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Portable Bluetooth Speakers From Polk, Scosche, Logitech Get Tougher, Louder
The latest crop of portable Bluetooth speakers is getting louder and tougher, and more of them pair with a second speaker to operate as...
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SVS Expands Dealer Base With Crutchfield
Speaker maker SVS, founded in 1998 as a direct seller of subwoofers to consumers, continues to expand its dealer base with the addition of...
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How Music-Listening Habits Are Changing
Americans are listening to as much music as they were last year, but online listening and listening through cellphones accounted for a greater share...
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Bowers & Wilkins Overhauls Flagship Diamond Speaker Series
Bowers & Wilkins overhauled its flagship in-room Diamond series speakers with what it called “technological, engineering and acoustic innovations” that reduce distortion “dramatically.” The...
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Pioneer’s XDP-100R Is 1st High-Res Portable With MQA
Pioneer became the first company to introduce a portable high-resolution music player that will support high-res MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) files, the company announced...
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Wireless Multiroom Audio: Room For More?
Sales growth is slowing in wireless multiroom audio even as more companies enter a market whose top brand – Sonos — enjoys almost a...
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Multiroom Audio Margins Trending Upward: Suppliers
The influx of step-up brands in 2014 and 2015 helped maintain or improve dealer margins and ASPs in 2015, multiroom audio product suppliers said....
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Latest Multiroom Products Hit Multiple Niches
Suppliers are staking out multiple positions in the wireless multiroom-audio market with their latest product launches, with some companies focused on mass-market products and...
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Pioneer Jumps On DTS:X Bandwagon
Pioneer launched its first three audio/video receivers that can be upgraded to decode DTS:X object-based surround soundtracks. Their predecessors featured Dolby Atmos object-based surround...
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Marantz Expands HDMI 2.0a, Dolby Atmos, DTS:X With SR7010 & SR6010 AVRs
More Marantz A/V receivers are getting the Dolby Atmos and DTS:X object-based surround formats, HDMI 2.0a, and HDCP 2.2 copy protection, thanks to the...
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Samsung Going In 360 Wireless-Audio Directions
Samsung will go to Berlin’s IFA show early next month to expand its selection of wireless-multiroom audio speakers with 360-degree sound dispersion. The omnidirectional...
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DTS:X Object-Based Surround Coming To Big Screen In 2015
Lionsgate Films plans to exhibit several films this year with the DTS:X surround format in select theaters, DTS announced. Some of the titles planned...
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BlueSound Takes Second Look At Wireless Multizone Audio
New York — BlueSound packed its second-generation wireless multizone-audio products with feature and performance enhancements and expanded the selection of amplified tabletop Wi-Fi speakers...
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Sharkk Sinks Teeth Into Audio, Plans Home Automation
Sharkk, founded in late 2012 as a direct-to-consumer accessories supplier, is changing its product focus and go-to-market strategy, founder and CEO Dov Brafman told...
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Yamaha Goes Big With MusicCast Wireless Multizone Audio
Yamaha is bringing wireless multizone audio to a broad array of home audio products, not just to tabletop speakers and soundbars, the company announced....
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Russound Unveils New Music Streamers, Stereo Amplifiers
Russound will go to October’s CEDIA Expo with three new models in its expandable XStream series of wireless multiroom-audio solutions, plus two new rack-mountable...
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LG Is Beefing Up Its SoundPop, P5 & P7 Bluetooth Speakers
LG is upgrading its latest three portable Bluetooth speakers and launching its first two-speaker Blu-ray-equipped HTiB. Three new Bluetooth speakers include the $99 P5,...
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Pioneer Adds Low-Priced Dolby Atmos Speakers
Pioneer Home Entertainment expanded its selection of Dolby Atmos speakers with the launch of two low-priced models. The Pioneer-series models are a $199/pair Atmos...
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Apple’s Music Festival To Stream Pharrell, One Direction, Disclosure
Apple will leverage its Apple Music streaming service and online Beats 1 radio station to broadcast performances of its ninth annual London music festival,...
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Walmart & Samsung Pick Up Shelf-Share Gains For Soundbars
SAN DIEGO – Walmart significantly increased its soundbar presence in the second quarter compared with the year-ago period while other major retailers either maintained...
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Integra: No Objections To Object-Based Surround
Upper Saddle River, N.J. – Integra is expanding its selection of audio components equipped with Dolby Atmos surround and ready to deliver DTS:X surround...
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LG Brings Curves To Soundbar
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. – Curves are coming to an LG soundbar for the first time with the October availability of a $699 model available...
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Astell & Kern Goes Home Again
Seoul – High-resolution portable-audio company Astell&Kern is expanding its home audio presence with the late-August shipment of the $3,700-MAP AKT1 all-in-one high-resolution audio system....
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Yamaha: It’s All About The Base
Buena Park, Calif. – Yamaha is expanding its presence in the under-TV speaker-base business with the launch of a $349-suggested SRT-700 to complement the...
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Q&A: The Outlook For High-Resolution Audio
MP3 is a four-letter word to audiophiles and many music enthusiasts, and it has become synonymous with compressed-music files whose quality marks a significant...
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Sonos At 10: Streaming Into The Future
In mid-2004, Tom Cullen, then sales and marketing VP of a start-up company called Sonos, visited TWICE to extol the potential of the first-of-its-kind...
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Apple Hasn’t Lost Its Touch
CUPERTINO, CALIF. — Sales of iPods might be falling at double-digit rates, but that isn’t preventing Apple from launching an updated iPod Touch that...
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MTX Releases Latest Margaritaville Audio Products
PHOENIX — MTX Audio released new earbuds and Bluetooth speakers in its Margaritaville Audio product line. MTX partnered in 2014 with musician Jimmy Buffett’s...
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Denon Does Dolby Atmos, DTS:X
Mahwah, N.J. – Denon will expand its selection of DTS:X-upgradable audio/video receivers with Dolby Atmos surround in August with the launch of two models...
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Integra Adds First Two AVRs With Both Dolby Atmos, DTS:X
Upper Saddle River, N.J. – Three new Integra audio/video receivers bring the opening price point for Dolby Atmos surround decoding to $800 from a...
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Klipsch Goes Atmos
Indianapolis, Ind. – Klipsch launched its first two Dolby Atmos-enabled speakers, which add height channels to a surround system that incorporates Atmos object-based surround...
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Bowers & Wilkins Expands Custom Speaker Selection
North Reading, Mass. – Bowers & Wilkins expanded its assortment of architectural speakers with the launch of three new models, all designed for home...
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Bluetooth Raises Profile In Yamaha Desktop Audio Line
Buena Park, Calif. – Yamaha is expanding its selection of Bluetooth-equipped desktop audio systems with CD to two with the launch of the $399-suggested...
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Foo Fighters, Sony Team To Promote High-Resolution Audio
Tokyo – Sony is teaming up with music group Foo Fighters to promote high-resolution music and will bring high-resolution versions of Foo Fighters songs...
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GoldenEar Readies Invisa Architectural Speaker
Baltimore – GoldenEar plans July 15 shipments of the first single-point stereo speaker in its Invisa series of architectural speakers. The $449-each Invisa 652...
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High-Resolution Audio Initiatives Accelerate
NEW YORK – High-resolution audio continues to make progress, music-industry executives contended, and the industry is pushing several initiatives to accelerate the uptake. During...
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More AVRs On Way With Dolby Atmos, DTS:X
NEW YORK – Five component-audio suppliers — Denon, Marantz, Onkyo, Pioneer, and Yamaha – recently announced plans to expand their selections of audio/video receivers...
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Marantz Steps Up Support For Object-Based Surround
Mahwah, N.J. – Marantz is launching its first three audio/video receivers with HDMI 2.0a ports and HDCP 2.2 copy protection and its first two...
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Sonos, Apple To Make Music Together
Santa Barbara, Calif. – Sonos became the first wireless multizone-audio supplier to announce plans to incorporate the new Apple Music streaming service, but integration...
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PS Audio Brings PCM/DSD DAC To $1,299
Boulder, Colo. — Component-audio supplier PS Audio expanded its DSD DAC selection to two with the shipment of a $1,299-suggested model that joins a...
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Recording Academy Plans High-Res Recording Guidelines
Santa Monica, Calif. — The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing plans to create high-resolution audio production guidelines to clear up what it called...