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Anechoic Chamber
Wes Phillips  |  May 30, 2008  |  0 comments
Fewer loudspeaker companies have anechoic chambers than you realize. They take up an awful lot of space, for one thing. Focal has one, and it has a twist—rather than have a suspended floor, the company puts its speakers on a hydraulic jack and suspends it 30' above the floor. This makes getting massive speakers into and out of the chamber a lot easier and safer.
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Anechoic Chamber
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 30, 2008  |  5 comments
YGA gets its open air measurements by lifting the speaker under measurement away from that pesky floor boundary with a forklift.
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Animated Knots
Wes Phillips  |  Oct 24, 2006  |  0 comments
It's knots! With animation!
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Anna Netrebko
Wes Phillips  |  Sep 04, 2007  |  0 comments
Who can resist an article that begins like this? "The sniffles of a diva are like the tantrums of La Nina: a tropical depression in the Pacific is ready, by the time it gets to the North Atlantic, to produce lightning bolts, pelting hail and a deluge of biblical ferocity."
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Anonymity and Deindividuation
Wes Phillips  |  May 02, 2007  |  0 comments
aka The Lucifer Effect—an excerpt from Philip Zimbardo's new book.
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Another Portent of the Apocalypse?
Wes Phillips  |  Feb 06, 2007  |  2 comments
The end times must be nigh: Sony, the company that wouldn't even admit MP3 existed, now makes an iPod docking station.
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Another Rant About Dynamic Range
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 05, 2006  |  1 comments
It can't be said too often: Loud isn't the only sonic flavor.
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Another Summer Song
Wes Phillips  |  Jun 26, 2006  |  0 comments
Heck, I find something that works, I stick with it.
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Another Top 10 List.
Wes Phillips  |  Nov 17, 2005  |  0 comments
The Guardian on books on cults and religious extremists. I love any list that calls The DaVinci Code "literary crack cocaine—reading it does you no good at all, but you just can't stop." Actually, I found it easy to put down and hard to pick back up.
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Another Universe?
Wes Phillips  |  Nov 26, 2007  |  0 comments
In August, astronomers discovered an one billion light-year hole in the Universe. Now, Dr. Laura Mersini-Houghton's team of theoretical physicists and cosmologists posits that it is "unmistakable imprint of another universe beyond the edge of our own."
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Anti Records And All That
Wes Phillips  |  Oct 13, 2006  |  0 comments
Conceptual music and anti records (and CDs): A brief overview.
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Ants That Swim
Wes Phillips  |  Mar 14, 2006  |  0 comments
Just in time for picnic season. Do they wear Speedos or board shorts?
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Apian Polyandry
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 27, 2007  |  0 comments
Why does a hive's queen act so, um, unladylike? It turns out that's an interesting question—and not the only one.
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Archimedes and the Calculus
Wes Phillips  |  Oct 09, 2007  |  0 comments
A new research project highlights Archimedes' role in developing calculus.
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Are Americans Amateurs?
Wes Phillips  |  Aug 16, 2007  |  3 comments
When it comes to trash talk, it would seem so. Numbers two and four completely cracked me up.
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