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Digital headphone amp for analogue ears

May 24, 2013 00:10
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In a rare (!) lapse of pro (and high-end consumer) audio attention, we overlooked the European launch of Sennheiser’s German-designed, German-built HDVD 800 digital headphone amplifier last year. It took a US launch this year to grab our attention.
Sennheiser claims the HDVD 800, which is fitted with a 24 bit / 192 kHz Burr-Brown DAC, [...]

Calrec Time-Lapse Expansion Plans

May 22, 2013 11:57
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Earlier this year Calrec secured planning permission to build a purpose-designed manufacturing facility on its Nutclough Mill site in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire.
Calrec has always been based in Hebden Bridge, and Nutclough Mill has been its global headquarters for the last 25 years. All Calrec equipment is designed, built and tested from this location – [...]

Professionally mixed live gigs go mobile

May 22, 2013 07:03
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Soundhalo is the new live concert mobile video download service that’s being endorsed by Mercury Prize winners Alt-J, who hope its arrival will encourage gig-goers to refrain from capturing video clips of the their performances on smartphones. Instead, the band would prefer their fans to take delivery of Soundhalo’s professionally shot and edited MP4 videos [...]

The latest in 2013′s top home cinema tech

May 20, 2013 19:43
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Has the consumer electronics market ever been more fast-moving than it is now? At CES in January, there were a number of new home cinema systems were previewed. Now, they’re beginning to reach the shops, and so, without further ado, here are short videos promoting two of the higher-end products now on offer:
The BeoLab 14 [...]

The Listening Project: get recording, people

The Listening Project is a new initiative to create a space for ordinary members of the public to share their thoughts, opinions, memories and stories, using audio, via the BBC and have them preserved in one of the greatest libraries in the world.
We’re all encouraged to record and share the intimate conversations we’re having with [...]

Apr 11, 2013 19:38

Surround

The latest in 2013′s top home cinema tech

May 20, 2013 19:43

Education

Network Wednesdays: Goodbye and Farewell

Over the last 19 weeks we have enjoyed a slice of audio broadcast network pie every Wednesday in a bold attempt to trace the history of audio broadcast networks from simple patchbays through the adoption of control protocols and the promise of total interoperability.
Our aim was to try and explain the background and technology behind data [...]

May 15, 2013 20:56