Origin Acoustics Previews ‘Invisible Speaker’
Origin Acoustics, a pacesetter within the in-wall/architectural speaker house, is previewing a collection of “invisible audio system” developed in partnership with Amina Applied sciences it calls BLENDS. Although the title is an acronym for “Boundaryless Listening Expertise with Pure Depth Sound,” it additionally suggests how these sound-producing panels can disappear into a house décor.
Collectively the businesses have produced a super-thin in-wall panel speaker based mostly on Amina’s patented Distributed Mode Listening (DML) expertise that’s straightforward to put in and able to delivering “high-clarity, room-filling sound.”
Slated to hit the market in 2024, the BLENDS collection will launch with two fashions that includes tapered edges to allow them to be hooked up on to studs, built-in into drywall, and painted, making them visually undetectable, although sonically alive when the music begins taking part in. The collection may also embrace Amina’s new Edgei/S200 speaker for purposes the place screw-to-stud set up received’t work and is appropriate with Amina’s ALF100SM direct-to-stud, in-wall subwoofer, which encompasses a skinny, slotted port that’s straightforward to hide.
BLENDS audio system shall be provided in 70-volt and 8-ohm variations and would be the first such audio system to hold a 60-minute UL fireplace ranking, in accordance with Origin.
McIntosh Will get Excessive on Bass with $50K Subwoofer
McIntosh is making a daring assertion at CEDIA 2023 with the disclosing of an uncommon product: A tower-style subwoofer that includes 4 13-inch carbon-fiber woofers, every of which is powered by a devoted 500-watt Class D amplifier. As a substitute of utilizing a single carbon-fiber layer that’s vulnerable to flexing, every driver boasts an especially inflexible multi-layered design constructed to resist prolonged excursions and flexing that may have a unfavourable influence on sound.
Slated for launch in October for the princely sum of $50,000, the PS2K is described as an uncompromising design that produces unparalleled bass. At its core is McIntosh’s patented Low Distortion Excessive Efficiency (LD/HP) magnetic circuit design, which is claimed to considerably cut back distortion whereas rising driver energy dealing with and effectivity. Every amplifier is additional “calibrated to attenuate distortion and produce clear, tight bass with astonishingly low distortion in even probably the most expansive listening areas,” in accordance with the corporate.
The system is dually protected by McIntosh’s long-standing Energy Guard expertise, which screens and adjusts the incoming audio sign in actual time to stop clipping, and Sentry Monitor, a fuse-less short-circuit-protection circuit that routinely disengages the amplifier’s output stage to keep away from unsafe working ranges.
The PS2K’s stereo and subwoofer inputs and outputs can be found in each balanced and unbalanced type for set up flexibility and, for many who wish to get actually loopy, a number of subwoofers might be daisy-chained. In line with the model’s traditional design motif, the subwoofer boasts a high-gloss black end with carbon trim and an aluminum base that may be fitted with glide toes for laborious flooring or spikes for carpeted areas.
No specs had been offered however we’re considering this child can in all probability dig deep and play mighty loud.
Bang & Olufsen’s Newest Speaker Directs the Candy Spot to the Listener
Bang & Olufsen, the Danish firm that after dominated the life-style audio class, has re-emerged within the U.S. after an extended quiet interval with small but fashionable — some would possibly say elegant — streaming speaker designed to create an immersive listening expertise.
The Wi-Fi-based Beolab 8 is an effort to distill the essence of the corporate’s high-end Beolab collection into a classy three-way speaker that routinely adapts to the acoustics of the room through which it’s positioned and makes use of ultra-wide band (UWB) monitoring expertise enabled by way of an app to direct the acoustic candy spot to the listener (really, the placement of the listener’s cellphone).
Along with with the ability to direct sound towards the listener, the app controlling the speaker features a “beam width” management with slim and huge settings, the latter to create a extra diffuse sound all through the room.
At slightly below a foot-tall, the Beolab 8 incorporates B&O’s Mozart platform, which helps Bluetooth streaming and supplies entry to B&O Radio plus Spotify, Tidal, Deezer, QPlay 2.0 streaming companies. The speaker mates a 0.6-inch tweeter, 3-inch midrange driver, and 5.25-inch woofer in an enclosure that includes a refined aluminum body/stand with an oak slat (proven) or cloth grille and a glass management panel on prime.
The Beolab 8 is slated to ship on the finish of October and can promote for $5,498/pair with a black cloth grille or for $6,598 in one in all three variations with a picket slat grille: oak slats with an aluminum body, mild oak slats with a gold-tone body, or black oak slats with a black body. All fashions embrace the integral desk stand which doubles as a wall mount. An non-compulsory ground stand may also be accessible.
For extra info, go to bang-olufsen.com.
Hisense Pegs Fall Supply for 100-inch 4K Mini-LED TV
Hisense right this moment joined the ultra-big-screen revolution with the announcement that it’s going to ship a 100-inch 4K LCD TV that includes quantum-dot coloration and mini-LED backlighting this fall.
The U8K ($10,000) is the newest addition to the model’s U8 Sequence, which tops out with a 75-inch mannequin Finest Purchase is at present promoting for the discounted value of $1,500. The brand new TV is constructed across the Google TV sensible platform and boasts a game-ready 144-Hz panel that includes greater than 1,600 native dimming zones and a rated peak brightness of 1500 nits along with supporting Dolby Imaginative and prescient excessive dynamic vary (HDR) and IMAX Enhanced video playback.
The TV helps Wi-Fi 6E for extra strong streaming and features a built-in NextGen TV (ATSC 3.0) tuner plus game-centric options, together with variable refresh price (VRR), AMD FreeSync Premium, and auto low-latency mode (ALLM) for smoother gameplay with decreased enter lag and display jitter.
Audio options embrace an onboard 2.1.2 sound system with assist for Dolby Atmos encompass plus eARC (enhanced Audio Return Channel) and WiSA SoundSend compatibility for wi-fi hookup to an outboard speaker system.
“Recognition and client curiosity in large screens continues to develop. Hisense’s 75-inch plus section skilled a 500% improve during the last three years, so we needed to lean into that success by providing much more choices this yr,” stated David Gold, president of Hisense USA. “We’re the one model providing Mini LED on the 100-inch measurement, at this efficiency degree, with this function set, and a price bundle.”
JVC Drops Value of Laser Projector, Rolls Out Free HDR Upgrades for D-ILA Fashions
Feeling the pinch of ever-increasing TV display sizes, JVC right this moment introduced that it has decreased the worth of its DLA-NZ7/RS2100 laser projectors in an effort to make its BLU-Escent laser projection and proprietary 8K/e-shift applied sciences accessible to a wider viewers. The brand new value for each fashions is $9,000.
The corporate additionally introduced plans to roll out a free firmware replace for its present line of D-ILA projectors. Slated for launch in in mid-November, the replace will embrace the second technology of JVC’s Body Adapt HDR tone-mapping expertise, which analyzes the height brightness of HDR10 content material for every scene or body and makes use of a novel algorithm to regulate and optimize dynamic vary for improved image high quality and a “extra three-dimensional look.”
The replace may also improve light-source adjustment from three steps to 100 steps for projectors outfitted with JVC’s BLU-Escent laser to allow extra exact mild management; this replace, which additionally makes it potential to again up all saved settings on a USB flash drive, applies to the DLA-NZ9/RS4100, DLA-NZ8/RS3100, and DLA-NZ7/RS2100 fashions.
