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New Akitika Preamp Platform to Build and Customize
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New Akitika Preamp Platform to Build and Customize

Akitika makes high-performance home audio kits, including the GT-101 Stereo Power Amplifier and now the PR-101 Stereo Preamplifier Kit which the company describes as Akitika’s Preamp Platform (APP) because it contains everything needed in a stereo preamplifier, plus three option slots that allow the user to customize and extend it. That makes the APP a platform to build, and to build on.
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Flare Audio R1 Headphones: Something Completely New?
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Flare Audio R1 Headphones: Something Completely New?

British audio company, Flare Audio, has launched what they describe as “the world’s first ‘fully’ open back headphones”. The Reference R1 uses several patent-pending technologies for driver alignment, reduce enclosure vibration and remove enclosed residual pressure interference (ERPI), to allow distortion free sound, even at full volume. The result, Flare claims, is “a completely new listening experience”.
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Line 6 New AMPLIFi TT Guitar Amp, Effects, and Bluetooth Streaming Speaker
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Line 6 New AMPLIFi TT Guitar Amp, Effects, and Bluetooth Streaming Speaker

Line 6 announced the new AMPLIFi TT guitar processor, USB stereo audio interface and streaming system, following the same path of its innovative AMPLIFi guitar combo. The AMPLIFi TT transforms any stereo system into a guitar amp and Bluetooth streaming system with interactive guitar tone. As Line 6 suggests, we can now play guitar while watching TV or jam on top of our favorite album while at work…
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Audionamix Releases Audio Source Separation Software ADX TRAX Pro
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Audionamix Releases Audio Source Separation Software ADX TRAX Pro

Following the demonstration at the 137th AES Convention in Los Angeles, Audionamix has released the highly anticipated Pro edition of their audio source separation software, ADX TRAX. ADX TRAX Pro is a professional-grade tool, leveraging the full collection of ADX algorithms and spectral editing tools. The company will also release a unique ADX Vocal Volume Control (VVC) AAX Native 64 plug-in for Pro Tools 11, in December 2014.
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Sennheiser Rethinks Portable Conferencing With New Speakerphones
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Sennheiser Rethinks Portable Conferencing With New Speakerphones

While the videoconferencing market has pretty much been “eaten” by Skype and similar applications, we simply use voice-only communications in many situations, especially in group meetings. With VoIP, many audio companies are seeing opportunities and Sennheiser just announced its new SP 10 and SP 20 Speakerphones introducing a versatile and simple design for unified communications from just about anywhere.
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Conexant Launches New HD Audio Codec with Integrated AudioSmart Class-D Amplifier
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Conexant Launches New HD Audio Codec with Integrated AudioSmart Class-D Amplifier

Conexant Systems recently announced the CX20952, a new HD Audio Codec that enables high quality audio on computers and tablets with low power consumption, two cap-free headphone amplifiers, and a fully-integrated Class-D amplifier. Part of Conexant’s AudioSmart family, the new CX20952 produces maximum sound pressure level without damage to speakers or other components.
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STMicroelectronics Accordo2 Automotive Audio Processor Shrinks Design Cycle and Time-to-Market
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STMicroelectronics Accordo2 Automotive Audio Processor Shrinks Design Cycle and Time-to-Market

The new Accordo2 family from STMicroelectronics offers a fully integrated audio subsystem, including media decoding, audio routing, sound processing, and analog audio inputs and outputs, as well as an independent secure CAN (Controller Area Network) microcontroller subsystem. Until now, car infotainment manufacturers had to use multiple devices to achieve the same result that a single Accordo2 device delivers.
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Eventide Announces H9 Max Harmonizer Stomp Box Package
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Eventide Announces H9 Max Harmonizer Stomp Box Package

Eventide has released the H9 Max, the ultimate addition to the acclaimed H9 Harmonizer stompbox line. Within the same physical hardware as existing H9’s, Eventide now ships all 45 currently-available processing algorithms pre-loaded, plus any new H9 exclusive algorithms in perpetuity, at no additional charge.
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Hafler HA75 Tube Head Headphone Amplifier
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Hafler HA75 Tube Head Headphone Amplifier

After over a decade of being dormant, Radial Engineering Ltd. purchased the Hafler brand in 2014 and announced it is re-launching a new series of high-fidelity audio products, already previewed at the 137th AES Convention in Los Angeles. One of the most interesting is the HA75 ‘Tube Head’ - a 12AX7 driven tube headphone amplifier with sufficient gain to power any type of headphone.
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Audioengine Introduces New B2 Premium Bluetooth Speaker
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Audioengine Introduces New B2 Premium Bluetooth Speaker

Audioengine introduced the Audioengine B2 Premium Bluetooth Speaker, combining the signature sound of the Audioengine 2+ Powered Desktop Speakers to the wireless world in a convenient all-in-one stereo speaker system. The new B2 Premium speaker features a built-in 24-bit DAC, aptX decoder and is available in American walnut, Zebrawood or Black ash wood finishes.
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