Ongoing History Daily: The first recorded sound
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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Audio
Holy crap! Is this the most advanced factory car audio system ever?
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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Weekly survey: How many subscriptions to streaming entertainment services do you have?
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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What do you listen to when you’re driving? Here are the results of a new survey of Canadians.
The first thing most people do when they get behind the wheel is fire up some kind of audio to
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A new way of recording music: A camera that “sees” vibrations
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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Weekly survey: Into vinyl? Are you now thinking about upgrading your stereo/audio gear to enjoy better sound?
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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Summer’s coming. How about these audio-enabled 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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Look out, Spotify: Amazon is busy building a live audio business
Spotify began strictly as a streaming music service but from the beginning, the company has had a mission to become
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Random music news for Tuesday, December 22, 2020
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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This is good: More young people are getting into high-end audio
Regular readers will know that I routine whinge and kvetch about how too many people are missing out on the
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Google is working on a way to search audio online starting with podcasts
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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