 1, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

The Loudspeaker Sourcing Show 2024 is Postponed

Philip Richardson, Owner of Trueanalog Strictly OEM and Host of the Loudspeaker Sourcing Show announced that the 2024 edition of the show, scheduled to take place 16-18 October in Guangzhou, China will be postponed this year. In a message on social media, Richardson posted that "Due to unforeseen political climate, and limited travel to China from invited countries, the Loudspeaker Sourcing Show will be postponed this year. I'm deeply sorry for the inconvenience."
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SPL Graph Data: Let’s Get Back to a Level Playing Field
July 24, 2024 by Tom James

SPL Graph Data: Let’s Get Back to a Level Playing Field

This excellent thought piece by loudspeaker industry veteran Tom James, addresses the often disregarded topic of speaker measurements and the corresponding variables of SPL Graph Data. In his short essay James explores the impact of ignoring or intentionally manipulating the rules established in the "Scales and Sizes for Plotting Frequency Characteristics and Polar Diagrams," defined in the IEC-602632 standard, originally from 1982 and updated in 2020.
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JBL Reimagines the Affordable Home Theater Experience
July 19, 2024 by Alfred Moody

JBL Reimagines the Affordable Home Theater Experience

Previewed earlier this year, JBL launched its new JBL Modern Audio (MA) AV Receivers and Stage 2 Loudspeakers – high-performance home theater and hifi solutions for the music and movie enthusiasts. This new range of JBL-branded products are intended to meet growing demand for home systems that are simple to install, connect, and upgrade. The concept is to offer a unified and cohesive system that combines simplicity, design, quality, and scalability – all at an affordable price.
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Loudspeaker Bass Reflex Alignments
June 5, 2024 by Claus Futtrup

Loudspeaker Bass Reflex Alignments

The use of standard filter alignments represents a foundational concept in the loudspeaker industry, with an impact nearly as significant as the invention of the electro-dynamic loudspeaker principle itself. As one of the creators of Speakerbench, a web-based speaker design tool, in collaboration with Jeff Candy, Claus Futtrup is in a unique position to discuss the evolution of enclosure designs based on this electrical filter theory, including the concept of an alignment chart.
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Alta Audio Premieres New Four-way Reference Speaker at AXPONA 2024
April 4, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

Alta Audio Premieres New Four-way Reference Speaker at AXPONA 2024

The creation of industry veteran Michael Levy, Alta Audio always offers very unique home audio loudspeakers. For AXPONA 2024, the company is bringing Aphrodite, a new four-way design inspired by the Goddess of Love. Chicago dealer Cinetec will promote a special pre-AXPONA event on April 9 to debut and demo the new reference model in the Alta Audio lineup, and Nexus Audio Technologies, the brand's North-American distributor, will have a dedicate room at AXPONA.
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Low Frequency in Loudspeakers: It’s All About the Bass!
April 3, 2024 by Mike Klasco

Low Frequency in Loudspeakers: It’s All About the Bass!

All the speaker design techniques to achieve more bass, challenging Hofmann's Iron Law. The same bass in a smaller enclosure? Deeper or louder bass for the same enclosure back volume? Higher efficiency for a given alignment? A cleaner lower distortion bass? Learn about the companies, products, and technologies that make all this possible. This article was originally published in Voice Coil, November 2023.
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Bass Reflex Performance Envelope - Part 3: A Practical Example
March 20, 2024 by Gary Gesellchen

Bass Reflex Performance Envelope - Part 3: A Practical Example

In this article, Gary Gesellchen (Vanatoo) completes his Bass Reflex Performance Envelope exploration. After concluding the main analysis portion of the article determining his novel approach to estimating the performance envelope available from bass reflex loudspeakers, Part 3 shows an example to see how his calculations all work together, and addresses some practical considerations. This article was originally published in audioXpress, September 2023.
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Bass Reflex Performance Envelope - Part 2: System Analysis
March 13, 2024 by Gary Gesellchen

Bass Reflex Performance Envelope - Part 2: System Analysis

This Bass Reflex Performance Envelope article series describes a novel approach to estimating the performance envelope available from ported loudspeakers. Part 2 expands on the system analysis, showing how driver and port sizes determine how loud and how low a system will play, and how that relates to generally available drivers. This article was originally published in audioXpress, August 2023.
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