JL Audio Highlights New Customized Subwoofers and Outside Audio system
In its first public look because the announcement that the corporate is being acquired by GPS titan Garmin, JL Audio highlighted the brand new CTS Sequence of customized subwoofers and Pavilion line of out of doors audio system derived from its high-end marine audio system, constructed to be used in boats, yachts, and different harsh out of doors environments. Designed to be built-in into millwork, partitions, and different buildings in a devoted dwelling theater, the CTS subs are totally enclosed and require exterior energy and processing. The Pavilion audio system have been re-voiced for out of doors residential functions and are designed to challenge dynamic sound over a broad space.
DALI Goals for Sonic Precision, the Danish Manner
Denmark’s DALI, an acronym for Danish Audiophile Loudspeaker Industries, holds itself to a excessive normal, which is why model supervisor Jason Zidle likens DALI to a Swiss watch firm, German carmaker, or a bottle of wonderful French wine. “The match, the end, the efficiency is second to none,” Zidle informed us. “When you have got a phrase like audiophile embedded in your identify, you’re held to fairly excessive requirements.”
Click on beneath and be a part of us on a tour of the DALI sales space to see a variety of merchandise celebrating the model’s fortieth anniversary, together with the brand new Sub S-100 subwoofer for mounting in or on the wall. The S-100 makes use of a single driver that includes a singular “fixed floor encompass” that really adjustments the floor measurement of the driving force because it strikes by its tour. The motive force is mounted in a low-profile sealed enclosure that’s sufficiently small to slip underneath a sofa for individuals who don’t wish to mess with a wall set up.
DALI additionally confirmed the brand new IO-12 wi-fi headphones, that includes over-sized 50mm (2 inch) drivers as an alternative of normal 40mm (1.6 inch) drivers, and the $60,000/pair Epikore 11 tower speaker, that includes a ribbon/soft-dome tweeter combo and 5 of DALI’s distinctive wood-fiber drivers.
PSB Audio system Struts its Specialty Stuff
For speaker manufacturers that attend CEDIA, the main target is essentially on audio programs and audio system designed for mounting in or on the wall or ceiling. Within the case of PSB, 50 years of expertise in designing glorious dwelling audio system was dropped at bear in a sequence of sturdy audio system designed to sound good and make set up as fast and painless as attainable.
PSB’s rep walked us by the road, stating highlights corresponding to a speaker with angled drivers designed for mounting in a ceiling and the Efficiency Wall Mount (PWM) sequence of smooth, on-wall audio system that pulls on know-how utilized in PSB’s flagship Synchrony audio system. Key applied sciences additionally trickle right down to the most recent iteration of PSB’s reasonably priced Think about sequence of freestanding audio system slated for launch in October and that includes a stand-mount/bookshelf mannequin and two small towers.
Bang & Olufsen: Trendy Indoors and Outdoor
Aaron McCarty, head of customized set up for Bang & Olufsen’s North American operation, walked S&V editor Mark Henninger by the brand new Beosound Bollard high-end out of doors speaker system and the corporate’s compact and high-style Beolab 8, a freestanding speaker that can be utilized by itself or paired with a second speaker.
The Wi-Fi-based streaming speaker distills the essence of the high-end Beolab sequence into an advance three-way speaker that routinely adapts to the acoustics of the room and makes use of ultra-wide band (UWB) monitoring know-how enabled through an app to direct the acoustic candy spot to the listener (really, the placement of the listener’s telephone). The app controlling the Beolab 8 additionally features a “beam width” management with slim and huge settings, the latter to create a extra diffuse sound all through the room. The Beolab 8 will promote for $5,500-$7,500, relying on end and the kind of stand/mount.
See CEDIA 2023 Expo Is Off and Operating for extra element on the Beolab 8 and different AV merchandise launched at this yr’s expo.
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