To say it’s been a turbulent week of news may be an understatement. However, the team at KMB Comm has stayed focused by keeping pace with the latest scuttlebutt in the residential and consumer electronics industries.
Before getting into the weekly technology news roundup, it seems the commercial AV industry is a bit quiet. That may be due to upcoming tradeshows like the ISC West 2026 event, which hosts the residential and commercial security markets. With March closing out and April almost here, the commercial market may be gearing up for its signature event: the annual InfoComm show.
Home Audio Chugs Along
The first item of the week comes from the publication Stereonet. According to a story that posted to start the week, the French audio brand Cabasse has entered receivership after 75 years of business.
The brand known for its unique, spherical-shaped enclosures had at one point tried to grow through entry into the custom installation market, but it is now looking for investors to continue operations states Stereonet.
Staying in the home audio market, the next KMB Comm tech week in review item is a product review from Future Audiophile. The website recently published a review of the Buckeye Amps Hypex NCx252MP.
Broadening the scope of the home audio news this week is a post from Residential Systems. Fulfilling the public appetite for reliable, high performing, user-friendly turntables, the story says the new Denon DP-500BT is a semi-automatic turntable that includes Bluetooth wireless audio capabilities.
Residential Systems points out in its story the DP-500BT ships with a preinstalled moving magnet (MM) phono cartridge, and it carries a retail price of $899.
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One last audio item before moving onto other news topics. Mix Magazine has posted a story on the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) latest industry report.
The story from March 17 says the record industry has reached a new revenue plateau of $11.5 billion in 2025. The numbers come from the organization’s 2025 Year-End Recorded Music Revenue Report and as part of its findings, the RIAA found that streaming revenues reached $9.5 billion with the United States as the largest subscriber market with more than 106 million subscription accounts.
Mix Magazine also notes that for the 19th year in a row, U.S. vinyl sales increased. In 2025 the story says sales grew more than 9% and for the first time in more than four decades vinyl sales reached over $1 billion.
Switching gears, to the topic of cybersecurity, Elizabeth Parks of Parks Associates made a post to the LinkedIn website called, “Critical Vulnerability in Security Monitoring Services: Frequency Jamming.”
The post from the electronics industry veteran promoted a webinar that Parks Associates and Telecom Design hosted that looked at the threat of radio frequency (RF) jammers and how these devices post a threat to security monitoring services.
Using its research, Parks Associates says that more than 20% of security system purchases were influenced by nearby robberies and other security incidents. The research company says in the post that consumers have high expectations for their security services, and the security industry risks losing consumer faith if it does not address the issues that RF jammers present.
Closing the KMB Comm technology week in review is story from Yahoo News on warnings from Apple to users to update their iOS products.
Yahoo News’ story says that Apple is asking people to update their phones because of cybersecurity threats from Russian intelligence, Chinese cybercriminals, and other hackers.
In the post, tools called DarkSword and Coruna have been identified as providing cybercriminals with the ability to take over peoples’ iPhones. Yahoo News states these tools called, exploit kits have been detailed by Google and cybersecurity companies iVerify and Lockout.
The story adds that while it doesn’t appear that Americans were targeted in any cyberattacks, DarkSword looks to be a tool that gathers surveillance and other information, including Wi-Fi passwords and more. Apple recommends updating to the latest version of its iOS (26.3.1) because older versions of the OS are vulnerable.
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