Three HOW Technology Upgrades to Prioritize

Budgets are a bummer, and coming out of a global pandemic means they are tight. When your HOW customers could use an upgrade on six or seven key pieces to their system but only have the budget for three, which do you recommend and why? Here are the first three — in order of most […]

Three HOW Technology Upgrades to Prioritize

Three New Minimum Viable Offerings for Houses Of Worship

When designing a project for a house of worship, how often do you go back to the drawing board to ask the question, “Hmm, what should I include in this system?” Hardly ever, I assume, considering the requirements of houses of worship are mostly the same: assistive listening, environmental lighting, fixed installs and more. These […]

Three New Minimum Viable Offerings for Houses Of Worship

Listen Technologies Announces ListenTALK 2.0, Expanding Possibilities for Multi-Language Interpretation

Listen Technologies Corporation has announced ListenTALK 2.0, adding functionality to overcome the challenges that distance, background noise, hearing loss and face coverings pose to communications. The new functionality makes it easier for interpreters using ListenTALK to listen to audio in one language and speak the words in another language without having to carry additional equipment. […]

Listen Technologies Announces ListenTALK 2.0, Expanding Possibilities for Multi-Language Interpretation

Listen Technologies Just Bought ExXothermic

Listen Technologies Corporation has acquired ExXothermic, Inc., a company that makes low-latency Wi-Fi audio technology. ExXothermic has several patents for its Wi-Fi streaming technology and has delivered thousands of Wi-Fi audio channels for use in assistive listening, fitness centers, waiting areas, hospitality and other applications. Listen Technologies and ExXothermic, Inc. have worked together in partnership […]

Listen Technologies Just Bought ExXothermic

Sennheiser Debuts New Version of MobileConnect Streaming Solution

At this year’s ISE, Sennheiser debuted a new version of its MobileConnect streaming solution, offering students an individual assistive listening capability through the convenience of their own smartphone. The system provides operators the ability to implement complex architectures and to manage them from a central location. The Wi-Fi-based MobileConnect system delivers high audio quality with […]

Sennheiser Debuts New Version of MobileConnect Streaming Solution

Listen EVERYWHERE from Listen Technologies MAkes InfoComm 2019 Debut

Listen Technologies’ newest Wi-Fi product, Listen EVERYWHERE, officially debuted at InfoComm 2019. Listen EVERYWHERE streams audio wirelessly to individual Wi-Fi-enabled devices such as phones, tablets, etc. Listen EVERYWHERE replaces Audio Everywhere and features upgraded hardware, a better finish and a new server with professional audio outputs. The product is a professional-grade system with proprietary Listen […]

Listen EVERYWHERE from Listen Technologies MAkes InfoComm 2019 Debut

Contacta Returns to InfoComm 2019 Wirth New Assistive Listening Gear

Assistive listening specialist Contacta is returning to InfoComm in 2019 with a range of new products and a host of high-profile installations at some of the U.S.’s best-known attractions. The Michigan-based company last appeared at the show in 2014 and since then has been concentrating on expanding its offering and building its network of North […]

Contacta Returns to InfoComm 2019 Wirth New Assistive Listening Gear

Williams Sound Debuts WaveCAST Dante Wi-Fi-Delivered Assistive Listening at InfoComm

WaveCAST Dante is a Wi-Fi platform designed for pro-audio applications where high-quality sound is required for streaming audio in real time to smartphones and/or tablets. It is built on a hardware-based DSP audio system architecture, allowing system optimization to achieve the highest quality experience for the particular audio stream being delivered. Hearing assistance can be […]

Williams Sound Debuts WaveCAST Dante Wi-Fi-Delivered Assistive Listening at InfoComm

Williams Sounds FM+ System is Truly Innovative in Wireless Assistive Listening

Williams Sound’s new FM+ is the industry’s first system able to broadcast both FM and Wi-Fi audio from a single source. The new FM+ integrates professional WaveCAST Wi-Fi audio server technology into a Williams Sound FM assistive listening system. End users can now listen with either an FM receiver or with their own smartphone (via […]

Williams Sounds FM+ System is Truly Innovative in Wireless Assistive Listening

AMX Debuts Acendo Vibe Conferencing Sound Bars

HARMAN Professional Solutions today announced AMX Acendo Vibe, a new line of premium conferencing sound bars. The line includes JBL speakers with far-field microphones and they are integrated with a wide-angle camera. Featuring an interesting industrial design, Acendo Vibe is designed to work in small meeting spaces or huddle rooms and it’s an all-in-one solution […]

AMX Debuts Acendo Vibe Conferencing Sound Bars

Avlex Corporation Announces MIPRO Digital Wireless Tour Guide and Language Interpretation Systems

Avlex Corporation introduces the MIPRO MTG-100 Digital Wireless Tour Guide System and the MTS-100 Digital Wireless Language Interpretation System. Designed to be ultra-compact, lightweight, durable, and easy to use, the MTG-100 and MTS-100 systems deliver true digital performance that provides crystal-clear audio quality, secure and reliable transmission, and are interference free — making them exceptional […]

Avlex Corporation Announces MIPRO Digital Wireless Tour Guide and Language Interpretation Systems

Go Getter Now Includes AIR Wireless Companion Speaker

Anchor Audio has announced the Go Getter AIR wireless companion speaker. Anchor Audio’s Go Getter AIR is battery powered, operates 6-8 hours or more on a single charge, and can be placed 150+ feet from the transmitter. Transmitters come as an optional built-in upgrade to the main sound system. One transmitter can connect to an […]

Go Getter Now Includes AIR Wireless Companion Speaker

AV and the Price of Oranges

On the fiction side of my blog (I still do write fiction when I’m not here) I wrote a recent vignette about a shopper purchasing some pre-peeled oranges in a grocery store. If you’re on social media you’ll likely have seen the photo of said oranges making the rounds as an example of our wasteful […]

AV and the Price of Oranges

Listen Technologies Adds to iDSP Offerings With 216 MHz Receiver

Listen Technologies has a new model in its iDSP (Intelligent Digital Signal Processing) family with the new iDSP 216 MHz Receiver. The iDSP line is focused on the assistive listening market. The 216 MHz receiver is designed for larger venues such as stadiums and convention centers, with a range of up to 3,000 feet (914.4 […]

Listen Technologies Adds to iDSP Offerings With 216 MHz Receiver

Gary Talks to Frederick Girard, Sales Director at Sennheiser

Sennheiser’s Frederick Girard talks about its exciting new assistive listening product called MobileConnect. MobileConnect allows a mobile phone to be used to receive audio in assistive listening, museum tour and simultaneous interpretation applications. It’s Android, iOS and Windows phone capable and uses a 1U RF transmitter that’s integrated by the dealer. Check out this video […]

Gary Talks to Frederick Girard, Sales Director at Sennheiser

Listen Technologies Intros TalkPerfect DX Speech Enhancement System, Powered by Ampetronic

Listen Technologies Corporation and U.S. distributor of Ampetronic, have launched the TalkPerfect DX Speech Enhancement System, the newest innovation from the ListenLoop line of products powered by Ampetronic. At train stations, movie theaters, customer return kiosks, security reception desks, banks/post offices, police stations, prison visitor desks or in other noisy environments where customers are separated […]

Listen Technologies Intros TalkPerfect DX Speech Enhancement System, Powered by Ampetronic

InfoComm: Feeding Audio Into an Assistive-Listening System

By Cory Schaeffer Listen Technologies I was recently discussing assistive-listening systems with Brian Davidson, Production Director at Park Cities Baptist Church, in Dallas. He had some really great advice about feeding audio into the system, and about utilizing assistive-listening systems in houses of worship so that everyone enjoys better experiences. Here is some of what […]

InfoComm: Feeding Audio Into an Assistive-Listening System

Listen Technologies Launches TalkPerfect DX Speech Enhancement System

Listen Technologies launched the TalkPerfect DX Speech Enhancement System — the newest member of their ListenLoop line of products powered by Ampetronic. At train stations, movie theaters, customer return kiosks, security reception desks, banks/post offices, police stations, prison visitor desks, or in other noisy environments where customers are separated from staff members by a fixed […]

Listen Technologies Launches TalkPerfect DX Speech Enhancement System

Listen Technologies and OWI Form Partnership for Custom Products Aimed at Educational Market

Listen Technologies has partnered with loudspeaker manufacturer OWI to offer a customized Listen Technologies assistive listening system (OWI-KSTM-LT-84) compatible with the OWI self-powered speaker amplification system serving the educational market. Recent changes made in the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) classify classrooms as an “assembly area where assistive listening systems are now required whenever there […]

Listen Technologies and OWI Form Partnership for Custom Products Aimed at Educational Market

Sennheiser’s ISE Debuts Include Mobile Connect and SpeechLine

I stopped by the Sennheiser booth today and spoke to Andy Niemann, director of business communication. His enthusiasm for Mobile Connect — the company’s new app makes live audio streaming, audio description and assistive listening possible everywhere: cinema, theater, signage, etc. via an app on your phone. Different audio content can be provided on four […]

Sennheiser’s ISE Debuts Include Mobile Connect and SpeechLine

Williams Sound IR Emitters Added to EASE Software This Month

Williams Sound has told rAVe that its WIR TX75, WIR TX90 and WIR TX9 infrared emitters will be supported in EASE as of March 15. EASE (Enhanced Acoustic Simulator for Engineers) is software that provides AV system designers and consultants with detailed, realistic modeling and simulation of venue acoustics and sound system performance. EASE models […]

Williams Sound IR Emitters Added to EASE Software This Month