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When Does Passion Become Obsession?
Waaay before it becomes audiophilia. A documentary about the Audiophile Club of Athens.
A Thanksgiving Turkey
Microsoft's Zune, that is. Andy Ihnatko's <I>Chicago Sun-Times</I> review is pretty much perfect. Don't write him off as an Apple cultist, however. He gives props to the PDDs that get it right.
The Strangest Little Things
Quarks, photons, and space-time foam—oh my!
Are Missing Teaspoons Really Dark Matter?
Or maybe they're the larval form of some other proliferating common household object—Maya Kessler makes the case.
Burwen Bobcat Now Available as Download
We received an interesting email from engineer Richard Burwen just before the Thanksgiving business break:
Copyright Office Lists New Exceptions to the DMCA
On November 22, the Librarian of Congress issued a—take a deep breath— <A HREF="http://www.copyright.gov/1201/">declaration of exemption</A> from the prohibition against circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works. In other words, the LOC decreed that six classes of "non-infringing rights" were exempt from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which criminalized "production and dissemination of technology whose primary purpose is to circumvent measures taken to protect copyright."
What are you most interested in seeing in our live online CES 2007 coverage?
The Consumer Electronics Show is the most significant high-end audio industry event each year, attended by manufacturers, distributors, and retailers from all over the world. What are you most interested in seeing in our live online CES 2007 coverage?
Zanden 5000 Mk.IV/Signature D/A converter & 2000 Premium CD transport
We were driving to a friend's house to celebrate her dad's 92nd birthday. Halfway there, a bright yellow, ground-hugging insect pulled in front of my car from across street. "Wow, that's a Lamborghini Countach!" I exclaimed. You don't often see one of those in my neighborhood—or in any neighborhood.
Hot Stuff: Loudspeaker Voice-Coil Temperatures
As Hans Christian Oersted, the Danish physicist and founder of electrodynamics, discovered in 1819, an electric current passed through a wire generates a magnetic field. Place that wire close to a permanent magnet and the interaction of the two fields will generate a force. That, in two sentences, summarizes the operating principle of the motor that energizes every moving-coil drive-unit in millions of loudspeakers worldwide. It sounds simple, but—like everything in audio—it isn't.