Audio

Sonance is raising its level of field support and pushing decision making to the regional level to respond more quickly to dealer needs, sales...

Two new music-download services, MusicMatch and Napster 2.0, are taking a cue from Apple’s iTunes Store, delivering subscription-free services with per-song download fees and...

Custom suppliers are turning increasingly to 12- and 16-channel amplifiers to drive down the cost and complexity of routing music throughout a house. In...

For its first product introduction since its purchase by Linear, SpeakerCraft went to the CEDIA Expo to launch its first two multizone/multisource receivers, its...

Cable operators and cable-content providers are giving retailers more opportunities to sell the latest generation of surround-sound audio gear. Cable multiple system operators (MSOs)...

A do-it-yourself (DIY) home automation system, available Aug. 1 from Smarthome, will give consumers the ability to use any browser-equipped PC or mobile device...

Price isn’t everything in the home-theater-in-a-box (HTiB) business after all. The price-sensitive market generates most of its unit and dollar volume in systems at...

Digital Innovations, developer of Skip Doctor disc-scratch-repair products, has begun offering its first electronics products — a pair of headphone MP3 player/recorders that transmit...

Soundmatters, an OEM engineering company headed by a/d/s/ founder Godehard Guenther, has begun marketing a single-box home theater system called MAINstage with a $299...

Altec Lansing Technologies returned to its home audio roots with the online relaunch of four step-up home stereo speaker pairs, including the high-end A7...

Archos is rolling out an expanded selection of portable hard-disc-drive (HDD) audio/video players and plans a downsized HDD music portable that will use a...

Niles Audio will celebrate its 25th anniversary this year with the broadest product launch in its history and the completion of an expanded engineering...

Teac will relaunch its ultra-high-end Esoteric line after an absence of about a decade while expanding its table-radio selection and launching other new products....

Six aluminum-finish products planned for Sherwood’s Newcastle series include a 6.1-channel receiver with digital amplification and Newcastle’s first receiver to upconvert video inputs to...

Bantam Interactive, the online marketer of compressed-music portables, is expanding into new product categories and into brick-and-mortar retail distribution. The company, which launched its...

International tensions and slow economic growth have curtailed traffic in audio/ video specialty stores, restricted the flow of new jobs in the custom-installation pipeline...

Port Washington, N.Y.— The overall portable-audio market might be down, but sales of Internet audio portables keep going up, NPD Techworld found. Retail-level unit...

Cirrus Logic has indefinitely delayed the production of a pair of chipsets billed as suitable for CE products that would wirelessly stream high-quality audio...

Streaming/download service MusicNet is joining rival Pressplay in allowing authorized downloaded music to be burned to disc and transferred to secure music portables. The...

Warner Music said it supports the DVD Forum’s plans to study the creation of a dual-layer CD/DVD-audio disc that, like hybrid CD/SACD discs, would...

DTS’s 5.1-channel audio format has been adopted by the DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) Project as an option to its DTV standard. The Project is...

The majority of custom installers polled by CEDIA experienced growth in the first half of 2002, and on average they predict double-digital percentage gains...

Atlantic Technology has developed its first electronics components and a line of custom-oriented speakers to reposition itself to tap further into the high-end audio...

The first radios to incorporate software tuning won’t be available next year because they’re already here, Motorola admitted. Last month, Motorola said the first...

Installation-training schools proliferated in the mobile electronics industry in the mid- to late 1980s, and now they’re coming to the custom home-electronics industry. Two...

The lineup of 5.1-channel HDTV programs is growing, but not at a rate that has made it easy for retailers to promote and demonstrate...

DTS is laying the groundwork for a 2003 marketing campaign that will promote its 5.1-channel surround format as a premium audio option for satellite...

Oxmoor, a Birmingham, Ala.-based commercial-sound company, entered the residential market during the CEDIA Expo. The company has been the exclusive provider of sound systems...

Harman Kardon introduced its first A-Bus-compatible receivers, its first receiver with digital Class D amplification, and other products during CEDIA’s Expo. All of the...

Nirotek America of Lawndale, Calif., demonstrated the first system that delivers 6.1-channel surround sound from two satellite speakers and a powered subwoofer. The Niro-branded...

Authorized online distributors of Pressplay’s subscription-based music-download and music-streaming service have begun to support transfers of downloaded music to Internet audio portables, but the...

Meridian brought digital audio connectability between DVD-Audio players and digital processors to lower price points. Earlier this year, Meridian upgraded its card-upgradable 800 DVD-A/V...

Sunfire expects its sales to resume growth this year with the launch of its first receiver and its third-generation home-theater processor. Late in the...

Infinity is replacing one speaker series and adding a sixth series to help achieve distribution goals. The Alpha series will replace the Interlude series...

New brands and technologies entered the HTiB business to take advantage of the market’s continuing double-digit sales gains. RCA added its high-end Scenium brand...