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Apple Harnesses AI to Take 2024 Features and Refinements to the Next Level
Barb Gonzalez  |  Jun 12, 2024
Apple previewed a number of compelling new features and capabilities at its annual Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC), including some of the most significant changes we’ve seen in years with Apple’s version of AI figuring prominently into 2024 updates and features. With our usual focus on all things audio and video, here’s a summary of the key announcements.
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Got Tech Questions? Ask S&V!
SV Staff  |  Jun 11, 2024
Got tech questions? Looking for advice on how to get the most out of your A/V gear? The experts at Sound & Vision have answers! Email your questions to AskSandV@gmail.com.
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Audio Video NewsNew Products
Severtson Introduces Projection Screens with Built-In Masking System
Bob Ankosko  |  Jun 11, 2024
Severtson Screens, the family-owned Arizona-based company specializing in professional and consumer projection screens since 1986, is unveiling a new series of projection screens with built-in masking at the InfoComm 2024 exhibition, which opens tomorrow in Las Vegas.
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A/V Veteran
Tales of Flying with Noise-Canceling Headphones
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jun 11, 2024
Sometime in late 2019, as I was waiting at an airport for a connecting flight, I removed my Bose noise-canceling headphones and set them down on the empty seat beside me. A little later I got up to find my departure gate and in the rush left the headphones on the seat! I remembered a couple of minutes later, but when I returned the headphones were gone. Some lucky traveler is probably still using them...
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AXPONA Flashback: Dynaudio Focus 30 Active Speaker System
Dennis Young  |  Jun 11, 2024
One of the forward-thinking rooms in the April AXPONA 2024 show contained a system that is not a new idea per se, but a good idea for sure. The technology used exists, implemented in various forms in other products. But now we have an (almost) complete package with the Dynaudio Focus series: A self-contained streamer, active crossover, and amplifier is found in each unit within the Focus lineup.
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Audio Video News
Cambridge Audio Software Update Adds Retro VU Meters to CXN100 Streamer
Bob Ankosko  |  Jun 10, 2024
Software updates are great for fixing technical glitches and adding new features to all kinds of AV gear, but VU meters?
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Signals
A Mission to Mars, Artificial Intelligence, and the End of Civilization as We Know It
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Jun 10, 2024
Congratulations! Welcome home! That five-year mission to Mars (and back!) must have really been something. While you were gone, honestly, nothing much happened. There was a flu bug of unknown origins, but that’s about it. Well, you might want to look into something called AI. I think it’s going to really shake things up.
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Audio Video News
Lenbrook Media Group Reveals Plans for MQA Labs
SV Staff  |  Jun 07, 2024
Until now, little has been said about the future direction of MQA since Lenbrook Media Group (LMG) — the Canadian parent company of PSB, NAD, and Bluesound — acquired the assets of MQA Ltd. nine months ago.
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Music Reviews
Deep Purple: Machine Head – Super Deluxe Edition Box
Mike Mettler  |  Jun 07, 2024
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Machine Head is one of those perfect storm albums. As Deep Purple entered the 1970s, they undertook a creative shift from the psychedelic blues/pop of their late-’60s origins — embodied by hits like 1968’s perpetually catchy “Hush” and their cover of Neil Diamond’s “Kentucky Woman” — to move into full-on rock overdrive with June 1970’s Deep Purple in Rock and July 1971’s Fireball. With that tableau firmly set, Deep Purple ramped it up yet another notch to construct March 1972’s truly seminal Machine Head, which features enduring hardrock staples like “Smoke on the Water” (ahh, that right-of-passage guitar riff), “Highway Star” (their 8-cylinder vehicular love letter), and “Space Truckin’” (“Come on!”) among them.

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Germany’s ELAC Previews Follow-up to Entry-Level Debut Series Speakers
Bob Ankosko  |  Jun 06, 2024
German speaker specialist ELAC today announced plans to add a new seven-model series of entry-level speakers to its popular Debut family in the fall.
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