Many of us don’t “go into the office” anymore. New cubicle farms are not spreading across the land.
The coffeeshop is the office, the extra bedroom is a command center, or you do your work while mobile through … Read the rest
tech
technology, internet, media, future
Samsung TV is Listening To You
Samsung Warns Smart TV Customers That Personal Conversations Will Be Recorded & Shared
It sucks being right about this. As soon as the devices are listening to us and watching us at all times, there will be no shred of … Read the rest
Word of the Day: Provenance
Provenance - Noun : origin, source, place of origin; birthplace, fount, roots, pedigree, derivation, root
You hear it on antiques shows and now you hear about it in digital music, and it’s … Read the rest
Right, Natural, and Real
I’ve been telling you all about my snazzy new music player. And I’ve been fighting the good fight with online math geniuses that claim there is no such thing as hi-res. Here’s another review of the PonoPlayer, along with … Read the rest
Pure Sound Quality
Quality:
- GoodMusic as MP3 = sounds pretty good – get your jam on!
- GoodMusic as 16bit FLAC or CD = sounds better – damn listen to that bass! – time to dance – pure and clean and timeless
- GoodMusic as
Pono In Cars, Coming Soon
Pono and Harman announced they reached a deal to bring the Pono audio goodness into cars, and this could be the mainstream breakthrough Pono needs. The more people that hear it the better because it’s the best marketing possible. Hear … Read the rest
Hi-Def Storage Space Explained
I did the math for you since there’s some confusion out there about how much space hi-def music takes. Here’s what you can store on 64gb cards:
Youtube’s Version of HD Audio – My Realtime Review
Oh damn, the internet generation strikes back against pono!
I just fired up my old iPhone 4, hit youtube, searched for flac, found ihearttflac and flacsgreatesthits, and was forced to admit after a day of reflection and jamming on my … 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
