It's been a long time without photos...

So here are some.



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...so bass apparently is somehow "automatically warm" for some people. Which is a bit weird, as it can be quite pressing and obnoxious in its heaviness ( Read more... )

An essay on wiring. Quite long, and so under the cut.

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Everything required for Winamp to sound properly.

Winamp Essentials Pack.

MPEG Audio Decoder plugin (20/24-bit MPEG 1/2 Layer 3 decoding, with output of up to 32-bit);
Steve Monks' Kernel Streaming 3.63 output plugin;
CUE input plugin;
Adapt-X 3.5 DX plugin host DSP plugin;
BS2B loudspeaker-to-headphone-stereo-image DSP plugin.

...to anyone keen on listening rather than hearing, that is.


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A series of articles on CD mastering and loudness war (maximising master waves' volume into oblivion).

Imperfect Sound Forever;
Hydrogen Audio thread;
IEEE Spectrum - "The Future of Music";
...and a Themtube videoclip demonstrating the essence of the problem.

So well, it's been clinically experimentally proven: nobody really cares about a fellow with a weird hairdo (that is, a lack of one) in full-size circumaural headphones. In Mexico City, anyway.


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A simple review of Cowon T2 audio player over at the other blog.

WMA, the Windows Media Audio, is a format created (well, actually, mostly blueprinted from MP3 with some addition of their own code) by Microsoft for compressed audio transmission (well, actually, more oriented towards sale and lockout of "copyrighted" music ( Read more... )