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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Steinberg Nuendo 13 Adds MPEG-H Audio Support, TonalMatch, AI-based VoiceSeparator and Much More
by audioXpress Staff

Steinberg Nuendo 13 Adds MPEG-H Audio Support, TonalMatch, AI-based VoiceSeparator and Much More

Steinberg released Nuendo 13, a new version of the powerful post-production software that continues to expand its features with unique and time-saving new tools for dialogue editors, mixing and recording engineers. Nuendo 13 introduces a completely integrated workflow for authoring and mixing content for the MPEG-H Audio format, Dolby Atmos improvements, extended video track enhancements, new plug-ins for vocal processing, and more than 20 additional workflow enhancements. A powerful updates with many industry firsts.
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Qi v2.0 Standard for Wireless Charging Is Now Ready to Provide Enhanced User Experience
by audioXpress Staff

Qi v2.0 Standard for Wireless Charging Is Now Ready to Provide Enhanced User Experience

The Wireless Power Consortium’s (WPC) next generation standard for wireless charging, Qi v2.0, will soon be delivering on its promise of magnetic attachment, faster charging, higher efficiency and greater convenience as the first Qi2 mobile devices complete certification testing. In addition to an enhanced user experience, Qi v2.0 unifies the industry under one global standard. CES 2024 will be the global launchpad for dozens of new Qi2 products.
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Rockford Fosgate Makes Leadership Announcement Promoting Zach Luke to Managing Director
by audioXpress Staff

Rockford Fosgate Makes Leadership Announcement Promoting Zach Luke to Managing Director

Rockford Fosgate announced the appointment of Zach Luke as the new Managing Director of Rockford Fosgate, a short eight months since being promoted to Vice President of Sales and Marketing. With an extensive background in leadership and a proven track record of success, in his nearly 20 years with Rockford, Zach Luke has held a variety of positions including director of marketing, regional sales manager, and for the last seven years, national sales manager.
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    The AudioChiemgau ModeCompensator: A Quick Basic Test
    by Rens Tellers

    The AudioChiemgau ModeCompensator: A Quick Basic Test

    The principles applied by Dr. Reinhold Lutz's for precise measurement of the sound pressure frequency response in the presence of room modes, are available in its AudioChiemgau Mode-Compensator solution. Jan Didden and Rens Tellers did a basic functional test to find out how well they could make it work and they were pleasantly surprised with the results. This article was originally published in audioXpress, October 2023.
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    Voice Coil Test Bench: Wavecor's WF182BD13-04 7" Midbass Driver
    by Vance Dickason

    Voice Coil Test Bench: Wavecor's WF182BD13-04 7" Midbass Driver

    The Wavecor WF182BD13 is a midbass driver that utilizes a unique proprietary cone material made with interwoven Kevlar/Carbon fibers with beneficial properties for midrange reproduction - a combination of low mass, rigidness, and damping. Unique features include a vented inverted dome-type phase plug (no dust cap), a shallow profile low loss high Qm NBR surround, accompanied by a flat 4” diameter black cloth spider.
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    Audio Precision Expands Electronic Audio Testing with New APx516B Audio Analyzer
    by Joao Martins

    Audio Precision Expands Electronic Audio Testing with New APx516B Audio Analyzer

    Audio Precision announced the new APx516B, a modular and affordable audio analyzer that expands electronic audio testing with even better performance and flexibility. The new Audio Precision APx516B Audio Analyzer is a budget-friendly solution to test both analog and digital audio with two analog generator/analyzer channels with performance suitable for testing consumer and professional audio devices, a digital interface module slot, and seamless integration with APx500 measurement software.
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    Opal Tadpole Webcam Features Soundskrit Directional MEMS Microphone
    by Joao Martins

    Opal Tadpole Webcam Features Soundskrit Directional MEMS Microphone

    Opal Camera announced Tadpole, a compact and light webcam built exclusively for laptops and tablets, with DSLR image quality and featuring VisiMic audio capture. The webcam intends to solve all the pains that users experience with standard built-in webcams, making the experience seamless and automatic. Apart from the superior image quality, the Tadpole is the first product in the market to feature directional MEMS microphones from Canadian startup Soundskrit, with its unique background noise cancellation features.
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    Rycote Promotes Behind-the-Scenes Factory Tour
    by Joao Martins

    Rycote Promotes Behind-the-Scenes Factory Tour

    To promote Rycote's new expansion phase, Videndum organized a series of visits to its brand new manufacturing facility at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in the UK. Dealers, sound engineers, and press were able to go behind the scenes and get hands on with production of the famous Rycote windshields and shockmounts for field production sound. The event also allowed Rycote to promote its new range of professional condenser microphones.
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    Lenovo Collaborates with Jabra to Introduce AI Enabled ThinkSmart Bar 180 Solution
    by audioXpress Staff

    Lenovo Collaborates with Jabra to Introduce AI Enabled ThinkSmart Bar 180 Solution

    Lenovo announced the new ThinkSmart Bar 180 bar for small and medium meeting spaces. The integrated room system, offered in collaboration with Jabra, combines an intelligent videobar with the Lenovo ThinkSmart Core and Controller for a complete, intelligent room system. Using AI-enabled video and audio streams, the new co-branded ThinkSmart Bar 180 delivers a more seamless, inclusive, and premium collaboration experience.
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    Everything That's Audio in audioXpress December 2023
    by audioXpress Staff

    Everything That's Audio in audioXpress December 2023

    audioXpress December 2023 includes a market overview of multiroom audio, Brent Butterworth writes about new ways to measure ANC earbuds, and Stuart Yaniger measured the new Axign and GaN Systems Class-D audio amplifier board. Richard Honeycutt writes about tubes, BJTs, JFETs, MOSFETs, and ICs, and Dimitri Danyuk, discusses JFETs in audio circuits. Douglas Self explains how to optimize variable-frequency tone controls, and Jan Didden shares his eDD direct-drive amplifier project.
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