Speakers

Speakers aren’t traditionally part of our coverage, but today’s announcement of xMEMS’ new speaker technology is something that everybody should take note of. Voice coil speakers as we know them and have been around in one form or another for over a hundred years and have been the basis of how we experience audio playback. In the last few years, semiconductor manufacturing has become more prevalent and accessible, with MEMS (Microelectromechanical systems) technology now having advanced to a point that we can design speakers with characteristics that are fundamentally different from traditional dynamic drivers or balanced armature units. xMEMS’ “Montara” design promises to be precisely such an alternative. xMEMS is a new start-up, founded in 2017 with headquarters in Santa Clara, CA and with a branch...

Logitech Unveils LightSync: Syncing RGB LEDs with G560 Speakers and G513 Keyboard

Logitech has introduced its new Lightsync technology designed to add immersion to games as well as to visualize music or movie audio using RGB LEDs inside peripherals. The first...

11 by Anton Shilov on 3/21/2018

Logitech Launches MX Sound Bluetooth and PC Speakers

Logitech has been in the PC speaker game for some time, and they’ve just announced a new set into their portfolio. The MX Sound speaker system is a two-channel...

22 by Brett Howse on 9/4/2017

Turtle Beach Demos HyperSound Glass: Transparent Speakers Made of Glass

Turtle Beach has announced that it had built its first transparent directional speakers featuring its HyperSound technology. The company demonstrated an early prototype of the speaker set publicly at...

21 by Anton Shilov on 6/28/2016

CES 2014: EagleTech and Nanoxia

EagleTech is a brand that many of our readers may not be familiar with – like so many other electronics and gadgets companies, they have a large selection of...

2 by Jarred Walton on 1/10/2014

Logitech Laptop Speaker Z305

One last journey into the land of audio yields curious results; when last we spoke with Logitech they gave us the Z515 wireless speaker set, a curio that seemed...

29 by Dustin Sklavos on 12/1/2010

Logitech Z515 Wireless Speakers: Because Your Laptop Speakers Suck

Laptop speakers are notoriously terrible. With the odd exception, very few notebooks have speaker systems that can do any kind of justice to music, movies, or even video games...

57 by Dustin Sklavos on 10/14/2010

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