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T.H.E. Newport Show Is Next Week!

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Published on 05-21-2015 02:37 AM Number of Views: 5955

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My university commitments are behind me for the summer. I've graded all of the final exams, read all the papers, and evaluated all of the senior projects...life is good! And next week is the Newport Audio show, which happens in Newport Beach, California from Friday to Sunday. ...

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Sending Off My Students…

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Published on 05-17-2015 02:49 AM Number of Views: 4048

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Yesterday evening, I participated in the commencement ceremonies at CSU Dominguez Hills. For many years, I didn't attend...and I really don't know why. I guess I was lazy or believed I had more important things to do. Well, I was wrong. ...

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Just A Few Things On A Saturday...

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Published on 03-14-2015 02:38 AM Number of Views: 4939

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The AXPONA show is not far away. I have good news on our demonstration room. My good friends at JBL/Harman have come through with a complete set of Revel Salon 2 speakers for our demo room. ...

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The Future of Audio Entertainment

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Published on 03-07-2015 03:23 PM Number of Views: 3517

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The Audio Engineering Society is holding its 57th International Conference in Hollywood this weekend. I hadn't originally planned to attend (the cost is over $700) but changed my mind when I was able to get an educator's discount. ...

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e-Onkyo Is Coming to the U.S.

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Published on 02-13-2015 01:00 AM Number of Views: 4369

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Onkyo, the Japanese consumer electronics giant, was the first company to offer "high-resolution" audio downloads in Japan. They introduced e-Onkyo in 2005 (two years ahead of iTrax, the first high-res site in the US) as the "world's first high-resolution music store". ...

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Jay Z and the Tidal/Wimp Acquisition

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Published on 02-04-2015 01:17 AM Number of Views: 4819

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The trend towards streaming better quality audio just go a little more interesting thanks to an offer that Jay Z, the rapper and very serious entrepreneur made last Friday for Swedish company Aspiro better known by audio enthusiasts as Wimp/Tidal. One of his companies has offered a reported $56 million for a service that only has 512,000 paying users. ...

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Meridian's MQA: Swapping Rectangles for Triangles

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Published on 12-06-2014 03:38 PM Number of Views: 3587

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You can call if what you want, but the new technology that Meridian announced last week is a data reduction technique that requires both encoding and decoding. In Robert Stuart's AES paper he uses the term "lossy" and "lossless"...so you decide whether this new methodology is a codec or not.
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News

T.H.E. Newport Show Is Next Week!

Sending Off My Students…

Just A Few Things On A Saturday...

The Future of Audio Entertainment

e-Onkyo Is Coming to the U.S.

Jay Z and the Tidal/Wimp Acquisition

Meridian's MQA: Swapping Rectangles for Triangles