THESE SEE-THROUGH SPEAKERS ARE A STYLISH AUDIO UPGRADE

Transparent Sound is a Scandinavian tech firm and their new product lives up to their name.  It is a clear speaker supported by a one-piece aluminum frame and enclosed inside tempered glass panels.

Here’s How Interior Plastic Trim Panels Can Be Used As Loudspeakers

Lots of cars these days come with dozens of speakers to pump music into passengers’ ears. But those speakers are heavy, and take up lots of space. That’s why Continental just devised a speaker-less audio system that actually uses your car’s interior trim panels to make sound. Here’s how it works.

How Much Power Do You Really Need?

What’s the Number One question demanded of self-styled audio experts like me? “How much power do I need?”

Google’s Chromecast Audio beams music to multiple rooms

If you’re been eyeing Google’s Chromecast Audio for your holiday shopping spree, Mountain View just added some new features to sweeten the deal. First, the $35 gadget now supports high-res audio with 96KHz/24 bit lossless playback. This means that if you have the proper audiophile-grade setup, you can expect to hear better than CD quality music coming through your speakers.

THESE SPEAKERS USE ULTRASONIC WAVES TO CUT THROUGH THE NOISE

Problem

Everyday speakers—whether they’re in a cellphone, TV, or radio—scatter sound waves as soon as they leave the cone. A single wave can bounce off dozens of surfaces, slamming into other signals and degrading along the way, before reaching your ear in a muddled mess. Adding to this audio chaos, most midrange TVs only emit sound from rear or downward-facing speakers. So turning them up just doesn’t help. Gamers and TV obsessives often turn to soundbars and directional speakers for relief, but even those don’t offer a true high-fidelity fix.

This Speaker Blows Out Fires Instantly With Bass

Engineers have experimented with using sonic waves to douse flames for years—but it took a pair of students to turn the concept into an affordable, hand-held device.

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