Powered by Blackfire: Onkyo LS7200 3D Soundbar System

Powered by Blackfire: Onkyo LS7200 3D Soundbar System

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This past November, Japanese electronics manufacturer, Onkyo, unveiled the LS7200 3D Soundbar System featuring FireConnect by Blackfire Research, as part of their growing Envision Cinema product family. The LS7200 is a three-piece, 5.1.2 surround sound system, made up of a slim, 53mm wall-mountable soundbar, a wireless subwoofer, and an AV center control unit, which includes four HDMI inputs to connect all your media devices, such as Blu-Ray players, streaming boxes, and video game consoles.

The three-piece LS7200 offers key advantages over other soundbar systems:  not only does it use FireConnect to perfect multiroom distribution of wireless audio to FireConnect-compatible wireless speakers, the LS7200 will support Spotify, Connect, TuneIn, and Tidal, so you’ll have all your favorite music right at your fingertips. Onkyo’s “AccuEQ Room Acoustic Calibration tailors sound to individual spaces, adjusting essential speaker conditions such as output level, distance, and crossover” (eu.onkyo.com), so you’ll always experience incredible sound in any room or configuration.

Inside the 53mm soundbar, “you’ll find two speakers drivers for each left, right and centre channel as well single height speakers to create 3D sound effects via Dolby Atmos and DTS:X. The LS7200 also boasts a Surround Enhancer mode that creates ‘virtual rear speakers’ to help give the illusion sound is coming from behind you” (pocket-lint.com). Additionally, the LS7200 offers object-based sound for movies, as well as a deeply satisfying stereo performance with a choice of network audio options.

Whether streaming music throughout your home or watching your favorite movie in surround sound, Onkyo LS7200 3D Soundbar System is the perfect addition to your wireless home entertainment system. The LS7200 will be available starting in January 2017.

For more information, check out this Onkyo Press Release, and news from Techradar and Pocket-Lint:

Onkyo Press Release

Techradar

Pocket-lint

Powered by Blackfire: The Harman/Kardon Omni 10 Wireless Speaker

Powered by Blackfire: The Harman/Kardon Omni 10 Wireless Speaker

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Blackfire Research is proud to partner with Harmon/Kardon, a leading global manufacturer of audio systems, to make the best wireless speakers on the market. Blackfire’s technology can be found in any of Harmon’s wireless Omni speakers. Today, we’ll take a closer look inside the Omni 10, the wireless HD loudspeaker that started it all.

 

With its small, elegant design, the Omni 10, wireless HD loudspeaker, packs a lot of punch. Powered by Blackfire’s patented technology, the Omni 10 sets the bar for the industry’s best performing small room speaker. (Based on objective performance studies of currently available Wi-Fi speaker technologies as defined by the ITU Indoor Radio Propagation Model.) The Omni 10 supports superior, lossless HD audio without synchronization issues, playback lag or dropouts between multiple speakers, and streams up to 24bit/96kHz studio quality sound, all through Wi-Fi.

 

A multi-speaker setups allow for multi-room and multi-channel wireless surround sound. Harmon/Kardon’s user-friendly design allows you to enjoy your music from anywhere in your home, all with the touch of a button: enjoy the same song throughout the entire home through “Party Mode,” or Press “Link” to continue playing your music on another device. Multi-room and multi-channel wireless audio also lets you play different songs in different rooms, so you’ll never have to fight over music tastes again!

 

You can stream music from your smartphone or tablet through the Harmon/Kardon controller app, or, take advantage of the Omni 10’s Bluetooth capability by streaming music from your tablet or phone. While using Bluetooth, “the speaker will automatically translate the signal to Wi-Fi…all over your house for a truly flexible whole home audio experience**”so you never have to worry about range limitations, dropouts, or low quality audio. If streaming music isn’t your thing, the Omni 10 also has a 3.5 mm auxiliary input that allows you to connect your speaker to almost any audio device.

 

Harmon/Kardon’s Omni 10 wireless HD Loudspeaker powered by Blackfire comes in either black or white and can be purchased for $199.95 each.

 


Notes

*Based on objective performance studies of currently available Wi-Fi speaker technologies as defined by the ITU Indoor Radio Propagation Model.
** http://www.harmankardon.com/HKOMNI10BLKAM.html

Blackfire Research Announces Partnership with Chip Solution Provider Realtek

Blackfire Research Announces Partnership with Chip Solution Provider Realtek

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Blackfire Research, the leader in Wireless High-Performance Multimedia Streaming, Today announced a technology and business alliance with IC Chip Solution Provider giant Realtek to bring to market new IoT Wi-Fi chipset designs capable of Streaming Audio from Cloud Music Providers to Multi-Room and Multi-Channel wireless speakers.

San Francisco, CA –

Blackfire Research, the leader in Wireless High­Performance Multimedia Streaming, today announced a technology and business alliance with IC Chip Solution Provider giant Realtek to bring to market new IoT Wi­Fi chipset designs capable of Streaming Audio from Cloud Music Providers to Multi­Room and Multi­Channel wireless speakers.

“Our partner ecosystem is growing rapidly as the demand for Wi­Fi, Multi­Room enabled Speakers increases,” said Blackfire’s CEO, Ravi Rajapakse. “Our program recognizes the challenges of bringing to market new interoperable Wi­Fi Speaker systems and offers the most complete solution for product development in a timely fashion with unrivaled feature­set and unparalleled performance to our customers”.

“IoT is said to be the fourth industrial revolution and is expected to become ubiquitous over the next few years” said Realtek’s Vice President and Spokesman, Yee­Wei Huang “With an open platform, full IoT protocols, low­power design, and a great user experience, the Realtek IoT solution is the leader in low­power Wi­Fi IoT solutions and has earned accolades from customers, enabling consumer electronic product designers to add differentiating features in varying applications”. Blackfire and Realtekhave joined forces to develop and offer fully complete solutions of Software and Hardware for Multimedia Streaming. Together, Blackfire, Realtek and our ecosystem of Technology Partners have addressed the challenges of deploying high performance and cost competitive product lines to end users worldwide.

About Realtek

Realtek Semiconductor Corp. is one of the world’s leading IC providers. Realtek designs and develops a wide range of IC products for communications network, computer peripheral, and multimedia applications. Products include 10/100/1000M Ethernet Controllers/PHYs, 10/100/1000M Ethernet Switch Controllers/Media Converter Controllers/Gateway Controllers, Wireless LAN Controllers & AP/Router SoCs, DSL Chips, VoIP Solutions, High Fidelity Audio Solutions for Mobile and PC Applications, Clock Generators, Card Reader Controllers, Web Camera Controllers, LCD Monitor/ATV/DTV Controllers, and Digital Home Center Controllers. With advanced design expertise in RF, analog, and mixed­signal circuits, and with strong manufacturing and system knowledge, Realtek offers full­featured, High­Performance, and competitive total solutions. More information on Realtek can be found on our website: www.realtek.com.

About Blackfire Research

Blackfire Research is based in San Francisco and provides patented software for High­Performance communications using Internet Protocol to multiple devices simultaneously over standard Wi­Fi. Blackfire software will be key infrastructure for the rapidly growing Internet of Things (IoT) space.