Hauling heavy gear to entertain passers-by can be a pain for street or subway musicians… literally. The Caseic from Florida’s Zachary DeJarnette could make such things less of a chore, by combining a guitar case with an amplifier and speaker combo. Though street guitarists might place something like the Boss Cube Street II in a guitar’s hard case while performing, to keep […]

Flexound Augmented Audio has launched the Flexound Pulse, a cinema seating solution that creates a personal sound bubble around movie watchers for the promise of a full-range quality audio experience without the use of external loudspeakers. The Flexound Augmented Audio vibro-acoustic experience makes use of physical soundwave vibration to generate multisensory audio, and was originally developed to help autistic children. […]

A premium audio startup from an ex-Apple design veteran has launched a striking streaming speaker called the Cell Alpha, which uses three drivers and two woofers to immerse listeners in room-filling spatial sound. The flagship Cell Alpha is the brainchild of Christopher Stringer, who has had a hand in Apple’s most iconic products for the last 20 years or so, […]

Digital might be a four-letter word in the guitar world, but amp and effects emulation is nothing new; it’s been around for some time and it’s had a chance to get really good. Californian company Positive Grid has been around since 2013, and has built a solid reputation around its BIAS FX and BIAS AMP software plugins, which perform incredibly […]

You’ve used the time isolated from the world wisely. Your home improvements look great and your chef skills are bar none. Maybe you even picked up a vlogging side hustle. For the latter, you’ll need the latest audio tech and we’ve got you covered. With AudioWow, creators can take their creative masterpieces on the road. Using Bluetooth 5.0, this audio […]

Utah’s Klos Guitars has been making acoustics and ukuleles fashioned from carbon fiber for a number of years now, and while there have been instruments you can plug into an amp, the company hasn’t ventured into all electric guitar or bass territory, until now. Like some of the models gracing the Klos catalog, the new electric guitar and bass options […]

Looking to offer a little something extra for the audiophiles in the crowd, Spotify has announced a new streaming tier for high-quality lossless audio. Called Spotify HiFi, the service was announced at the company’s Stream On online event today, and will be available to Premium subscribers as an optional extra. Spotify says that access to high-quality music streaming is among […]

A new audio gear manufacturer made up of acoustics engineers and designers from the video game and audio industries – most notably a former lead acoustics engineer at Apple – has announced its first product. The VZR Model One gaming headphones feature a proprietary technology designed to deliver accurate, realistic positional audio. VZR was founded in 2014 by folks who […]

French sound design firm HyVibe hit Indiegogo in late 2017 with an acoustic guitar infused with digital smarts. Now the company has announced a kit that can turn pretty much any acoustic into a hybrid smart guitar. “Acoustic guitar players have high standards for natural sound, but also want the features and flexibility of digital,” said HyVibe’s Dr. Adrien Mamou-Mani […]

Over the past decade smartphones have increasingly normalized vertical videos, yet most content is still produced using horizontal frames. Is it time to turn your TV on its side and embrace the future? Or is vertical video just a passing trend, fundamentally unsuited to how we want to watch things? Those with a good memory may recall an innocuous little […]