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Life After Slots: What the Mac Pro, External Hardware Mean for Production

Source: Create Digital Music

This array of ports has the power that PCI slots on old Mac towers did. But will it be as practical? That answer may depend on vendors. Photo courtesy Apple. “Pro” is a funny word. When people say “pros” in contrast to “amateurs,” “producers” rat ...
Full article at: Create Digital Music More like this 5 days ago, 4:12am CDT

Songbird to shutter its cage door June 29th

Source: Digital Trends

In our coverage of the world of high resolution audio, we took a look at music player and discovery engine, Songbird. The player supported nearly every audio file format and was a champion of high quality audio ...
Full article at: Digital Trends More like this 5 days ago, 11:02pm CDT

Mitsubishi Outlander: new family contender

Source: The Scotsman

The Mitsubishi Outlander is reliable, keenly priced and well put together THE Mitsubishi Outlander has often been viewed as a 4x4 that never quite got the success it warranted. Will the third generation car change all that? The Mit ...
Full article at: The Scotsman More like this 6 days ago, 12:11pm CDT

Benefits of digital audio cable

Source: Tech Games Blog

Today the definition of audio experience has undergone sea change and it is the advent of digital audio cable which has helped transformation. Emphasis is on the distortion free signal transfer which can repro ...
Full article at: Tech Games Blog More like this Jun 11 2013, 2:54pm CDT

VELOCITY World Media Producing Live Audio Video Showcase to Give High-End AV Consumers Experience of a Lifetime

Source: iStockAnalyst

NEW YORK, June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- VELOCITY World Media®, the largest global, private experiential television network, is producing a world-premier High Performance Audio Video Showcase to test the limits of sight and sound live ...
Full article at: iStockAnalyst More like this Jun 11 2013, 2:11pm CDT

AblePlanet's haptic headset adopts Linx Fusion moniker, we go hands-on

Source: Engadget

ABLE PLANET GIVES E3 a SNEAK PEEK AT LINX® FUSION, THE MULTISENSORY TECHNOLOGY DRIVING THE Next Generation OF Audio And Communication DEVICES. Able Planet fuses its award-winning proprietary technologies with B ...
Full article at: Engadget More like this Jun 11 2013, 1:11pm CDT

Wall Street shrugs at Apple updates

Source: Ottawa Citizen

Investors and analysts alike have spent months accusing Apple Inc. of a lack of innovation, but the company's day of judgment won't come until the fall. That's when Apple will release the next version of its mobile operating system, iOS 7 - ...
Full article at: Ottawa Citizen More like this Jun 11 2013, 5:34am CDT

What Are the Top 10 Digital Tracks for Testing Speakers?

Source: AlanCross.ca

I love high-end audio. For cheap entertainment back in university, I use to torture the sales people at audio stores by asking to demo expensive speakers using records I brought in myself. Not a single one of these people ever made a sale, but ...
Full article at: AlanCross.ca More like this Jun 10 2013, 7:50am CDT

The Videophile System Builder: HDTVs and soundbars for apartment dwellers

Source: Digital Trends

The prospect of building a home theater excites consumers like few other home improvement projects, but once the calculator comes out and everything is figured into the final cost, the excitement level drops a few pegs. ...
Full article at: Digital Trends More like this Jun 8 2013, 5:15pm CDT

Beats Heard Round the World

Source: Term Paper Warehouse

March 18, 2013 Over the years, the way people listen to music has changed tremendously. Before the days of the iPod and smartphones, radio and vinyl records were the predominant way to listen to music. Next came cassettes, then compact discs, and the ...
Full article at: Term Paper Warehouse More like this Jun 8 2013, 12:57pm CDT