All items tagged with wireless speakers (184)
New Honeycomb Bluetooth Portable Speaker Uses Cell Structure
November 17, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

New Honeycomb Bluetooth Portable Speaker Uses Cell Structure

Honeycomb Sound is a New Jersey based high-tech consumer electronics company striving to create innovative products centered on quality, design, and value. The company announced the launch of their new wireless Bluetooth portable speaker, the model HC-1, available in silver with white trim, and black with red trim for $149. Derived from nature’s own honeycomb cell design, the speaker gains structural advantages, efficiency and quality; resulting in high power, low distortion fidelity, the company says.
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Spotify Now Available on OPPO Sonica Wi-Fi Speakers
November 17, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

Spotify Now Available on OPPO Sonica Wi-Fi Speakers

OPPO Digital announced that Spotify Premium subscribers can now listen to their music on Sonica Wi-Fi speakers. The first speaker from the Silicon Valley brand, Sonica is an elegant and powerful Wi-Fi speaker designed with state of the art technology, including hi-res audio support from USB drives or network computers and DIRAC room optimization. Spotify Connect for direct streaming support is now available, proving OPPO’s determination to continue to expand the product’s features.
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Linkplay Offers Speaker Brands Integration with the Amazon Alexa Voice Service
November 2, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

Linkplay Offers Speaker Brands Integration with the Amazon Alexa Voice Service

Linkplay Technology, a WiFi audio solution provider from Palo Alto, CA, announced the broad availability of a WiFi audio solution that integrates with the Alexa Voice Service (AVS). The integration makes it easier and faster for speaker manufacturers to bring devices with Alexa to their customers. Jam Audio already used the WiFi audio solution for its speaker with Alexa, Jam Voice, with push to talk technology. The speaker is available as of October 30, 2016.
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New Vizio SmartCast Multi-Room Speakers Designed for Whole-Home Audio
September 21, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

New Vizio SmartCast Multi-Room Speakers Designed for Whole-Home Audio

Vizio recently expanded its SmartCast speaker collection with new very affordable SmartCast Crave Pro and Crave 360 speakers, fully integrating Google Cast technology for simple WiFi whole home audio streaming. The company, recently acquired by Chinese electronics firm LeEco and already America’s #1 sound bar company, is now targeting the expanding multi-room wireless audio segment, benefiting from a full ecosystem of home theater products and SmartCast entertainment app.
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Bang & Olufsen Reimagines Wireless Speakers with BeoSound 1 & 2
September 19, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

Bang & Olufsen Reimagines Wireless Speakers with BeoSound 1 & 2

Originally introduced at IFA 2016, the latest wireless speakers from the famous Danish brands also caused a positive impression at CEDIA 2016, even though the company had several other installation-specific announcements. With smart speakers and connectivity causing all the rage in Dallas this year, the new BeoSound 1 & 2 certainly surprised many by raising the bar on how flexible high-quality wireless speakers can actually be.
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Harman Announces JBL Playlist, First Google Cast Wireless Speaker
September 3, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

Harman Announces JBL Playlist, First Google Cast Wireless Speaker

Harman is already the world’s #1 provider of wireless home audio devices achieving an 11% share of global home audio sales in 2015. Now, at IFA 2016, Harman announced its first Google Cast-enabled wireless home speaker, the JBL Playlist, allowing users to stream cloud-based music services and radio from smartphones, tablets or laptops. Frontier Silicon confirms its audio speaker development toolkit has been chosen by Harman to power the new JBL Playlist.
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Worldwide Consumer Electronics Market Looks Challenging but Promising Growth in Emerging New Categories
August 1, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

Worldwide Consumer Electronics Market Looks Challenging but Promising Growth in Emerging New Categories

Wearable technology is a key growth area in a heavily challenged consumer electronics market, reveals the latest round of research into the worldwide consumer electronics market. Futuresource Consulting’s latest review of the long term outlook for the global consumer electronics market highlights the challenges and opportunities that face the industry following a year that saw trade value fall by 1.3% to $676 billion. Other areas of growth include wireless speakers and headphones as well as connected automotive infotainment.
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Improved Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin Wireless Now Available in White
July 12, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

Improved Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin Wireless Now Available in White

Nearly a year on since British audio brand Bowers & Wilkins launched the new and improved Zeppelin Wireless speaker, it introduces the Zeppelin Wireless in white, offering a lighter complementary color to the original black speaker. Created to appeal to those who prefer a more neutral color tone, the instantly recognizable design renews the brand’s lifestyle catalogue with a portable speaker of exceptional sound quality for its size.
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Worldwide Home Audio Market is Growing Thanks to Bluetooth Speakers
July 7, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

Worldwide Home Audio Market is Growing Thanks to Bluetooth Speakers

Futuresource Consulting has just completed their latest a round of research into the worldwide home audio market. The key findings indicate worldwide demand for home audio products continues to grow. New entrants Amazon and Google are creating innovation challenges to which the audio industry is responding, creating increasing consumer awareness for wireless speakers and connected applications. The report also confirms that, in 2015, Harman/JBL held the position of top home audio brand with an 11% unit share, whilst Bose was the leader in terms of revenue with an 18% share.
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Devialet Announces Improved Gold Phantom with 4,500 Watts
June 28, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

Devialet Announces Improved Gold Phantom with 4,500 Watts

Devialet convinced Apple to sell its revolutionary Phantom speaker in Apple Stores worldwide. Devialet signaled the honor with the launch of a rose gold version, which serves not only to match the rose gold iPhone or iPad. In fact, the Phantom Gold introduces a new Phantom reference model, with 4,500 watts and improved specifications, such as an improved response from 14Hz to 27kHz and only .0005% THD. A new pinnacle from a speaker project involving 88 patents that costed $30M to develop.
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