2010 Winter Symposium - Exhibit Hall Review
| Ocean Star Electronics, a Chinese loudspeaker OEM headquartered in Hong Kong demonstrated a new (and rather beautiful) loudspeaker that was made from plywood, but used horizontally rather than vertically as is more conventional (see photograph). www.os-hk.com |
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Ferrotec exhibited a range of ferrofluids for audio applications ranging from super-tweeters to sub-woofers. Ferrofluid offers a number of benefits when used in the voicecoil gap including increased thermal power handling, damping, voice coil centering and reduced distortion. www.ferrotec.com |
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Listen, Inc. demonstrated SoundCheck ONE, a new low cost production line loudspeaker test system which offers a complete software and hardware test package for under $6000. In addition to being cost-effective the system in extremely simple to set up and is available in Chinese. www.listeninc.com |
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| Dr. Kurt Mueller displayed cones made from a wide range of materials including paper, foam sandwich, carbon fiber, honeycomb core and a new titanium oxide cone for a compression driver. Titanium Oxide extends the frequency response curve and offers better damping than Titanium alone. www.kurtmueller.com |
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G.R.A.S. demonstrated a new high precision surface mount microphone. It is designed for use in audio measurement applications where there is limited space available. It is just 2.8mm thick and 13.2mm (without rubber fairing) or 40mm (with rubber fairing) in diameter. Both a normal and a high impedance version are available.
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ACO Pacific demonstrated a wide variety of measurement microphones including phantom, conventional and IEPE devices. |
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Prism Media Products and Loudsoft announced a strategic partnership where Prism will be the global sales and support network for Loudsoft. Prism demonstrated the dScope family of audio test systems. www.prismsound.com |
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| Revolution 60, a new company affiliated with Menlo Scientific designs and develops high fashion headsets. Revolution 60 participated in the design of the new ‘beats by dr. dre’ headphone that was on display. www.menloscientific.com |
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Loudsoft showed the 2009 FINE-Suite of Design software from LOUDSOFT which has been updated to facilitate the design of micro speakers, receivers and headphones. www.loudsoft.com |
| Globe Plastics, a composite molder, exhibited a range of loudspeaker products including waveguides, enclosures, baffles and faceplugs. www.globecomposites.com |
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Phase Design, in addition to profiling their range of design, QA and automation products and services for the loudspeaker industry used the ALMA symposium as an opportunity to carry out an extensive survey on the requirements of Western companies oursourcing to Asia. The results will be published shortly. |
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Danville Signal Processing demonstrated a range of digital signal processing solutions for loudspeakers including the new dsprak™ high performance module-based audio platform that allows delivery of state-of-the art dsp-based audio systems from 8 to 32 channels. www.danvillesignal.com |
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| Audio Express, publishers of the loudspeaker industry magazine Voicecoil and the Loudspeaker Indutry Sourcebook gave a way copies of their publication and discussed advertising opportunities with other exhibitors and attendees. www.audioxpress.com |
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ALMA Winter Symposium 2010 Review:
Main | Training | Papers | Tutorials | Round Table | Panel Discussion | Industry Issue | Exhibit Hall | Members Dinner