Searchable Product Database of Ravenna Audio-Over-IP Solutions Now Available Online
Following the redesign of the new Ravenna website in June 2021, ALC NetworX, the developers of the Ravenna high-performance AoIP networking technology, have now unveiled a searchable Ravenna product database. Knowing which products natively support Ravenna is important as the industry’s focus moves towards audio networking interoperability standards consolidated around AES67 and ST 2110 efforts.
xMEMS Confirms Montara MEMS Microspeakers Are Now in Production
xMEMS Labs confirmed that its first monolithic MEMS µspeaker, Montara, is now in production. Working closely with TSMC as its semiconductor foundry partner, the Montara design has passed all required performance and reliability qualifications and has already been selected by manufacturers for future products. The Santa Clara, California-based company confirms that the Montara was already selected for an upcoming true wireless earbuds design.
Soundcore Launches Liberty 3 Pro True Wireless Earbuds Featuring Coaxial Drivers and Auto-Adapting ANC
Soundcore, Anker Innovations' premium audio brand, announced the Liberty 3 Pro, the latest true wireless model in its flagship Liberty lineup. The Liberty 3 Pro features HearID ANC that automatically monitors outside ambient noise levels in real time as well as in-ear pressure to tailor noise cancellation to match the situation. The earbuds also combine improved coaxial drivers with personalized sound profiles.
Trinnov Announces New High Channel Density Amplitude16 Power Amplifier
Trinnov Audio, the French designer and manufacturer of reference audio processors for home theaters, high-end hi-fi, professional audio, and commercial cinemas, announced the release of the Amplitude16, a new high channel count power amplifier. Designed for immersive home theaters, with custom integration in mind, the Amplitude16 offers a versatile power amplifier option, providing integrators with the unique ability to meet diverse channel counts and power requirements with exceptional rack efficiency.
Waves V13 Plugin Collection Now Available With Native Apple M1 Compatibility
For studio owners, music producers and many musicians working on their own project studios, the announcement they all fear has arrived. Waves Audio announced the latest update to the mother of all audio processing plugin bundles, the annual V collection. As the world’s leading developer of professional audio signal processing technologies and plugins, Waves V13 is the ultimate bundle with all the latest plugins..
Tube Amp Doctor Announces New EL34-STR REDBASE Premium Selected Tubes
Following on the introduction earlier in 2021 of the 6L6GCM-STR, the first model from an all-new high quality premium tube series named REDBASE from Tube Amp Doctor (TAD), the German company now announced the new TAD EL34-STR REDBASE, which can be used for any EL-34 application in guitar amplifiers and also hifi tube designs instead of 6CA7 and KT77 tubes. All tubes in TAD’s REDBASE family are manufactured on a new exclusive production facility.
AES Fall Online 2021 Convention Features DIY in Opening Week Events
Following the cancellation of the scheduled in-person convention and activities, the Audio Engineering Society is promoting a series of online activities in order to bring its AES Fall Online 2021 Convention to a worldwide audience. Starting Monday, October 11, with live-streamed and on-demand events continuing through the month of October, all the events are included in one registration.
Neutrik Group Announces Global Multi-Brand Reorganization
Liechtenstein-based Neutrik Group has restructured as a multi-brand company with an extended portfolio of products, in what the company characterizes as a major reorganization of its global operations. A major global player in the interconnectivity segment, the Neutrik Group develops, designs, manufactures and globally distributes unique electrical and electronic interconnect products and systems under the Neutrik, REAN and Contrik brands.
R&D Stories: Getting Started with Automotive Audio Bus (Part 3)
audioXpress continues Brewster LaMacchia's article series on Automotive Audio Bus (A2B) technology from Analog Devices. The first two parts of this article examined the overall A2B system operation and how its features can enable new types of digital audio applications. Now, the author takes a deeper look at A2B data transport and how to interface between peripherals and the A2B bus using Analog Device's AD242x series of parts. This article was originally published in audioXpress, December 2020.
Some Speaker Problems That Needed Solving
In this article for Voice Coil, the two co-founders of Purifi Audio share some details about the company's unique research with loudspeakers, and reveal their findings in looking for the roots of speaker nonlinearities and distortion mechanisms. A research effort that the authors believe deserves consideration from the industry, as a new set of standard parameters that should be included in datasheets. This article was originally published in Voice Coil, August 2021.