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L-Acoustics Reveals New Compact K3 Line Source System
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L-Acoustics Reveals New Compact K3 Line Source System

The market leader in touring, music festivals and large scale live music events, French manufacturer L-Acoustics has unveiled the latest reference in its family of sound reinforcement systems. Positioned above the compact Kiva and Kara line arrays, and the massive K2 and K1 full-range enclosures, the new L-Acoustics K3 completes the K Series lineup, offering a versatile solution for a reshaped events industry.
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Bassboss Releases SV9 Single 9" Powered Monitor for Intimate Events and Acoustic Venues
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Bassboss Releases SV9 Single 9" Powered Monitor for Intimate Events and Acoustic Venues

Los Angeles, CA-based powered loudspeaker manufacturer Bassboss released the SV9 single 9" Powered Monitor, a new full-range and wide dispersion design described by the company as "a deeply satisfying mix of studio quality audio clarity, surprisingly deep low frequencies, very high output, wide dispersion, and long-throw." The durable design is equally at home in a wide variety of settings where quality audio is imperative and is labelled as a "socially-distanced crowd pleaser."
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Powersoft Introduces ArmoníaPlus 2.0 Software to Easily Design, Manage and Control Install Projects
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Powersoft Introduces ArmoníaPlus 2.0 Software to Easily Design, Manage and Control Install Projects

Powersoft just announced the new ArmoníaPlus 2.0 software update. This new version redefines what Powersoft amps can do, maintaining the same structure and features for Live Sound projects, while introducing completely new features for installations, focusing on the needs of system integrators for sources and zones management, and allowing the creation of fully customizable user interfaces and controls with the new Views Designer and a dedicated app to quickly load project designs to the amplifiers and external controls.
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Google Introduces Nest Audio Smart Speaker With Focus on Music Reproduction
by Joao Martins

Google Introduces Nest Audio Smart Speaker With Focus on Music Reproduction

Google held the company's traditional hardware announcements event. Apart from a new mandatory phone, the star of the event was the new Nest Audio smart speaker, bigger and more powerful than the Google Home that it replaces. Rumored for months, the new smart speaker reflects the hard work by a dedicated engineering team, resulting in a better overall speaker design, but also improved multi-room streaming features. Inside, there's more intelligence to support voice commands locally, and there's even a microphone "privacy" mute switch, when required.
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Zound Industries Redesigns Iconic Marshall Wireless On-Ear Headphones
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Zound Industries Redesigns Iconic Marshall Wireless On-Ear Headphones

Swedish headphone and speaker designer and developer Zound Industries International successfully refreshed the iconic Marshall Major on-ear headphones. The new Major IV is not only the strongest iteration and refinement of the iconic design, but it also achieves the increasingly important goal of sustainability by using recycled plastics, with electronics designed for minimal environmental impact. And it helps that the sound is also the best ever in the range.
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Amazon Reimagines Echo Smart Speaker Family for 2020
by Joao Martins

Amazon Reimagines Echo Smart Speaker Family for 2020

Amazon.com introduced its all-new line-up of Echo devices, featuring completely new designs, enhanced audio, more powerful hardware, and experiences that make Alexa voice assistant more engaging, and helpful. Most of the new Amazon products will be available at the end of October 2020, and that includes an all-new Echo (4th Gen), now with better sound and integrated smart home hub; the new Echo Dot and Echo Dot Kids Edition featuring the new spherical designs and improved audio, and Echo Show 10, the smart speaker with screen.
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JAM Audio Goes Vintage With New Atomic Age Series Of Bluetooth Speakers
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JAM Audio Goes Vintage With New Atomic Age Series Of Bluetooth Speakers

Lifestyle audio brand JAM Audio is expanding their powerhouse collection of fun, affordable Bluetooth speakers with the release of their Retro series, three speakers designed to bring a vintage look together with modern features and big sound. In a market highly saturated with competitive products in all price ranges, in a category that still struggles to gain consumer's confidence like Bluetooth speakers, an appealing vintage design is one way to generate impulsive buying. And these designs certainly appeal to those impulses.
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IsoVox Introduces IsoMic Microphone Tailored for Voice Recording With the IsoVox 2 Vocal Booth
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IsoVox Introduces IsoMic Microphone Tailored for Voice Recording With the IsoVox 2 Vocal Booth

IsoVox introduced IsoMic — a microphone technically tailored for voice recording within its innovative IsoVox 2 vocal booth, featuring four layers of acoustic materials with a patented 360 XYZ design to control sound waves from all angles. The combination, the Swedish company says, is guaranteed to capture perfect voices, thanks to the IsoMic patented triangular capsule, with an extended frequency response that delivers professional results.
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SB Audience Introduces Two New Rosso 65mm Compression Drivers
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SB Audience Introduces Two New Rosso 65mm Compression Drivers

SB Audience, the new brand of professional transducers manufactured by Sinar Baja Electric (SBE) in Indonesia, is introducing a completely new range of compression drivers. The range starts off with two 65mm titanium diaphragm compression drivers, both with a 1.4" throat exit. The two new Rosso compression drivers are high performance designs, available at an attractive price, and are in stock now, and under way to distributors.
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Sennheiser Introduces Affordable HD 560S Wired Reference Headphones
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Sennheiser Introduces Affordable HD 560S Wired Reference Headphones

Today’s music enthusiasts spend hours enjoying or analyzing music, whether listening to another artist’s work or assessing their own recordings. Sennheiser’s new HD 560S headphones offer just what is required for analytical listening sessions at an accessible price point: natural and accurate reference sound that divulges every detail, complemented by an outstanding low-frequency extension, while providing a “barely there” experience on the head and ears.
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