All items tagged with microphones (279)
AKM Releases Low Latency 4-Channel A/D Converter for Automotive ANC Applications
April 29, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

AKM Releases Low Latency 4-Channel A/D Converter for Automotive ANC Applications

Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation (AKM) has developed a new 4-channel A/D converter (ADC) targeting automotive applications. The AK5734 is a complementary solution for microphones, aiming at active noise control systems (ANC) and road noise control systems (RNC), which are increasingly being installed in vehicles. By combining with the previously released 6-channel ADC the AK5736, the system can accommodate various microphone channels. Besides ANC and RNC, AKM says the solution is ideal for the microphone input of a wide variety of in-vehicle systems.
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Sennheiser Promotes Memory Mic Special Anniversary Offer to Help Get Better Audio on Home Videos
April 13, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Sennheiser Promotes Memory Mic Special Anniversary Offer to Help Get Better Audio on Home Videos

In view of the current shelter-at-home situation, Sennheiser has added another special deal and is now offering its wireless Memory Mic for just $99.95 USD (MSRP, reduced from $199.95). The Memory Mic and its free companion app make it easy to create smartphone videos with great audio and are ideal for course instructors and vloggers but also families keen to stay in touch. A perfect companion for video creation, allowing anyone to get better audio with an external microphone.
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CEVA Announces SensPro High Performance Sensor Hub DSP Architecture for Smart Devices
April 7, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

CEVA Announces SensPro High Performance Sensor Hub DSP Architecture for Smart Devices

CEVA announced a new high performance sensor hub DSP architecture designed to handle the broad range of sensor processing and sensor fusion workloads for contextually-aware devices. The new SensPro device family serves as a hub for processing and fusing of data from multiple sensors including camera, Radar, LiDAR, Time-of-Flight, microphones and inertial measurement units. This highly-configurable and self-contained architecture brings together scalar and parallel processing for floating point and integer data types, as well as deep learning training and inferencing.
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Earthworks Microphones Celebrates 25th Anniversary and Launches New Vocal Capsules at NAMM 2020
January 16, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Earthworks Microphones Celebrates 25th Anniversary and Launches New Vocal Capsules at NAMM 2020

Earthworks Audio opened for business 25 years ago when the company started building measurement microphones in order to measure the speakers that David Blackmer, the company’s founder was designing. When musicians tried David’s measurement microphones for capturing their instruments live, they started coming back for more. 25 years later, Earthworks is announcing new vocal capsules for live sound wireless options, built on success of its latest SR314 microphone.
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Capture All the Excitement of Audio with audioXpress February 2020!
January 10, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Capture All the Excitement of Audio with audioXpress February 2020!

The February 2020 edition of audioXpress features a Market Update on Microphones, addressing the latest technology and application trends in this expanding product segment, including an article explaining how Nureva created a groundbreaking approach to gain control that cuts conference call annoyance. And Richard Honeycutt explains how to choose and position Choir Microphones, while Michael Steffes discusses interfacing measurement mics to Delta-Sigma ADCs. Get the new edition now!
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Biamp Receives U.S. Patent for Beamtracking Technology Used in Parlé Microphones
December 20, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Biamp Receives U.S. Patent for Beamtracking Technology Used in Parlé Microphones

Biamp announced that it has been awarded a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its Beamtracking technology used in its Parlé family of ceiling, tabletop, and pendant microphones. The patented technology, combined with Biamp's advanced signal processing algorithms, allows the microphones to track and mix voices intelligently from around a meeting room, enabling improved communications.
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PCB Awarded Patent For Universal Phantom Powered Preamplifier
December 10, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

PCB Awarded Patent For Universal Phantom Powered Preamplifier

PCB Piezotronics, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of MTS Systems Corporation, was awarded a patent for a universal phantom powered preamplifier. PCB engineers Mark Nowak and Drew Karkau are inventors of the patent for Model 426A14, describing a phantom powered preamp for use with a microphone cartridge having a unique mechanical interface, which allows the phantom powered preamp to function with both 1/4" and 1/2" microphone cartridges.
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Fresh From the Bench: The DPA d:vice MMA-A Mobile Recording Interface
November 27, 2019 by Stuart Yaniger

Fresh From the Bench: The DPA d:vice MMA-A Mobile Recording Interface

Stuart Yaniger reviews the DPA d:vice MMA-A Digital Audio Interface, a two-channel microphone preamp and A/D converter that allows the use of the renowned DPA microphones with any iOS device, a Mac or a PC. Apart from being an audio measurement expert, Yaniger is also an enthusiastic music recordist and this device not only fit in his pocket but he also found it to be "a slick piece of engineering and industrial design." Originally published in audioXpress, October 2019.
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United Studio Technologies Introduces UT FET47 Large Diaphragm Condenser Studio Microphone
November 25, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

United Studio Technologies Introduces UT FET47 Large Diaphragm Condenser Studio Microphone

A faithful reproduction of a legendary classic studio microphone workhorse. This is how United Studio Technologies describes its first product, the UT FET47. Aimed at both professional and project-level recording, as well as the broadcast and voiceover market, the UT FET47 is hand-built in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and features a custom output transformer designed by Cinemag and a Heiserman HZ-series ‘K47’ German-style capsule.
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New TI Burr-Brown Audio Quad-Channel ADC Captures Voice at Four Time Larger Distances
November 5, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

New TI Burr-Brown Audio Quad-Channel ADC Captures Voice at Four Time Larger Distances

No more yelling at smart speakers. Texas Instruments (TI) introduced a new audio analog-to-digital converter (ADC) capable of capturing clear audio up to four times farther away than competing devices. The new TI Burr-Brown TLV320ADC5140 audio ADC enables far-field voice capture and achieves a 120-dB dynamic range for clear, high-fidelity audio in smart home applications. The TLV320ADC5140 is the industry’s smallest quad-channel audio ADC with this level of performance.
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