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Yvonne Ho becomes President of Professional Audio Manufacturers Alliance (PAMA) Board of Directors

April 22, 2025 by audioXpress Staff

Yvonne Ho becomes President of Professional Audio Manufacturers Alliance (PAMA) Board of Directors

The Professional Audio Manufacturers Alliance (PAMA) announced that Yvonne Ho has become President of PAMA’s Board of Directors for a two-year term. Yvonne Ho succeeds Chris Regan (RF Venue) in the role, while Regan remains on the board as a director. Founded in 2003, the Professional Audio Manufacturers Alliance (PAMA) is a collective voice and forum for the leading manufacturers of professional audio products and the people who use them.

Point Source Audio Debuts Newly Engineered Earmounted Lavalier Microphone for Content Creators

April 9, 2025 by Joao Martins

Point Source Audio Debuts Newly Engineered Earmounted Lavalier Microphone for Content Creators

Renowned for professional-grade microphones, Point Source Audio (PSA) unveiled a creator-friendly new over-ear lavalier microphone. The new Embrace Model EO-7, unveiled at NAB 2025, expands on PSA's catalog of broadcast and live performance solutions, offering the same patented earmounted design that ensures pickup stability, color-changeable skins, with a standard 3.5mm termination to connect to leading 2.4 GHz wireless systems used by streamers and content creators.

Point Source Audio Reinvents Intercom Headsets for Accessibility to Custom In-Ear Monitors

May 19, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Point Source Audio Reinvents Intercom Headsets for Accessibility to Custom In-Ear Monitors

Point Source Audio’s patented CM-i family of lightweight in-ear intercom headsets has received a design upgrade. The newly upgraded CM-i3 and CM-i5 intercom headsets boast in-earphones that can be quickly detached to clean, swap for personal IEMs or to replace for new users. The new design — brought to market earlier than initially planned in light of the current health crisis — adds factors such as detachable earbuds for improved hygiene and accessibility to more easily customize with a user’s custom in-ear monitors.

Point Source Audio Receives Fourth Patent with Dual Element Lavalier Microphone

November 6, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Point Source Audio Receives Fourth Patent with Dual Element Lavalier Microphone

Point Source Audio, an audio equipment manufacturer from Petaluma, CA, specializing in the development of miniature microphones and headsets, has received U.S. Patent No. D850,422 for the CO2-8WL, part of the company’s CO2 Confidence microphone series. This design is the world’s first fully redundant microphone in a wearable housing, providing an all-in-one solution for critical live sound and broadcast applications that require back-up miking.

Point Source Audio Awarded Patents for Embrace Earmount Microphone Design and Functionality

October 30, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Point Source Audio Awarded Patents for Embrace Earmount Microphone Design and Functionality

Point Source Audio (PSA), an audio equipment manufacturer specializing in the development of miniature microphones and headsets, announced today that the U.S. Patent Office has issued two patents for PSA’s Embrace Earmount Microphone: Patent No. D786,220, which protects the design of PSA’s Embrace earmount, and 9,706,285, which covers the device, apparatus, system or method of use.

Point Source Audio Now Shipping New Microphones with Built-in Backup

August 22, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Point Source Audio Now Shipping New Microphones with Built-in Backup

Point Source Audio (PSA), an innovator in miniature microphone technology, has announced it is now shipping the groundbreaking dual element microphones with built-in backup. The CO2-8WL Dual Lavalier Microphone and the EO-8WR Dual Earmount Microphone are patent pending and the worlds first fully redundant microphones with dual factory-matched elements bringing an elegant, small footprint solution to the common need for redundant sound sources.

Point Source Audio and AuviTran Announce Distribution Partnership for the Americas

May 18, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Point Source Audio and AuviTran Announce Distribution Partnership for the Americas

Point Source Audio (PSA) and French audio over IP network specialist AuviTran, announced their official partnership to distribute AuviTran products throughout North America. In this agreement, Point Source Audio — a manufacturer of miniature microphones and headsets — will tap its sales and support team to bring AuviTran solutions to proaudio and broadcast markets, which they believe simplify AV/IP networking convergence.

Point Source Audio to Showcase Expanded Line of Patented Intercom Headsets at 2017 NAB Show

April 13, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Point Source Audio to Showcase Expanded Line of Patented Intercom Headsets at 2017 NAB Show

Point Source Audio (PSA) announced an expansion of its line of patented in-ear headsets to include a new slimmer, lighter condenser microphone model, the CM-i5, that will be unveiled at the 2017 NAB Show. Designed for clarity and all-day wearing comfort, the CM-i line is a series of modular in-ear headsets offering a combination of optimized in-ear performance, lightweight comfort and earphone modularity, ideal for broadcast teams from directors to camera operators.

Point Source Audio Announces Issuance of Patent for Audio Headset

May 3, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

Point Source Audio Announces Issuance of Patent for Audio Headset

California company Point Source Audio (PSA), an audio equipment manufacturer specializing in the development of miniature microphones and headsets announced that the US Patent Office has approved its patent submission that covers its modular headset design method of integrating in-earphones into a structure. This innovative design creates a lightweight and modular audio headset that has been said to enhance hearing, and transform communications work flow for some users.