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Home automation brings convenience and a certain measure of peace of mind to homeowners. Checking your smartphone to see if you left the garage door open is certainly more convenient [...]

Will your Ultra HD Blu-ray player have to be connected to the internet to play 4K discs? How will consumers transfer 4K content from discs to portable devices? Will Ultra [...]

HIGH-OCTANE car stereo systems are just the thing if your passion for music drives you to the limit. They keep the music firing on all cylinders, and judging by the [...]

If DVD performs as advertised, few home-theater enthusiasts will think twice about making room for a DVD player in their audio/video cabinets. The new video format will dazzle their eyes [...]

Dolby Labs and Klipsch co-hosted an impressive demonstration of the power of Dolby Atmos object-based surround at Dolby's offices in Manhattan. Just one word: Duck! The turret gun of a [...]

Verizon Wireless has long contended it wouldn't be dragged into the price-war mud, but it has stepped cautiously into the mud up to its ankles. Last month, the carrier launched [...]

Savant went to its annual integrators conference Austin, TX, last month to unveil a smaller, single-chas sis version of its Smart Host home-automation controller and replace wires for Wi-Fi in [...]

DTS:X and Dolby Atmos are bringing excitement back to the component-audio business. We felt similar excitement 20 years ago when surround sound made its first big leap, moving beyond matrixed [...]

Multiple paths are available to output audio content from future over-the-air ATSC 3.0 TV broadcasts to home audio equipment, but it will be up to individual TV suppliers to implement [...]

Can you squeeze the quality of a master recording into a digital music file that's smaller than a losslessly compressed 192kHz/24-bit FLAC file? Will the file outperform its 192/24 FLAC [...]

Some people collect vintage speakers, and at least one of those collectors successfully bid in an online auction for a pair of rare 6-inch-tall Dada Baby speakers. The pair went [...]

VANCOUVER, CANADA -- Canadian pro-audio supplier Radial Engineering is bringing the audiophile Hafler brand back to the consumer-audio market. Radial purchased the brand earlier this year from car-audio supplier Rockford [...]

We thought we didn't have to worry about competing home-entertainment formats anymore like we did during the Beta/VHS, CD/ DAT and DCC/MiniDisc competitions. And now the first Dolby Atmos/Auro-3D audio/video [...]

To brush up on the history of the consumer electronics industry in the U.S., I suggest a day trip to the Sarnoff Collection at the College of New Jersey in [...]

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA -- Consumer electronics retailer/mail order company Crutchfield plans to further expand its assortment of pro audio products, which it began offering in February, merchandising executive VP Rick Souder [...]

MAWAH, NJ -- D&M Holdings has sold off its Denon Professional, Marantz Professional and Denon DJ businesses to inMusic Brands, which owns multiple pro-audio brands. D&M is licensing the rights [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- D&M Holdings sold off its UK-based Calrec pro audio business as part of its effort to 'put more of our resources and organizational focus on building [...]

SHIZUOKA, JAPAN -- Yamaha Corp. boosted first-half global sales, operating income and net income. Yamaha said global sales increased by 11.8 percent to 197.7 billion yen ($2.01 billion, operating income [...]

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- Dolby Laboratories founder Dr. Ray Dolby died September 12 at his home in San Francisco at age 80. In 1965, Dolby founded Dolby Laboratories, whose major [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- The AVnu Alliance, a manufacturer group that promotes the IEEE's AVB (AudioVideo Bridging) network standard, is turning its sights on the residential audio market after having [...]

SHIZUOKA, JAPAN -- Yamaha's board approved a merger effective April 1 of its U.S. home-audio subsidiary with its U.S.-based musical instruments and pro audio subsidiary, but the merged entity has [...]

Sony's minidisc format has an edge over Philips-Matsushita's digital compacct cassette. The marketing war is underway Egos and profits are on the line as two new digital-audio recording technologies--the minidisc […]

Sonos was alone in the market when it launched the industry's first Wi-Fi multiroom-audio speakers in 2005, but now the brand has a lot of company. The number of competitors [...]

Forty-three percent of smartphone owners surveyed in five countries believe smart watches will eventually replace smartphones, and 38 percent believe wearables will perform most smartphone functions in only five years, [...]

BEAVERTON, OR--The recently released HDBaseT 2.0 standard will bring the technology's advantages to mainstream consumers, the HDBaseT Alliance announced. The alliance hasn't yet stated when chips supporting the standard will [...]

CAMBRIDGE, MA--Dr. Amar Gopal Bose, audio industry pioneer and founder of Bose Corporation, passed away at age 83. Dr. Bose, who was company chairman, founded his namesake company in 1964 [...]

Written off as dead by some people only a few years ago, component audio has been resurrected, the latest CEA forecasts show. Combined sales of receivers, speakers, and other audio [...]

Russound sales and staff are growing again as the company prepares to expand its product selection beyond wired multi-room audio systems with centralized controllers to include decentralized IP-based wireless systems. [...]

Apple Licensees: Partners in Profit and Pain Maybe it's good business to keep the competitors guessing, but Apple's partners complain they're suffering collateral damage in the smartphone and tablet wars. [...]

McIntosh Laboratory is a better fit with the luxury audio brands marketed by new owner Fine Sounds than it was under former parent D+M Group, whose other audio brands share [...]

Apple is said to be moving to a smaller, 19-pin port on its next iPhone, likely guaranteeing that the next iPhone won't be able to dock with the installed base [...]

'My main mission is to help grow the electronics business within the Gibson portfolio,' Bob Weissburg, Gibson Guitar's newly appointed global executive VP, told TWICE. The former D&M executive was [...]

Yamaha's board approved a merger, effective April 1, of its U.S. home-audio subsidiary with its U.S.-based musical instruments and pro audio subsidiary, but the merged entity has no plans to [...]

Google reportedly wants to offer a wireless multiroom audio system under its own brand. From the looks of things, Google won't be offering anything new. In fact, Google's system, as [...]

LG Electronics has entered a strategic alliance with Intel to use the chipmakers' wireless digital video over Wi-Fi (called WiDi) technology in next year's Cinema 3D Smart TVs. The agreement [...]

British audio brand KEF recently celebrated its 50th anniversary with parties worldwide, including a fete in New York City at the British consul-general's official residence. About 100 KEF dealers, reps, [...]

The Harman High Performance Audio Video (HPAV) group is building up its Lexicon line with the brand's first home audio product incorporating proprietary QuantumLogic Surround 3D (QLS 3D) post processing, [...]

iBAHN has entered into a strategic relationship with Control4 Corporation to bring advanced guest room controls to three new DorchesterHotel Group properties: 45 Park Lane in London, and the Hotel [...]

Speaker maker Focal and audio electronics maker Naim are merging their businesses to bolster their R&D capabilities and build market share, the companies announced. 'For future success, the key point [...]

Velodyne Acoustics has become the second audio specialty supplier in recent months to drop independent reps and go factory direct, selling its Velodyne branded powered subwoofers direct through its in-house [...]

Klipsch Group is implementing a new go-to-market strategy for its Jamo and Mirage speaker brands to accelerate Jamo product development and reposition Mirage as a Jamo adjunct series focused on [...]

CEDIA members enjoyed 13 percent revenue growth and rising profit margins in 2010 despite the depressed market for new home construction, CEDIA's annual benchmarking survey found. The responding companies also [...]

Now on TWICE.com I recently spoke with a longtime high-end audio retailer who is optimistic about the future of the component-audio business. He pointed to the aging of the echo [...]

Now on tiwce.com A countersuit filed by Crestron against Savant Systems sounds a lot like the suit that Savant filed late last year against Creston. In a suit filed in [...]

Xantech is launching new products designed for what it says are the new realities of a downsized custom-installation market. The new realities include residential systemsintegration companies that have downsized their [...]

Considering several recent product announcements, this is the year wireless multi-room audio enters the mainstream ... many of these products fall short in delivering on a key promise of custom-installed [...]

XM satellite radio subscribers will be able to access SiriusXM internet radio for the first time through Sonos wireless multi-room-audio systems, joining their Sirius counterparts. new Sonos customers in the [...]

Consumer spending on audio components is rising once again after last year's sharp downturn, but it's not rising quickly enough to prevent another industry consolidation: the purchase by Amplifier Technologies [...]

Denon will celebrate its 100th anniversary with a limited-edition series of seven hand-tuned audio products that will be available on November 1 from 40 hand-picked dealers in the U.S. All [...]

NetStreams, the supplier of IP -based AV-distribution systems, is dropping two-step distribution to focus on direct sales to installers, the company announced. NetStreams was purchased late last year by IP [...]