Sony Unveils INZONE Truly Wireless Gaming Earbuds and Headphones
Sony Electronics unveiled its new INZONE Buds, new truly wireless gaming earbuds with ANC, the new INZONE H5 gaming headset, and a black color option for the INZONE H9 headset. The new designs expand the well-received INZONE gaming design, packed with technology and all models are Bluetooth LE Audio-ready. The new INZONE Buds offer both PC and console gamers a low latency gaming experience using a USB transceiver, personalized sound, and up to 12 hours of battery life.
What You Need To Know About Sonarworks SoundID Reference Virtual Monitoring
Sonarworks introduced a new product as part of its SoundID Reference calibration solution. The Virtual Monitoring Add-On is a new set of tools that emulates the space and sense of direction of listening to reference monitors in the studio experience, directly on headphones. This way, SoundID Reference can transform headphones into a precision-calibrated studio, ensuring a new type of reference listening for creators working on headphones, in any environment, and allowing for even more creative freedom.
McIntosh Announces MQ112 Environmental Analog Equalizer
Tone controls? Not enough. The equalizers are back. McIntosh Laboratory announced the launch of the new MQ112 Environmental Equalizer, a sophisticated 8-band stereo equalizer that can help users control their sound and listening experience. After all, anyone who can afford McIntosh high-fidelity, deserves to be able to control the sound profile the way it wants. And McIntosh says that the new MQ112 will be very effective at doing it.
Kenn LeGault Joins Bose Professional as Vice President of Engineering
Bose Professional announced Kenn LeGault as the company's newly-appointed vice president of engineering. With Bose Professional entering a new trajectory as an independent company, LeGault brings more than three decades of engineering and leadership experience across significant global brands including Avid Technology, DreamWorks Animation, Dolby Laboratories and Amazon – where he worked on several industry-changing initiatives.
Frontier Introduces AURIA Bluetooth LE Audio, Auracast, and Wi-Fi Turnkey Platform
Following a presentation at IFA 2023 in Berlin, Frontier Smart Technologies is now launching its first Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) Audio and Wi-Fi module, ready for use in consumer products. The new AURIA board also features Auracast support, allowing Bluetooth audio synchronization across multiple speakers. The module has been designed and engineered for simple and straightforward integration into various audio products, and comes with a customizable SDK, rich I/O, comprehensive documentation and technical support.
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.
Austrian Audio Launches MiCreator Studio Recording System
Austrian Audio unveiled its new MiCreator Studio microphone recording system - a unique concept that should help project the company to new markets. The new "ultra-flexible pocket recording system," as it is described, combines a beautiful, retro-style condenser microphone and a USB-C audio interface in a compact, rugged design that can be taken anywhere. This core system can then be complemented with "Satellites" that include the additional MiCreator Satellite and the MiCreator Y-Lav, a lavalier microphone with an headphone output.
EAW Unveils Compact and Powerful SM12 Stage Monitor
Although musicians and performers increasingly use in-ear monitors, high-quality stage monitors are still a requirement whenever sound is actually needed on stage. Unfortunately, professional audio manufacturers have been neglecting the product category. Eastern Acoustic Works (EAW) doesn't and introduced its latest innovation, the SM12 Stage Monitor. Inspired by the renowned Microwedge acoustic design, the new SM12 expands EAW's catalog of stage monitors with a high performance, flexible option.
Integrated Systems Europe 2024 Ready for 20th Anniversary Celebration
Excitement is building for Integrated Systems Europe (ISE), the world's leading systems integration exhibition, which celebrates 20 years of innovation when it returns to Barcelona from January 30 to February 2. Registrations are open for ISE 2024, which promises to be its biggest edition ever, now expanding from commercial and residential audio, projectors, displays, digital signage, and unified communications, also with professional audio for performance, and lighting and stage technology.
Poly and NuCurrent Introduce World’s First NFC-Powered Wireless UC Headset
NuCurrent, the wireless power technology company, announced that it enabled the new Poly Voyager Surround 85 UC Bluetooth headset with NuCurrent's NuSync technology, the world's highest power Near-Field Communication (NFC) transfer system. The challenge of the new Poly Voyager Surround 85 UC headset was to create a user experience that goes unnoticed and ensures that end-users always have a charged headset. NuCurrent developed a NFC wireless power and bidirectional data solution for the headset and stand.