All the CES 2021 Innovation Awards in Audio | audioXpress

Next we look at the CES 2021 Innovation Honorees in the different categories, no particular order.

Next, is the intriguing Hydropower Shower Speaker by Ampere, which

One of the Harman highlights is the latest Harman Kardon Radiance 2400 speaker system, which won a “Best of Innovation Award”. The system features two ultra-slim floor-standing speakers that use a Constant Beamwidth Technology (CBT) topology, with 24 vertically aligned and precisely calibrated transducers per speaker, reinforced with a powerful separate subwoofer. A compact digital hub connects the system to a TV and other AV devices, while Wi-Fi allows easy access to high-resolution music streaming services.

On the luxury audio category, Harman is featured with the Mark Levinson N° 5105 high-performance turntable, and the Mark Levinson N° 5206 precision preamplifier with a fully discrete, dual-monaural unified class A unified line stage, class A headphone output, and a hybrid gain topology MM/MC phono stage. The 5105 turntable is machined from solid aluminum, and features an ultralight carbon-fiber tonearm and dual-axis gimbal. The platter is suspended on a hardened steel axle rotating on precision ball bearings. The 5206 also features a 32-bit/384kHz and DSD DAC, MQA full decode and Bluetooth with aptX-HD.