CTA
CTA Centennial Part 6f: Platform Wars – DVD
Who knew so much drama went into making such a tiny thing?
Pioneer
Distributors
PowerHouse Alliance Expands With New Locations And Leadership
Five distributor members opening locations in 2024
CTA
CTA Centennial Part 4: The Sixties
The fourth in a series of essays exploring and celebrating CTA’s and our industry’s first century of invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship
Products
DTS Play-Fi Home Theater Compatible TVs Coming Fall 2021
Combine your TV's audio with a wireless speaker system
Audio
VOXX Looks To Acquire Onkyo
VOXX International Corporation has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire the home audio/video business of Onkyo Home Entertainment Corporation
Audio
ProSource Members Gain Access To Onkyo Electronics
Premium Audio Company and ProSource expand their partnership
Audio
Klipsch Group Announces Global Realignment And Brand Expansion
Joins other audio companies under a new corporate umbrella named Premium Audio Company, LLC.
Distributors
Klipsch, Onkyo Corporation Expand Distribution Alliance To The Americas
Distribution effective immediately through newly created subsidiary, 11 Trading Company, LLC
Product Spotlight
Josh.ai Raises $11 Million
AI innovator increases total Investment to $22 million.
Audio
Sound United To Acquire Onkyo Corp.’s Consumer Audio Division
Includes Onkyo, Pioneer, Pioneer Elite and Integra brands
Audio
DTS Play-Fi Adds Klipsch, Onkyo, Phorus, Soundcast & More To Alexa Linecard
Multiroom control capable once Amazon account is linked
Industry
Soundcast Names Tom Dixon Sales/Marketing VP
The appointment represents his return to marketing responsibilities at Soundcast.
Audio
CEDIA 2017: Alexa, Google Assistant & Other Voice UIs Come Into Their Own
This week’s CEDIA 2017 is giving A/V products and custom-installed integrated systems more of a voice in the way they’re controlled. New products are...
Accessories
Pioneer Unveils Low-Priced Streaming Car Receiver
Pioneer Electronics has added a new double-DIN 7-inch LCD digital media receiver to its NEX platform of aftermarket car audio products. The new MVH-2300NEX...
Accessories
Pioneer & Onkyo USA Signs Licensing Deal With Ironman, Debuts 1st Headphones
Pioneer & Onkyo USA has signed a multiyear licensing deal with Ironman, unveiling the first fruits of its partnership: athletic earphones. Ironman, a Wanda...
Accessories
Pioneer Builds Custom Driver For New High-Res Headphones
Add Pioneer to the short list of high-res headphones manufacturers. The company unveiled its SE-Monitor5 over-ear headphones on Thursday, featuring a custom-built cellulose nanofiber-based...
Accessories
Pioneer Grows High-Res Line With XDP-30R Player & SE-CH5BL Buds
Pioneer expanded its high-res audio offerings with the addition of the XDP-30R digital audio player and the SE-CH5BL ear buds. The XDP-30R player has...
Accessories
Pioneer’s Rayz Plus Are 1st Wired Earphones That Let You Listen While Charging
Intending to help those iPhone 7 Lightning-only woes, Pioneer Home Entertainment USA has launched an industry first: a pair of Lightning-capable earphones that let users...
Audio
Pioneer Debuts CM56 Bookshelf System
Pioneer Home Entertainment is going retro in design and cutting-edge in functionality with its new X-CM56 CD-receiver system, a digital bookshelf audio solution. The...
Audio
High-Res MQA Audio Comes To First Portable Music Players
High-resolution MQA-format music playback is coming to portable music players for the first time through sister brands Onkyo and Pioneer. Pioneer is adding MQA...
Audio
Pioneer Adds Wireless Multiroom, Google Cast, Tidal To LX101, LX301 Elite AVRs
Pioneer Home Entertainment is bringing wireless multiroom audio, Google Cast, and Tidal streaming to its audio/video receivers for the first time. The company also...
Car Electronics
Pioneer’s AVH In-Dash Multimedia Receivers Are Industry’s First With Pandora Presets
Pioneer Electronics is bringing new music-playback options to its 2016 AVH series of multimedia DVD receivers, adding 48kHz/24-bit FLAC playback, Spotify, Pandora presets and...
Audio
CEDIA Expo: Pioneer Readies SXN30 High-Res Stereo Receiver, XDP-100R Portable
Pioneer will bring a two-channel stereo receiver back to its Elite series and plans an early-2016 launch of first high-resolution portable audio player in...
Audio
MQA High-Resolution Audio Technology Gets More Backers
MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) high-resolution audio technology, developed by Meridian co-founder Bob Stuart, is getting more hardware backers. Mytek Digital and AudioQuest become the...
Audio
Pioneer’s XDP-100R Is 1st High-Res Portable With MQA
Pioneer became the first company to introduce a portable high-resolution music player that will support high-res MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) files, the company announced...
Audio
Pioneer Jumps On DTS:X Bandwagon
Pioneer launched its first three audio/video receivers that can be upgraded to decode DTS:X object-based surround soundtracks. Their predecessors featured Dolby Atmos object-based surround...
Audio
Pioneer Adds Low-Priced Dolby Atmos Speakers
Pioneer Home Entertainment expanded its selection of Dolby Atmos speakers with the launch of two low-priced models. The Pioneer-series models are a $199/pair Atmos...
Blogs
Pioneer: Why We Need CarPlay, Android Auto
Apple CarPlay and Android Auto will make the roads safer, Pioneer contends in releasing the results of a survey of more than 2,000 consumers...
Audio
More AVRs Arriving With Dolby Atmos, DTS:X
Update! New York – Audio suppliers are expanding their selection of audio/video receivers with Dolby Atmos and DTS:X object-based surround decoding, with Denon, Pioneer,...
Car Electronics
Pioneer Launches Car Audio Rebates
Long Beach, Calif. – Pioneer launched a rebate program offering consumers who purchase an AppRadio 4 head unit or NEX head units up to...
Industry
2015 CE Hall Of Fame Class Revealed
Washington — The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has announced the 2015 Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame induction class. CEA CEO Gary Shapiro revealed the...
Audio/Video
Pioneer’s NEX Multimedia Receivers Hits Shelves
Long Beach, Calif. — Pioneer’s second-generation Networked Entertainment eXperience (NEX) in-dash multimedia receivers became available at retail and include the aftermarket’s first three head...
Audio/Video
Pioneer Car Takes To Road In March
Long Beach, Calif. – Pioneer’s car electronics division is going to technology and automotive events this month to demonstrate car audio systems incorporating head...
Audio
Pioneer Completes A/V Business Transfer To Onkyo
Kawasaki City, Japan -Pioneer Home Entertainment Corp., home to Pioneer’s home electronics, consumer headphone, and phone businesses, today (March 2) became a subsidiary of...
Audio
HDCP 2.2: What’s Here, What’s Coming
Here is what some A/C receiver suppliers offer in the way of HDMI 2.0 and HDCP 2.2 and what they plan: Anthem: No current...
Financial
Pioneer Posts Q3 Sales Gain, Higher Net Loss
Kanagawa, Japan – Pioneer posted an 8 percent sales gain in its third quarter to ¥136,433 million $1.15 billion), but operating income fell 39.6...
Blogs
11 CES Tchotchkes I Would Have Died For
Las Vegas –I left International CES on a red-eye with a boatload of USB press kits, a bad head cold, disappointment in the decline...
Audio/Video
3 Pioneer Heads Combine Android Auto, CarPlay
Las Vegas –Pioneer is coming to International CES with its first three in-dash head units that incorporate both Android Auto and Apple CarPlay technology....
Audio/Video
Pioneer Heads Get AppRadio Features Via Firmware Update
Long Beach, Calif. – Pioneer has begun offering a firmware update that adds AppRadio Mode functionality to seven currently available touchscreen-equipped multimedia head units....
Blogs
Audio: Looking Back, Ahead As Year Ends
It’s the traditional time of year to reflect on the events of the past 12 months and look ahead to what’s coming next year....