Audio

Startup Soundcast Systems has developed a wireless-audio system said to transmit music interference-free from docked iPods and MP3 players up to 150 feet in...

It was a great year to be in the audio business in 2005 — if you were selling MP3 portables. In 2005, factory-level portable...

The first products launched by NHT since its November 2005 acquisition by Vinci Labs include the home-speaker brand’s first component audio electronics. By the...

Audio Design Associates (ADA) is expanding its custom install selection with its second multiroom receiver and its first color touch screen, which fits in...

A Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) working group is developing a set of recommended practices for installing architectural speakers in a home’s walls and ceilings...

Some of the first home and portable audio products with a slot for XM’s miniature Passport tuner cartridge will be available as early as...

Consumers who have made the transition from physical media to downloaded music are now able to enjoy select downloaded songs in multichannel surround. Instant...

Philips and Sonos are making it possible for consumers to wirelessly connect their existing audio systems to music servers. For its existing wireless multi-zone...

Las Vegas – Marantz has developed a powerline-network system to distribute audio from a network-equipped A/V receiver to multiple table radio-style clients that incorporate...

NXT said it has developed a way to extend the bass response of its flat-panel speaker technology to make a single small cabinet-enclosed driver...

TWICE: Look out 10 years from now. What will the home audio industry look like? Wellikoff: Ten years from now we may well see...

TWICE: How did the custom market do in 2005, and what are the prospects for 2006? Scott Sylvester, Sonance product strategy director: If you...

TWICE: Look ahead 10 years from now. Describe the products that will be installed, the companies that will sell and install them and the...

Jamo is eliminating the deleterious effects of cabinet enclosures on speaker response by chucking the cabinet. The result is the three-way, dipolar open-baffle R...

A/V products here will network far more easily than International CES attendees, many of whom could likely be stuck in traffic jams, given the...

Audistry, a new Dolby subsidiary, has launched a package of five DSP technologies intended to improve stereo sound in midtier mass-market products expected to...

Israel-based Amimon plans to demonstrate short-range wireless streaming of uncompressed high-definition video using a technology said to deliver performance equivalent to a wired HDMI...

Eaton Corp. plans to display an updated structured-wiring system and a distributed audio system based on the low-cost A-BUS technology. The two systems will...

Sales of audio components and systems tumbled in 2005, and iPod-driven portable aduio sales soared past home aduio sales levels for the first time...

Home audio suppliers exhibiting at January’s International CES hope to rekindle consumer interest in their mature categories — or at least grab more share...

Grokster and the content industries reached an out-of-court settlement that immediately shut down the Grokster system but left unanswered the standards by which peer-to-peer...

The Doo-wop era will catch up with the digital era in May 2006 when Crosley Radio ships a floorstanding ’50s-style jukebox that stores music...

PC peripherals supplier Saitek, a major supplier of PC-gaming peripherals, is venturing into the audio market for the first time with a trio of...

The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) launched its long-awaited program to certify that home network devices meet its interoperability guidelines. The first DLNA-certified products,...

BG (Bohlender-Graebener) of Carson City, Nev., went to the CEDIA Expo, held here, with a $10,000/pair 89-inch-tall in-wall speaker, the Radia R-800. The speaker...

More than 560 companies exhibited at this week’s CEDIA Expo to unveil new products for home theater, stereo and distributed audio applications. Here are...

Audio Design Associates plugged into the iPod, tapped into the Internet Protocol to control distributed-A/V systems, and unveiled what it claimed is the industry’s...

coNEXTion, the direct online B to B supplier of custom products to installers, expanded its speaker selection with the commercial launch of its first...

Skullcandy, a company that started out making cellular and MP3 player headphones, is continuing to diversify with a focus on products for active users....

Bose’s third home theater system with HDD music server is the Bose 321 GSX, available direct from Bose and through select retailers in August...

Smarthome has begun offering the industry’s first home-automation equipment built around the company’s Insteon no-new-wires mesh-network technology, which combines powerline and 900MHz-wireless technologies. The...

Like a trophy date, Panasonic’s SC-HT920 home theater system looks good, costs a little more and has some substance to go with its style....

Home theater in a box (HTiB) sales will turn around in the second half, but sales of compact stereos will continue to slide, marketers...

Sales of headphone MP3 players will pass another milestone in 2005, when full-year headphone MP3 players will outsell headphone CD players in factory-level units...

Disney Consumer Products expects to double its sales of Disney-themed consumer electronics in 2005, largely through a recent distribution-base expansion, but also through an...

Satellite radio listeners are generally older than MP3 player listeners but about as wealthy, according to an NPD Music Lab survey. The survey also...

Anaheim, Calif. – Extron launched its first speakers and a new digital video scaler that converts video to up to 1,080p. Also new: the...