Hallo hoppy reader, Several times this month, I’ve been asked about USB, FireWire and which is “better” for audio. Because of the recent jive about Apple “dropping” FireWire to control costs on some of their consumer products, I cannah take it any longer and this Bitstream installment is a response.
Posted on April 9th, 2009 by OMas
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Hallo hoppy Reader, Just a quick installment of the Bitstream regarding the perception of loudness and the origins of the Equal–loudness curves…
Posted on March 17th, 2009 by OMas
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Jello happy reader, A recent posting in Gizmodo, carrying an inane headline, incited me to post. Now, I don’t expect insightful journalism either here at The Bitstream or from Gizmodo but, the piece was about a practical application of psychoacoustics and basic physics, so I decided to dive into this subject a bit as the [...]
Posted on February 14th, 2009 by OMas
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Hello happy reader, This time around, I’m writing about some of the stuff I found interesting at the show; storage, IT infrastructure, tools to aid creatives, and just plain fun stuff. Here we go… First up, The Omni Group had current versions of their apps at show special prices. I use their OmniOutliner and OmniGraffle [...]
Posted on January 8th, 2009 by OMas
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Yikes, been really busy of late, sorry for the slacking post–wise…First off, a bit more on 3D video tech. Back in March, I blogged about Dolby 3D Digital Cinema. Last month, I was lucky enough to get down to San Jose for a SMPTE meeting at Sony. They had set up a pair of extra large [...]
Posted on October 16th, 2008 by OMas
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Hello happy reader, The autumnal equinox is fast approaching, that biannual event when day and night are of equal duration. From there, the days shorten and we slip into winter…I wish I were more excited about the upcoming fall but, alas, here in NoCal, fall looks a lot like, nay, is indistinguishable from most of [...]
Posted on September 15th, 2008 by OMas
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Hello happy readers, I’m trapped in Denver Intl. at the moment, but have been assured that I’ll be heading home in a bit. I figured this would be a good time to gather my thoughts about PotLuckCon 08… First the bad news; for one of my panels, the oh so self important prior speakers decided [...]
Posted on June 9th, 2008 by OMas
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Hello happy readers, I’m up to my ears in prep for a trip to Craig’s audio geek love fest, Pot Luck, the conference formerly known as Tape Op. This here posting is really for the sake of Technorati’s server so it grabs this here link: Technorati Profile…thank you, oh diligent server. Just to let you know, [...]
Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by OMas
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Hello, happy reader…For this entry, I’d like to veer ‘round to audio again for a time. Specifically, MPEG, audio and lossless coding. The Fraunhofer page for HD-AAC mentions that, “Lossless audio coding schemes offer audio data compression, with the decoded audio data being bit by bit identical to the original audio data.” You should already be familiar with [...]
Posted on March 26th, 2008 by OMas
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Mr. Manfred Schroeder, you are wanted at the psychoacoustics desk…I was rummaging through old papers in prep for my annual taxing visit, when I can upon an old receipt. It was from Sound Concepts, a now defunct hifi company in Brookline Massachusetts. The item, purchased back on 09/22/81, was a low cost “schroderizer.” What the heck is a schroderizer? [...]
Posted on February 18th, 2008 by OMas
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