Sony invented the Walkman and the portable CD player, but was never more than a third-fiddle player in the digital audio world.
These electrostatic headphones with a vacuum tube amplifier, which came onto the market around 20 years ago, have become an icon in the audio world.
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BeeWi may not be a well-known name in the audio world, but the company's bringing some innovation to the space with its new Bluetooth headphones.
Kindle Fire HD solves this by combining dual stereo speakers with the exclusive Dolby Digital Plus audio engine-the standard in high performance audio-to offer a world-class audio experience.
The earSmart eS515 also features Audio Zoom, the world's first selective audio capture feature to be deployed for mobile devices.
Simple Audio's world-class engineering and product development teams will continue to develop and market the company's range of music streaming products from its offices in Glasgow, Scotland.
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The CDs include the audio recordings of many world literature books, classic stories, history and art.
Edifier has become a world class audio manufacturer providing inspirational, visually elegant, and functional audio solutions for home lifestyle, portable, and multimedia applications. www.
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This introduction is meant to offer a glimpse into the rich world of audio creation and to hopefully inspire the reader to invest more time in Csound.
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In this audio section, BBC World Service environment specialist Richard Black explains the so-called greenhouse effect, global warming, the implications for the human race and the significance of the Kyoto summit.
With an astounding suite of audio technologies in the SB-Axx1 chip, Sound BlasterAxx delivers dramatic enhancements to two of our fundamental daily activities in the intricate new world of audio: listening and talking.
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His two-year old company Masmoo3 produces and publishes audio books for the Arab world.
The outfit has just announced its first foray into the wide world of home audio with the IS9181 internet radio receiver.
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Using her Treo 600 smart phone from PalmOne (nasdaq: PLMO - news - people ), she'll plug in a headphone and listen to streaming audio from radio stations around the world.
NPR's Robert Smith spoke to forensic audio experts for a look inside the world of voiceprinting.
Hundreds of local and national broadcasters send their signals to World Wide Web as streaming audio (continuously downloading sound feeds).
The biggest hurdle for a real world system could be creating the audio database itself.
In 2004, BMW was the first automobile manufacturer in the world to integrate iPod in the audio system.
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This can minimize the long start times, rebuffering, and stalls on video and audio streams that frustrate mobile users around the world.
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Last week's column examined some of the new capabilities of the Sansa Connect, a portable digital audio player designed for an always-connected world.
"A lot of incidents just can't be picked up by video only systems, " said Chris Mitchell, Audio Analytic's boss, on BBC World Service's Digital Planet.
It allows access to hundreds of radio stations around the world in conjunction with PCs and audio components that already exist in so many people's homes, he said.
Mixtrack Edge, the world's thinnest DJ controller with integrated audio.
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Eiji Toyoda, president and chairman of Toyota at the time, pressed his employees to produce a car that measured each part against the best in the world, including the best transmission and the best audio system, and to have a high fuel-efficiency rating to boot.
An on-line library is being developed, which will include video and audio clips of presentations for AWARes by leading figures within the autism world.
The world is barely getting to grips with the notion of 4K, which already solves pixelation at regular viewing distances, so why did the BBC and Japanese broadcaster NHK go to the expense of sending a dedicated SHV video truck, a SHV audio truck rigged for 22.2 channel sound, and the world's only three 8K Ultra HDTV cameras to London?
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We believe now is the right time to invest in the fast-growing digital music space and are delighted to help Simple Audio bring their incredible vision into reality and to music lovers around the world.
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So, for instance, Ukrainian listeners can hook up to World Service news by phoning in on their mobiles and listening to audio bulletins.
Kay wants to take computing forward with his next great invention, an operating system that puts the user in a three-dimensional graphic world with scores of other users, all computing collaboratively and communicating through audio and visual messaging.
The most important thing, however, is the onboard audio interface which crucially means you can monitor in headphones before unleashing your mix onto the world.
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