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Yamaha Revives Orthodynamic Headphones and Unveils YH-5000SE Flagship Model
November 23, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

Yamaha Revives Orthodynamic Headphones and Unveils YH-5000SE Flagship Model

Yamaha announced a new flagship headphone design that fuses inspiration from Yamaha-original technology in legendary 70s headphones, combined with modern innovations and materials. The new Yamaha YH-5000SE headphones revive the brand's original Orthodynamic driver born in the ‘70s, now with modern manufacturing methods, components and carefully selected materials. The extensively research effort is intended to maximize comfort and what Yamaha engineers describe as "a superlative experience."
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Infineon Introduces New Ultra-Efficient 2x 37W MERUS Multilevel Switching Audio Amplifiers
November 23, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

Infineon Introduces New Ultra-Efficient 2x 37W MERUS Multilevel Switching Audio Amplifiers

Infineon Technologies announced a new family of 2x 37W audio amplifiers featuring the second generation of MERUS multilevel switching amplifier technology. Optimized for low power and battery-powered applications, the new devices are the MA2304DNS with an integrated and fully-configurable digital signal processor (DSP), and the MA2304PNS with audio limiter and volume control features. Both are now the most efficient in the Infineon MERUS family, with an idle power mode at least five times lower than traditional class D audio amplifiers.
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Grado GW100x Wireless Open-Back Headphones with Superior Bluetooth Performance Now Available
November 23, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

Grado GW100x Wireless Open-Back Headphones with Superior Bluetooth Performance Now Available

Grado's first wireless headphones become even better. Following the announcement of the renewed Wireless headphones featuring fourth generation X series drivers, earlier in 2022, Grado now launched the GW100x Bluetooth open-back headphones – the third model in its wireless series. The GW100 is an unusual open-back Bluetooth model, combining the new X series driver design with a Qualcomm Bluetooth 5.2 wireless module with aptX Adaptive, and improved 46-hour battery life.
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Sennheiser Starts Shipping EW-DX Digital Wireless Microphone Series
November 22, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

Sennheiser Starts Shipping EW-DX Digital Wireless Microphone Series

Sennheiser has announced that the first EW-DX devices are shipping in North America, EMEA, Japan, and Singapore. For rental companies, touring bands, theater, worship or broadcasting the new EW-DX series brings the lowest latency on the market (1.9 milliseconds), eliminates the need for frequency calculation, and offers an ultra-wide input dynamic range of 134dB, enabling the transmitters to handle any signal that is thrown at them. A new digital wireless microphone system designed for simplicity, supporting even more channels.
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Trends in Consumer Electronics Purchases Amidst Inflation Concerns
November 21, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

Trends in Consumer Electronics Purchases Amidst Inflation Concerns

As retailers approach the busiest days of the holiday shopping season, sales and marketing channel specialist Acosta shared the results of its recent Shopper Insights Consumer Electronics Survey. While 74% of shoppers reflected a high level of concern about inflation, with more than half noting higher prices on nine of the top 10 most purchased items over the past year, 75% of shoppers claim that price had only somewhat to no impact on their decisions to buy the most-purchased consumer electronic items.
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dbx-tv Total Cal In-Home Tuning System Recognized as 2023 CES Innovation Awards Honoree
November 21, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

dbx-tv Total Cal In-Home Tuning System Recognized as 2023 CES Innovation Awards Honoree

dbx-tv announced Total Cal, a patent-pending in-home audio tuning system has been selected as a CES 2023 Innovation Award Honoree. Total Cal allows consumers to correct and customize sound quality with a simple, user-friendly app, and was selected for its ability to improve the sound of televisions, soundbars, and portable/home speakers. The announcement was in anticipation of CES 2023, where Total Cal will be demonstrated.
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Podcasting Startup Nomono Appoints Sylvia Brudeli as Chief Product Officer
November 17, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

Podcasting Startup Nomono Appoints Sylvia Brudeli as Chief Product Officer

Nomono, the developer of wireless and connected audio recording and collaboration tools designed to help podcasters and journalists tell immersive audio stories, announced it has named seasoned technology executive Sylvia Brudeli as Chief Product Officer. The Norwegian company is expanding its executive leadership team amid global growth, on the heels of the company closing an investment round worth approx. $3.6M USD, led by Schibsted Ventures.
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Spatial Introduces Spatial Space Kit Hardware and Software Solution for Immersive Audio Experiences
November 17, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

Spatial Introduces Spatial Space Kit Hardware and Software Solution for Immersive Audio Experiences

Spatial, the company that offers immersive audio experiences as a service, announced the preview of Spatial Space Kit, a turnkey all-in-one solution that includes pre-configured hardware with Spatial’s powerful software to make it easier than ever to bring immersive audio to commercial applications. Leveraging years of immersive audio experience design, the new Spatial Space Kit combines purpose built speakers designed in collaboration with Sonance, a connected amplifier and seamless access to Spatial’s robust scene library.
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DSP Concepts and Analog Devices Collaborate on Solution for Rapid Design of In-Vehicle Audio Entertainment Systems
November 16, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

DSP Concepts and Analog Devices Collaborate on Solution for Rapid Design of In-Vehicle Audio Entertainment Systems

DSP Concepts is collaborating with Analog Devices on a solution for automotive OEMs aimed at accelerating design cycles and reducing costs for in-vehicle audio system implementation. The new end-to-end development ADI LISTN EZ-AUDIO system will enable versatile, differentiated audio entertainment projects using Analog Devices SHARC+ DSP technology and the newly optimized Audio Weaver development platform from DSP Concepts to reduce design complexity and costs.
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Bluetooth SIG Targets 6 GHz Frequency Band Mid-Band Spectrum Expansion Project
November 16, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

Bluetooth SIG Targets 6 GHz Frequency Band Mid-Band Spectrum Expansion Project

Following international trends and increasing use for Wi-Fi 6E, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), the trade association that oversees Bluetooth technology, announced a new specification development project to define the operation of Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) in additional unlicensed mid-band spectrum, including the 6GHz frequency band. The new spectrum expansion project will help ensure that much needed Bluetooth performance enhancements can continue well into the future.
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