All items tagged with whole home audio (86)
Roon Confirms New Audio Partners and Refines Its Software User Experience
October 29, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Roon Confirms New Audio Partners and Refines Its Software User Experience

Roon, the innovative music management, discovery and streaming platform, announced an impressive array of over 25 new Roon Ready and Roon Tested devices from audio brands such as Arcam, Astell&Kern, Bluesound, JBL, Mission, Rotel and more. Additionally, the brand welcomed 5 new partners, including British loudspeaker pioneers Mission, whose new LX Connect all-in-one hi-fi system is Roon Tested. Other new partners include Argon Audio, Avik, Silent Angel and Zidoo (featuring three 4K UHD media players that are Roon Ready).
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McIntosh Expands Custom Install for Whole House Audio With New MI1250 12-Channel Power Amplifier
October 14, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

McIntosh Expands Custom Install for Whole House Audio With New MI1250 12-Channel Power Amplifier

McIntosh continues to expand on its 70 years’ legacy in prestigious home entertainment and ultimate-quality audio also with products specifically designed for custom install. Meeting evolving market trends with immersive audio formats and multiroom installations, the Binghamton, NY-based company introduced the MI1250 12-Channel Power Amplifier for whole house audio.
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NAD Expands Classic Series With New C 399 HybridDigital DAC Amplifier
September 22, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

NAD Expands Classic Series With New C 399 HybridDigital DAC Amplifier

NAD Electronics expanded its Classic Series with a new flagship integrated amplifier featuring HybridDigital nCore amplification, ESS Sabre DAC and the latest MDC2 Modular Design Construction architecture. With all these key elements of NAD's Masters Series amplifiers, the new C 399 Hybrid Digital DAC Amplifier takes value and performance to a whole new level. The suggested retail price of the C 399 is $1999 USD with retail availability in time for the holiday season.
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Crestron Announces DM NAX Whole-Home Audio Amplifier Now Available
June 18, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Crestron Announces DM NAX Whole-Home Audio Amplifier Now Available

Crestron Electronics announced the Creston DM NAX distributed Audio-over-IP (AoIP) amplifier is now shipping and available. This highly-anticipated all-in-one AoIP solution provides all the connectivity and audio functionality integrators need to delight residential customers. The DM NAX amplifier also offers the audio flexibility, scalability, and interoperability for both Crestron Home and Crestron custom-programmed projects.
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Bluesound Introduces New Generation Node and PowerNode Hi-Res Multiroom Streaming DAC and Amplifier
May 10, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Bluesound Introduces New Generation Node and PowerNode Hi-Res Multiroom Streaming DAC and Amplifier

Bluesound has announced a new generation of its best-selling Node Wireless Hi-Res Multi-Room Music Streamer and PowerNode Wireless Hi-Res Multi-Room Streaming Amplifier. The upgrades include new DAC designs, more powerful quad-core processors, and touch panel controls with presets and proximity sensors, while the PowerNode now offers substantially more power. Both feature an easy-to-clean satin finish in either black or white.
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Bang & Olufsen Introduces Beosound Emerge Slim Home Speaker
April 16, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Bang & Olufsen Introduces Beosound Emerge Slim Home Speaker

Bang & Olufsen introduced a new home speaker, which the Danish company describes as “an interior object combined with the technical performance of a speaker, built for longevity”. The Beosound Emerge was designed by Benjamin Hubert of Design Agency LAYER and it surprises immediately for its slim silhouette, but even more for its powerful, full-range sound with Active Room Compensation, which makes it a suitable home speaker for any placement. It’s also one of B&O’s most affordable home designs.
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BluOS 3.14 Expands Music Streaming Services, Integration Features, and Adds Radio Paradise in MQA
April 5, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

BluOS 3.14 Expands Music Streaming Services, Integration Features, and Adds Radio Paradise in MQA

With the release of version 3.14, Lenbrook's premium multi-room music management platform BluOS introduced a number of important enhancements for both the user and integrators across the whole BluOS ecosystem of products. BluOS expands access to three new natively-integrated music streaming services, exclusive access to Radio Paradise MQA-encoded audio streams and various performance improvements.
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Bowers & Wilkins Launches 16-Channel Distribution Amplifier
April 2, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Bowers & Wilkins Launches 16-Channel Distribution Amplifier

Having joined the Sound United family of brands in 2020, Bowers & Wilkins announced an addition to its Custom Installation product portfolio for whole-home audio. Available now ($1,999.99 USD), the new Bowers & Wilkins CDA-16 has been engineered to work with any existing Bowers & Wilkins custom installation speakers. In a very slim 1U design, the CDA-16 distribution power amplifier can power up to eight individual rooms with high-quality stereo sound, all from one elegant, compact component that can be rack-mounted.
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Hisense Joins DTS Play-Fi Whole-Home Wireless Audio Ecosystem
March 4, 2021 by Joao Martins

Hisense Joins DTS Play-Fi Whole-Home Wireless Audio Ecosystem

DTS is still much at play in wireless audio with its Play-Fi technology. The company that is now a part of Xperi and just merged with TiVo, announced that Hisense is joining its DTS Play-Fi whole-home audio ecosystem. With a rapidly growing presence in the US and Europe, Hisense’s partnership with DTS will bring additional wireless interoperability in consumer electronics. Hisense will design and manufacture Play-Fi enabled products to be globally distributed in the second half of 2021.
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Bowers & Wilkins Launches Music App for Its Formation-Enabled Products
February 12, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Bowers & Wilkins Launches Music App for Its Formation-Enabled Products

Bowers & Wilkins announced an exciting new development to its Formation wireless audio technology platform. Available now, the new Bowers & Wilkins Music App significantly increases the number of music-streaming services accessible to owners of Formation-enabled Bowers & Wilkins products. Available to both Android and iOS users, the App will initially offer support for Qobuz, TIDAL, TuneIn, Dash Radio, NTS Radio and SoundCloud, with more to be added in the coming months.
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