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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NXP Introduces i.MX 93 Applications Processor Family for Secure Connected Devices with Edge AI
by audioXpress Staff

NXP Introduces i.MX 93 Applications Processor Family for Secure Connected Devices with Edge AI

NXP Semiconductors is gradually catching up from the time the company wasted in the attempted merger with Qualcomm. The company announced the i.MX 93 family of applications processors designed for automotive, smart home, smart building and smart everything applications. The i.MX 93 family leverages a heterogenous multicore SoC architecture designed to leverage efficient edge machine learning.
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Klipsch Celebrates 75th Anniversary With Commemorative Klipschorn Speakers
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Klipsch Celebrates 75th Anniversary With Commemorative Klipschorn Speakers

Expanding the celebrations of the brand's 75th anniversary, Klipsch released a limited run of 75 pairs of the legendary Klipschorn. The 75th Anniversary Klipschorn AK6, featuring a 1" titanium tweeter and 90° x 40° Tractrix horn with fully enclosed low-frequency cabinet, includes a commemorative box filled with Klipsch 75th anniversary commemorative items. The limited edition speakers are available in unique real wood teak veneers and lambswool grilles, with a sterling silver 75th logo on the front of the speaker.
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Sound Solutions Introduces Latest High Performance Microspeakers with Unique Coil-Anchor System
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Sound Solutions Introduces Latest High Performance Microspeakers with Unique Coil-Anchor System

Sound Solutions International (SSI) introduced its latest family of high-performance microspeakers featuring improvements on loudness, linearity, and distortion levels by featuring the company's Coil-Anchor System (CAS) rocking suppression technology. The new microspeakers can easily scale for multiple applications and requirements in highly constrained mobile and portable designs. The patent-pending high-excursion Manticore speaker family already includes three models for smartphones and laptop/tablet applications.
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    Headphone Disconnector Magnetic Adapter Ends Headphone Abuse
    by Joao Martins

    Headphone Disconnector Magnetic Adapter Ends Headphone Abuse

    You have to love Angry Audio. The Nashville-based company always manages to surprise us with great product ideas. This time, they devised the Headphone Disconnector, a simple solution inspired by Apple's MagSafe connector to help deal with different headphone jack sizes, and the damage that results from people pulling the headphones from the cable, instead of pulling the connector. Angry Radio designs products for radio, but they might have found a wider market.
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    Noveto Unveils N1 Speaker With Smart Beaming Technology
    by Joao Martins

    Noveto Unveils N1 Speaker With Smart Beaming Technology

    Noveto unveiled the final design and features of its flagship product, the N1, a state-of-the-art smart speaker with built-in Alexa smart assistant and proprietary Smart Beaming technology, providing personal and immersive 3D binaural sound without headphones. This is the first full implementation of the company's promising technology - with great potential in conference and automotive applications - as a result of the its decision to create a consumer proof-of-concept.
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    Earthworks ETHOS Microphone Offers the Voice of Broadcast for Streaming
    by Joao Martins

    Earthworks ETHOS Microphone Offers the Voice of Broadcast for Streaming

    A year after launching ICON, a studio-quality USB microphone, and ICON PRO, a broadcast-quality XLR streaming microphone targeting the thriving remote working, podcasting, gaming, and home recording application segments, Earthworks Audio now launches ETHOS, a new condenser microphone tuned to broadcast standards. Fully developed in-house, ETHOS was designed for the authenticity, naturalness, and gentle proximity effect of broadcast microphones — but at a $699 price point.
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    Biamp Launches Parlé Audio and Videoconference Soundbars
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    Biamp Launches Parlé Audio and Videoconference Soundbars

    Biamp announced the launch of its Parlé audio and video conferencing bars, a line of professional-grade audiovisual conferencing soundbars, designed to be complete solutions for small to medium-sized rooms. The conferencing bars combine Beamtracking microphones, smart loudspeakers, advanced signal processing, an optional 4K camera with auto-framing, and Biamp Launch, the company's automated deployment and tuning technology, into one plug-and-play speaker bar that delivers a premium conferencing experience.
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    xMEMS Samples Ultra-Small Full-Range Microspeaker
    by Mike Klasco

    xMEMS Samples Ultra-Small Full-Range Microspeaker

    Back in January 2015, I gave a talk about MEMS loudspeakers, and I have regularly written about MEMS speaker progress. A half decade later, it seems we are finally now moving beyond the industry's joke that MEMS’ development progress can be measured in dog years: it takes 7 human years for each year of MEMS’ progress! The big news is xMEMS Labs, a company founded just in January 2018, has announced it is now in mass production of its Montara, a monolithic MEMS “µspeaker” with a slim 1mm profile, and announced Cowell, the world’s smallest monolithic MEMS µSpeaker, at just 1.15mm high and 3.2mm wide.
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    McIntosh Introduces Updated MC3500 Mk II Inspired by the Iconic Amplifier Used at Woodstock
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    McIntosh Introduces Updated MC3500 Mk II Inspired by the Iconic Amplifier Used at Woodstock

    McIntosh, the prestigious home entertainment and ultimate-quality audio brand for over 70 years, announced the MC3500 Vacuum Tube Amplifier Mk II, a tribute to the original that inspired a generation of musicians and music fans alike. Originally used to power the sound system for Woodstock '69 amongst other formative music events, the iconic monoblock amp was recreated by McIntosh’s expert team of engineers and designers to include modern upgrades that celebrate the brand’s rich history.
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    You Can DIY! Use Brüel & Kjær Instrumentation Microphones for Recording
    by Scott Dorsey

    You Can DIY! Use Brüel & Kjær Instrumentation Microphones for Recording

    In this article, Scott Dorsey shares his unique experience-based tips for converting a classic Brüel & Kjær measurement microphone system into a valuable recording microphone. Vintage instrumentation Bruel's (the ancestors of the DPA's) are great microphones that can be found on the surplus market and are appropriate to use for recording applications, if you know which ones and how to convert them. This article was originally published in audioXpress, July 2016.
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