Audio

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...

Outlaw Audio’s stable of audio products will expand during the summer to include the company’s highest-priced preamp/processor to date, the company’s first two-channel receiver,...

Home-network technologies vied to tie the knot with the cable industry here at the 54th annual National Cable Television Association (NCTA) convention, where advocates...

Yamaha will become the first supplier to offer an HD-Radio home-audio component in June when it ships the $1,899-suggested RX-V4600 A/V receiver with embedded...

In the home, satellite radio faces a challenge — putting the radio where customers want it without running long stretches of antenna cable. To...

U.S. music-industry sales rose in 2004 for the first time since 1999, but the modest 2 percent gain in unit shipments and 2.5 percent...

Sony is rounding out its assortment of compressed-music portables with an expanded selection of flash-memory headphone portables and expanded support for the MP3 format....

Factory-level sales of compressed-music portables grew in 2004, to account for 59.2 percent of total dollar sales in battery-operated music portables, CEA statistics show....

Diverse content will be the key driver of satellite-radio growth, and Sirius has built a solid foundation to profitably deliver content that consumers can’t...

Thomson’s new eight-SKU HTiB lineup includes its first HTiB with DVD recorder, its first to up-convert DVD Video to high definition, and an expanded...

Kenwood launched a new brand direction “to deliver a consistent message to customers” and will maintain its stepped-up R&D effort now that it has...

Video-display supplier Akai entered the component audio business here at International CES with step-up products intended to elevate Akai’s image and help the company...

Names, functions and forms are changing in component audio at International CES. With the component business having made a sharp turnaround in 2004, at...