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Kickstarter Announces Exciting New Tools for Creators and Backers
by Cristina Costa

Kickstarter Announces Exciting New Tools for Creators and Backers

Crowdfunding continues to be a vital strategy for startups and even established businesses to fund and launch products, assessing its market potential and value perception. Among those platforms, Kickstarter is a leading service that has even generated an ecosystem of supporting partners. Now, Kickstarter announced its most ambitious expansion, introducing features that will simplify crowdfunding for creators but also elevate the experience for backers.
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Bluacs Joins Audio Foundry and Licenses Its Fresh Air Technology to Tymphany
by Joao Martins

Bluacs Joins Audio Foundry and Licenses Its Fresh Air Technology to Tymphany

Audio Foundry, the collaborative automotive audio technology platform, announced Bluacs as its newest member. The leading speaker research company from Australia is widely recognized in the industry for its Fresh Air Speaker technology, applicable to woofer and subwoofer designs that leverage the full car cabin volume. As part of this collaboration, Tymphany will be licensing Bluacs' technologies to advance in-vehicle sound experiences.
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Bang & Olufsen Unveils New Custom-Made Atelier Program
by audioXpress Staff

Bang & Olufsen Unveils New Custom-Made Atelier Program

Bang & Olufsen introduced the Beosound 2 Gradient Collection, a limited-edition launch celebrating the vast creative possibilities of the company's new Atelier custom program. Offered as part of Bang & Olufsen's three-tiered level of service, the Atelier Catalogue provides 500,000 possible combinations of colors, materials, and finishes, allowing customers to design a one-of-a-kind Bang & Olufsen product, all through a new digital tool.
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Synaptics Confirms Its Acquisition of Packetcraft
by Joao Martins

Synaptics Confirms Its Acquisition of Packetcraft

During its scheduled Q2 results call, Synaptics Incorporated confirmed the acquisition of Packecraft, the recognized Bluetooth LE Audio software stack vendor. Already a leading supplier of wireless technologies, Synaptics now added leading embedded Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) stacks and software, positioning the company as one of the strongest suppliers of Bluetooth LE Audio and Auracast broadcast audio software.
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Listen Technologies and Ampetronic Start Shipping First Commercial Grade Auracast Solution
by Joao Martins

Listen Technologies and Ampetronic Start Shipping First Commercial Grade Auracast Solution

Listen Technologies and Ampetronic announced that Auri, the first complete Auracast broadcast audio-based assistive listening solution, is now shipping. The unveiling of the Auri solution at the ISE 2025 show in Barcelona comes at a time when system integrators are starting to be aware of the potential for the technology in any public space environment. Ongoing demonstrations at the busy trade show floor clearly showcase the enormous potential and impact for the industry.
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Elytone NAP1 Platform Improves with AES67 and AES70 (OCA) Support
by Joao Martins

Elytone NAP1 Platform Improves with AES67 and AES70 (OCA) Support

Elytone returned to ISE 2025 in Barcelona with another series of exciting technology updates in networked audio. The Taiwan-based company showcased new developments featuring its Networked Audio Processor 1 (NAP1) platform enabling IP audio networks over Dante and AES67, now with AES70 (OCA) controls, enhanced A2B Audio Bus bridging (including automatic plug & play). Also new is the addition of audio streaming capabilities, including Spotify Connect and Google Cast, with more streaming services in final testing and additional services to be added in 2025.
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Powersoft Launches Ultra-Compact PoE Amplifier at ISE 2025
by Joao Martins

Powersoft Launches Ultra-Compact PoE Amplifier at ISE 2025

The latest announcement from Powersoft is called Nota, and it’s a versatile, ultra-compact PoE/PoE+ amplifier that the Italian manufacturer says was designed to meet current market needs. Those have to do with increasing requirements for fully networked audio environments, increasingly AES67-based. With PoE/PoE+ and USB-C connectivity, 140W of power, built-in DSP, and remote monitoring and control, Nota is feature-packed, easy-to-setup, and proof that it’s not about size, but what you do with it.
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DPA Microphones Unveils N-Series Digital Wireless Microphone System
by Joao Martins

DPA Microphones Unveils N-Series Digital Wireless Microphone System

DPA Microphones is moving into the wireless market with the release of its new N-Series Digital Wireless Microphone System. Announced at ISE 2025, the first wireless solution from the Danish company is a fully digital, true diversity wideband system, in a robust and easy-to-operate format that is well-suited to a wide array of live, rental, and installed systems applications. In addition to the dedicated wideband capabilities available with each N-Series device, DPA designed the solution to differentiate in its attention to every detail and increased flexibility.
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GN Introduces Their Most Advanced Hearing Aid with Dedicated DNN Chip
by Andrew Bellavia

GN Introduces Their Most Advanced Hearing Aid with Dedicated DNN Chip

GN, the Danish manufacturer of prescription and over-the-counter hearing aids, announced their new flagship model ReSound Vivia, powered by a dedicated Deep Neural Network (DNN) chip trained on 13.5 million spoken sentences in various languages and with varied vocal effort, across 3.9 million tuned sound parameters, that spotlights speech and eliminates distracting noise. The new AI powered hearing aids expand GN’s range of Bluetooth LE Audio and Auracast-enabled solutions.
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Lighter, Cooler, More Powerful. B&C Speakers Introduces New Products for 2025
by Joao Martins

Lighter, Cooler, More Powerful. B&C Speakers Introduces New Products for 2025

Fresh from NAMM 2025 in Anaheim, CA, B&C Speakers will exhibit at ISE 2025 in Barcelona, where it will present its latest innovations, highlighting in particular the latest HLX Series Helical compression drivers DH350 and DH450 now benefiting from purposely designed heatsinks. Also new for the show are two new lightweight, high-power woofers, that are perfect for small format line arrays, expanding the Italian speaker manufacturer’s CL Series.
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