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
Filed under: Audio & Acoustics, Gadgetry, General IT | 2 Comments »
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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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
Filed under: Audio & Acoustics, Film & Video, Gadgetry, General IT, Trade Shows, Virtualization | No Comments »
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 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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