Bad Astronomy Gives Good Rant

Bad Astronomy Gives Good Rant

Feb 08, 2006

Phil Plait, over at <I>Bad Astronomy</I> is outraged over the meddling of George Deutsch in NASA's press releases about science matters. Deutsch, a 24-year-old political appointee and <A HREF="http://scientificactivist.blogspot.com/2006/02/breaking-news-george-deu… dropout</A>, is entitled to his opinions on scientific matters, of course, but it does seem&mdash;shall we say presumptuous?&mdash;to insist on editing real scientists on matters of scientific "accuracy."

Stuff That Makes You Go Hmmm

Stuff That Makes You Go Hmmm

Feb 08, 2006

I did some work for Muzak once and made the mistake of calling it "music" within the hearing of my boss. He corrected me, "It is a work enhancement technology." Muzak, he explained, was designed to operate subliminally and different programs were designed to have different effects. Office music was designed to keep you focused and working briskly, whereas shopping music was designed to chill you out and make you linger, perhaps to buy more.

Keith Howard's Ringing False: Digital Audio's Ubiquitous Filter

Submitted by buelligan on

This is an excellent and informative article. I am a fan of Keith's writing. What we all must remember is that the data on a disc do not trace out the waveform at higher frequencies. The data points on the disk are the skeleton for the digital filter to flesh out. His point about the ringing pattern of the digital filters time domain response being directly responsible for replicating the higher frequency components of the waveform is one that many detractors of digital audio seem to be unaware.

Audio Research Ref 3 Preamp

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Hello all. I auditioned this preamp this past weekend; The rest of the system was:

Paradigm Signatures S8
ARC 300.2 solid state amp
Cyrus CD Player....

Needless to say this was a sublime audio experience, as cliche as this may sound, I have never heard a system this good, ever!! This new ARC preamp is really something else. I'm not a big tube fan, but I think this time ARC got it right and hit it way out of the park, the sound was rich, enveloping, textured,without loosing transparency...Everything was just perfect, anybody else have heard this new preamp???

Some Fine Tunes

Some Fine Tunes

Feb 07, 2006

You know, because, at first, all I had was the Arcam Solo, and the Arcam Solo does everything. It's a good-looking, easy-to-use, single-box multi-purpose solution; a CD playing, AM/FM receiving, integrated amplifying dreamboat of a component. It does everything I want it to do, does it all very well, and takes up almost no space and draws very little attention to itself while doing it. I love it. If you're interested in a fun and easy, one-stop ride into the high-end, then I think you should definitely get to know the Solo. But, like <a href="http://gpn.unl.edu/rainbow/">Reading Rainbow</a>, you don't have to take my word for it. I can't go assuming authority around here. I may not know audio all that well yet, but I know cool. And the Arcam Solo is cool. Art Dudley, who is way smarter than me about this, and most other stuff, also liked it. <a href="http://www.stereophile.com/amplificationreviews/705arcam/index.html">He said</a>:

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