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What good can come from your tariff thread? I see nothing. Please stop. It isn't based upon any facts. Just conjecture about what the effects might be. It isn't based upon any audio science. You are literally SHOOTING YOURSELF IN THE FOOT. I'm promoting no pro tariff or anti-tariff...

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/the-harrowing-story-of-what-flying-starliner-was-like-when-its-thrusters-failed/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us Interview with the astronaut piloting the Boeing Starliner, Butch Wilmore, on its ill fated mission. Things were worse and more hairy than was...

Opening paragraph and a half: For a third year in a row, the annual Robb Report Audio Awards continue the tradition begun in 2023 by our editors of bringing top-flight audio products to the attention of music-lovers whose lifestyles and budgets are as diverse as the music they listen to. As...

So I'd like to know how many of you have a 7.1.4 or more Atmos system up and going. Not a soundbar, not Atmos phones or any of that. A minimum of 7 speakers, 1 sub and 4 overhead speakers. As a counter point in this poll also those who have 5.1 surround and of course what I assume everyone...

https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/12/16/400-years-zildjian-cymbals-massachusetts A little article that this business making cymbals has been in business 400 years and the same family still runs it. Its alloy for cymbals was a failed experiment in alchemy attempting to make gold. The company’s...

Nothing new really. This way of doing business has always seemed very strange. One that I had hoped most artists would learn about and refuse to sign such contracts. It is a 13 minute video.

Actually not so much about why David Gilmour won't be on his channel yet exactly why that is the case. I would say he keeps framing it as social media and how some people don't appreciate how that has become THE media, but really he means streaming media. Social media may fuel streaming, but...

Rick Beato on something I had noticed, but not to the extent it has changed. Top of the charts for popular music has very nearly no bands in the charts anymore. All solo or duo singers. He discusses some of why that has become the case. It is an 8 minute video. For instance in the top 400...

https://www.mixonline.com/business/inside-iron-mountain-its-time-to-talk-about-hard-drives Article about issues with receiving music recordings from the early days of digital from 1990s onward that sometimes don't work. How archiving hard drives can be a problem due to software and due to...

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/05/science/earth-inner-core-rotation-slowdown-cycle-scn/index.html I've my doubts about the veracity of these claims. Obviously a change in the rotation of the core alters magnetic fields and we know audiophiles would have detected the effect on their cables. I've...

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/07/worlds-most-accurate-and-precise-atomic-clock-pushes-new-frontiers-physics Pretty impressive. Accurate to within 1 second per 30 billion years. Moving it far less than a millimeter causes the rate of time to change due to a change in the curving...

The following is copied from the wikipedia page on the Jean Baudrillard essay Simulacra and Simulation. Simulacra and Simulation delineates the sign-order into four stages: The first stage is a faithful image/copy, where people believe, and may even be correct to believe, that a sign is a...

This is the story of Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee. A 4 episode series. I've only watched the first episode, but it is very good. I think lots of people who frequent ASR will like it, find it entertaining and interesting for many reasons. So give it a whirl you'll probably be glad you...

Jeanne du Barry is an excellent movie. Visually stunning. The DTS surround is very well done. I think the main character was somewhat poorly cast (she was also the director). Yet it is very much worth watching. My French was once pretty good, but has deprecated from lack of use over the...

SNR is better here. So any of you folks have some recommendations for ribbons that are unusually good for the price? Some AEA's and such might be great, but beyond my budget. The only ribbons I have are some Avantone CR-14's which have inflated in price quite a bit since I purchased them. So...

So we don't have many spins for dipoles and bipoles. Panels more or less don't fit in the Klippel. So I am wondering if some of you folks can take the data from Amir's tests and show the resulting directional plots and response for in room results along with what Harman score such a thing...

Anybody watching this? It is really good so far. Better than the 1980 mini-series. From the James Clavell book. I do wonder about the out of focus images away from the center. I've seen this on several 4k productions. I have a 4k projector. I also see it on some youtube trailers. Often...

Rather interesting views from someone with a significant amount of experience posting personal music, and doing gear reviews on youtube. 11 minute video with lots of concise thoughtful information about what it is like to try and pursue this path. Reminds me of advice I heard given to a young...

I will posit that 30 db or more channel separation is enough. More than that is not audible. In fact 17 db or so is enough. So why is a device with only 70 db of channel separation described as "poor channel separation"? Poor versus what is possible? Yes. Poor versus what is audible, not...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/ Google in an effort to "improve privacy" will now include in Chrome a platform that tracks users to present top topics of interest to advertisers when you visit other sites. Gee...