Discover the York High Fidelity Phono Preamp by Six Acoustic on Kickstarter
It must be tough to have a product ready, a Kickstarter campaign planned, and then being faced with a global shutdown. That is what happened with Canadian company, Six Acoustic, who recently launched the York, an "ultra" high fidelity phono preamplifier targeting new generations of vinyl enthusiasts looking for an extra level of audio performance that doesn't cost a fortune. And what is “ultra” high fidelity you might ask? According to Steve Meszlenyi, the company founder, it's a level of transparency where noise and distortion are “undetectable to the human ear and nearly impossible to measure with the most sophisticated instrumentation.”
Dynamic Automotive Industry Set to Ship 30 Million Vehicles With Advanced Driver Assistance by 2025
The significant increase in enabling technology and applications made up of AI, sensors, hardware, software and IC processors has had a profound impact on the automotive industry and the advancement of driver assistance technology and autonomous vehicles. This in turn, has contributed to the creation of a market that is expected to ship 15 million L2+ vehicles with enhanced driver assistance safety features in 2020, growing to 30 million units in 2025, according to the latest research from SAR Insight & Consulting.
New Projects, Reviews, and Glass Audio Special Articles Available with audioXpress May 2020
audioXpress May 2020 Glass Audio/Tube Focus edition is now available. Highlighted on the cover is a review of the RødeTest FuzzMeasure Audio and Acoustic Measurement Software and Ethan Winer's experiments to measure capacitor distortion. For tube enthusiasts, Bill Reeve repurposes an old Shure preamp for line-level duty, and Bruce Heran details how he built his two Mini Blocks tube amplifiers. Mike Rothacher shares an inexpensive MOSFET Follower (MoFo) Class A amplifier project, Richard Honeycutt provides valuable lessons about repairing guitar amplifiers, and there's plenty more audio electronics focused articles. Download now!
Broadcast-Quality Audio Over the Internet Using the Digigram IQYOA X/LINK-LE Codec
French audio-over-IP specialists Digigram are promoting its existing IQYOA X/LINK-LE codec to allow sending professional-quality audio, with no dropouts, while broadcasting at home. Musicians and anyone looking to broadcast audio from their home can pair this codec with a free web streaming site, such as Caster.fm, and offer their listeners radio-quality broadcasts — eliminating the dropouts and poor audio quality they've run into while streaming on the various social media platforms.
Shelter-At-Home to Generate New Consumer Patterns in Headphones and Home Audio
Parks Associates is predicting that headphones and earphones are likely to experience sales spikes with the world changing to Work at Home, Home Schooling, and Entertainment-In-Place. The company's research highlights the need for enhanced user experience to aid with device integration as audio market shifts from whole-room home theater systems to standalone connected devices. Podcast, music, and news consumption habits are also changing as a result of the current public health crisis with COVID-19.
Genelec Announces RAW Loudspeakers With Sustainability at the Heart
Genelec is now offering the option of a special RAW aluminum color finish, available on a selection of the most popular speakers in its Studio, AV and Home Audio ranges. The RAW versions use only recycled aluminum, require no painting and less finishing material than standard painted models – creating an even more environmentally friendly loudspeaker that allows the natural beauty of the enclosure’s raw material to shine through, giving each individual loudspeaker a unique look and feel.
Streaming Music Consumption Habits Change with Coronavirus Lockdown
Streaming subscriptions remain the number one growth driver in the global music market, accounting for more than 70% of spend on music last year. Yet, as measures to halt the spread of COVID-19 begin to reshape the lives of consumers, music streaming is experiencing a temporary drop in consumption. No listening in the car, no commuting to work, and the need to share the home spaces with family members, limits personal music listening opportunities, Futuresource Consulting's research finds.
Røde Microphones Expands Wireless Go Range with New Accessories and White Version
Australian pro audio powerhouse Røde Microphones announced an exciting expansion of its Wireless GO range of field production solutions for reporters, videographers and vloggers. The Wireless GO White, Lavalier GO White, together with the completely new Interview GO handheld accessory, and MagClip GO, are four new additions to the Wireless Go ecosystem, turning all types of field production and reporting more versatile, and unlocking a new world of creative possibilities in wireless audio.
Next-Generation SIMO Power Management IC from Maxim Integrated Extends Battery Life for Wearables and Hearables
Designers of compact consumer devices like hearables can now slash solution size by half and extend battery life by 20 percent with the MAX77654 single inductor, multiple output (SIMO) power management IC (PMIC) from Maxim Integrated Products. The breakthrough new SIMO technology replaces traditional power management architectures for the most demanding designs in wearables and personal audio devices, reducing BOM count by up to 40 percent, with 23 percent lower BOM cost compared to discrete solutions.
CEVA Announces SensPro High Performance Sensor Hub DSP Architecture for Smart Devices
CEVA announced a new high performance sensor hub DSP architecture designed to handle the broad range of sensor processing and sensor fusion workloads for contextually-aware devices. The new SensPro device family serves as a hub for processing and fusing of data from multiple sensors including camera, Radar, LiDAR, Time-of-Flight, microphones and inertial measurement units. This highly-configurable and self-contained architecture brings together scalar and parallel processing for floating point and integer data types, as well as deep learning training and inferencing.