EssilorLuxottica Acquires Competitor Startup Pulse Audition
EssilorLuxottica just expanded its presence in the hearing space with the acquisition of an AI-driven tech startup in France and its talented team. The company, Pulse Audition, is just one of hundred of startups currently pursuing the concept of hearing glasses, in this case adding an edge with unique AI-based speech enhancement and noise reduction processing technologies embedded in the frames. The technology promises to accelerate the Nuance Hearing Glasses project.
Creative and Mimi Join Forces to Elevate Personalized Audio
Creative Technology and Mimi have teamed up to offer more personalized audio options with the launch of the Aurvana Ace Mimi, the latest TWS earbuds to join the brand's Aurvana series. This collaboration offers users customized audio tuned to their unique hearing profiles, with the assurance that the xMEMS dual-driver system will respond accordingly without distortion. The Aurvana Ace Mimi also deliver LDAC high resolution audio support for the best audio experience on wireless earbuds.
IDUN Technologies and Analog Devices Join Efforts to Unveil Brain-Sensing Earbuds at CES 2025
IDUN Technologies, a company from Switzerland, and a pioneer in brain-sensing in-ear technology, has joined forces with Analog Devices to advance a critical dimension in hearables. Together, the two companies will debut an advanced brain-sensing earbud prototype, featuring new state-of-the-art biosensors in a next-generation IDUN Guardian electroencephalography (EEG) solution that promises to make lifestyle-integrated neurotechnology a mainstream reality.
Ceva Unveils First Multi-Protocol Wireless Connectivity Platform IP Featuring Next Generation Bluetooth High Data Throughput
Ceva announced the first complete multi-protocol wireless connectivity platform that supports Bluetooth High Data Throughput (HDT). This next generation technology meets the pressing need for Bluetooth devices looking to support streaming of even larger media at higher data rates. The new Ceva-Waves Links200 IP platform is designed to dramatically enhance wireless audio capabilities and support advanced applications like 7.1 audio systems.
Test Bench: The 5" MR13TX-4 TPCD Midrange from SB Acoustics’ Satori Line
This latest MR13TX-4 midrange from SB Acoustics is part of the fast-growing Satori line of high-end transducers. A dedicated 5" midrange driver, the MR13TX-4 is the 10th TPCD TeXtreme diaphragm transducer to be featured in Test Bench. In terms of features, the MR13TX-4 is built on a proprietary two-piece cast-aluminum frame, completely open below the BIMAX spider for cooling. The cone assembly consists of a curvilinear inverted single piece "bowl" shaped TeXtreme cone and an inverted NBR surround, driven by a 1.2" diameter voice coil and a neodymium motor.
Interview: Andreas Ehret - The Road to Dolby Atmos
A fascinating conversation with Andreas Ehret, Senior Director, Automotive at Dolby Laboratories, recapping his career and personal journey prior to and with Dolby, through truly pivotal moments in audio history. In this exchange we learn how Dolby Atmos evolved from the ultimate movie soundtrack format into the heart of consumer experience - for the very first time successfully challenging stereo reproduction. And how Dolby evolved its business model to become today's indispensable technology partner to both the media and the automotive industry.
Auricle Debuts Groundbreaking awareONE Open-Ears at CES 2025
Six years since its foundation and more than three years since a successful crowdfunding campaign that enabled the company's vision to proceed, Auricle will finally debut awareONE at CES 2025. A first-of-its-kind innovation in audio technology, combining multi-sensory sound with cutting-edge cartilage conduction, awareONE is a completely new approach to open-ear headphones. Due to its unique technology and implementation, Auricle opted to manufacture and assemble awareONE completely in Denmark.
ARIA Sensing Unveils Hydrogen 3D UWB Radar System-On-Chip for 3D Detection
Italian company ARIA Sensing announced the launch of Hydrogen, a groundbreaking Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Radar System-On-Chip (SoC) that sets a new benchmark as the first to offer 3D beamforming with programmable bandwidth up to 1.8GHz. The new UWB radar SoC delivers scalable 1D/2D/3D detection and unparalleled radar-waveform features, becoming an ideal device to sense presence, position, vital-signs, and gestures, with the world's highest resolution and ultra-low power consumption.
Start the Loudspeaker Year with Voice Coil January 2025
The first issue of Voice Coil for 2025 is now available and includes a new article by Claus Futtrup about computation of alignments, Dave Morrison discussing Spikes & Isolation for Speaker Decoupling and another valuable directory of Earphone and Headphone Manufacturers and parts. On his Test Bench, Vance Dickason characterizes the new Scan-Speak D3004/666000 metamodal TPCD dome tweeter and the Dayton Audio UMII10-22 Ultimax II 10" Subwoofer.
Airoha Technology Launches Flagship Wireless AI Audio SoC
Airoha Technology announced the launch of a new flagship wireless audio chip with integrated AI processing. The AB1595 chip integrates essential functions that currently require multiple chips into one single system-on-chip (SoC). The announcement follows a recent press conference where the MediaTek subsidiary confirmed its intention to lead the market as a Bluetooth audio supplier and to outgrow the industry with AI-powered solutions in 2025.