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Alexa-Enabled Speakers Will Now Only Reply If They’re Nearest To You

Amazon announced a new feature called ‘Echo Spatial Perception’ back in 2016. This feature finally meant that only the Echo speaker nearest the person saying th...

Elipson Aims For Infinity Future

The Infinite Series is a new range of high performance, dedicated home theatre speakers from French maker Elipson. Made in the company’s own factory in in Fr...

Denon Intros Two Fully-Loaded AVRs

Denon has introduced a pair of home cinema AVRs, both featuring up-to-date audio decoding, voice control and streaming technologies. The AVR-X4500H is descri...

Savant’s Smart Home System Can Now Be Controlled With The Google Assistant

Savant is finally adding voice control through the Google Assistant to its smart home ecosystem, as revealed in an interview with CE Pro Europe. That means user...

Dynaudio Launches Custom-Install Speaker Range In The UK

Dynaudio, the Danish speaker specialist, says it is bringing its 40 years of expertise, engineering and love of music to the UK’s custom installation industry a...

Nest CEO Steps Down Giving Google’s Smart Home Devices Team Full Control

Nest is still going through somewhat of an unstable phase, with the company now announcing that its CEO, Marwan Fawaz, will be stepping down from the company. T...

Say Halo to Parasound’s New Flagship Stereo Amp

Parasound has introduced a new flagship stereo power, the Halo JC5. Designed by the respected audio expert John Curl, the Halo JC5 distils the essence of two...

Joel Silver 2018 CEDIA Lifetime Achievement Winner

CEDIA has announced that Joel Silver has been chosen as this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award recipient for the U.S based arm of the awards. Founder of The ...

Krix Looks For New Markets

Australia’s award winning Krix is actively looking for new partners to attack markets in Europe and around the world. Australian loudspeaker manufacturer, Kr...

PMC Joins The Cinema Designer

UK loudspeaker company PMC says it has strengthened its commitment to providing the custom install market with the ultimate surround sound cinema experience by ...