European Custom Installer

James Loudspeaker introduces the 63SAS-7HO-2.5R and 63SAS-7HO-2.5L Small Aperture loudspeakers available with either right and left offset, meaning the  woofer port and midrange/tweeter assembly is canted either to the left or right side of the enclosure.

Such an arrangement allows installers to place the 3-inche grille exactly where it needs to be. The offset Small Aperture (SA) speakers also help accommodate plumbing or other obstacles installers may meet while installing an architectural speaker in a ceiling or wall.

CEDIA reveals the finalists for the product categories in the CEDIA Awards, an honour for the top hardware and software products in the custom install industry across the EMEA region.

A qualified panel of technology installers involved with both sale and installation of such systems vet the entrants for the Best New Hardware and Best New Software categories. The initial round of judging determines the finalists for the two categories.

Huawei-owned Honor takes on TVs with the Honor Vision-- a smart TV powered by the company's Android alternative, HarmonyOS, and packing smartphone-level hardware inside a slim 55-inch 4K IPS panel.

HarmonyOS is obviously the Huawei attempt to reduce dependence on Android (after all, Google did suspend its Android license back in May), although the company insists it has been working on the software for over 2 years. It is technically designed to run on anything from tablets and PCs to wearables, but Huawei says the initial focus is on "smart screens" such as the Honor Vision.

Sonos is working on a portable Bluetooth speaker, The Verge and Zatz Not Funny! report-- one primarily designed for wifi streaming, but also featuring Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) for "simplified setup."

The leak comes as Sonos files the details for two devices with the US Federal Communications Commission, aka the FCC. The filing for product model S17 details a "high-performance wireless speaker and part of the Sonos sound system." The aforementioned reference to Bluetooth is significant, since that would make it the first Sonos speaker with support for the technology, aside from the BLE capability of the Sonos One.

The WyreStorm MVX range brings the familiar power of the H2-Series to a compact 1U chassis, with the transmission of HDMI content (up to 4K/60 4:4:4) and HDR (up to 70m) pairing HDMI and WyreStorm variable light compression technologies.

Using the lossless compression technology featured in the WyreStorm flagship H2XC matrix platform, the MXV range handles video content technologies up to 4K/60 4:4:4 and high frame rate HDR. The highest possible bandwidth currently available (at least according to the HDMI 2.0 specification) can be sent to its HDBaseT zones using the lossless compression technology.