Random music news for Tuesday, September 14, 2021
NOW they invent something like this. I could have used this a while back. Live and learn. Now some music news for September 14, 2021. Here’s a good look at the behind-the-scenes challenges
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High-Resolution Audio
Technics Enters the High-Res Audio Game with Technics Tracks
The broadcast student was sitting across from me. She’d come to me with a problem. “I can’t tell the difference between something that sounds good and something that doesn’t.” She looked up, genuinely
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Random Music News for Wednesday, October 21, 2015 (Back to the Future Day Edition)
Happy Back to the Future Day! Time’s up. Where’s my goddamn hoverboard? Wait: are we getting an announcement about power-lacing shoes today? And what about some of those other predictions? Drake goes emo.
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The Foo Fighters Get on the High-Res Audio Bandwagon
I’m all for better-sounding audio, so anything anyone can do to raise educate people on the fact that MP3s sound like crap is good by me. The Foo Fighters have lent their name
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There’s a Growing Trend Towards High-Fidelity Music. But Will Enough Consumers Bite?
As a longtime unreformed audiophile, I’ve long lamented how the general public doesn’t seem to care about audio quality anymore. MP3s sound bad enough, but for a growing majority of the public they
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Want High-Resolution Audio Now? Switch to Vinyl
There have been a number of attempts to upgrade the sound of CDs in the last fifteen years: SACD, HD-CDs, Neil Young’s still-unreleased Pono system. But according to a mastering engineer–a guy who
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