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WISA and ALMA Partner in Wireless Audio

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The Wireless Speaker and Audio (WiSA) Association and the Association of Loudspeaker Manufacturing and Acoustic International (ALMA) sign membership agreements in each other's organisations.

Wisa AlmThe team-up will address common interests, namely the requirements of high-resolution digital audio equipment design and manufacture.

"There is a great deal of synergy in our two associations,” ALMA says. “ALMA and WiSA are both dedicated to the loudspeaker industry, but we come at it from different angles. We look forward to exploring areas of mutual interest and benefit to our memberships, several of whom are members of both organisations."

WiSA runs the only interoperability and compliance test specifications (CTS) for ensuring wireless link quality between transmitting (HDTVs, AVRs, DVD/Blu-ray players, game consoles, STBs) and receiving (speakers and subwoofers) devices. WiSA-compliant systems promises 24-bit quality, up to 96kHz uncompressed interference-free audio.

Meanwhile ALMA set numerous loudspeaker design, component, performance and testing standards in its 50-plus year history.

Go WiSA and ALMA Team Up