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By Dr. AIX| 2018-11-04T18:14:53+00:00 November 4th, 2018|Categories: Real HD-Audio|Tags: 5.1 Surround, 5.1 surround mix, advanced resolution, AIX Records, analog vs. digital, Audio Resolution, AudioCon, Beamforming, Bob Levi, Dgitial Audio Review, Dr. AIX's POSTS, DVD-Audio, HD Downloads, HD Music, hd-audio, Hi Res Audio, Hi-Res, Hi-Res Audio Challenge, Hi-Res Music, hi-res sound, high resolution audio, high-res music, High-Resolution, High-Resolution Audio Experience, HiRes Audio, HiRes Music, HRA, HRA Listening Experience, LAOCAS, lossless, lossy, Mark Waldrep, Meyer & Moran, MQA, Munich High End Show, Music and Audio, Music and Audio: A user Guide to Better Sound, PCM, power cords, QS, Quad, Snake Oil, sound bar, Spectragram, spectragraphs, surround music, Suzanne Ciani, TECH TALK, UHD-Audio, usb, Yarra 3DX|
By now many of you must be thinking that I’ve retired or am spending countless hours at the local golf course. The regularity of my posts has slowed to a trickle but not because I don’t enjoy updating my readers […]
By Dr. AIX| 2018-09-18T19:02:15+00:00 September 18th, 2018|Categories: Real HD-Audio|Tags: 5.1 Surround, 5.1 surround mix, advanced resolution, AIX Records, analog vs. digital, Audio Resolution, AudioCon, Beamforming, Bob Levi, Dgitial Audio Review, Dr. AIX's POSTS, DVD-Audio, HD Downloads, HD Music, hd-audio, Hi Res Audio, Hi-Res, Hi-Res Audio Challenge, Hi-Res Music, hi-res sound, high resolution audio, high-res music, High-Resolution, High-Resolution Audio Experience, HiRes Audio, HiRes Music, HRA, HRA Listening Experience, LAOCAS, lossless, lossy, Mark Waldrep, Meyer & Moran, MQA, Munich High End Show, Music and Audio, Music and Audio: A user Guide to Better Sound, News, PCM, power cords, Snake Oil, sound bar, Spectragram, spectragraphs, su|
I know, I know…I’ve been lazy over the past month and remiss in not writing. No new posts, no rants, no complaining, and no news. As I look around at the usual audio sites and read the usual posts by […]
By Real HD-Audio| 2018-08-15T22:53:46+00:00 August 15th, 2018|Categories: Real HD-Audio|Tags: 5.1 Surround, 5.1 surround mix, advanced resolution, AIX Records, analog vs. digital, Audio Resolution, AudioCon, Beamforming, Bob Levi, Dgitial Audio Review, Dr. AIX's POSTS, DVD-Audio, HD Downloads, HD Music, hd-audio, Hi Res Audio, Hi-Res, Hi-Res Audio Challenge, Hi-Res Music, hi-res sound, high resolution audio, high-res music, High-Resolution, High-Resolution Audio Experience, HiRes Audio, HiRes Music, HRA, HRA Listening Experience, LAOCAS, lossless, lossy, Mark Waldrep, Meyer & Moran, MQA, Munich High End Show, Music and Audio, Music and Audio: A user Guide to Better Sound, News, PCM, power cords, Snake Oil, sound bar, Spectragram, spectragraphs, surround music, UHD-Audio, usb, Yarra 3DX|
In the middle of June, I posted a blog titled the HD-Audio Challenge. Readers were encouraged to download six pairs of music tracks, do some careful listening to determine which was the original 96/24 master, and which was a downconversion […]
By Real HD-Audio| 2018-08-05T19:12:24+00:00 August 5th, 2018|Categories: Real HD-Audio|Tags: 5.1 Surround, 5.1 surround mix, advanced resolution, AIX Records, analog vs. digital, Audio Resolution, Audio Shows, AudioCon, Beamforming, Bob Levi, Dgitial Audio Review, Dr. AIX's POSTS, DVD-Audio, HD Downloads, HD Music, hd-audio, Hi Res Audio, Hi-Res, Hi-Res Audio Challenge, Hi-Res Music, hi-res sound, high resolution audio, high-res music, High-Resolution, High-Resolution Audio Experience, HiRes Audio, HiRes Music, HRA, HRA Listening Experience, LAOCAS, lossless, lossy, Mark Waldrep, Meyer & Moran, MQA, Munich High End Show, Music and Audio, Music and Audio: A user Guide to Better Sound, News, PCM, power cords, Snake Oil, sound bar, Spectragram, spectragraphs, surround music, UHD-Audio, usb, Yarra 3DX|
The Waldrep summer 2018 vacation is over. Mona, Charlie, and I returned to Southern California early last week after driving 5200 miles around the western U.S. — we visited Carmel, sped around Lake Tahoe in a 23 foot skiboat, climbed […]
By Real HD-Audio| 2018-07-09T21:04:49+00:00 July 9th, 2018|Categories: Real HD-Audio|Tags: 5.1 Surround, 5.1 surround mix, advanced resolution, AIX Records, analog vs. digital, Audio Resolution, Audio Shows, AudioCon, Beamforming, Bob Levi, Dgitial Audio Review, DVD-Audio, HD Downloads, HD Music, hd-audio, Hi Res Audio, Hi-Res, Hi-Res Audio Challenge, Hi-Res Music, hi-res sound, high resolution audio, high-res music, High-Resolution, High-Resolution Audio Experience, HiRes Audio, HiRes Music, HRA, HRA Listening Experience, LAOCAS, lossless, lossy, Mark Waldrep, Meyer & Moran, MQA, Munich High End Show, Music and Audio, Music and Audio: A user Guide to Better Sound, News, PCM, power cords, Snake Oil, sound bar, Spectragram, spectragraphs, surround music, UHD-Audio, usb, Yarra 3DX|
A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article about an event that reported on some of the nonsense demos that happen at trade shows (you can visit the article by clicking here). I deliberately avoided naming the salesperson who demonstrated the “benefits” of expensive — very expensive — power cords and the name of his company out of respect for the hosts. His demo produced audible/measurable increases in the amplitude of identical music selections. A result that is impossible according to the laws of physics.… Read the full article
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