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Harman and Little Kids Rock Launch “Jam Zone” Online Music Hub
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Harman and Little Kids Rock Launch “Jam Zone” Online Music Hub

Harman is supporting Little Kids Rock and music education initiatives through Harman Inspired, the company’s global cause initiative empowering the next generation to realize their possibilities through music, technology, and service. The two organizations have joined forces to create the Jam Zone website, featuring approximately 200 free video lessons and tutorials to help anyone make music.
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Yamaha Launches HPH-MT8 and HPH-MT5 Professional Monitor Headphones
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Yamaha Launches HPH-MT8 and HPH-MT5 Professional Monitor Headphones

Yamaha has launched its latest MT Series headphones, the HPH-MT8 and HPH-MT5, developed to provide the high levels of precision and fidelity required for professional monitoring applications. Like the HPH-MT7 model, introduced in 2015, the new MT Series headphones are designed to deliver flat, high-resolution sound with precise stereo imaging and faithful source signal reproduction, while providing a high level of isolation and comfort to ward off fatigue during extended monitoring sessions.
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Ultimate Ears Introduces PartyUp to Easily Connect More Than 50 Bluetooth Speakers
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Ultimate Ears Introduces PartyUp to Easily Connect More Than 50 Bluetooth Speakers

Ultimate Ears announced a new app feature that allows to wirelessly connect more than 50 Ultimate Ears speakers within seconds - creating a new collective experience for users of portable Bluetooth speakers. The PartyUp feature promises to take distributed sound to a whole new level, connecting quickly and easily more than 50 Ultimate Ears speakers. A whole new dimension for flash mobs?
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P9 Signature Headphones Celebrate Bowers & Wilkins’ 50th Anniversary
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P9 Signature Headphones Celebrate Bowers & Wilkins’ 50th Anniversary

Bowers & Wilkins announced the P9 Signature, according to the brand, “its best sounding and most luxurious headphones to date.” Conceived to celebrate Bowers & Wilkins 50th anniversary and deliver a superior audio experience with “precision at high frequencies and astonishing bass,” the P9 Signature headphones are engineered by the same team responsible for the 800 D3 loudspeaker, and are Bowers & Wilkins’ largest over-ear headphone.
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Listen Releases SoundCheck Version 15 and is Awarded Patent for SC Amp Amplifier
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Listen Releases SoundCheck Version 15 and is Awarded Patent for SC Amp Amplifier

Listen, Inc., announced the release of SoundCheck Version 15. This release for Mac and Windows expands the testing capability of SoundCheck with additional external control, calibration, audio mixing and hardware integration, and introduces the first in the company’s redesigned virtual instruments, the multimeter. Meanwhile, the Boston-based company was awarded a patent for its audio test amplifier, SC Amp.
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Audio-Technica Launches New Wireless-Technology Subsidiary Company, Alteros
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Audio-Technica Launches New Wireless-Technology Subsidiary Company, Alteros

Alteros will develop products capitalizing on Audio-Technica’s years of extensive ultra-wideband (UWB) and RF technology research. The new subsidiary will be dedicated to the research, development and sales of innovative technology products with a special focus on high-end wireless for broadcast, live and theater applications in the ever-shrinking frequency spectrum available for those applications.
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QSC Reinforces its Cinema Equipment Portfolio with the Acquisition of Ultra-Stereo Labs
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QSC Reinforces its Cinema Equipment Portfolio with the Acquisition of Ultra-Stereo Labs

QSC announced the acquisition of Ultra-Stereo Labs, Inc. (“USL”), effective September 30, 2016. The acquisition will allow QSC to offer an industry-leading portfolio of audio-visual processing and B-chain solutions under the QSC and USL brands for the motion picture exhibition industry. QSC also confirmed it will be joining forces with USL as an integral part of the product development team for USL branded products.
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Shure Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Iconic SM58 Microphone
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Shure Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Iconic SM58 Microphone

The Shure SM58, the world’s most popular microphone, has been a foundational and formidable part of live performance for more than 50 years. To celebrate and honor five decades of the renowned sound, design, and durability of this iconic mic, at the 141st AES Convention, Shure has announced the introduction of a 50th Anniversary model, along with a variety of initiatives to engage and inspire loyal SM58 fans of all ages around the world.
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Waves Audio Introduces SoundGrid Connect at 141st AES in Los Angeles
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Waves Audio Introduces SoundGrid Connect at 141st AES in Los Angeles

Digital signal processing solutions specialists, Waves Audio announced the introduction of SoundGrid Connect, a game-changing feature of its SoundGrid driver. With SoundGrid Connect, users can connect any ASIO/Core Audio-compatible audio interface to SoundGrid technology and dramatically boost the capacity of their system – run hundreds of plugins simultaneously, stream audio, record and mix from multiple computers and DAWs at the same time, and more.
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Dynaudio Introduces M5P Evidence High-End Mastering Speakers at AES 2016
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Dynaudio Introduces M5P Evidence High-End Mastering Speakers at AES 2016

Dynaudio revealed its new M5P Evidence mastering monitor at the 141st AES show in Los Angeles. The M5P Evidence monitors have been designed without compromises using only the best materials and are custom built by hand in the Dynaudio factory in Denmark. The new speakers, part of the company’s prestigious M Series, were available for listening in a dedicated demo room at AES, side by side with Dynaudio’s new LYD compact nearfield monitors.
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