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Designing to Meet New Expectations for Audio
August 16, 2016, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—A group of experts talked about the changes in capabilities and characteristics that computer systems will need as consumer devices increasingly move to voice-activated interfaces. Users expect greater personal mobility when not tethered to their devices even if the user interface devices are wireless. Most audio interfaces to…
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HyperX Headset now available for Xbox One
June 2016 – At E3 2016 Kingston released their long awaited professional gaming headset for the Xbox One platform. Following the success of the HyperX Cloud II headphones for the PC, the new HyperX CloudX Headphones bring that performance and comfort to the Xbox One. The HyperX Cloud II is one of the mainstays of…
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Shure Microphone and Earphone advances at NAMM 2016
January 2016 – At the Winter NAMM show in Anaheim, Shure showed off two products that have been in development for a long time the first Dualdyne handheld vocal microphone the KSM8 and the first functional portable in-ear electrostatic monitors and amplifier the kse1500. Most microphones have sweet spot for pickup on a standard single…
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Microphone Processing on Cortex-M
November 11. 2015, ARM Techcon, Santa Clara,CA—Cole Li from DSP Concepts presented information on advanced microphone processing on ARM processors. The growing number of devices that include microphones requires better understanding of mike characteristics and how to process their signals. Mikes are not only in phones and tablets, but are moving into automotive and IoT…
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MXL Releases Anniv editions and mobile mics
January 2014, At Winter NAMM in Anaheim, the MXL division of Marshall Electronics rolled out a line of 20th anniversary microphones and new products for the mobile marketplace. Working with their distribution partner, Muscian’s Friend, they introduced 3 new anniversary edition microphones. These models, to be sold exclusively through Muscian’s Friend, are identified by their…
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Motörizer over-the ear “Motorheadphones”Product Review
January 2013 – Entering the headphone marketplace with a high performance rocker targeted audience is the Motorheadphone products. The product line with several full over the ear models and several in-ear models was shown at CES with an introduction by the front-man of the band for whom the products are named – Lemmy Kilmister of…
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MXL AC-404 USB Conferencing microphone review
September 2012 – With video conferencing and Voice based interfaces & VOIP communication, we continued our reviews of several easy to use USB microphones targeted at this market. The unit we just finished testing was from MXL and was the AC-404 which is a commercial level performance targeted product for the office environment. This table…
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MXL AC-406 USB Web Conferencing speakerphone review
September 2012 – As a result of the rise of video conferencing and VOIP based communication, we decided to review several easy to use USB microphones targeted at this market. The reference unit we tested first was from MXL and was the AC-406. This table use microphone is actually a speaker phone that has a…
