Alabama Shakes doing Zeppelin in London. Nice.… Read the rest
Author: ezzy
Will Apple Go HD in Audio?
Rumors are swirling that Apple will soon announce a major upgrade to it’s iTunes Music Store, and one of the features will be 24-bit lossless files for sale!
They might even use Led Zeppelin to push the new higher quality, … Read the rest
Reverse Images Of Classic Album Covers
Ever wonder what an album cover might look like if seen from the back?
http://www.fuse.tv/2014/04/beatles-nirvana-reverse-album-covers
The Music Is Coming Through Me
Great classic DJ Shadow, kicking off the “DJ as artist” genre in the mid 90’s:
Winning The Late Night Wars
Good write up on the soon to be retiring David Letterman:
http://mashable.com/2014/04/04/in-defense-of-david-letterman/… Read the rest
Falling Debris
Check out this amazing story about a norwegian skydiver who almost got cut in half by a meteorite. Seriously.
shorter version:
… Read the restR.I.P. Knuckles
One of the finest DJ’s ever, a guy who opened his own club to DJ his mix of music, called the Warehouse, which in turn helped birth the genre “House”.
Genre games are stupid – this is top end dance … Read the rest
The Wood Is Good
Check out Warwick’s newly designed space bass, explained by Bootsy himself. That bass is amazing, totally out there. 4 outputs? Damn.
… Read the restThe Problem With A-B’ing And Why Neil Young Is Right About Sound Quality
Great Tape Op post that’s thinking big about audio, music, and hearing.
The main crutch of the good enough team is what is called the double-blind listening test (shortened to ABX). When doing studies based on perception, it is the … Read the rest
A New Audio Era
High Fidelity Audio Enters The Digital Age – SlashdotHi There I’m Walkman 2014
Neil Young’s preaching has been working — Sony recently announced their latest WalkMan, the 35th Anniversary model, and it’s pretty bad-ass. Save the Audio!
That little slab of gadget-lust has got hi-fi audio specs (DAC, amp, wiring, shielding), excellent … Read the rest
Resolution, Not Frequency Range
Anyone arguing about audio and getting stuck on the overall hearing range of humans is actually missing the point.
What digital audio has really been doing is giving us lower resolutions on the sounds we can hear.
… Read the restHave you ever
Digital Audio Verses Timbre
If an electric guitar and a piano both play a C major chord at the same volume, can you tell the difference between them? Would you be able to discern a difference between the guitar and the piano’s version of … Read the rest
1 Trillion Odors, or alot of Funk
Ha, Imagine That! I’m running all over the internet fighting bad science about hearing and music, and The Journal of Science publishes a study that says scientists have really underestimated the abilities of our nose and sense of smell.
Oh … Read the rest
Howlin’ For My Baby
Bad Science + Business Interests = Trouble
Computer geeks know lots of things. The sheer breadth of stuff that geeks have crammed in their head is impressive.
But their major mistake is often not acknowledging their own ignorance. Many have come up in a world so digitally … Read the rest
Gravitons, Waves, and Cosmic Microwave Background Oh My!
Big news from the physics world that I can’t possibly explain accurately, but here goes anyway.
Someone discovered a trace of a magnetic signal that is believed to come from the origin of the universe, a signal created shortly after … Read the rest
Wow Righteous Indeed
Excellent talk from Neil Young at South By Southwest about his new product – the Pono Music Player. He breaks it all down in simple terms, better than any amount of text I can type: