MQA Labs Announces New Mixing and Mastering Tools at NAMM 2025

During NAMM 2025, MQA Labs is announcing a suite of studio tools which will enable engineers to employ previously unavailable methods for improved impulse response and noise shaping. Harnessing MQA Labs’ advanced approach to time domain performance, the new Plugins by MQA Labs refine detail and resolution with unique control of time-domain and low-level information, giving studios the confidence that the files they deliver to streaming platforms preserve the richness, depth, and detail desired for digital playback.

John Melanson, senior technical fellow at Cirrus Logic, has been granted his 500th US patent, an achievement that places him among the world’s most prolific inventors. The Academy Award-winning engineer’s core contributions are within the field of audio and electronics, particularly the analog and mixed-signal technologies that have helped transform the analog world around us into the digital signals at the heart of today’s most advanced products.

MAAT Incorporated, the software manufacturer of professional audio solutions for mastering and digital audio processing, announced the re-release of a wholly rearchitected cross platform plug-in for the redithering of digital audio. Building on the foundations of MAAT’s original LINearise plugin, LINpro incorporates an all-new Dithering engine based on the current understanding of psychoacoustic, information theory and audio production best practices.

Technics unveiled the SU-R1000, its first Reference Class integrated amplifier. As Technics explains, its Reference Class products are developed in pursue of the brand's insatiable desire to deliver ultimate sound quality to customers, and offer the premium musical experience the Technics brand is known for. The SU-R1000 follows design references of the classic hifi components from decades ago. But inside, this is a technical evolution of the brand's 2014 rebirth.