KLIPPEL LIVE goes into the final rounds
The time passed so fast. Our last three web-seminars on the IEC standard 60628-21 take place in this month. Save the dates and join us Wednesdays at 5:00 pm (CEST). See more information and registration here
Technical News
What’s New in dB Lab 210 and QC 6.6?
KLIPPEL Press Release 15. July 2020 The KLIPPEL Analyzer System has received another minor software update for both R&D and QC ap-plications. It is free of charge for any users of dB-Lab major version 210 or QC 6, respectively. The update provides new relevant tools for output-based testing of contemporary DSP-enhanced speakers, headphones and other …
15 Statistics You Should Know About A Career In UX Design
The rise of the Internet and social media has shifted the balance of power away from producers and towards consumers. Companies are responding to this change by creating positive experiences to keep their customers happy and shopping. At the center of this effort to keep users happy is the user experience (UX) designer. A UX …
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PRESS RELEASE: Breakthrough Audio Technology Company, Resonado, Announces Licensing Partnership with Leading Audio Manufacturer, Zylux
Initial Integration of Proprietary Flat Core Speaker Technology Throughout Soundbar Vertical SOUTH BEND, IN — Audio technology company, Resonado, and leading original equipment and design manufacturing audio company, Zylux, are proud to announce a technology licensing partnership. Resonado’s innovative and proprietary Flat Core Speaker™ (FCS™) technology will be manufactured and initially incorporated into a range …
Correlated Cross-Domain Measurement & Reduced Test Time
Version 6.0 of APx500 audio measurement software offers multiple simultaneous input types BEAVERTON, OREGON, June 10, 2020: Audio Precision today released the latest update to APx500 audio measurement software, version 6.0. With this release, APx software supports multiple simultaneous input types, enabling the concurrent measurement of up to 16 channels of digital and 8 channels of …
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Klippel to present at Virtual ALTI-EXPO + Upcoming Klippel Live event
Be part of it and join Wolfgang Klippel on his two paper sessions! Paper Session 1: Linking Cost, Performance, End-User Satisfaction by Physical and Perceptual Assessment Monday, 15th June at 4:30 pm (CEST) Paper Session 2: Towards Digital-Electro-Machano-Acoustical Transducer Modules Monday, 15th June at 5:00 pm (CEST) More information here
Developing Consumer and Pro Audio Products with Virtual Methods to Improve Quality
Methods of acoustical virtual product development have been used for many years, especially in the automotive industry. They are continuous developing rapidly. For companies in consumer and professional audio, the question arises as to whether and how they can integrate virtual technologies into their product development and production processes. Discover advantages and different approaches for …
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MS Teams: ACQUA test suite for certifying conferencing devices according to Microsoft Teams
Acoustic measurements for compliance with the official Microsoft audio test specification Press Release June 5, 2020 Especially in these days, when many people working remotely from home offices, platforms for workplace collaboration and communication via VoIP like Microsoft Teams (formerly Microsoft Skype for Business) are increasingly important. To ensure optimal communication quality in conversations held …
Designing ANC Earphones: ANC Feedback Method
Knowles’ Senior Principal Engineer Tom Miller packs a lot of useful detail into a one-hour discussion covering ANC theory, design methods, hardware selection, and an overview of coming advanced ANC systems. See the video here!
Online COMSOL Conference 2020 North America Announced for October 7-8
COMSOL is announcing the COMSOL Conference 2020 North America, to be held online for the first time, on October 7–8, and is inviting abstract submissions for posters and papers, with the final deadline of August 21st. Burlington, MA (May 21, 2020) — COMSOL is pleased to announce the COMSOL Conference 2020 North America, to be …
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Black Shark Selects Knowles Balanced Armature Drivers for New, High Performance Wireless Gaming Headphones
Black Shark Ophidian combines a Knowles balanced armature driver for exceptionally clear vocals and treble with a dynamic speaker for powerful bass ITASCA, Ill. – May 18, 2020 – Knowles Corporation (NYSE: KN), a market leader and global supplier of advanced micro-acoustic, audio processing, and precision device solutions, today announced that Black Shark, a premium …
CELESTION CDX14-2410 FERRITE MAGNET COMPRESSION DRIVER
The Celestion CDX14-2410 is the latest of the company’s ultra-low-noise compression drivers.The unique “deep-drawn” titanium diaphragm and patented annular phase plug design combineto produce much more accurate-sounding high frequencies, exhibiting much lower distortionthan many comparable devices on the market.The driver’s diaphragm is deep-drawn which makes it much stiffer. This, in turn, increases thefrequency of the …
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Improving communication quality in conferencing scenarios
New webinar and white paper provide profound knowledge for stakeholders Especially at present, when many people are working from home offices, everyone experiences the benefits of using virtual conferences to communicate with each other. Unfortunately, it comes along with significant variation in communication quality in most of these virtual meetings. Therefore, HEAD acoustics has focused …
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Press Release from Listen, Inc.: Working from Home with SoundCheck Videos
Recognizing that working from home away from the audio lab is restrictive for many audio engineers, the support team at Listen, Inc. has produced a series of videos outlining some of the things that you can do using SoundCheck without all your test hardware, enabling you to be productive when working from home. These focus …
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MEET US ON KLIPPEL LIVE
April 20, 2020. How can you apply the new IEC 60268-21 standard in practice? Or how can you investigate speaker-room interaction? And what is the best way to measure and interpret signal distortion?These and other topics will be discussed in the new free webinar series KLIPPEL LIVE as we continue to educate and support loudspeaker …
Listen Releases SoundCheck 18 – New Features for Large-scale Integration and Multi-channel / Voice-activated Device Testing
SoundCheck 18, the latest release of Listen, Inc.’s flagship audio test and measurement system, contains many new features focused on automation and simplicity. Some of these are specifically designed for large-scale integration in factory environments, while others are designed to accelerate R&D testing, particularly where multiple channels are required and/or voice-activated devices are being tested. …
Analog Devices Webcast Series
A2B: A Better Audio Design Experience See the webcast that presents A2B for applications beyond the automotive market. This technology will be a positive disruptive force in Pro and Consumer Audio industries. See the full Webcast here
CELESTION CDV1-1757 COMPRESSION DRIVER
The Celestion, CDV1-1757 is a mass-notification compression driver specifically designedfor optimum performance across the critical vocal band. This makes the productideal for voice applications where maximum clarity and intelligibility is demanded,with the capability to reach audiences over the greatest possible distance.The CDV1-1757 features Celestion technology built-in, including a 1.75” (44mm)edgewound copper clad aluminium voice coil; …
What’s New from KLIPPEL
March 19th, 2020 For Rocking Mode Analysis (RMA), KLIPPEL improved the robustness of the identification process and simplified the operation. RMA can now read 3D vibration data from KLIPPEL Scanning Vibrometer System (SCN) data-containers, simplifying the way data is stored and imported. KLIPPEL has condensed the result presentation in the main output window “RMA Result” …
Kugou Selects Knowles Balanced Armature Drivers for New Hi-Res X1 Earphone
Two Knowles balanced armature drivers combined with a dynamic driver deliver the highest possible performance for listening to Hi-Res Audio ITASCA, Ill. – March 12, 2020 – Kugou, a digital music interactive service provider and unit of Tencent Music, and Knowles Corporation (NYSE: KN), a market leader and global supplier of advanced micro-acoustic, audio processing, and precision device solutions, today …
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CELESTION CF1540HD LOW-MID CONE DRIVER
The 15-inch Celestion CF1540HD bass speaker is the smaller sibling of the well-established and best-selling CF1840JD. Featuring a cast aluminum chassis, it reproduces frequencies from 35Hz to 2,000Hz. With a power handling rated at 1,200W (AES standard) and 2,400W continuous, the speaker is well-suited to the high output of the Class-D amplifier sections that see …
Digital Twin: Use Case Automotive Audio
Digital twins can change and accelerate the entire engineering process. In product development, production and service, the use of the technology promises enormous benefits through the possibility of monitoring the behavior of products and production processes, developing new customer-oriented services or drawing conclusions for product improvements from the product data. Discover more about application possibilities …
Eminence New N314X-8 Compression Driver Leads the Way with Textreme Diaphragm
Reprinted courtesy AudioXpress February 6 2020, 00:35 Recently, Eminence announced that it had already successfully implemented and tested a new compression driver using the new thin ply carbon diaphragm from Textreme. The announcement of the new Eminence N314X-8 Compression Driver confirms that the Kentucky company is now ready to offer the world’s first driver using the …
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THREE-DAY LECTURE BY WOLFGANG KLIPPEL
SOUND QUALITY OF AUDIO SYSTEMS – MODELING, MEASUREMENT & CONTROL Klippel GmbH will present the annual three-day lecture about “Sound Quality of Audio Systems” held by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Klippel on 9th-11th March 2020, at the Technical University of Dresden in Germany. The event is highly recommended for engineers of the audio industry active in …
Uninterrupted Storage of Data for more than Five Years
By connecting a USB mass storage device to the NetBox, the data storage capacity of the XL2 is expanded to 2 terabytes, which massively simplifies the operation of an autonomous measuring station. The USB device can be accessed faster than the XL2’s internal memory card. In addition, to save storage space as well as power, …
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Redefining the Shape of Sound: Resonado Introduces Flat Core Speaker Technology at CES 2020
December 19, 2019 Courtesy AudioXpress Resonado, a South Bend, Indiana company founded at the University of Notre Dame, has a new take on electrodynamic speaker topology. The company developed a reconfigured speaker with a planar voice coil mounted perpendicularly to its flat “race track” diaphragm, to which Resonado calls Flat Core Speaker (FCS) technology. The …
Audio Ferrofluids – A Good Idea That Just Keeps Getting Better!
By Vanessa Rene In the early Nineteen Sixties, a NASA engineer named Stephen Papell first developed Ferrofluid. His mission was to create a means of transporting rocket fuel in zero gravity. The concept of adding surfactant-coated magnetic particles to the fuel which could then be manipulated by peristaltic magnetic fields was a novel idea, but …
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Klippel News December, 2019
Software Update The KLIPPEL software dB-Lab version 210, the unified framework for R&D and QC audio testing, diagnostics and simulation, has received a minor update. It is free of charge for any dB-Lab 210 user. It includes bugfixes and minor feature updates for released modules and beta test products like the Live Audio Analyzer (LAA). …
PCB Awarded Patent For Universal Phantom Powered Preamplifier
PCB’s patented phantom powered preamplifier (426A14) has a unique modular design that mates with any pre-polarized ½” or ¼” IEC 61094-4 compliant microphone cartridge. This flexibility allows users to select the cartridge with performance required for a specific test while leveraging the investment in a single universal 48V preamplifier. Highlights include: o Quickly and easily …
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