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Ongoing History Daily: The first recorded sound

December 2, 2022December 1, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Audio, Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville, Photoautograph, Recording

Recorded sound has been around for a lot longer than most people realize. But I’ll bet you’re thinking about Thomas

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Gadgets 

Holy crap! Is this the most advanced factory car audio system ever?

October 14, 2022October 15, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Audio, Bowers and Wilkins, Infotainment System, Polestar, Volvo

Factory audio systems in cars have come a long way from the old Delco AM/FM/cassette radios that passed for state-of-the-art

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Poll 

Weekly survey: How many subscriptions to streaming entertainment services do you have?

August 8, 2022August 8, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Apple Music, Apple TV, Audio, Disney, Netflix, Spotify, Subscriptions, Video

I’ve got subscription fatigue. It’s a different kind of Long Covid, one that has its roots in the months of

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Tech 

What do you listen to when you’re driving? Here are the results of a new survey of Canadians.

July 6, 2022July 6, 2022 Alan Cross 3 Comments AM/FM, Audio, Infinite Dial, Podcasts, Radio, Spotify

The first thing most people do when they get behind the wheel is fire up some kind of audio to

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Tech 

A new way of recording music: A camera that “sees” vibrations

June 27, 2022June 27, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Audio, Audio Engineering, Carnegie, Lasers, MIcrophones, Optical Microphones, Recording

Capturing any kind of audio can be done using any number of microphones and audio engineering techniques. Ideally, you’ll want

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Poll 

Weekly survey: Into vinyl? Are you now thinking about upgrading your stereo/audio gear to enjoy better sound?

May 16, 2022May 16, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Audio, Audio Gear, Stereo, Stereo Systems, Vinyl

Sales of vinyl records have been on fire since 2008, posting double-digit growth year after year. According to some articles

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Gadgets 

Summer’s coming. How about these audio-enabled sunglasses?

March 3, 2022March 3, 2022 Alan Cross 1 Comment Aether, Audio, Sunglasses

Aether is an eyewear company that has come up with a set of sunglasses that have audio capabilities. Cool, no?

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Tech 

Look out, Spotify: Amazon is busy building a live audio business

September 1, 2021September 1, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Alexa, Amazon, Audio, Smart Speakers

Spotify began strictly as a streaming music service but from the beginning, the company has had a mission to become

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Music News 

Random music news for Tuesday, December 22, 2020

December 22, 2020December 22, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Audio, Streaming

Why is wearing a mask such a big deal to so many people? Let’s move to music news for December

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Gadgets Music News 

This is good: More young people are getting into high-end audio

July 22, 2018July 21, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Audio, Audiophiles, High Fidelity

Regular readers will know that I routine whinge and kvetch about how too many people are missing out on the

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Tech 

Google is working on a way to search audio online starting with podcasts

April 27, 2018April 26, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Audio, Google, Search

If you’re looking for anything text-based, Google’s the place to go. Need an image? No problem. Video? You can probably find

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