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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Sensory VoiceHub 2.0 Integrates Generative AI for Fast Development of Custom Voice UIs
by audioXpress Staff

Sensory VoiceHub 2.0 Integrates Generative AI for Fast Development of Custom Voice UIs

Sensory announced the launch of VoiceHub 2.0, a new and improved version of the company's web portal for the development of wake words and custom voice recognition user interfaces. The updated solution now integrates generative AI-powered tools, making it an even more powerful, allowing developers to quickly create custom voice UIs capable of understanding spoken commands and natural language.
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Wireless Headphones and Earbuds on Top Five of Most Desirable Products for US Consumers
by Joao Martins

Wireless Headphones and Earbuds on Top Five of Most Desirable Products for US Consumers

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) released the 2023 US Consumer Technology Ownership & Market Potential (OMP) Study, showing that despite complex economic times, 84% of US households plan to purchase tech products in the next 12 months. Mobile and wireless tech products lead the categories of tech products consumers want to buy. A notable trend is the fact that ownership of wireless personal audio products now exceeds wired devices.
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Cirrus Logic Introduces Smart Amplifier and Low-Power Codec Solution for Enhanced Sound from Small Speakers
by Joao Martins

Cirrus Logic Introduces Smart Amplifier and Low-Power Codec Solution for Enhanced Sound from Small Speakers

Cirrus Logic announced a premium audio solution built specifically for PCs that enables a louder, more immersive audio experience, whether listening to voice calls and music from the small internal speakers on ultrathin laptops or from headphones. Built specifically for PCs, the Cirrus Logic CS35L56 smart amp and CS42L43 SmartHIFI codec minimize hardware and software design complexity for OEMs, simplifies design for PC manufacturers and contributes to a reduction in the total number of components and board space.
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    Solid State Logic Creates UF1 DAW Control Surface Module
    by audioXpress Staff

    Solid State Logic Creates UF1 DAW Control Surface Module

    Solid State Logic announced a new single fader controller module, the UF1 DAW Control Centre, designed with an advanced software workflow for intuitive control features. SSL continues to leverage its successful strategy to repackage every single stage of its legendary audio consoles, while creating new modules to bridge modern production methods using digital audio workstations (DAW). The new UF1 control module provides complete visual feedback, and deep integration in combination with the new SSL Meter Plug-in and SSL 360° software.
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    Patent Review: Acoustic Resistive Elements for Ported Transducer Enclosure
    by James Croft

    Patent Review: Acoustic Resistive Elements for Ported Transducer Enclosure

    This review highlights a patent granted to Bose Corp, part of an interesting series of bass reflex and tuned pipe enclosure architectures explored by Bose, which James Croft reviews and explains in detail. The patent describes a single chamber, single tuned, bass reflex enclosure system, using a more advanced, single Helmholtz tuned bass reflex design, with a port that is folded and extended. A great patent review with lots of informative details. This article was originally published in Voice Coil, October 2017.
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    Sound Control: The Ubiquitous Helmholtz Resonator
    by Richard Honeycutt

    Sound Control: The Ubiquitous Helmholtz Resonator

    Our readers that follow Richard Honeycutt's column Sound Control know how this series of articles covers the most fundamental topics in acoustics and electroacoustics. Most people who have been around acoustics or acousticians have heard of the Helmholtz resonator. In this article, Honeycutt discusses the extraordinary scientist for whom this device is named - Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821–1894) - and examines how the resonator works, as well as its uses. This article was originally published in audioXpress, January 2017.
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    Electrostatic Loudspeakers and Two Cutting-Edge High-End Tweeters in Voice Coil June 2023
    by audioXpress Staff

    Electrostatic Loudspeakers and Two Cutting-Edge High-End Tweeters in Voice Coil June 2023

    Voice Coil June 2023 features an extensive patent review in James Croft's Acoustic Patents column. The topic is a 2014 patent awarded to Nokia, offering an opportunity to revisit the history of electrostatic loudspeakers, with insights from Tim Mellow, one of the two listed inventors. In Test Bench, Vance Dickason focuses on the D8404-552000 Ellipticor cloth diaphragm dome midrange from Scan-Speak, and characterizes the SB Acoustics TW29BNWG beryllium dome and waveguide from the brand's prestigious Satori line.
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    SUBPAC and JLR Partner to Bring A New Dimension of Sound to Range Rover
    by Joao Martins

    SUBPAC and JLR Partner to Bring A New Dimension of Sound to Range Rover

    High-fidelity tactile audio company, SUBPAC, teamed up with Jaguar Land-Rover (JLR) to improve the in-vehicle audio experience in the new Range Rover Sport SV Edition One system. The tactile experience was added to the Body and Soul Seat (BASS), which delivers audio vibrations allowing front-seat occupants to actually feel the music. According to the companies, this new approach to sound in-vehicle comes complete with wellness benefits, too, setting a new standard in immersive audio.
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    Audio-Technica Confirms the Return of the "Sound Burger" Portable Turntable
    by Joao Martins

    Audio-Technica Confirms the Return of the "Sound Burger" Portable Turntable

    Roughly half a year after reintroducing the Sound Burger portable turntable in a limited-edition retro red model – and 40 years after the product’s original debut – Audio-Technica announced that this product is returning to the company’s regular lineup. According to the company, the limited-edition model, released in the fall of 2022 to celebrate Audio-Technica’s 60th anniversary, was met with such an overwhelming response that it sold out in a matter of days worldwide.
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    Trinnov Audio Multiple Source Multiple Controller Approach Becomes WaveForming Technology
    by Joao Martins

    Trinnov Audio Multiple Source Multiple Controller Approach Becomes WaveForming Technology

    Trinnov Audio announced that following the successful first public demonstration of its Multiple Source Multiple Controller (MSMC) technology at the 2023 ISE show in Barcelona, multiple partners are incorporating the technology in their respective demonstration systems and showrooms. Intended to improve home theater design, Trinnov is now promoting the technology with the name WaveForming, as part of the company's vision for room acoustics, utilizing passive and active room acoustics.
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