All items tagged with speaker array (9)

Amadeus Designs Custom Column Speaker Array for Festival d'Avignon

July 20, 2023 by audioXpress Staff

Amadeus Designs Custom Column Speaker Array for Festival d'Avignon

The Festival d'Avignon, one of the world's most important international events for contemporary performing arts, has chosen Holophonix and Amadeus to re-equip the prestigious main presentation area at the Festival, the Courtyard of Honor at the Palace of the Popes. The two French companies have delivered new hardware and software technology supporting the live performances including the soon to be released "Colonnes d’Avignon" (Avignon Columns' speaker array).

Monitor Audio Group Previews Concept 50 Cluster Loudspeaker at High End 2022

May 24, 2022 by Joao Martins

Monitor Audio Group Previews Concept 50 Cluster Loudspeaker at High End 2022

As part of the company's 50th anniversary celebration, British manufacturer Monitor Audio showcased a new bold loudspeaker development. Presented as a fully-working prototype, the Concept 50 is a three-way configuration loudspeaker with a unique driver arrangement, featuring a new-generation MPD pleated diaphragm tweeter surrounded by an array of six mid-range drivers, suspended on a two-legged cabinet configuration holding four force-cancelling bass drivers. The Concept 50 is scheduled to go into production later in 2022.

Holoplot Welcomes Klas Dalbjorn as Product Manager

January 26, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

Holoplot Welcomes Klas Dalbjorn as Product Manager

Berlin-based pro audio company Holoplot, the inventors of the X1 Matrix Array and pioneers of 3D beamforming technologies for large scale sound reinforcement applications, announced the appointment of Klas Dalbjorn to the role of product manager. Dalbjorn brings 30 years of pro audio experience to his new position, following his key roles as product manager at Powersoft, and 24 years with Lab.gruppen.

Audioscenic and Tectonic Promote Adaptive Beam Steering Soundbar Demonstration

December 21, 2021 by Joao Martins

Audioscenic and Tectonic Promote Adaptive Beam Steering Soundbar Demonstration

Audioscenic Limited, a UK-based company exploring 3D audio technology, and Tectonic Audio Labs, the renown manufacturer of audio solutions using Bending Wave technology, will demonstrate a highly innovative living room soundbar at CES 2022. The evolved speaker concept features Audioscenic’s adaptive beam steering and Tectonic Balanced Mode Radiator (BMR) speaker technologies, aiming at product implementations for home audio, gaming, and home cinema.

JBL Professional New PRX ONE All-in-One Portable PA System Designed to Work With Pro Connect Control App

August 5, 2021 by Joao Martins

JBL Professional New PRX ONE All-in-One Portable PA System Designed to Work With Pro Connect Control App

Harman Professional Solutions unveiled its latest addition to the JBL Professional PRX Column Portable PA family, the PRX ONE all-in-one portable PA. This next generation active column design features an acoustically optimized driver array, built-in digital mixer and DSP, and Bluetooth functionality. JBL also designed it to be used with the all new, universal JBL Pro Connect app for simplified management of the PRX ONE system.

KEF Delivers First Car Audio System With Uni-Q Drive Unit Array for New Lotus Emira

July 7, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

KEF Delivers First Car Audio System With Uni-Q Drive Unit Array for New Lotus Emira

Lotus and KEF have announced a partnership to bring high-end audio into the next generation of Lotus sports cars and premium electric lifestyle vehicles, commencing with the new Lotus Emira. To amplify the Emira driving experience, KEF is using its Uni-Q technology in a 10-channel sound system, with the engineering teams creating a novel flare that acoustically blends the speaker drive units into the car interior to ensure a truly spatial sound.

Holoplot Launches Wavefield Synthesis X1 Matrix Array Solution

May 5, 2021 by Joao Martins

Holoplot Launches Wavefield Synthesis X1 Matrix Array Solution

After years of research and development, Berlin-based hardware and software audio technology manufacturer Holoplot announced the launch of its X1 product line. This is the first commercially available wavefield synthesis solution specifically built for large conferences, concerts, venues, theme parks, immersive installations and similar applications requiring high-impact, innovative 3D professional audio technology.

Meridian Audio Announces Array Configuration Upgrades For Architectural Speaker Range

December 1, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Meridian Audio Announces Array Configuration Upgrades For Architectural Speaker Range

Meridian Audio continues to challenge convention and break new ground through research both in speaker design and digital signal processing technologies. Now, the British company announced the launch of High-Power Array (HPA), a technology upgrade for residential applications that leverages both fields to optimize the output and coverage of sound when three Meridian architectural loudspeakers are arranged in a close-proximity array configuration.

USound MEMS Microspeakers Now Available to the Audio Industry as Components, Development Platforms, and Reference Designs

December 17, 2019 by Joao Martins

USound MEMS Microspeakers Now Available to the Audio Industry as Components, Development Platforms, and Reference Designs

Austrian microspeaker company USound is the most advanced MEMS Microspeakers initiative currently in the market. Since announcing a production partnership with STMicroelectronics in 2017, the world's first miniature piezoelectric MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) actuators for smart audio systems in portable devices have become a commercial reality. Targeting multiple possible applications from headsets to high-end speakers and completely new development ideas, USound has announced multiple reference solutions to push the technology forward.