Incisor Magazine
February, 2010
Creative Inspire S2 Speakers featuring apt-X coding: This speaker system featured heavily in the IncisorTV CES daily show reports. During Day 2's show we covered the Bluetooth SIG's best of CES award ceremony, which saw Creative's speakers take the SIG's overall Best of CES award.
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Incisor.TV
January, 2010
Interview with Noel McKenna APTX CEO at the Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas.
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Stuff Magazine
January, 2010
2010 Jargon Buster featuring apt-X.
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EPN Interview with Noel McKenna
EPN, 2009
Sounds too good to be true. That's what APTX aims to provide the customers using its algorithms and IP for audio. Mick Elliott caught up with a buoyant Noel McKenna, chief executive officer of APTX and found him excited about prospects, even, or maybe especially, in today's tough economic conditions, while extolling his company's latest product, and considering a flutter in a new market.
An audiophile's utopia
IET, October 2009
While it’s possible to pipe music around your home, getting everything to work in sync is difficult with today’s networks. The answer may lie in better software, says E&T.
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Gadget round up: Sennheiser PXC 310 BT headphones
Sunday Times, October 25th 2009
Sennheiser has a pedigree for its noise-cancelling travel cans, and the wire-free Bluetooth versatility makes these a tempting proposition. The inclusion of apt-X adds even more allure for audio buffs.
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Sennheiser PX travel headphones pack stereo Bluetooth and noise cancelling
Stuff, October 2009
Sennheiser has announced its new PX range of foldable travel headphones, that offer a choice of stereo Bluetooth connectivity, high-end noise reduction – or for those who want it all, both.
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Interview with Noel McKenna, APTX CEO
Systems Integration Asia, August 2009
Noel McKenna is CEO of APTX, the apt-X licensing company headquartered in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Founded 20 years ago back in the early days of digital audio, APTX offers a range of best-of-breed "apt-X" audio codecs for low-latency, high-quality applications in broadcast, professional and consumer audio. Today apt-X is used in broadcast and post-production equipment, multi-channel audio distribution, wireless microphones and speakers, and Bluetooth hi-fi stereo headsets.
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Licensing deal with Sennheiser is music to Belfast firm's ears
Irish Times, August 2009
WIRELESS HEADPHONES may be music to an audiophile’s ears but, until now, the compromise for being cable-free was poor-quality sound. A Belfast company has developed digital audio encoding technology designed to solve this problem and has just licensed it to Sennheiser, one of the premium headphone brands.
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APTX readies scalable, cognitive audio codec
EE Times, 5th July 2009
APTX, the developer and licensor of apt-X audio compression technology, is developing improved coding algorithms and novel implementation techniques as part of a project readying its next, 'cognitive' audio codec dubbed apt-X Scalable.
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APTX intro's cognitive audio encoder, drops hardware division
At the recent AES convention in Munich, audio technology house APTX (formerly APT, Audio Processing Technology) announced that it is developing a new, scalable variant of its “apt-X” audio compression algorithm. The new codec is called “apt-X Scalable,” and is intended to be used as a single-codec solution in products that process a range of audio inputs, such as mobile devices that include voice, music, ringtones, and other forms of audio.
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APTX Enters Korean Market in Partnership with Apache Korea
Korean IT Times, May 2009
APTX, a leading Ireland-based developer of licensable intellectual property for consumer audio compression, announced on April 8 that it appointed Seoul-based Apache Korea Corp. to provide sales, vertical marketing and technical support for apt-X audio codec technology in the Republic of Korea.
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Paradise Lossless
Essential Install, May 2009
In another Essential Install exclusive, David Mann of APTX, investigates smarter forms of Lossless audio compression aimed at HD digital entertainment systems. The average human doesn’t notice that most of the video and audio consumed during the course of any 21st century day has been scrunched at least once or twice,as any tell-tale traces of the coding and decoding processes behind compression are rarely visible or audible.
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Licensable Intellectual Property for HD Digital Audio
Entertainment Engineering, Vol 6 Issue 6
APTX, a developer of licensable intellectual-property for high-performance audio compression, is introducing to the high-definition audio-video segment of the digital entertainment applications market: A new design of lossless audio codec codenamed apt-X Lossless.Known in broadcast engineering and studio post production for its low-latency apt-X audio codecs, APTX announces the availability of a lossless audio compresion technology, the product of concentrated internal R&D program, targeted for applications in fast-growing consumer multimedia applications. apt-X Lossless, the latest addition to the apt-X series of audio compression technologies for consumer, professional, and broadcast
applications.
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APTX Expands Apt-X Audio Codec Lineup, Sells Hardware Division
Inside DSP May 2009
At the recent AES convention in Munich, audio technology house APTX (formerly APT, Audio Processing Technology) announced that it is developing a new, scalable variant of its “apt-X” audio compression algorithm. The new codec is called “apt-X Scalable,” and is intended to be used as a single-codec solution in products that process a range of audio inputs, such as mobile devices that include voice, music, ringtones, and other forms of audio.
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Bluetooth audio coding: past, present and future?
Wireless Net Design Line January 2008
Convenience alone is not enough to ensure widespread consumer acceptance of Bluetooth stereo headsets. Great audio can only be delivered with improved coding algorithms.
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Pumping CD-quality stereo audio over digital networks in real-time
DSP-FPGA.com 2008
Digital audio has become synonymous with high-fidelity sound, but storing and “streaming” CD-quality stereo audio can be resource-hungry in terms of processing power, programming effort, and energy consumption. In telecommunications, much research has been conducted over many years to develop signal processing systems capable of transmitting speech at lower bit rates than PCM. Here we present a predictive coding algorithm that can be implemented in commodity FPGA devices and allows CD-quality audio to be transported in real time but at lower bit rates over packet-based digital networks, from Bluetooth wireless links to Internet Protocol networks.
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Sweet, In Sync
Components in Electronics, July 2008
Real-time streaming of CD-quality stereo audio over Wireless Personal Area Networks is no mean challenge. Stephen Wray explains how apt-X delivers high-definition, low-latency stereophonic sound over Bluetooth.
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Great Sounding Bluetooth Stereo - are we nearly there yet?
Incisor
Recent reviews of Bluetooth stereo headphones have been damned with faint praise, "Audio Quality is Adequate," " Sounds reasonable," "Good enough for any non-musical listening or for background music," "Does not compete on sound quality with comparably priced wired headphones," "Sounded merely ok as a pair of headphones." In this article Stephen Wray, VP Licensing at APTX, looks at the key isses and obstacles to achieving high quality Bluetooth stereo and examines just how close we are to getting there.
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Bluetooth: sufficient fidelity even for average listeners?
EDN June 2008
Applications' requirements for video support and additional audio channels to cope with stereo and surround reproduction drive the need for codecs with low latency and optimal sound quality. Using a bluetooth chip set simplifies development and enables the manufacturer to leverage the high degree of brand recognition that Bluetooth now enjoys with consumers.
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