Canadian Loudspeaker Brand PSB Speakers Celebrates 50 Years of Hi-Fi Sound
PSB Speakers, the loudspeaker company that created the “Canadian Sound”, is celebrating 50 years of delivering high value hi-fi speakers at the intersection of science-based sound reproduction and musical enjoyment. Founded in St Jacob’s, Ontario, in the summer of 1972 by classically-trained violinist and self-taught acoustics designer, Paul Barton, and a couple of his high school friends, PSB Speakers soon became a pioneer in marrying psychoacoustics research with loudspeaker design.
Sony Improves Leading Noise Canceling Experience with New WH-1000XM5 Headphones
It's the active noise cancelling headphones that the consumer electronics industry learned to see as a market reference. And Sony knows this, and works to improve the standard for its best-selling product regularly. The new WH-1000XM5 wireless headphones improve adaptive noise cancellation even further, introduce new and improved 30mm drivers, while allowing for industry-leading call quality, and offering a subtle and yet more elegant design, using new materials for greater comfort.
Westone Audio Introduces Mach Series Professional Grade Earphones for Consumers
As part of their continued customer-focused approach - inspired by Lucid Hearing - Westone Audio has launched what it states to be one of the industry's most technologically advanced universal fit earphones available on the market today. The new Westone Audio Mach Series universal fit in-earphones were developed using the over 35 years of engineering and performance experience previously used only for professional, stage-grade, custom in-ear monitors.
Immersive Innovation From FLUX:: Immersive and Merging Technologies Presented at ISE 2022
French company FLUX:: Immersive and long-term partner Merging Technologies exhibited at ISE 2022 together to demonstrate how simple content can be prepared for live events. The increased popularity of immersive audio content in all its forms is driving the need to repurpose or create programs for use in a host of different environments. Making this process simple for the creative community is a goal shared by the two companies.
KEF Unveils New LS60 Wireless All-In-One High Fidelity Streaming Audio System
In celebration of their 60th anniversary, KEF has launched the LS60 Wireless - an all-in-one, high fidelity streaming audio system. The product features the latest high-performance KEF key acoustic technologies for the highest streaming performance available to date, including the 12th Generation Uni-Q driver array with Metamaterial Absorption Technology and two pairs of Uni-Core drivers. The two floorstanding active speakers can be expanded with up to two KEF subwoofers via sub output on each speaker and can configured to work either wired or wireless to allow for complete positioning freedom within a room.
Sonos Announces On-Device Sonos Voice Control in English and French
After years of research and development, Sonos has finally announced Sonos Voice Control, its entirely new voice experience that delivers fast, accurate hands-free control of music and any Sonos multiroom system with unmatched privacy. Aware of the growing concerns about digital assistants from the major technology companies, Sonos introduced its first voice experience created purely for complete command of a Sonos system using only voice. A development effort boosted with the strategic acquisition of Snips in 2019.
Beyma Launches Near and Mid Field High End Transducer Series
Over the past two years, Acustica Beyma expanded its R&D efforts significantly. The results are now visible as Beyma introduced a completely new family of outstanding drivers at ISE 2022. Beyma's R&D department used the latest simulation tools and a rigorous material selection process to create a new set of transducers that crossover from pure professional audio applications into the studio and high end world. A significant new range of woofers and tweeters with multiple voicing options that will appeal to speaker designers.
Mcintosh Premieres MCD12000 Reference Level SACD Player and Reference Level DAC
McIntosh updated its premium audio source with the introduction of the MCD12000 SACD/CD Player. While classified as a CD player, the MCD12000 serves as a reference level digital-to-analog converter (DAC) that includes reference level SACD/CD playback capabilities. Music played through MCD12000's digital inputs or compact discs is processed by professional grade 8-channel ESS Sabre Pro DACs, designed for premium performance.
audioXpress June 2022 Now Available and Driving Audio Innovations
Get the latest market intelligence and expert perspectives on automotive audio in the June 2022 issue of audioXpress. Hans Gierlich (HEAD acoustics) explains ANC headset testing, and Dana Helmink (Widex) writes about signal processing and filter bank design for hearing aids. Read Brent Butterworth's detailed review of Røde's NTH-100 Headphones, and enjoy another chapter of Ethan Winer's hands-on journey an analog guitar-controlled synthesizer modules.
Renkus-Heinz Introduces Passive Steerable Column Loudspeaker Series at ISE 2022
To expand the options available to integrators and system designers, across more installations, in more locations, Renkus-Heinz now incorporates its UniBeam steerable technology in passive columns with the launch of the PCX Series. The US-based loudspeaker manufacturer unveiled the new PCX Series at Integrated Systems Europe show in Barcelona. Renown for its digitally steerable arrays, the Californian company developed a custom passive filter network to control the columns' dispersion pattern.