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  1. Flat vs. goodIf you were designing a product used on small speaker systems (without full bass response) would you modify the design to make up for the system's...
  2. Saying goodbyeIn yesterday's post I brought up the subject of the lowly TOSLINK cable, sometimes known as an optical cable. For most of us, this is the...
  3. Shedding lightTOSLINK is a plastic optical cable that connects the output of a source device, like a CD or DVD player, to a decoding device like a...
  4. Is it possible?We've been working, as of late, on a long term project to obviate the differences in digital audio delivery methods. We all understand that audio sent...
  5. The last dayThe last day of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) makes me feel badly for the exhibitors. The show floor is empty, the Venetian hotel halls deserted....
  6. Proof!In our comments section, in response to my post FOMO, there is a good and healthy debate going on about the differences in sound quality between...
  7. DogfightI just finished reading a great and insightful book, Dogfight, by Fred Vogelstein. The book chronicles the fight for dominance in the mobile computing market between...
  8. FOMOFear Of Missing Out. Yes, there's a new acronym in town and one that seems to be applicable here at CES. Today's my last day in...
  9. The trial of the centuryIn yesterday's post I told the story of receiving 14 tickets in a row for the same heinous crime: no brake or tail lights on my...
  10. Austin Healey 3000I know this story of my first sale of a stereo product is taking a number of twists and turns and please forgive me, today's will...
  11. A trip to the radio storeIn yesterday's postI relayed the story of being banned from playing the kind of music I liked on the family stereo. Not to be deterred, I...
  12. My first saleI designed, built and sold my first stereo system when I was 17 years old, but at the time I had no intention of making that...
  13. Hard to imagineHow the sound of clapping can be so hard for an amplifier to properly reproduce when music should be ultimate challenge. And equally hard to imagine...