audioXpress May 2024 Glass Audio Special Issue Now Available

audioXpress May 2024 Glass Audio Special Issue Now Available
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Advertise in the Loudspeaker Industry Sourcebook 2024!

Advertise in the Loudspeaker Industry Sourcebook 2024!
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Loudspeaker Knowledge and Innovation in Voice Coil April 2024

Loudspeaker Knowledge and Innovation in Voice Coil April 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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Celebrate 35 Years of Voice Coil with the November 2021 Edition
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Celebrate 35 Years of Voice Coil with the November 2021 Edition

This edition celebrates 35 years of Voice Coil, the Periodical for the Loudspeaker Industry. We discuss a new earphone technology for Balanced Frequency Range, Mike Klasco writes about Subwoofers and Bass, and James Croft reviews a new loudspeaker patent from Tymphany. Finally, Vance Dickason places Purifi Audio’s PTT4.0X04-NFA-01 Home Audio Midbass, and Eighteen Sound’s AMT200P AMT driver and XMT200 waveguide on the Test Bench. Now available in print or download.
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Bang & Olufsen Designs Premium Business Headset for Cisco Webex
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Bang & Olufsen Designs Premium Business Headset for Cisco Webex

Hybrid work has increased the need for high-quality multifunctional headsets, as remote workers seek to reduce background noise from remote workspaces, or simply enjoy music while on the go. Bang & Olufsen and Cisco announced the Bang & Olufsen Cisco 980, a luxury business headset that pairs Bang & Olufsen’s unique design with integrated meeting controls, Adaptive Active Noise Cancellation, and even IT management capabilities for secure communications using Cisco’s technologies.
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DirectOut Celebrates 10 Years of Ravenna AoIP Partnership
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DirectOut Celebrates 10 Years of Ravenna AoIP Partnership

DirectOut is celebrating a decade as a trusted Ravenna partner, helping to promote real-time distribution of audio through IP-based network environments. To celebrate the company’s efforts and achievements with the technology, DirectOut launched a limited edition of their latest EXBOX.RAV AoIP-to-MADI converter in Ravenna green. Only 50 units of the anniversary edition will be made.
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    FLUX:: and L-Acoustics Promote ADM-OSC Standardization for Object-Based Audio
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    FLUX:: and L-Acoustics Promote ADM-OSC Standardization for Object-Based Audio

    FLUX:: Immersive, L-Acoustics, and Radio France have joined in an initiative to standardize Open Sound Control (OSC) as a streaming protocol for interoperability among immersive audio systems. Originally intended as a protocol for networking sound synthesizers, computers, and other multimedia devices for musical performance and show control, OSC is a de-facto standard when it comes to controlling and translating metadata for very complex object-based systems, such as those required for immersive audio performance.
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    Audio-Technica Debuts BP28 and BP28L Line + Gradient Large Diaphragm Condenser Microphones
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    Audio-Technica Debuts BP28 and BP28L Line + Gradient Large Diaphragm Condenser Microphones

    Audio-Technica is launching its new BP28 14-inch (355.6 mm) and BP28L 22.4-inch (569 mm) Line+ Gradient Large Diaphragm Condenser Microphones. Offering a 153dB maximum SPL (with 10db pad) and extremely tight polar patterns, exceptionally low noise levels and a patented acoustic port design that maintains directionality across the entire frequency range, these shotgun microphones are specially designed to meet the needs of broadcast, film, television, outdoor recording and theater applications.
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    Fulcrum Acoustic Releases AHS Steerable Large-Format Array Modules
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    Fulcrum Acoustic Releases AHS Steerable Large-Format Array Modules

    Fulcrum Acoustic has released a modular scalable loudspeaker system targeted at applications where very high output and precise pattern control are required. The new AHS Series of products from the loudspeaker manufacturer company co-founded by David Gunness, known for its unique approach to loudspeaker design, represents a leap forward in achieving digitally configurable coverage for long-throw applications, all within a compact enclosure.
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    15th Anniversary of Meyer Sound’s Constellation Acoustic System
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    15th Anniversary of Meyer Sound’s Constellation Acoustic System

    Meyer Sound’s Constellation acoustic system was introduced in 2006 and has been discreetly and gradually leading a revolution in variable acoustics and the design of performance spaces. Using an array of ambient sensing microphones, sophisticated digital signal processing, and loudspeakers, Constellation modifies the reverberant characteristics of a venue and redistributes sound throughout the space, ensuring a natural acoustic experience in every seat.
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    Renesas Announces Development of Next-Generation Wireless MCUs Supporting New Bluetooth 5.3 Low Energy Specification
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    Renesas Announces Development of Next-Generation Wireless MCUs Supporting New Bluetooth 5.3 Low Energy Specification

    Renesas Electronics announced that it is developing new microcontrollers (MCUs) that will support the recently released Bluetooth 5.3 Low Energy (LE) Specification. The new devices will be part of the Renesas Advanced (RA) Family of 32-bit Arm Cortex-M microcontrollers, joining the RA4W1 Bluetooth 5.0 LE device introduced in 2020. Renesas expects to have first samples of the new MCUs in the first quarter of 2022.
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    Sony Licenses MPEG-H Audio Decoder Software and Joins MPEG-H Trademark Program
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    Sony Licenses MPEG-H Audio Decoder Software and Joins MPEG-H Trademark Program

    Fraunhofer IIS, the primary developer of the MPEG-H 3D Audio standard, announced that Sony Corporation (Sony) has licensed Fraunhofer’s MPEG-H 3D Audio Baseline Profile Decoder software and joined the MPEG-H Trademark Program. Among many other applications, the announcement allows reinforcing Sony’s 360 Reality Audio and MPEG-H 3D Audio implementations in a wide variety of products from the company.
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    On-Device Voice Interfaces Driving Growth in MEMS and ECM Microphone Market
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    On-Device Voice Interfaces Driving Growth in MEMS and ECM Microphone Market

    According to SAR Insight & Consulting, the market for MEMS and ECM microphones continues to see strong growth, with ten billion units shipped in 2020. This was driven by two main factors: increased use of voice interfaces and multiple microphones per device, according to SAR’s latest report “MEMS Microphones Focus: Market Growth, Mic Type, Input Type, SNR, Volume, Performance Density.” With the emergence of TWS, earbuds and headphones are now the second largest market.
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