All items tagged with Norway (15)

Test Bench: The 27TFC/T 1" Soft Dome Tweeter from the SEAS Prestige Titan Line

September 17, 2025 by Vance Dickason

Test Bench: The 27TFC/T 1" Soft Dome Tweeter from the SEAS Prestige Titan Line

The 27TFC/T is a new 1" (25mm) tweeter featuring a one-piece centenary profile dome and wide surround fabricated from SEAS pre-coated lightweight Sonolex material, both integrated into an injection molded faceplate. The voice coil consists of a non-magnetically conducting titanium former wound with round copper wire. Driving the removable dome assembly is a ferrite magnet with a damped vented pole piece that is coupled to an injection molded rear cavity. This article was originally published in Voice Coil, May 2025.

sensiBel Appoints Kieran Harney as New CEO

September 3, 2025 by Joao Martins

sensiBel Appoints Kieran Harney as New CEO

sensiBel announced that Kieran Harney has been appointed as CEO, succeeding Sverre Dale Moen, who has led sensiBel since 2018. Kieran Harney was responsible for business development in the Americas for sensiBel and over the past months took on the role of Chief Commercial Officer. He has been in the MEMS industry for 30 years and previously served as Managing Director of Audio Products at TDK Invensense. Earlier in his career, he started a successful MEMS microphone business at Analog Devices in 2005, that was later sold to InvenSense in 2013.

From Norway with Love: Arendal Sound Launches Flagship 1528 Speaker Series

October 8, 2024 by Joao Martins

From Norway with Love: Arendal Sound Launches Flagship 1528 Speaker Series

Norwegian company Arendal Sound launched its latest creation, targeting both stereo and home cinema applications. The new Arendal Sound 1528 speaker series redefines high-performance loudspeaker design at fair prices, merging sonic precision, striking power, and elegant aesthetics. A custom carbon-graphene mid-range driver joins an exclusive lithium magnesium tweeter in the biggest ever speakers from Arendal Sound.

Sennheiser Invests in Norwegian Optical MEMS Microphone Pioneer sensiBel

February 21, 2024 by Joao Martins

Sennheiser Invests in Norwegian Optical MEMS Microphone Pioneer sensiBel

sensiBel announced a new successful 7 million Euros funding round with Sennheiser leading the investment together with existing main shareholders TRUMPF Venture, Skagerak Capital, Investinor, SINTEF Venture, MP Pensjon and Halden Kommunale Pensjonskasse. The funds will be used to expand production and invest in scalability of sensiBel’s patented optical MEMS microphones that offer 80dBA SNR and 132dB of dynamic range, a new level of performance for packaged miniature microphones.

R&D Stories: How Optical Technology Enables a Generational Shift in MEMS Microphone Performance

December 13, 2023 by Jakob Vennerød and Kieran Harney

R&D Stories: How Optical Technology Enables a Generational Shift in MEMS Microphone Performance

The article summarizes the evolution of MEMS microphone technology and describes the benefits of optical microphones over conventional solutions. This is a crucial reading to understand how the first generation of optical MEMS microphones have smashed the limits of SNR and dynamic range of miniature microphones, with 80dBA SNR (14dBA noise floor), 132dB dynamic range, 24-bit digital output and all with ultra-low power consumption.

October 10, 2023 by audioXpress Staff

MEMS Industry Expert Anthony Minervini Joins sensiBel

As it gets closer to commercialization, the optical MEMS microphone company from Norway, continues to expand its business and leadership team. sensiBel confirmed that it hired industry-heavyweight Anthony Minervini to the sensiBel development team. Anthony has been in the MEMS industry for 23 years and for the last 8 years has served as the microphone packaging technology architect for the acoustics group at Apple, following previous experiences with Knowles and Invensense (TDK), and Analog Devices.

Hegel Unveils H600 Dual Mono Integrated Amplifier and DAC

August 3, 2023 by Joao Martins

Hegel Unveils H600 Dual Mono Integrated Amplifier and DAC

Hegel has introduced their reference integrated amplifier. The H600 is rated for 303 watts in 8 ohms, with a damping factor of 4000, and 2 ohms drive capability - core specifications that Hegel considers are key for an amplifier to drive any speaker with confidence and ease. In line with the company's obsession of dual everything, the amplifier is a dual mono design. It also boasts a state-of-the-art preamplifier with the same extremely precise volume attenuator found in the Hegel reference P30A amplifier.

Podcasting Startup Nomono Appoints Sylvia Brudeli as Chief Product Officer

November 17, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

Podcasting Startup Nomono Appoints Sylvia Brudeli as Chief Product Officer

Nomono, the developer of wireless and connected audio recording and collaboration tools designed to help podcasters and journalists tell immersive audio stories, announced it has named seasoned technology executive Sylvia Brudeli as Chief Product Officer. The Norwegian company is expanding its executive leadership team amid global growth, on the heels of the company closing an investment round worth approx. $3.6M USD, led by Schibsted Ventures.

Nomono Sound Capsule Completely Wireless Recording Platform Simplifies Audio Recording

May 26, 2022 by Joao Martins

Nomono Sound Capsule Completely Wireless Recording Platform Simplifies Audio Recording

Nomono is a Norwegian startup working in the field of audio recording and collaboration tools, with a mission to make audio wireless and immersive. For now, Nomono elected to help podcasters and journalists use their tools to tell audio stories using its integrated hardware and software solutions that are designed to simplify field recording, file management, collaboration and production, while paving the way for a spatial audio future.

Optical MEMS Microphone Technology from sensiBel Receives Funding Needed To Enter Production

April 19, 2022 by Joao Martins

Optical MEMS Microphone Technology from sensiBel Receives Funding Needed To Enter Production

sensiBel is a Norwegian company developing a new generation of MEMS microphones using patented optical technology that they believe will be able to reach 80dB SNR and rival conventional studio microphone capsules, with all the benefits of a fully encapsulated solution. The company now announced a successful funding round of 15 million Euros, led by Germany’s TRUMPF Venture and including The European Council’s EIC Fund, Skagerak Capital, Investinor, and SINTEF Venture IV. sensiBel will use the funding to ramp up production.

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