Behind The Scenes With TOTAL CAL Award-Winning, Cloud-Based Room-Tuning
Cloud-based room tuning? Award-winning technology? Legacy tech with a billion+ devices in market? Are you saying it can analyze the frequency response of room measurements and create a new algorithm with room correction in seconds? Where did this innovative and highly affordable technology come from? What goes into it working so well? Read on and it will all become clear...
Meze Audio Launches Unique Headphone Stand and Boom Mic Accessories
The headphone company from Romania, renowned for making great sounding headphones that captivate audio enthusiasts all over the world, expanded its offering with two new unique accessories. The Manta is a luxurious headphone stand sculpted from high-grade materials that is unlike any other headphone stand out there, and perfectly complements all its headphone designs. And because some of its users like Meze headphones so much that they want to be seen wearing them on Zoom and Skype calls, the company also launched a clever pluggable Boom Microphone.
NUGEN Audio Celebrates 20th Anniversary
NUGEN Audio is celebrating 20 years of providing top-of-the-line audio editing plug-ins to audio professionals around the world. The Leeds, UK-based company founded by an acclaimed DJ/EDM producer and the lead programmer of a top UK game development company, first launched with stereo-image-related plug-ins for music production. Today, the brand has expanded to include loudness metering/correction, mixing/mastering, tracking and audio analysis tools that are used by some of the world’s top names in post-production, broadcast and music.
JBL Tour PRO 3 with Advanced Smart Charging Case Lead the Next Generation of TWS Earbuds
Harman unveiled its new flagship true wireless earbuds, JBL Tour PRO 3. The most advanced design from the brand, the JBL Tour PRO 3 combine dual drivers per earbud with JBL Spatial 360 with Head Tracking, True Adaptive Noise Cancellation 2.0, AI-based voice call processing, and a Smart Charging Case packing truly unique features and already supporting Auracast. A product that is set to redefine the user experience in this extremely competitive category.
Diamond Coatings for Speakers, IEMs, and Headphones
This article explores a fascinating topic that is recurrent in the loudspeaker industry: diamond coatings. As speaker designers look to refine their products' sound quality through diaphragm treatments, there are benefits to be explored from diamond coatings, or more specifically diamond-like-coatings (DLC), which is a process that matured over the last half-century. The industry has now reached a stage where this technology becomes available and viable, particularly for microspeakers.
For the Love of Music: Loudness Normalization
Wild theories about level normalization "destroying sound" continue to reappear, as if decades of loudness normalization efforts have been for nothing. This article hopes to set the facts straight regarding loudness concepts, standards, and implementation. Loudness normalization not only tremendously improves the listening experience for consumers, but it is also an element in control of sound exposure and prevention of hearing loss.
Bowers & Wilkins Launches New Pi6 and Pi8 True Wireless ANC Earbuds
Bowers & Wilkins introduced two all-new premium True Wireless earbuds, the Pi6 and Pi8, developed by the same design and engineering teams responsible for the brand's Px7 S2e and Px8 headphones. Coming from the renowned audio brand, the two models are focused on sound quality, combining fit and comfort, excellent noise cancellation and premium aesthetics. Based on Qualcomm's latest chipsets, the Pi6 and Pi8 earbuds offer a great combination of premium technologies and features, including the innovative Pi8 Smartcase.
Shure Introduces SM4 Large Diaphragm Condenser Microphone Targeting Home Recording Market
Shure introduced the SM4 Home Recording Microphone, a versatile, large-diaphragm condenser microphone engineered for at-home and studio recording of both vocals and instruments. With a meticulously engineered dual-diaphragm capsule and a patent-pending RF shielding system, the SM4 makes professional-quality recordings possible regardless of their setup, environment, or experience level.
xMEMS Introduces 1mm-Thin Active Micro-Cooling "Fan on a Chip"
xMEMS Labs announced an innovation in a completely new direction for the company. The new xMEMS XMC-2400 µCooling chip is the first-ever all-silicon, active micro-cooling fan for ultramobile devices and next-generation AI solutions. xMEMS recently revamped its website to reflect the new strategic directions for the company, now with piezoMEMS microspeakers and the actively controlled acoustic vent transducers DynamicVent segments complemented by the new cooling products category.
Bluesound Introduces Three New NODE Wireless Hi-Res Music Streamers
Bluesound, the original wireless hi-res multiroom music brand, has announced three new wireless music streamers, the NODE NANO, NODE, and the flagship NODE ICON. All new three products have re-designed hardware with updated ESS Sabre DACs, and rich, new audio features, including Apple AirPlay 2 and aptX Adaptive Bluetooth support, plus DSD playback in the NODE and NODE Icon.