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The emperor’s new bitrate.

22 May, 201217 May, 2017 Audio 0

To bludgeon the point home about anything over CD quality being superfluous, we have, from 2008, Audibility of a CD-Standard A/D/A Loop Inserted Into

So you think you have good ears.

9 April, 20127 May, 2017 Audio 1

You have a record collection this big and all you do and think about every day is records and music. So just how closely

Precisely why 24/192 downloads are audiophoolery.

6 March, 201220 November, 2016 Audio 11

Mere CD quality (16 bit/44.1kHz) is so passé. Apple is now pushing 24/96 (and telling engineers not to compress stuff to shit, God bless

And good riddance.

2 November, 201110 May, 2017 Audio 0

Looks like no more major CDs by the end of 2012 — they’ll become boutique items for fans, like vinyl. About time too.

Digitising and scanning, preserving culture.

4 August, 201110 May, 2017 Audio 0

The Save Australian Music project continues apace, though not a very fast pace. I have discovered (as I had presumed) that my old indie

Perfect sound until next time.

23 February, 20119 January, 2017 Audio 0

Apple is in talks with the majors to finally outdo CD, with 24-bit audio downloads. Current iPods can’t play it, and lossless stereo 24/96

So how was your haul?

25 December, 200910 December, 2016 Audio 3

I got a new MP3 player for Christmas from Arkady. It’s a cheap shitty ChiPod — S1 chipset-based. I actually asked specifically for a

Annoying people without excessive weight.

4 December, 20084 December, 2008 Audio 0

What we used to call “ghetto blasters” in the 1980s are too heavy and annoying and expensive in D-cells. In the modern age, you

Ladeez gemmun. The $2500 THX-certified door.

4 September, 20084 September, 2008 Audio 0

It’s not a $500 ethernet cable, but you’d better be in serious need of serious silence to drop $2500 on a door. Mind you,

Au clair de la lune.

14 August, 200814 August, 2008 Audio 0

Hard disks are cheap; cultural preservation is forever. (Mind you, I still so so so want one of these.) Bonus: The earliest known sound

Magnetically-energised oxygenated mineral water for dogs.

13 August, 200813 August, 2008 Audio 0

The drink of audiophiles. The only thing I can see wrong is it’s far too cheap. (Spotted by Wechsler.) (Bonus link: a magnetic thing

Yak Shaving Day!

12 August, 2008 Audio 1

Exact Audio Copy is the Chuck Norris of CD rippers. It turned a rotted old demo CD-R by the Deadites (from back when CD-Rs

Rewind before return.

6 August, 2008 Audio 0

While you’re saving up for your cable.

Warm leatherette.

30 July, 2008 Audio 0

From 1956: the lost work of genius of car stereo. You can tell it’s genius from its independent rediscovery (check the video).

Baby Grace (a horrid cassette).

23 July, 200813 January, 2023 Audio 1

The cassette: not quite dead!

Marked down 1 star because it still won’t let you do the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs.

20 June, 2008 Audio 3

A caution to people buying these: if you do not follow the “directional markings” on the cables, your music will play backwards. Please check

There’s no fool like an audiophool.

15 June, 20086 September, 2016 Audio 0

And to think Denon used to be respectable. Dig this US$500 1.5 metre ethernet cable for audio use. ‘Cos the professional quality ethernet cables

EMI: “Quit whining, pirate scum!”

9 November, 20022 January, 2017 Audio, Industry, mp3, Your rights 6

Over at El Reg they’ve been running a few pieces lately about responses from record label “customer relations” departments to purchasers who’ve complained about

Ogg Vorbis 1.0 hardware decoder released free

5 September, 20022 January, 2017 Audio, mp3 5

As it’s run its short commercial life, Xiph.org have freely released the integer decoder for Ogg Vorbis – that is, the version that will

Sony tweaks Key2Audio

8 June, 20022 January, 2017 Audio, mp3 1

According to CD Freaks (highly recommended to those following the copy-prevention wars), Sony has reportedly patched Key2Audio to get around the marker hack. Meanwhile,