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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New Luxman L-509Z Flagship Integrated Amplifier
by audioXpress Staff

New Luxman L-509Z Flagship Integrated Amplifier

Luxman continues to prepare for 2025, the company’s centennial, with a new top-of-the-line integrated amplifier. In addition to the company's trademark sound quality, the L-509Z incorporates the Luxman Integrated Feedback Engine System (LIFES1.0) in both the power amp and preamp sections. It's also the first with the Luxman Electronically Controlled Ultimate Attenuator-EX (LECUA-EX) volume control. The L-509Z integrated amplifier is available at a suggested retail price of $12,495.
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Avid Expands Pro Tools Workflows with Pro Tools Sketch
by audioXpress Staff

Avid Expands Pro Tools Workflows with Pro Tools Sketch

Following a presentation at IBC 2023, in Amsterdam, where Avid previewed some breakthrough technologies coming soon to Pro Tools, including a new workflow for mixing Dolby Atmos content, the company announced Pro Tools Sketch, a new expansion for creators. The new Pro Tools Sketch is a clip-based creation tool that expands the desktop software features, enabling musicians to quickly capture new ideas and experiment with arrangements anywhere.
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AES Launches Audio Loudness Web Portal
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AES Launches Audio Loudness Web Portal

The Audio Engineering Society launched a new AES Loudness Project website. Because consistent loudness should be a goal of audio engineers for digital content delivery, the new portal provides tutorials developed by the AES Technical Committee for Broadcast and Online Delivery (TCBOD) on audio loudness, with guidelines for content production and distribution consistent with AES Recommended Practices from its Technical Council, and Standards committees.
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    Amazon Unveils Next Generation Echo Show 8, All-New Echo Hub, and New Echo Frames
    by Joao Martins

    Amazon Unveils Next Generation Echo Show 8, All-New Echo Hub, and New Echo Frames

    Remember smart speakers? Apparently Amazon doesn't want to. At that time of the year when traditionally Amazon would introduce the latest models of its Echo smart speakers, this year the company only announced a new smart display, the next generation Echo Show 8 with an upgraded processor, spatial audio, and a built-in smart home hub. And for those who don't even want the speaker, Amazon introduced a new Echo Hub, a smart home control panel. Amazon did expand on the audio glasses category, with two ugly frames that are said to have a long-lasting battery.
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    Re-engineered Soundboks 4 Delivers Enhanced Sound Quality and Extended Battery
    by Joao Martins

    Re-engineered Soundboks 4 Delivers Enhanced Sound Quality and Extended Battery

    And the world's most powerful party speakers are back with more. The leading Danish lifestyle party speakers company just announced the re-engineered Soundboks 4 speaker. The new Soundboks 4 was engineered to outperform the growing plastic-speakers with ugly LEDs of the competition, and now offers improved sound quality at any volume and is paired with industry-leading battery technology, all wrapped in a customizable, durable build with an easy-to-use Scandinavian design.
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    Test Bench: The SB29SDNC-C000-4 29mm Compact Neo Cloth Dome Tweeter from SB Acoustics
    by Vance Dickason

    Test Bench: The SB29SDNC-C000-4 29mm Compact Neo Cloth Dome Tweeter from SB Acoustics

    This Test Bench characterizes the SB29SDNC-C000-4 29mm cloth dome tweeter from SB Acoustics, a shielded neodymium motor driver with a compact 72mm diameter injection-molded face plate and large surround, featuring a copper cap shorting ring on the pole piece, internal pressure equalization, and a flow resistor for non-resonance cavity coupling. Another characterization of the innovative tweeter designs launched by Sinar Baja, developed by Ulrik Schmidt and Frank Nielsen at Danesian Audio.
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    Simulation Techniques: Misconceptions in the Audio Industry
    by René Christensen

    Simulation Techniques: Misconceptions in the Audio Industry

    In this fascinating article about common sound theory misconceptions that exist in the audio and hifi communities, René Christensen debunks three of them. Starting with group delay and phase delay, what actually happens when a loudspeaker driver moves outward and inward, and the effects of polarity and phase flip. True reference material with detailed mathematical expressions and numerical analysis. This article was originally published in audioXpress, June 2023.
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    Garmin Completes Acquisition of JL Audio
    by audioXpress Staff

    Garmin Completes Acquisition of JL Audio

    As anticipated in early August 2023, Garmin announced it has completed the acquisition of JL Audio, the privately-held US company that designs and manufactures audio solutions including speakers, amplifiers, subwoofers and other audio components for marine, aftermarket automotive, powersports, home and RV applications. The acquisition was intended to add premium audio integration solution across a broad range of Garmin markets and products.
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    LG Expands webOS Strategy and Partnerships During Software Developer Conference 2023
    by Joao Martins

    LG Expands webOS Strategy and Partnerships During Software Developer Conference 2023

    LG shared its new direction and strategy at the webOS Partner Summit 2023, held at the LG Sciencepark in Seoul, South Korea, and attended by content producers, providers, developers, and industry figures from over 30 countries. LG also promoted its LG Software Developer Conference (SDC) 2023, a two-day event to facilitate communication with professional software developers. And LG USA announced a call for participation in a landmark smart TV hackathon, featuring its webOS TV Developers’ platform.
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    Echo Test + Measurement Announces Enhanced Support for National Instrument's LabVIEW Software
    by audioXpress Staff

    Echo Test + Measurement Announces Enhanced Support for National Instrument's LabVIEW Software

    Echo Test + Measurement, the manufacturer of the AIO Test System family of modular, soundcard based, audio test hardware, announced enhanced support for National Instrument's LabVIEW software. LabVIEW is a graphical programming environment engineers use to develop automated research, validation, and production test systems. The Enhanced LabVIEW Virtual Instruments is now available, supporting 64-bit LabVIEW 2023.
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