Audio
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Back in April, xMEMS Labs revealed solid-state technology aimed at replacing coil-based speakers in audio wearables like in-ear monitors. Now the company has partnered with Creative Technology for an upcoming pair of true-wireless earphones.
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If you consume much of your audiovisual content on a smartphone, then the living-room soundbar isn't going to satisfy your listening needs. Sony's new HT-AX7 could fit the bill though, which promises room-filling immersive audio in a portable package.
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While there’s a lot of debate over how much AI will impact different industries, perhaps one job you won’t mind it taking is note-taking and transcribing. Enter the Plaud Note, which records phone calls and employs ChatGPT as a PA for your audio.
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How many speaker drivers do earphones need to deliver great stereo sound? One in each earpiece? Two? Six? The Knowles Corp has partnered with Ultimate Ears Pro for the release of the UE Premier in-ear monitors, which rock 21 drivers per earphone.
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Teenage Engineering has added another member to its field portable audio range. The retro-futuristic TP-7 field recorder puts the power to capture quality audio in the hands of journalists, lawyers, medical professionals, and of course musicians.
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Bowers & Wilkins’ iconic Nautilus loudspeaker has gotten a stunning pearly makeover for its 30th anniversary, inspired by the mollusk its named after. But you might want to add it to the dream pile: standard models currently have a two-year waitlist.
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xMEMS Labs is aiming to replace century-old coil-based speaker technology with silicon-based microspeakers, and has launched three Solid-State Fidelity solutions for use in upcoming true-wireless earphones, in-ear monitors and digital hearing aids.
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Hong Kong-based hearing/acoustic tech company Audfly has been working on a nifty glass-panel directional-audio speaker since 2019, and has now launched on Kickstarter to bring the Focusound unit into production.
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Danish luxury audio brand Bang & Olufsen has announced that its high-style Beosound A9 has moved into its fifth generation, and the shapely 360-degree-sound Beosound 2 grows into its third iteration. The company is also aiming for usage longevity thanks to a future-proofing module installed in each wireless home speaker.
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In a world first, Amazon has partnered with Cochlear to make watching movies and shows more accessible for folks with hearing loss by streaming audio from a Fire TV device directly to a Cochlear hearing implant's sound processor.
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Wildlife film makers can attach a shotgun microphone to a handheld camera while out and about, but might not be able to zero in on the sounds of distant subjects. Dodotronic has launched a camera-mounted parabolic mic that's designed to do just that.
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IK Multimedia's iRig range has included microphones and audio interfaces in the past, but now the company is looking to make life easier for musicians, live bloggers, podcasters and creators with one device that combines the two.
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