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Sound Pressure Labs and Pajama Studios Presents TrueSPL™ Real-Time Spherical Music in Surround Sound at Sony Studios

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Friday, September 22, 2023
Atmos, Music, Sony Pictures Studios, Super Audio CD, Failure, Exhibition, Sound, Sony, Television, Film, MIX, KK (composer, producer), NASA, SACD, QUAD

CULVER CITY, Calif., Sept. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sound Pressure Labs TrueSPL™ Real-Time Spherical Surround Sound is an official sponsor of the tenth-anniversary edition of Mix Presents: Sound for Film & Television exhibition and conference on September 30, 2023, at the Sony Pictures Studios, in Culver City, California, presented by MIX Professional Audio and Music Production Magazine.

Key Points: 
  • CULVER CITY, Calif., Sept. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sound Pressure Labs TrueSPL™ Real-Time Spherical Surround Sound is an official sponsor of the tenth-anniversary edition of Mix Presents: Sound for Film & Television exhibition and conference on September 30, 2023, at the Sony Pictures Studios, in Culver City, California, presented by MIX Professional Audio and Music Production Magazine.
  • Sound Pressure Labs and Pajama Studios will also be making its immersive surround sound presentation at the Sony lot William Holden Theatre while discussing 'Spherical Music' and its complete understanding of how to produce, arrange, and create immersive music.
  • Sound Pressure Labs has created, patented, and designed the tools necessary for musicians to make music in real-time without encoding.
  • Sound Pressure Labs CEO Michael Way, and Lead Software Engineer Stephen Haralson, will share insights on how to make 'Spherical Surround Sound Music' easy and cost-effective while discussing the complexity of current technology, how to save thousands of dollars in production, and why the failure on past surround music, Quadraphonic Sound (QUAD) and Super Audio CD (SACD).

THRILLER 40 - A DOUBLE CD SET OF MICHAEL JACKSON'S ORIGINAL MASTERPIECE THRILLER & BONUS DISC OUT NOW

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Friday, November 18, 2022
Apple Music, DSD, 16 Biggest Hits (Alan Jackson album), White, Neil Simon, The Jackson 5, Rock, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, King of Pop (album), Guinness World Records, RTI, DSPS, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Black or White, MJ: The Musical, IPS, Musical, Wanna Be Startin' Somethin', SACD, Artist, Smooth Criminal, Music, Billboard, They Don't Care About Us, Multimedia, Sirius XM, American Music Awards, Beat It, Jackson, Congress, David Acord, Estate, Grammy Awards, Walmart, Sony Music, National Film Registry, MICHAEL, Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, Pop, Cassette tape, Target, Amazon, Thriller

NEW YORK, Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In celebration of its 40th anniversary, Sony Music and the Estate of Michael Jackson have announced the release of Thriller 40, a double CD set comprised of Michael's original masterpiece Thriller and an exciting second disc full of surprises for fans including never-released tracks which were worked on by Michael for the Thriller album. To date, the album has amassed in excess of 100 million in sales worldwide.

Key Points: 
  • The original Thriller album, onvinyl is also available today at Walmart and Target.
  • The Walmart exclusive has an alternate cover; the Target exclusive includes a Thriller 40 Slipmat.
  • Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MoFi) has the original Thriller album available as anUltraDisc One-Step 180g 33RPM LP and a hybrid SACD.
  • Jackson's sound, style and dance moves continue to inspire today's performers and new generations of fans worldwide continue to discover his artistry.

Technics announces the SL-G700M2 multi-digital audio player with new digital/analogue signal processing technology

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Thursday, October 6, 2022
Super Audio CD, Apple, High, Use, Wi-Fi Alliance, MSRP, ICS, ESS, DAC, AirPlay, Music, Works, Technology, Certification, Converter, Bluetooth, MQA, DSD, Wi-Fi, Noise, Google Nest (smart speakers), Sound, Digital, LAPC, S/N, PCM, SACD, Cassette tape, Electronic component, Transformer, Kerosene, Chromecast, Technics, Google

NEWARK, N.J., Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Technics today announced the launch of the SL-G700M2, the successor to the highly respected SL-G700 network/Super Audio CD player, equipped with new digital and analogue technologies to improve the performance and sound.

Key Points: 
  • As a multi-digital audio player, the new SL-G700 supports MQA, numerous high-resolution audio sources, and a wide variety of music streaming services, in addition to Super Audio CD/CD playback.
  • In developing digital audio signal processing technology for the next generation, Technics' goal has been to achieve phase alignment and ideal impulse response.
  • It is composed of (1) coherent processing, (2) high-performance D/A converter in dual monaural configuration, and (3) a proprietary discrete amplifier circuit.
  • *DSD signals such as Super Audio CD are input directly to the DAC without performing this processing.

STEELY DAN'S CLASSIC ABC & MCA RECORDS CATALOG TO BE REMASTERED FROM ORIGINAL TAPES AND REISSUED ON 180-GRAM BLACK VINYL VIA UMe AND UHQR AND SACD VIA ANALOGUE PRODUCTIONS/QUALITY RECORD PRESSINGS

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Friday, September 16, 2022
SACD, The Royal Scam, QRP, Dirty Work, My Old School, Black Friday, Alive in America, Metropolitan Opera House (Philadelphia), Love, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Kid Charlemagne, ABC Records, Bad Sneakers, Steely Dan, Aja, Beacon Theatre, MCA Records, Bodhisattva, Precision, Analogue Productions, Record, Program, Walter Becker, Attention, Time Out of Mind, Reeling In the Years, CD, PEG, Acoustic Sounds, Inc., MCA, Nature, Reelin' In the Years, LP record, Rikki Don't Lose That Number, Gaucho (album), Grundman, ABC, Show Biz Kids, Rock, Universal Music Enterprises, Super Audio CD, Platinum, Multimedia, RPM, Hey Nineteen, Nightclub, Phonograph record, Music

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Led by the songwriting and virtuoso musical duo of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, Steely Dan released an extraordinary run of seven albums on ABC Records and MCA Records from 1972 through 1980. Filled with topline musicianship, clever and subversive wordplay, ironic humor, genius arrangements, and pop hits that outshone the Top 40 of its day, their records, which were as sophisticated and cerebral as they were inscrutable, were stylistically diverse, melding their love of jazz with rock, blues, and impeccable pop songcraft.

Key Points: 
  • Analogue Productions will also release this series of titles on Super Audio CD (SACD).
  • Each UHQR is pressed, using hand-selected vinyl, with attention paid to every single detail of every single record.
  • The 200-gram records feature the same flat profile that helped to make the original UHQR so desirable.
  • The Steely Dan vinyl reissue program follows last year's release of Steely Dan's Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live!

LIU LISI PARIS: 1920s Parisian Style on the Red Carpet of the 75th Cannes Film Festival

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Thursday, June 2, 2022
Fashion, Retail, Jewellery, SACD, Velum, The Roaring Twenties, Netflix, Greek salad, Multimedia, Cannes Film Festival, PARIS, Emperor, The White Silk Dress, Swarovski, LIU, Cannes, Gold, Roaring Twenties, Lupinus, Feather, Orient

As one of the three biggest film festivals in the world, there has never been a lack of fashion on the Cannes red carpet.

Key Points: 
  • As one of the three biggest film festivals in the world, there has never been a lack of fashion on the Cannes red carpet.
  • This year, French-Chinese producer and director Xin Wang appeared in 1920s Parisian style, wearing LIU LISI PARIS couture with a piece of jewelry designed jointly by Velum Vendme and Robert Wan.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220601005623/en/
    1920s Parisian style on the red carpet of the 75th Cannes Film Festival (Photo: Business Wire)
    Silk chiffon dresses, luxurious tiaras with beads.
  • Once again this year, the French-Chinese producer and director Xin Wang was invited to the Cannes Film Festival red carpet.

THRILLER 40 - A DOUBLE CD SET OF MICHAEL'S ORIGINAL MASTERPIECE THRILLER & BONUS DISC - TO BE RELEASED ON NOVEMBER 18

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Monday, May 16, 2022
No, History, Library, Billie Jean, Walmart, Wanna Be Startin' Somethin', Theatre, Estate, The Girl Is Mine, AVCO, Memory, Multimedia, Wannabe, Tony Awards, Music, Sony Music, Neil Simon, Worldwide, Billboard, Musical, Beat It, Time, Little Feat (album), RTI, RIAA, MTV, Grammy Awards, Man, Congress, Attention, SACD, ALL, HERE, The Girl Is Mine (99 Souls song), Broadway, Target, National Film Registry, TIME, LOS, Thriller, Cassette tape, Nightclub

LOS ANGELES, May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Music and the Estate of Michael Jackson today announced that it will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Michael Jackson's Thriller, the biggest selling album of all time, with the November 18 release of Michael Jackson Thriller 40, a double CD set comprised of Michael's original masterpiece Thriller and an exciting second disc full of surprises for fans including never-released tracks which were worked on by Michael for the Thriller album. To date, the album has amassed in excess of 100 million in sales worldwide.

Key Points: 
  • (An UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP set ofThriller will be released at a future date.)
  • The first such activation is the first drop of new merchandise featuring the special Thriller 40 logo which is now available exclusively through the MichaelJackson.com webstore.
  • Michael set out to revolutionize how to tell a story and entertain on a grand scale through film but faced roadblocks.
  • Michael has sold more than 1 billion records and remains one of the top streaming artists in the world.