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Posts Tagged ‘audio’

Lossless sale on Bleep

In Music on 23 March 2011 tagged audio, bleep, flac, lossless, Music with no comments

After posting my over-long screed on lossless audio yesterday, I was happy to see Bleep is running a sale on Lossless audio. Check it out! I finally replaced my copy of Selected Ambient Works 85-92 and picked up a couple of albums by Four Tet and Seefeel to go along with it. All in glorious [...]

Lossless Libraries in iTunes

In Music on 22 March 2011 tagged aac, ale, audio, death of the music industry, flac, iTunes, mp3, Music, Technology with 3 comments

Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music business. Jon Bon Jovi, via MSNBC reprinting the Sunday Times (paywalled) A popular recent quote from a man who’s seen a thousand cities and rocked them all. I’m not a fan of Bon Jovi’s music, but I can’t really argue with what he’s saying in the [...]

iOS 4.2

In Computing on 4 December 2010 tagged Apple, audio, Computing, ios, ipad, iPod, iTunes, media, Music, streaming with 2 comments

A couple of years ago when I got my first iPod touch, I wrote up a small wishlist of things I’d like to see it be able to do. That was back in 2008 and I’m happy to report that 3 out of 5 things have been done. Not bad, but the number one thing [...]

Headphones Part 3: Grado SR225

In Technology on 19 December 2009 tagged audio, headphones, Music, reviews with no comments

It’s been awhile in coming, but I think today’s going to be the day I write part 3 in my series of headphone reviews. The deciding factor has been a renewed interest in my Grado SR225s brought about by the sudden and shocking death of my beloved Koss Portapro headphones which finally gave up the [...]

Project Gotham 4 Audio Problems

In Entertainment on 13 February 2009 tagged audio, errors, Games, glitches, harddrive, noise, problems, Xbox360 with 7 comments

This year I upgraded my Xbox360′s hard-drive. I decided to get one of the big ones so I could transfer games to it and cut down on load times and hopefully, spare the DVD drive from an early death due to all the thrashing. I loaded up a bunch of games and everything was good. [...]

Headphones Part 2 – Shure SE530

In Technology on 14 August 2008 tagged audio, headphones, iPhone, iPod, Music, reviews with 6 comments

A few weeks ago, I posted the first of a three-part headphone review. This is the second. For the past five years or so, the Shure E3 headphones (now called SCL3) had been my sound delivery weapon of choice for serious business. Developed for stage use, they quickly became popularized for portable audio for their [...]

On Headphones: Part 1 – Koss Portapros

In Technology on 16 June 2008 tagged audio, gear, headphones, iPod, Music, Technology with 6 comments

It is no secret that I am something of a technology slut. I like gadgets and gear, particularly stuff that relates to audio. I have a few iPods and I love listening to music on them. The experience is mediated by the quality of the headphones you plug into them and the quality of the [...]

Altec Lansing IM600

In Entertainment on 8 June 2008 tagged audio, gear, iPod, Music, Photos, reviews with 4 comments

I’ve been shopping around for an iPod dockable portable speaker system for awhile. Some friends have Altec Lansing boom-boxes that they are pretty happy with so I looked to see what they have available. For $150 I ordered the im600 from the Apple Store and after figuring out my new address, they had it here [...]