All items tagged with Sonical (19)

Lenbrook Acquires MQA, Patents, and Audio Codecs

September 19, 2023 by Joao Martins

Lenbrook Acquires MQA, Patents, and Audio Codecs

Lenbrook Corp., the privately-owned Canadian audio company that owns NAD Electronics, PSB Speakers, Bluesound, Bluesound Professional, and BluOS, has acquired the assets of UK-based company MQA. The deal adds significant audio patents and codecs to Lenbrook’s IP portfolio, including MQA's high-resolution audio encoding and the latest SCL6 Scalable Codec for wireless audio applications, which is implemented in the upcoming line of PSB headphones and earbuds.

Sonical Partners with IDUN audio for Embedded Dynamic Spatial Audio

September 13, 2023 by Joao Martins

Sonical Partners with IDUN audio for Embedded Dynamic Spatial Audio

Sonical, the Headphone 3.0 pioneer based in San Mateo, CA, and IDUN audio, the leading-edge startup from Copenhagen, Denmark, specializing in dynamic spatial audio for headphones, have formalized a strategic partnership. The two companies have been cooperating since 2022, and IDUN audio was part of the Sonical CES 2023 demos, with its dynamic spatial audio software running on Sonical's headphone operating system CosmOS - enabling unsurpassed spatialization with fast head tracking.

Hearables, Headphones Testing, Audio Electronics, and More in audioXpress April 2023

March 10, 2023 by audioXpress Staff

Hearables, Headphones Testing, Audio Electronics, and More in audioXpress April 2023

Want to understand what's ahead in the most revolutionary audio product category of the 21st century? Read the State of the Hearables Industry Market Update. And for product developers and manufacturers, there's also a Headphones Test and Measurement report. Burkhard Vogel discusses op-amp noise in simulated models, Bruce E. Gillingham offers a complete monoblock power amplifier project, and René Christensen writes about acoustic topology optimization. And so much more....

PSB Speakers, Sonical and MQA Announce Partnership to Create Next-Generation Headphones

February 28, 2023 by Joao Martins

PSB Speakers, Sonical and MQA Announce Partnership to Create Next-Generation Headphones

PSB Speakers, together with hearables start-up Sonical and audio codecs specialists MQA, announced a partnership that intends to define a new category of high-resolution audio headphones. The collaboration is aimed at creating true hifi headphones and smart earbuds, combining MQA's SCL6 high resolution wireless audio transmission and Sonical’s CosmOS platform. Planned for release under the PSB Speakers brand by Q1 2024, the resulting products will be the first headphones to feature Sonical’s ear computing platform, enabling a variety of apps and software upgrades.

OTC Hearing Aids: Is Innovation Leaving the Rule Behind?

February 15, 2023 by Andrew Bellavia

OTC Hearing Aids: Is Innovation Leaving the Rule Behind?

A wave of new developments promises to solve the most pressing need for people with milder hearing loss, allowing mass-market hearables to supplant Over-the-Counter (OTC) hearing aids with less stigma. Andrew Bellavia suggests the FDA’s OTC hearing aid rule (October 2022) includes assumptions that are quickly becoming obsolete as recent developments illustrate. This must read article was originally published in audioXpress, January 2023.

Nordic Semiconductor Selects Packetcraft Controller Software Delivering Advanced Bluetooth LE Audio Capability

January 3, 2023 by Joao Martins

Nordic Semiconductor Selects Packetcraft Controller Software Delivering Advanced Bluetooth LE Audio Capability

Packetcraft, a leading provider of Bluetooth embedded stacks and software solutions, announced their Bluetooth Qualified LE Controller is shipping with Nordic Semiconductor’s flagship nRF5340 dual-core Bluetooth 5.3 SoC enabling LE Audio in commercial products. At CES 2023, Packetcraft is already showcasing Bluetooth LE Audio and Auracast broadcast audio applications using Nordic’s nRF5340 SoC, including from Sonical, EMSi and Fanstel.

Sonical Partners With Dolphin Design to Develop the Silicon for Open Hearables

September 5, 2022 by Joao Martins

Sonical Partners With Dolphin Design to Develop the Silicon for Open Hearables

Sonical, the Silicon Valley company developing an open software platform for hearables, announced a partnership with Dolphin Design, a leading edge computing and embedded AI silicon IP company, and a subsidiary of Soitec, an industry leader in designing and manufacturing innovative semiconductor materials. Together, the two companies are working on a heterogeneous computing platform to design ASIC/SoCs with an innovative operating system that will change the end-user experience with hearables.

Audio and Loudspeaker Technologies International (ALTI) Association Promotes Hospitality Suite at CES 2023

September 5, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

Audio and Loudspeaker Technologies International (ALTI) Association Promotes Hospitality Suite at CES 2023

Members of the Audio and Loudspeaker Technologies International (ALTI) Association will be able to benefit from a new hospitality suite during CES 2023, January 4-8, in Las Vegas, NV. Companies who are not yet an ALTI member may apply now and will be able to setup a table to promote their business and services, organize meetings, relax and reorganize between meetings, and network with other key audio companies during the show.

A Computer in Every Ear. The Rise of Headphone 3.0

September 1, 2022 by Joao Martins

A Computer in Every Ear. The Rise of Headphone 3.0

Enter Sonical Headphone 3.0. A fully integrated approach for the product development of headphones and earbuds that allows consumers to load their own apps. audioXpress talked to Gary Spittle, the CEO and founder of Sonical, a young company that developed a chip and a real-time operating system for headphones and hearables. "Hearables should not be defined by the functions of a chip or the Bluetooth profiles, there is a lot more that product makers want to do," says Gary Spittle, the CEO and founder of Sonical.

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