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MAGIX Announces New Samplitude Pro X4 with Expanded Features and Tools
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MAGIX Announces New Samplitude Pro X4 with Expanded Features and Tools

MAGIX has released a new version of thee renowned digital audio workstation, Samplitude Pro X, expanding on the DAW's 28-year success story. Providing the highest level of quality for recording, mixing and mastering tasks, as well as for music production in a single environment, the new Samplitude Pro X4 expands on its most praised features, now adding Automation Lanes for optimal control and overview of track automation data, a new plug-in browser for quick searches for effects and instruments, new MIDI editing functions and improved MIDI workflow. And Samplitude now supports CPUs with up to 32 cores!
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Sennheiser Promotes Augmented Audio Experiences at CES 2019
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Sennheiser Promotes Augmented Audio Experiences at CES 2019

At CES 2019, Sennheiser will be providing visitors with the unique opportunity to explore the world of Augmented Audio and craft their very own AMBEO AR experience. The company will promote listening sessions of the much anticipated AMBEO Soundbar, finally revealing the latest in immersive 3D sound to the home and a remarkably spatial sonic experience with immersive 5.1.4 sound and deep bass in a single all-in-one device. Visitors to CES can also get hands on with the new MOMENTUM True Wireless earphones.
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Enhanced Audio Experiences with RCA’s Smart Soundbar
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Enhanced Audio Experiences with RCA’s Smart Soundbar

At CES 2019, Voxtok, the Sound division of entertainment software platform Netgem, will be showing Music Avenue, a fully personalized audio service designed for TV, which operates through the Smart Soundbar of iconic brand Radio Corporation of America (RCA). Combining the two best-selling speaker categories currently in the market, the RCA Smart Soundbar supports Amazon Alexa voice interactions and will be unveiled also at the annual Las Vegas consumer electronics show.
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Dayton Audio Offers Easy Wireless Audio with New DTA-2.1BT 100W Class D 2.1 Amplifier with Bluetooth
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Dayton Audio Offers Easy Wireless Audio with New DTA-2.1BT 100W Class D 2.1 Amplifier with Bluetooth

Dayton Audio introduced the updated DTA-2.1BT amplifier, a compact and lightweight Class D design that is perfect top bring new life to existing passive speakers. The DTA-2.1BT is able to adequately power most speakers, and also a passive subwoofer, allowing users to create an inexpensive and high-performance 2.1 set up for any office, bedroom, or small home theater. For just $99.00, it offers Bluetooth, RCA, and 3.5 mm inputs, and now features a crossover adjustment on the front panel.
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Biamp Announces Acquisition of Sound Masking Specialist Cambridge Sound Management
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Biamp Announces Acquisition of Sound Masking Specialist Cambridge Sound Management

Biamp, the professional audio and video networking solutions manufacturer from Beaverton, Oregon, announced the acquisition of Cambridge Sound Management (CSM). Headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, CSM is a pioneer and a leading brand in the fast-growing sound masking market, with an extensive range of solutions and integration know-how that perfectly complements Biamps activities. CSM will join Biamp as a product family within the company's portfolio, with business functions gradually being blended to form a single Biamp business.
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Parasound Launches Zphono XRM for Improved Vinyl Experiences
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Parasound Launches Zphono XRM for Improved Vinyl Experiences

For those still in the market for a decent phono preamplifier, Parasound just announced a new model that's a big step up from its entry-level Zphono. The new Parasound Zphono XRM phono preamplifier offers higher performance, dual-input MM and MC, with XLR balanced outputs, adjustable MC loading, rumble filter, and mono/stereo switch. Price wise, Parasound's new $599 Zphono XRM phono preamplifier bridges the gap between its entry-level $200 Zphono and the internationally acclaimed $1,495 Halo JC 3 Jr.
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Electro-Voice Expands EVID Commercial Loudspeaker Family with Three New Models
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Electro-Voice Expands EVID Commercial Loudspeaker Family with Three New Models

Electro-Voice has introduced three new additions to its versatile EVID family of commercial loudspeaker solutions. The EVID range now includes two ceiling models and one pendant model - the C4.2LP (4” low-profile ceiling), C6.2 (6.5” ceiling) and P6.2 (6.5” pendant) - all acoustically and aesthetically matched with existing EVID models, combining unique design features for easy installation and maintenance.
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Appeal of Headphones Could Help World’s Hard of Hearing, New Futuresource Hearables Research States
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Appeal of Headphones Could Help World’s Hard of Hearing, New Futuresource Hearables Research States

Futuresource Consulting announced the forthcoming availability of the new 'Worldwide Hearables Report'. According to the company's research, the growing appeal of aftermarket headphones is opening up the new ‘hearables’ sub-segment, catering for those with hearing loss and alleviating much of the expense and stigma attached to hearing aids. Amid these market developments, Futuresource will carry out in-depth original research to explore the enabling technologies, the underlying consumer attitudes, motivations and the size of the hearables opportunity.
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Mark Levinson № 519 Audio Player Receives Firmware Update that Adds Roon Ready Capability, MQA Certification and other Enhancements
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Mark Levinson № 519 Audio Player Receives Firmware Update that Adds Roon Ready Capability, MQA Certification and other Enhancements

Harman's Mark Levinson announced a major firmware update for its № 519 Audio Player, a remarkably versatile ultrahigh-end source component designed to accommodate nearly every digital audio format. The update turns the № 519 Roon Ready and with it introduces support for the Tidal music streaming service, including its Premium top tier that makes available the largest collection of MQA encoded files. Therefore, the update also makes the 519 certified with the MQA Full Decoder, which enables playback and authentication of MQA audio files and streams.
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Audio Precision Releases APx Software Version 5.0 Adding Transfer Function Measurement, Cross-Spectral Analysis Of Arbitrary, Broadband Signals
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Audio Precision Releases APx Software Version 5.0 Adding Transfer Function Measurement, Cross-Spectral Analysis Of Arbitrary, Broadband Signals

With the announcement of its brand new APx555 B Series two-channel audio analyzer, Audio Precision also unveiled the updated version 5.0 of its APx audio measurement software. With this release, AP has added the ability to measure the transfer function of electronic audio and electroacoustic devices using any broadband signal. Release 5.0 also enables electronic activation of software option licenses, eliminating the iButton requirement for such options with earlier versions of APx audio measurement software.
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