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Altium Designer High-Speed PCB Design Tool Introduces New Features
by audioXpress Staff

Altium Designer High-Speed PCB Design Tool Introduces New Features

Altium announced expanded features for its upcoming Altium Designer 15.1 update, aiming to improve design productivity to meet the increasing complexity of today’s electronic design. Among several new features, Altium Designer 15.1 introduces new documentation output options, improved support for xSignals, expanded rigid-flex support and new design re-use features.
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Dolby Laboratories and Lenovo Announce the Launch of Three Dolby Atmos Enabled Mobile Devices at Mobile World Congress 2015
by audioXpress Staff

Dolby Laboratories and Lenovo Announce the Launch of Three Dolby Atmos Enabled Mobile Devices at Mobile World Congress 2015

The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is typically when all the Asian companies spend a big chunk of their marketing budget to introduce their latest mobile gadgets - and no idea is too crazy when it comes to setting the stage for differentiation. This year, Lenovo announced its A7000 smartphone and TAB 2 A8 and A10-70 tablets with Dolby Atmos sound!
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Expanded Exhibits and Exciting Seminars at AXPONA 2015, April 24-26 at The Westin O Hare, Chicago
by audioXpress Staff

Expanded Exhibits and Exciting Seminars at AXPONA 2015, April 24-26 at The Westin O Hare, Chicago

Established as a leading event for audiophiles, manufacturers of high-end audio equipment, musicians, and music lovers alike, Audio Expo North America (AXPONA) returns to Chicago April 24-26 for its third straight year. The show will feature Audio Con seminars and live music performances, the Ear Gear Expo (EGX) showcase for headphones and associated equipment, and the AXPONA Marketplace.
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Klippel’s Three-Day Lecture on Sound Quality of Audio Systems
by Vance Dickason

Klippel’s Three-Day Lecture on Sound Quality of Audio Systems

Registrations are open for engineers active in audio product and loudspeaker design, research & development and quality control and all interested students wishing to attend the 3 day lecture “Sound Quality of Audio Systems - Modeling, Measurement, and Control”” by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Klippel at Dresden University of Technology, March 23-25, 2015.
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Audio Precision Delivers Dolby MS11 Test Solution
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Audio Precision Delivers Dolby MS11 Test Solution

Audio Precision announced the availability of their new test package enabling Dolby’s MS11 Multistream Decoder compliance testing with APx Series audio analyzers. The new AP test package meets the challenge of decoding multiple broadcast audio formats in a streamlined compliance testing solution, created in cooperation with Dolby’s compliance engineering group.
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iSEMcon Acoustics Announces new iSEMic Series Measurement Microphones
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iSEMcon Acoustics Announces new iSEMic Series Measurement Microphones

iSEMcon announced its new iSEMic Series of measurement microphones and accessories for iPhone, iPad devices and laptop computers. The new iSEMic microphones support phantom power from 9 to 52V and ICP/IEPE power using simply one of the several available connector adapters, withouth signal converters needed.
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CSR expands dual-mode BlueCore platform with turnkey SoC for Bluetooth modules and embedded systems
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CSR expands dual-mode BlueCore platform with turnkey SoC for Bluetooth modules and embedded systems

CSRs highly integrated Bluetooth Smart Ready compliant CSRB5348 offers significant BOM savings while speeding time to market for multiple applications. The new dual-mode BlueCore platform offers a powerful set of classic and low-energy features in a highly integrated package, making it ideal for module manufacturers looking to speed time to market.
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OPPO Releases PM-3 Closed-Back Planar Magnetic Headphones
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OPPO Releases PM-3 Closed-Back Planar Magnetic Headphones

On the heels of rolling out its HA-2 portable headphone amplifier, as promised, OPPO Digital released the PM-3 Closed-Back Planar Magnetic Headphones. The OPPO PM-3 combines true audiophile performance, elegant styling, noise isolation and portability into a pair of sleek lightweight planar magnetic headphones.
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Analog Devices Announces New Low-Cost DSP Development Platforms for Advanced Audio Applications and New Flexible D/A Converter
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Analog Devices Announces New Low-Cost DSP Development Platforms for Advanced Audio Applications and New Flexible D/A Converter

New Blackfin processor-based low-cost DSP development platforms from Analog Devices, accelerate time to market for image sensing and advanced audio applications. Analog Devices also introduced a single-chip, universal output programmable D/A converter allowing easy bias generation and level setting.
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AMS Neve Announces the Neve 1073DPX Dual Microphone Preamp/EQ
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AMS Neve Announces the Neve 1073DPX Dual Microphone Preamp/EQ

AMS Neve, the company that carries forward two famous original British brand-names, announced the launch of the new 1073DPX dual 1073 microphone preamp/EQ unit, improving on the original design by Rupert Neve, introduced in 1970 for the A88 console. The 1073DPX adds integrated DI input, phantom power, selectable Insert, level meters, selectable headphone monitoring and more.
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