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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Eminence Introduces Custom Shop for Custom Design, Tuning and Modification of Existing Drivers
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Eminence Introduces Custom Shop for Custom Design, Tuning and Modification of Existing Drivers

For 50 years Eminence has been all about providing high quality solutions for any audio application. Whether it’s a custom designed speaker for an OEM customer or an off the shelf stock model available on their website, Eminence has a design to fit virtually any need. The skilled technicians in Eminence’s Custom Shop are now able to customize a product by offering an existing model in an alternate impedance, break-in speakers so that the tone becomes exactly what users expect, or design a new driver from scratch and custom manufacture it.
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Rational Acoustics Releases Smaart v8.1 Update
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Rational Acoustics Releases Smaart v8.1 Update

Rational Acoustics confirmed that Smaart v8.1 is now available. This first major version update for the Smaart v8 audio analyzer and measurement platform includes significant feature additions and interface modifications, improved data handling as well as a host of new feature additions for usability, security and efficiency. The company says this free update is recommended for all Smaart v.8 users, on both Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX. The update introduces improved Windows 10 touch screen support.
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DACS Test Lab Multifunction Test Unit and Universal Tool for Installers
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DACS Test Lab Multifunction Test Unit and Universal Tool for Installers

DACS Audio is a company with over 25 years of field experience in Audio Installation, Studio Design, and Acoustic Treatment. In addition, DACS design and build a range of very highly regarded pro-Audio equipment, from microphone preamps and analogue processors, to monitor controllers. The company’s Test Lab is a portable trouble-shooting solution for all pro audio engineers that addresses all the problems that could be encountered, and is a must-have tool in live sound, installation, and studios.
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    Benchmark Media Systems Introduces New DAC3 D/A Converters
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    Benchmark Media Systems Introduces New DAC3 D/A Converters

    Benchmark has recently previewed and is already taking orders for its new DAC3 HGC D/A converter! Following the success of the previous DAC1 and DAC2 D/A reference converters, Benchmark’s newest 2-channel DAC3 features the new ESS Technologies ES9028PRO converter chip and has lower THD and THD+N noise than Benchmark’s DAC2. The DAC3 also employs an advanced high-headroom digital filter design, and all inputs are fully isolated from interface jitter by Benchmark’s new UltraLock3 jitter attenuation system.
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    Freedman Electronics Group Acquires Soundfield From TSL Products
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    Freedman Electronics Group Acquires Soundfield From TSL Products

    On the eve of its 50th year in business, The Freedman Electronics Group, home to pro audio brands RØDE Microphones, Event Electronics and Aphex, expanded its company portfolio, purchasing the surround sound recording SoundField range of products and technology from broadcast equipment manufacturer TSL Products. With this acquisition, RØDE gains access to the leading brand in surround production and Ambisonic audio, in the exact moment when the format is gaining momentum.
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    DVB Approves Specification For Future UHDTV Services including MPEG-H Audio
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    DVB Approves Specification For Future UHDTV Services including MPEG-H Audio

    In the world of broadcast standards, a few countries depend upon their own specific set of terrestrial broadcast technologies, such as the United States, Japan, Brazil, and China. The rest of the world uses DVB standards. Now that everyone is preparing the next generation of standards to support 4K UHDTV, the news that the new DVB UHD-1 Phase 2 was approved is a big deal. More important for the audio community is the news that MPEG-H is part of that standard.
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    Cambridge Consultants Announces Completion of Pizzicato Software-Defined Radio Development
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    Cambridge Consultants Announces Completion of Pizzicato Software-Defined Radio Development

    Following its reveal of Pizzicato, the world’s first all-digital radio transmitter, product design and development firm Cambridge Consultants has now added a digital receiver to create a complete Pizzicato radio system, built purely from computing power. Pizzicato promises to vastly increase the range of wireless applications and to be a powerful enabler for both the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) and 5G technology.
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    Sennheiser Announces New Digital 6000 Series Advanced Wireless Microphone System
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    Sennheiser Announces New Digital 6000 Series Advanced Wireless Microphone System

    Sennheiser announced the new Digital 6000 wireless Series, designed for demanding live productions, using the same long-range mode and proprietary Sennheiser Digital Audio Codec as the Digital 9000, Sennheiser’s top-of-the-range wireless series. Comprising a two-channel receiver in two different versions, a bodypack and a handheld transmitter as well as a rack-mount 19” charging unit, the Digital 6000 Series will be available from March 2017.
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    Mass Fidelity is Back on Indiegogo with the Rad Portable Wireless Speaker With Radial Dispersion Technology
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    Mass Fidelity is Back on Indiegogo with the Rad Portable Wireless Speaker With Radial Dispersion Technology

    Mass Fidelity launched the Core wireless speaker on Indiegogo two years ago. The Core set a Canadian record for the most successful crowdfunding campaign ever. The company has been shipping the Core for almost a year and decided to return to Indiegogo with its next product, the raD, a rugged, portable wireless networked speaker leveraging the company’s original radial soundfield design. The raD was designed to be compatible with the Core but also to taken outside and defy rain, dust, and dirt.
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    New Honeycomb Bluetooth Portable Speaker Uses Cell Structure
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    New Honeycomb Bluetooth Portable Speaker Uses Cell Structure

    Honeycomb Sound is a New Jersey based high-tech consumer electronics company striving to create innovative products centered on quality, design, and value. The company announced the launch of their new wireless Bluetooth portable speaker, the model HC-1, available in silver with white trim, and black with red trim for $149. Derived from nature’s own honeycomb cell design, the speaker gains structural advantages, efficiency and quality; resulting in high power, low distortion fidelity, the company says.
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