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Poll: MQA: Love It or Leave It?
Just mention MQA and some people react as if you’ve kicked their dog.
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HiFi Pedigree or Have A Heart About HiFi
Is a piece of HiFi just a piece of HiFi? Can we reduce the value of a given thing down to those items listed in the accompanying spec sheet?
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Darko.Audio Podcast #21: Work Experience with Twittering Machines’ Michael Lavorgna
Darko and I shoot the breeze about “Work Experience” in his recently posted podcast where we cover taste, selflessness, judgement, ego, reviewing, comparisons, and more.
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Is USB Audio Going The Way Of The Dodo?
Remember Computer Audio? When I was hired as Editor of the then nascent AudioStream in 2011, Computer Audio was all the rage. If you wanted to play with all of the newfangled higher PCM resolutions […]
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Twittering Machines History
Some of you may not know that the Twittering Machines you know is actually its second incarnation: TM launched in its original form in March of 2007. Here’s the very first post:
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Ten More Radical HiFi Ideas
Ten More Radical HiFi Ideas From Michael Lavorgna:
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Why I Hate Measurements (I don’t)
I don’t hate measurements but some people think I do because I am often critical of how people interpret them. These are two very different things.
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Pet Peeves: “I feel sorry for people who own and enjoy that…”
Some people say this, “I feel sorry for people who own and enjoy that…”, and some actually believe it. I’m not kidding.
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Pet Peeves: We Don’t Own Downloads
Ownership has its privileges. When we own things, we can do anything we want with them—share, loan, sell, etc. Not so with downloads.
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Pet Peeves: Hi-Res Downloads
In many cases, choice is a good thing. When it comes to hi-res downloads and sample rates, choice, especially when there’s a premium attached, just bugs me.
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The Finite Capacity of Short-Term Memory or Why ABX Tests in HiFi Are Silly
Proponents of ABX testing in audio suggest, or insist depending on the person, that knowing what we are listening to when making comparisons makes any results invalid due to bias. In order to remove this […]