ZUK Z1 Smartphone Uses High-Performance ams Noise Cancellation Chip for USB Type-C Earbuds

Lenovo’s new subsidiary, ZUK, is using ams’ Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) analog speaker driver for the earbuds of its new Z1 smartphone. This is also the first ANC headset in the world to feature the new USB Type-C connector rather than the traditional 3.5mm audio jack. The fully-integrated ams device offers noise cancellation with very low power consumption, making it ideal for headsets, headphones and ear pieces.

The new Spectrum Series model G10 universal-fit professional personal monitors from Future Sonics signal the brand’s return to an universal-fit platform solution. For the new professional personal monitors, Future Sonics used a wide-spectrum, micro-sized, armature-free voice coil infrastructure and a new miniature dynamic transducer.

The new PCB Random Incidence Microphone (Model 377C20) from PCB Piezotronics covers a frequency range up to 16 kHz (+/- 2dB), the hearing range for most adults. The new microphone is ideal for noise reduction testing and general room acoustics measurements as well as calculating transmission loss with different materials.

Cedar Audio and Merging Technologies have agreed on a patent license and now announced the development of a new, 64-bit CEDAR for Pyramix. Cedar Audio’s Retouch introduced the concept of spectral editing in February 2002. Since then, many software companies have licensed the CEDAR's technology and, in 2014, after a dispute with a US company, “the Retouch patent”, was validated.