Better Acoustics, Better Designs in audioXpress August 2024!

Better Acoustics, Better Designs in audioXpress August 2024!
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Audio Amplification Meets Product Development in audioXpress July 2024

Audio Amplification Meets Product Development in audioXpress July 2024
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The Audio Voice - Weekly Newsletter for audioXpress and Voice Coil Communities

The Audio Voice - Weekly Newsletter for audioXpress and Voice Coil Communities
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Aiming for Better Loudspeaker Designs in Voice Coil July 2024

Aiming for Better Loudspeaker Designs in Voice Coil July 2024
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Apple Unveils Visual, Sound, and Haptic Accessibility Features
by audioXpress Staff

Apple Unveils Visual, Sound, and Haptic Accessibility Features

Spanning its multiple platforms and dedicated operating systems, Apple continues to offer valuable accessibility features to both overcome user disabilities and enhance individual experiences. The company announced new accessibility features coming later in 2024, including new visual, sound and haptic options that harness the power of Apple hardware and software, Apple silicon, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.
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Microphone Array Beamforming with Optical MEMS Microphones
by Michael Tuttle and Jakob Vennerød

Microphone Array Beamforming with Optical MEMS Microphones

This article, written by the experts in optical MEMS microphones from sensiBel expands on the technologies that will undoubtedly contribute to making the next generation of hearables and advanced audio systems. As the Norwegian company enters the market with its first-generation products, the authors explain how 80dB SNR optical MEMS microphones will enhance Microphone Array Beamforming and the different types of beamforming algorithms.
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Cabasse Unveils The Pearl Myuki Connected High Resolution Speaker
by Alfred Moody

Cabasse Unveils The Pearl Myuki Connected High Resolution Speaker

Six years after launching the very first connected speaker from The Pearl collection, now enriched with another 9 connected audio solutions, Cabasse unveiled The Pearl Myuki. This new model is an ultra-compact, portable, battery-powered, connected, high-resolution-capable active speaker that benefits from the French company's best acoustic technologies. Cabasse anticipates availability from June 2024.
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    From the Vault: The Borbely Preamp
    by Erno Borbely

    From the Vault: The Borbely Preamp

    "Designing a preamp is probably the most challenging engineering task in the audio chain, and many designers have invested a lot of time and effort in it," wrote Erno Borbely in this original 1985 article for the Audio Amateur. "My reason for designing this preamp is quite simple: I wanted to have a top-quality preamp without paying megabucks for a Levinson or Accuphase unit. It is up to you to decide whether or not I have succeeded in achieving the same quality." This article was originally published in The Audio Amateur Issue 4, 1985, and is still frequently referenced.
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    audioXpress June 2024 Models Automotive Audio Development
    by audioXpress Staff

    audioXpress June 2024 Models Automotive Audio Development

    audioXpress June 2024 puts automotive audio development into perspective. Starting with how AI and SDV are impacting the industry, an analysis of Integrated Audio Development Frameworks, how sound defines the driving experience of Electric Vehicles, and lessons learned from aftermarket car audio. Learn how to measure MEMS microspeakers, enjoy two great multiphysics simulation articles by Jinlan Huang and René Christensen, and much more.
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    Q Acoustics Introduces 3000 Generation c Loudspeaker Series at High End 2024
    by audioXpress Staff

    Q Acoustics Introduces 3000 Generation c Loudspeaker Series at High End 2024

    Q Acoustics made a successful presentation of its latest 3000c loudspeaker series at the 2024 High End show. Building on the legacy of its 3000i – Q Acoustics' most popular speaker series – this new affordable range expands the British audio brand track record of delivering sonic performance, high-quality design and build way beyond its class. Certainly, one of the most affordable speaker series displayed at the Munich show, caused a serious impression.
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    Sphere Entertainment Acquires Holoplot
    by Joao Martins

    Sphere Entertainment Acquires Holoplot

    Madison Square Garden (MSG), became a partner and shareholder of Holoplot GmbH in 2018, when the two companies partnered to implement the sound system that equipped the Sphere in Las Vegas. In 2023, MSG spun-off its traditional live entertainment businesses and created Sphere Entertainment. Now, Sphere Entertainment acquired all of the remaining Holoplot shares it did not previously own. The Berlin-based Wavefield Synthesis and 3D audio pioneer will continue to operate as a separate company.
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    HiFi ROSE Line of Media Streamers to Support WiSA E Wireless Audio
    by Joao Martins

    HiFi ROSE Line of Media Streamers to Support WiSA E Wireless Audio

    WiSA Association, the subsidiary of WiSA Technologies, and CITECH, a leading South Korean manufacturer, announced the two companies have entered into a strategic partnership designed to integrate WiSA's latest WiSA E wireless audio software solution into CITECH's HiFi ROSE line of media streamers. CITECH showcased its WiSA E transmitter and corresponding receiver modules at the High End 2024 show in Munich.
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    World's First UWB Personal Wireless Audio Platform Features AntennaWare Technology
    by Joao Martins

    World's First UWB Personal Wireless Audio Platform Features AntennaWare Technology

    Launched at High End 2024, Remora PRO is the world's first wireless audio device to deliver a reliable and robust experience for consumer and professional applications, including latency-critical uses. Based on the platform developed by Sonical with its CosmOS and “appable” software ecosystem, Remora PRO utilizes BodyWave antenna technology to make wireless Ultra Wideband (UWB) audio work flawlessly in a wearable and portable form-factor.
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    New Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones Unveiled at High End 2024
    by Joao Martins

    New Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones Unveiled at High End 2024

    Nearly three years after debuting the Drop + Grell TWS1X IEM earphones, Drop has teamed up again with renowned headphone designer Axel Grell for his newest project, the Drop + Grell OAE1 Signature Headphones. The new open, circumaural headphones are a perfectly symmetric design that somehow is described as inspired by “the natural structure of the human ear”, and intended to reproduce a “realistic sound field that closely resembles a speaker listening experience.”
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