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Analog vs Digital - Pop Science for a Day Analog vs Digital - Pop Science for a Day In last week’s episode, PBS pop-science magazine show Wired Science covered the issue of analog vs digital sound – predictably, the piece was highly compressed and lacked dynamic range.
$55,000 Remote Control Goes Well With $7,250 Speaker Cables $55,000 Remote Control Goes Well With $7,250 Speaker Cables Excess knows no bounds. We here at Audioholics are a practical lot. After having recently lambasted ridiculously overpriced speaker cables whose attributes read like many warnings on the list of Top…
AVRant #28: Dina has hit her Quotie AVRant #28: Dina has hit her Quotie Tom starts off with a few announcements about the AVRant voicemail, the new music challenge, a few minor changes to the website, and AVRant’s ranking on Podcast Alley (you guys ROCK!!!). Tom…
Xbox Live Marketplace to Sell Full Game Downloads Xbox Live Marketplace to Sell Full Game Downloads Since its launch on November 15th 2002, Xbox Live has generated a user base of about eight million gamers - it's widely considered the top feature of Microsoft’s Xbox game consoles. For the fifth…
Sony CEO Uncertain of Blu-ray Future Sony CEO Uncertain of Blu-ray Future After the spanking Blu-ray got at the hands of HD DVD recently, Sony's CEO Sir Howard Stringer commented that the two formats are in a "stalemate" according to the Associated Press. While he doesn't…
2007 Electronic House Expo (EHX) Long Beach 2007 Electronic House Expo (EHX) Long Beach I'm flying home from California today after spending the week at the EHX show in Long Beach this week. Although the show is geared towards custom installers and integrators, I have never been to EHX…
Radiohead - So did the Boot Work? Radiohead - So did the Boot Work? Results of Radiohead’s little experiment of life without leeches, I mean record labels, have started to come in. Early on, reports showed that in excess of ONE MILLION people downloaded the album…
Holiday Sales Frenzy – Friday’s HD-DVD Smoke Clears Holiday Sales Frenzy – Friday’s HD-DVD Smoke Clears Last Friday’s pre-Black Friday sales wars kicked off what should be an interesting holiday season for the little format war that is going on. The opening salvo was fired not by either format backer,…
AVRant #27: Too Many Topics, Too Little Time AVRant #27: Too Many Topics, Too Little Time You thought things were crazy last week? Wait until Dina's announcement. Tom deconstructs the Wal-Mart "secret" sale where an HD DVD player was on sale for $99. Is investing in a DVD player with top…
There has never been a better time to rent There has never been a better time to rent The WGA strike is on folks, and they're reporting that this one could be a doozie. The last WGA strike went on for 22 weeks (that's an entire season of shows) and cost the industry an estimated $500…