Audio

Tivoli Audio is moving into new radio configurations and distribution channels while refreshing its original table radio with hand-lacquered versions. New radio configurations include...

In an update of its 2004 home and portable audio plans, Philips, here, expanded its selection of 802.11b-equipped microsystems to two, reversed its plans...

Satellite-radio subscriber growth has prompted suppliers to expand the selection of battery-powered satellite-radio boomboxes in time for summertime use. The boomboxes represent a small...

A start-up company believes it can broaden the customer base for authorized music downloading if it eliminates PCs from the process. The venture-capital-funded company,...

Monster Cable has begun rolling out a long-awaited turnkey merchandising and sales-training program designed to reverse the fortunes of the audio-component business, which founder...

Specialty retailers and custom installers came away from the recent PARA conference with more than just a tan after five days of meals under...

Gefen joined a very short list of suppliers that have introduced transmitter-receiver packages to distribute HDTV signals over CAT-5 cables. At least one other...

Soundmatters, the OEM engineering company headed by a/d/s/ founder Godehard Guenther, will expand its selection of single-speaker, single-box home theater systems from one SKU...

Rockford-owned Omnifi, which shipped its first 802.11b-equipped audio products last October, is diversifying its dealer base with additional online sites and its first independent...

Motorola and Texas Instruments are moving ahead with plans to commercialize competing versions of ultrawideband (UWB) technology for home-entertainment and PC applications. The competing...

Five Web sites and their owners agreed to a lifetime ban on selling Klipsch products after Klipsch filed lawsuits against them for unauthorized sales...

Commercial-automation devices incorporating the low-power ZigBee wireless-network standard will be available late this year, followed quickly by ZigBee-enabled home-automation products, a ZigBee Alliance official...

LeisureTech Electronics signed up Phase Technology of Jacksonville, Fla. as the first U.S. speaker maker to license its A-BUS distributed-audio technology. With the agreement,...

Dolby Laboratories has developed a more efficient backward-compatible extension to its Dolby Digital 5.1-channel audio codec for use by digital-cable and satellite-TV operators who...

It will take more than lower prices, higher storage capacities and an expanded selection of easy-to-use authorized download services to move compressed-music portables into...

WAYNE, N.J.– Two new 6.1-channel HTiB systems that JVC will ship in July will feature DVD recorders, but the company will delete a HDD...

The Professional Audio Video Retailers Association (PARA) expects a rebound in attendance at this year’s annual management conference compared to last year when a...

Swampscott, Mass. – Start-up ZVOX Audio has begun marketing a set-top TV-sound system that amplifies, widens and deepens the sound stage at $199. The...

A-BUS/direct distributed-audio technology is increasing its U.S. presence and late this year or early next, products incorporating a related technology, A-BUS/active, could hit the...

Two-channel audio components haven’t gone the way of Chubby Checker, Vaughn Meader, and audio-only magazines. The audio industry embraced its two-channel heritage here at...

The universe of all-in-one DVD players is expanding, but can consumers hear them in the electronics retail space? At CES, Samsung, Toshiba and Integra...

Satellite radio is increasing its potential in the home market, in large part as a component in upscale distributed-audio systems. At CES, Audio Design...

There’s more than one way to make a distributed-audio system. Just ask Audio Design Associates (ADA), The B&W Group, IntelliNet, Russound and technology developer...

Home Automation Inc. (HAI) unveiled a new lower priced in-wall LCD keypad that controls its Omni series of home automation controllers, which were recently...

In the audio industry, Las Vegas was the place to hook up. During CES, suppliers introduced traditional audio components that use Ethernet connections to...

Yamaha is adding a custom-install option to its wireless MusicCAST system, which uses built-in Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11b) technology and wired Ethernet connections to distribute...

To eliminate objections from the decor-minded, Pioneer plans to offer HTiBs with plasma-friendly speakers and with a proprietary technology that it adopted for the...

Shell Energy Services is putting in its first appearance at CES with a home-management system that lets users monitor and control home systems remotely...

In an HTiB selection that the company is expanding to six SKUs from two, Samsung plans to offer plasma-friendly speakers, DVD-Audio and an HDD...

Polk plans to expand its custom selection with the May shipment of a speaker series that bridges the gap between the RCi entry-level series...

Kenwood will sprinkle a variety of technologies into its expanded selection of 11 new HTiB systems, including Dolby Virtual Speaker and Dolby Headphone, Dolby...

Windows Media 9 decoding and virtual-surround technology will put in an appearance in receivers at the Pioneer booth. Windows Media 9 will appear in...

TWICE: Has the audio industry taken the first steps toward turning the business around? Franklin Karp, Harvey: It has begun, and not a minute...

Digital Radio TWICE: What new product categories could help turn the industry around? Satellite radio in the home? HD Radio (digital AM/FM)? Don Milks,...

TWICE: In the first half, factory-level home audio sales, excluding home radio, fell below aftermarket autosound levels for the first time ever. Is this...

TWICE: Are enough storefronts capable of demonstrating step-up alternatives to expose consumers to the step-up alternatives, given the growth of big-box retailers and the...

TWICE: We’ve talked about demonstration, presentation and product simplification. But will a focus on these factors be enough to put us back on the...