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Kicker’s Bullfrog Jump Leaps Into High-End Bluetooth
Kicker Lifestyle Products introduced its new flagship portable audio system, the 2.1-channel Bullfrog Jump, the first in a line of new high-output Bluetooth Bullfrog...
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Bowers & Wilkins Alters Course After Eva Automation Purchase
Bowers & Wilkins is launching a new $30,000/pair flagship speaker to celebrate its 50th anniversary while planning for a future that aggressively embraces wireless...
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Yamaha Expands MusicCast Line With High-End Sound-Bar, Affordable Wireless Speaker
Yamaha expanded its MusicCast wireless audio family today with the release of a new 7.1-channel sound bar and compact wireless speaker. The YSP-2700 MusicCast...
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Bowers & Wilkins Pivots After Being Purchased By Eva Automation
Bowers & Wilkins is launching a new $30,000/pair flagship speaker to celebrate its 50th anniversary while planning for a future that aggressively embraces wireless...
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Ion Audio To Bring Ford-Branded Audio Line To Market
Ion Audio is teaming with the Ford Motor Company for a line of officially licensed audio products “inspired by Ford Motor Company’s iconic vehicles.”...
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Meridian Adds MQA To Tabletop DAC Meridian included high-res Master Quality Authenticated (MQA) decoding in its $23,000-suggesed Ultra DAC, joining the company’s MQA-equipped USB...
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Wireless Audio Assumes Many Guises
Wireless audio is assuming many guises in the latest round of audio introductions. There’s Bluetooth for portable outdoor speakers, traditional Wi-Fi in tabletop music...
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Bose Selling Pair Of Factories To Flex
Bose plans to sell its manufacturing and development operations in San Luis, Mexico, and Penang, Malaysia, to Flex, which will take over current and planned Bose...
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Libratone Ventures Into Portable Bluetooth Speakers
Denmark-based Libratone, the supplier of multiroom Wi-Fi speakers, is venturing into the portable Bluetooth speaker market with the $149 Too and $199 One Click....
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Jam Enters Crowded Wireless Multiroom-Audio Market With Symphony & Rhythm
Jam Wireless Audio began its diversification beyond Bluetooth speakers and wireless headphones with the rollout this month of its first two Wi-Fi-equipped wireless multiroom-audio...
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iHome Gets Tough With Bluetooth Speakers
iHome is shipping its toughest bunch of Bluetooth speakers to date. Four speakers in the Weather Tough line are iHome’s first Bluetooth speakers with...
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DeVesto Pulls Back The Curtain On Como Audio’s New Products & Strategy
Como Audio, the third Boston-based audio company founded by industry veteran Tom DeVesto, unveiled its first home audio products and a distribution strategy that...
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Vizio Extends Google Cast From TVs To Soundbars
Vizio is bringing Google Cast audio to nine soundbars, replicating a strategy that it brought to multiple TVs and tuner-less home-theater displays. Vizio and...
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Integra Adding MQA, Google Cast, Networked Multiroom To AVRs
Integra is bringing multiple technologies to its audio/video receivers for the first time, including networked multiroom audio, Google Cast for audio, and Master Quality...
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DTS Play-Fi Gets More Licensees, New Features
DTS’s Play-Fiwireless multiroom-audio technology is coming to more brands and getting some new features. Two more companies — Autonomic and SVS — have signed on...
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MQA Boasts New Wins For High-Res Format
The high-resolution MQA audio format continued to gain momentum as more hardware suppliers and music-download sites embraced the technology and Warner Music Group became...
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Audio Gets A Double Dose Of High
High end and high resolution were the leitmotifs played by many marketers in recent days as they launched new home audio products. Many companies...
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Yamaha Expands Dolby Atmos, DTS:X In Aventage AVR Series
Yamaha is expanding Dolby Atmos and DTS:X object-based surround decoding to all models in its step-up Aventage audio/video receiver series, which ranges from a...
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Music Industry Extends High-Res Logo To Streaming Services
The music industry is extending its Hi-Res Music logo from downloaded songs to streamed songs to help consumers identify high-resolution recordings that meet the...
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Definitive Technology Expands Dolby Atmos, DTS:X Support
Speaker maker Definitive Technology is expanding its support of Dolby Atmos and DTS:X surround with a ground-up redesign and re-engineering of its bipolar-speaker lineup....
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Henrik Clausen To Replace Tue Mantoni As Bang & Olufsen CEO
Financially ailing Bang & Olufsen will get a new global CEO on July 1 when Danish telecom executive Henrik Clausen replaces Tue Mantoni, who...
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Warner Music Plans High-Res MQA Music Downloads
Warner Music Group became the first major music label to announce plans to support the release of downloadable songs in the high-resolution MQA (Master...
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NAD Brings Wireless & Wired Networked Audio To High End Show
Wireless multizone audio is coming to more products from NAD, which is also adapting its wireless-multiroom technology for use in custom-installed wired multizone-audio systems....
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High-Res MQA Audio Gains More Support
Another music-download service and more audio suppliers have embraced the high-resolution MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) format. High Res Audio, the international high-resolution download site...
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Bowers & Wilkins Purchased By Eva Automation
Silicon Valley start-up Eva Automation purchased high-end British home-audio company Bowers & Wilkins. Eva Automation was founded in 2014 to build multiroom-A/V products and...
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High-Res, Wireless Key To Sony Home-Audio Launch
Wireless multiroom audio, high-resolution audio, and high dynamic range (HDR)-capable HDMI 2.0a connections are the anchors in Sony’s 2016 home-audio lineup. New products include...
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Emotiva Prepares For A Big Year
It’s going to be a big year for new products from Emotiva Audio, the high-performance component-audio supplier that sells direct to consumers and through...
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Sound United Cites Gains From Wireless Speakers; Reveals Dolby Atmos Plans
Things came together in 2015 for Sound United, parent of the Definitive Technology and Polk Audio brands, said president Kevin Duffy. The division of...
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iLuv Debuts Low-Priced Aud Shower Bluetooth Speaker
iLuv announced its newest portable Bluetooth speaker: the Aud Shower. The water-resistant speaker, which is currently available for a $19.99 suggested retail, features a...
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Klipsch Fans To Descend On Hope To Mark 70 Years
Klipsch Audio will host more than 125 devotees of its audio products at its Hope, Ark., facility in May. The company, owned by Voxx...
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Onkyo Goes High & Low With HT-S3800 & HT-S7800 Home-Theater Systems
Onkyo introduced two new home-theater systems on Monday, including one geared toward consumers still sitting on the soundbar/home-theater system fence. The HT-S3800 5.1-channel home-theater...
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Pioneer Brings Wireless Multiroom, Google Cast To VSX-1131, VSX-831 AVRs
Pioneer Home Entertainment is bringing wireless multiroom audio, Google Cast and Tidal streaming to its Pioneer-series audio/video receivers for the first time, joining the...
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Emotiva Prepares For Big Year With BasX, Other Audio Products
It’s turning out to be a big product year for Emotiva Audio, the high-performance component-audio supplier that sells direct to consumers and through retailers....
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Scosche Licensing Rockstar Brand For Tech Products
Scosche signed a licensing deal with Rockstar, the energy-drink maker, to put the Rockstar brand on consumer technology products, including Bluetooth speakers, car accessories,...
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Denon Adding High-Res Audio To Heos Wireless Multiroom Line
Denon is upgrading its Heos wireless multiroom-audio lineup with the addition of wireless high-resolution audio streaming, built-in Bluetooth and fast Wi-Fi 802.11 ac. The...
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Yamaha Expands MusicCast Wireless Multiroom-Audio Selection With WXA-50, WXC-50
Yamaha is expanding its selection of MusicCast wireless multiroom-audio products to include a wireless streaming preamplifier and a wireless streaming amplifier. The $499-suggested WXA-50...
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High-Res MQA Audio Comes To First Portable Music Players
High-resolution MQA-format music playback is coming to portable music players for the first time through sister brands Onkyo and Pioneer. Pioneer is adding MQA...
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Amazon Has Sold 3 Million Echos In U.S.
Amazon sold 3 million of its Echo wireless speaker and personal digital assistant in the U.S. since its launch in late 2014, and more...
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Low-Price Denon AVRs Ready For 4K HDR, Dolby Atmos, DTS:X
Denon continues to offer a full suite of capabilities to integrate its latest two S-series audio/video receivers with current and next-generation 4K Ultra HD...
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Must-Have Features Coming To More AVRs
Audio/video receivers (AVRs) are aggressively adopting new technologies to tap into demand for wireless-multiroom audio, movie soundtracks mixed in object-based surround formats, 4K Ultra...
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Denon, Marantz Add Auro-3D
D+M Group made Auro-3D surround processing available for the first time in late March through a $200 firmware upgrade for four networked audio components...
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Dolby Atmos, DTS:X Spread In Yamaha AVR Lineup
Yamaha is bringing Dolby Atmos and DTS:X object-based surround decoding for the first time to its RX-V series of low- to mid-price audio/video receivers,...