Bold North Audio Launches BWF-8001 Abaca Fiber Cone 8-Inch Woofer
With a Klippel optimized abaca fiber cone and rubber surround, the newest Bold North Audio 8" subwoofer, the BWF-8001, delivers heavy duty power and robust sound for two-way systems, tower speakers, or high-end home theaters. This latest design from MISCO, the St. Paul, MN-headquartered company, is an 8" (203 mm) stamped frame subwoofer, rated for 150 Watts program power and totally designed and assembled in the US. Another valuable option in the Bold North Audio range for speaker designers.
Nanusens Moves Headquarters and Receives Funding for Expansion
Nanusens, the innovative research venture working on nano-sensors built inside CMOS devices, recently received significant funding that will enable it to expand its operations and hire new staff. Nanusens is also a finalist for the Design Team of the Year in the prestigious Elektra Awards 2020. The company, headquartered in the United Kingdom, with R&D centers in Barcelona, Spain and Shenzen, China, has designed a novel way to enable the higher frequency bands needed by 5G mobile phones, something that presents a challenge with current technology.
DSP Group Opens Audio Signal Processing and AI Innovation Lab in Germany
DSP Group announced the opening of an audio innovation lab in Straubing, Germany, focused on advancing the state-of-the-art in audio signal processing and artificial intelligence (AI) for acoustic engineering. The lab is already staffed with experts, each with 20+ years of experience in the areas of voice and audio processing algorithm development and deployment, speaker non-linear processing, AI-based audio processing, active noise cancellation (ANC), and rapid prototyping and tuning.
SnapEDA Makes PCB Part Libraries Available Inside Autodesk Fusion 360, ExpressPCB, DipTrace and Proteus PCB
SnapEDA, the electronics design search engine, released SnapEDA for Fusion 360 in collaboration with Autodesk. Electronics designers can now search and place free cloud-based symbols, footprints and 3D models from SnapEDA directly within Fusion 360. And the SnapEDA search engine for electronics design is now also integrated through plug-ins available for popular software tools such as ExpressPCB, DipTrace and Proteus PCB, among others.
Sony Reaches Out to Creators with ECM-W2BT Wireless Microphone and ECM-LV1 Compact Stereo Lavalier Microphone
Sony Electronics announced two new microphones with the launch of the ECM-W2BT Multi-interface, shoe compatible wireless microphone and ECM-LV1 compact stereo lavalier microphone. High-quality wireless audio recording with lower noise and stable connection is possible with the ECM-W2BT wireless microphone, especially when paired with the ECM-LV1 stereo lavalier microphone and one of Sony's cameras with digital compatibility.
Meridian Delivers Performance, Technology and Luxury Audio to New Kia K8 Sedan
Meridian continues to expand its automotive audio business working in close cooperation with car makers. The British audio pioneer has now unveiled the results of its work with Kia Corporation taking in-car audio to another level in the brand new K8 modern sedan. Featuring a purpose-designed 14-speaker surround sound system, Meridian has worked with Kia to provide an exceptional audio inside the new K8 model exploring all the possibilities of its proprietary DSP audio technologies.
Feeling The Audio Industry's Pulse
It's been precisely a year since the global COVID-19 pandemic was declared and we all had to refrain from our normal routines and shelter in place, being restricted to working from home until now. At least for the audioXpress team. A year past, and we are glad to be able to signal that during that year we've kept our publications and even grown our online audiences and achieved extremely positive results. Mainly, because we continued to offer the best content for anyone interested in following the audio industry, audio product development, audio innovations, and DIY audio.
McIntosh Labs Delivers McIntosh Automotive Reference Systems to Jeep
McIntosh Laboratory announced that its latest McIntosh Entertainment Systems — the MX1375 Reference Entertainment System, employing 23 specifically tuned speakers, and the MX950 Entertainment System, are going to hit the road in the upcoming 2022 Jeep Wagoneer and Jeep Grand Wagoneer. Both vehicles will be available in mid-2021. The two iconic American brands have been collaborating to develop an exclusive sound system combining imagination and expert engineering in equal parts.
iZotope and Native Instruments Form New Music and Audio Technology Group
iZotope, the Boston-based audio processing software experts, and Native Instruments, the German music creation company that just recently sold the majority of its shares to investment firm Francisco Partners, announced that they have teamed up to form a new technology group backed by Francisco Partners and EMH Partners. Both companies share a vision of shaping the future of music-making and audio production and believe this alliance opens up new creative possibilities for musicians, producers, and audio engineers.
SAR Insight & Consulting Forecasts Technology and Market Potential for MEMS Speakers
MEMS microspeakers and earphone drivers could threaten incumbent audio technologies by 2025 as consumers desire smaller and less power-hungry devices. Four billion devices with seven billion speakers were shipped during 2020, it has been estimated, across multiple sectors, including automotive, mobile phones, home AV, and many others. MEMS speakers could revolutionize the audio industry, thanks to their small form factor and low power capabilities, according to market analyst SAR Insight & Consulting.