The cray crays in North Korea are cracking me up. Like the average american white guy on Facebook these days, they can’t keep their racist opinions to themselves anymore.
I’m sure you have heard by now that the latest Seth … Read the rest
Current Events
New Fox News Chyrons
http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/cy420r/hova-s-honor
Turnabout is fair play. They continue to refer to Jay Z as “a former crack dealer” so The Daily … Read the rest
Be Careful Out There
Another day, another story of police in the USA trampling all over the rights of citizens. American police are heavily armed, sometimes poorly trained, underpaid, and usually have the full force of the legal system on their side. Things are getting … Read the rest
Bring On The Competition
Can’t wait for that Pono?
Can’t handle the power of the triangle?
Here’s the Fiio X1 finally available in the US at around $100, and that ain’t too much to pay for some serious hi-res music playback. Pono’s are gonna … Read the rest
When You Need To Pick From 36 Million Items
Check out this story about Amazon’s warehouse robots, pretty interesting:
http://www.cnet.com/news/meet-amazons-busiest-employee-the-kiva-robot/
Lecture: Quality Sound Matters
Stop listening to internet experts and listen to real experts. Here’s a panel of mastering engineers talking about quality sound and consumer trends. Interesting, informative and correct!
Bonus fun is that they invited a guy from streamer Rdio who has … Read the rest
Leo Loves Pono
High quality mainstream style review of the pono player covering all the issues around modern consumer audio. Good stuff!
Desiderius
… Read the rest“Anyone who looks closely at the inward nature and essence will find that nobody is further from true wisdom than those people with their grand titles, learned bonnets, splendid sashes and bejeweled rings, who profess to be wisdom’s peak.” –
Praise The Wire
In our rush to modernize and upgrade the conveniences in life we can forgo quality for convenience. Often times the better way gets out-marketed and replaced by the new way, and life goes on.
Wireless digital was the new … Read the rest
Studio To Stereo
Here’s something really cool – a bunch of people are putting together an interactive event in London that details the process of creating music in the studio and then releasing it to the public, using iconic artists, classic albums, and … Read the rest
Pre-CD Grandeur
Great write up on a classic opera recording finally being released properly in HD/Hi-Res audio:
Rediscovering Maria Callas in High-Resolution Audio
Internet experts continue to argue and debate about hi-res, but music lovers that consider themselves real listeners (not just … Read the rest
Taylor Swift verses Streaming
Recently Taylor Swift made news by pulling her latest album from Spotify and other streaming music services. Her statement calls these new services “a grand experiment” and said she doesn’t feel comfortable putting her music into that system as it’s … Read the rest
Perception Regions
Cutting edge science of our brains. They are starting to determine what regions are active for what processes.
[ted id=2077]… Read the rest
How To Spot Internet Pseudo Science
Walkman IV – The Return of Fidelity
Let’s take a trip down memory lane:
[deep ominous movie trailer chord]
Walkman 1 (1980) – by Sony – stereo cassette – 2 headphone jacks – powered by 2 AA batteries for runtime of 20 hours.
Walkman … Read the rest
The NoPhone Uses Verbal Hashtags
Syncing your brain and vocal cords, it’s the new NoPhone!
Nophone Promises Unparalleled Interaction With Reality… Read the rest
We Can Take That Walk
The Association: Lebron Returns Home
Great overview of the crazy backstory leading to tonight’s Cavs game from NBA.com.… Read the rest
Game Time! The King of Cleveland’s Top 5 Moments
In case you forgot, or were too hurt to remember (like me), here’s what used to be and what will soon be again: #23 just wrecking things and playing for the good guys again!
http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf/2014/10/lebron_james_five_most_memorab.html
Gonna be crazy down there … Read the rest