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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Sharing the Knowledge. audioXpress October 2024 Is Now Available!

Sharing the Knowledge. audioXpress October 2024 Is Now Available!
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Behind The Scenes With TOTAL CAL Award-Winning, Cloud-Based Room-Tuning

Behind The Scenes With TOTAL CAL Award-Winning, Cloud-Based Room-Tuning
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Bragi Announces Strategic Collaboration with Qualcomm to Offer Brands AI Solutions for Headphones and Earbuds

Bragi Announces Strategic Collaboration with Qualcomm to Offer Brands AI Solutions for Headphones and Earbuds
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Gaming Headsets Lead the Way as Accessories Break the 3$ Billion Barrier
by Futuresource Consulting

Gaming Headsets Lead the Way as Accessories Break the 3$ Billion Barrier

The gaming accessories market continues its ascent, with 76 million units shipped worldwide in 2018, according to a new industry report from Futuresource Consulting. That’s an increase of 22% on 2017, generating a retail value of US$3.1 billion from a combination of headsets, speakers, keyboards and mice. Last year’s headset growth won’t be repeated this year, with Futuresource forecasts pointing to a minor decline in volumes for 2019 due to cyclical hardware trends for games consoles.
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Austrian Audio OC818 Variable Polar Pattern Microphone at AES 2019
by audioXpress Staff

Austrian Audio OC818 Variable Polar Pattern Microphone at AES 2019

Following the company's first public presentation at Prolight+Sound in Frankfurt, Germany, in April 2019, Austrian Audio's first product, the OC818 large diaphragm microphone, was displayed for the first time at the AES NY show courtesy of Cranborne Audio. The new OC818 not only features multiple polar patterns, but also offers innovative remote control possibilities, using the same CKR12 ceramic capsule as the OC18 microphone, which is a fixed cardioid version.
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Sonion Combines Voice Pick Up Bone Sensor With Qualcomm Bluetooth SoC to Improve Speech Intelligibility
by audioXpress Staff

Sonion Combines Voice Pick Up Bone Sensor With Qualcomm Bluetooth SoC to Improve Speech Intelligibility

Sonion, the manufacturer of components and solutions for hearing aids and in-ear headphones, announced that it is now a member of the Qualcomm Extension Program and will offer the Sonion Voice Pick Up Bone Sensor on the Qualcomm Ultra-Low Power QCC5100 Bluetooth SoC series in Q1 2020. The combination will allow other audio manufacturers to implement reliable voice quality and voice recognition applications that are not hindered by surrounding noise.
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    Audeze Launches LCD-1 Compact Reference Planar Magnetic Headphones
    by audioXpress Staff

    Audeze Launches LCD-1 Compact Reference Planar Magnetic Headphones

    Californian high-end audio headphone manufacturer, Audeze announced a new reference audio headphone, the Audeze LCD-1. Available now for $399, this headphone combines Audeze’s renowned planar magnetic technology with a new lightweight foldable design. The LCD-1 has been engineered to provide a response that is matched with the brand's LCD series, within a compact, travel friendly package that is both perfect for industry professionals and audio enthusiasts.
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    China: 90% of Users Love Their Smart Speakers - 88% in the UK
    by audioXpress Staff

    China: 90% of Users Love Their Smart Speakers - 88% in the UK

    The exploding popularity of smart speakers in China is confirmed by findings from the latest Strategy Analytics consumer survey. The report, 2019 Smart Speaker User Survey – China Results, found that 63% of people who do not currently use a smart speaker plan to buy one within the next year. Another 22% say they will purchase a smart speaker later on, suggesting that smart speakers overall should reach at least another 85% of the population.
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    Technology and Innovation Returns To Las Vegas for CES Show 2020
    by Nora Wong

    Technology and Innovation Returns To Las Vegas for CES Show 2020

    Promoted every year by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), CES is certainly the largest and most influential consumer technology show in the world, increasingly the place where trends are revealed for the rest of the year, and where both the largest brands and the most promising start-ups get a vital boost to their marketing. Increasingly, the CES Show is also a vibrant market for technology vendors and suppliers and this year, from January 7-10, the #CES2020 promises to be a defining moment for the audio industry.
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    Zylia Introduces ZR-1 Ambisonics Recorder and 6DoF VR/AR Development Kit
    by audioXpress Staff

    Zylia Introduces ZR-1 Ambisonics Recorder and 6DoF VR/AR Development Kit

    During the 2019 AES Convention in New York, Zylia unveiled two major additions to its industry-leading 3D audio recording and production portfolio of solutions, designed around the Zylia ZM-1 spherical microphone array. The new Zylia ZR-1 portable recording device and 6DoF VR/AR Development Kit add greater flexibility to 360-degree and 3rd order Ambisonics recording applications, responding directly to market demand, particularly field applications.
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    Harman Professional Solutions Announces New AKG Lyra Multimode USB Microphone
    by audioXpress Staff

    Harman Professional Solutions Announces New AKG Lyra Multimode USB Microphone

    Harman Professional Solutions announced a new AKG microphone, the AKG Lyra multi-mode USB microphone, designed to be used in the studio for music recording but also for podcasts and consumer recordings like YouTube videos and more. Featuring advanced circuitry that supports 24-bit/192kHz audio resolution, the AKG Lyra delivers an acoustically transparent audio signal using a new AKG Adaptive Capsule Array, which provides user-selectable capture modes optimized for any application.
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    Nureva Granted Three Patents for Its Microphone Mist Technology Platform
    by audioXpress Staff

    Nureva Granted Three Patents for Its Microphone Mist Technology Platform

    Nureva, the collaboration-solutions company from Calgary, Alberta, announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued three new patents for the company’s Microphone Mist technology platform. Patents numbered 10,063,987 and 10,397,726 describe the ability to focus sound signals in a shared 3D space, and patent 10,387,108 describes the use of sound source positional information to derive automatic gain control output parameters.
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    Solid State Logic Next Generation Analog Studio Console Introduced at AES 2019
    by audioXpress Staff

    Solid State Logic Next Generation Analog Studio Console Introduced at AES 2019

    Solid State Logic (SSL) decided it was time to revisit the company’s analog origins with a new studio classic console. Visitors to the AES NY 2019 convention had the chance to witness the first preview of the Origin analog console, the latest in a long heritage of SSL studio mixing consoles. Origin has a traditional analog studio workflow at its heart whilst providing the perfect partner for a modern DAW driven ‘hybrid’ production studio.
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