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NoiseHush NS400: A Bluetooth Stereo Headset Review
NoiseHush NS400: (TL;DR) they work and work well. Read this article to find out why you should plunk down the cash for these.
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Always Room for Improvement…
Well 2013 is here and either we are just the holographic debris on an event horizon of a black hole, or reality is relative. I wouldn’t have minded being the Mayan Calendar maker who made the last calendar, because then when finished, and asked … King: “What happens when we reach the end of thew…
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PowerTunes: the iTunes Library Management App I Wished For
If you are anything like me, you will love PowerTunes. The reason for this is that I have an iTunes library with tens of thousands of songs that started about a decade ago from ripped CDs. This library has been moved from computer to computer. As a result of this it has built up a…
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Pono: Neil Young Thinks CDs Suck
I got a ton of flack from people on Ars when I commented that CD quality audio lost a lot of information that greatly affected a listener’s perception, and MP3 and other compressed audio formats simply made a bad situation worse. I over-simplified my argument to keep it approachable, and had some wannabe audio experts…
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44kHz is not enough
In this article (http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/04/does-mastered-for-itunes-matter-to-music-ars-puts-it-to-the-test.ars) Chris Foresman concludes erroneously that a 44.1kHz sampling frequency with 16-bits of resolution is plenty to faithfully reproduce the spectrum of audible sounds “good enough” for most people. The sample rate of CDs is underpowered, because it should be at least comparable to the limits of human hearing. At 44.1kHz the…