I've often wondered this. If somebody speaks into your ear, you do not hear the pop you often get on a microphone in the same position do you. Likewise when listening to music in a hall with your ears and then over headphones from a set of mikes you notice the echo on the latter but not on your ears. People say its the way the brain processes the sound, but if that is the case maybe now we...

If you can get speakers are there any phones that fit the bill for studios? One problem of course with phones is you simply cannot mix stereo on them and have it sound right on speakers. Brian -- ----- - This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from... The Sofa of Brian Gaff...

Down in Cornwall last week, my other half dragged me along to the Minack Theatre to see a performance of La Traviata. As it's open air and has quite a large and very steep auditorium, there's some sound reinforcement both for singers and for the mini-orchestra, which used Bose speakers. My word, they're ****poor. Horrible boxy sound. Don't know why they didn't go for higher quality sound and...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Audio-Grounding-GND-Box-wood-chassis-copper-wire-Semiconductor-high-density-/272684386760?hash=item3f7d4189c8 https://tinyurl.com/y8rwh533 I've no idea what a piece of wire attached to a croc clip at one end and a piece of rosewood (possibly containing silicon wafers?) connected to the chassis of your Hi-Fi item is supposed to do. Presumably nothing as they...

People may find this test interesting. Despite the date on one page it is *not* an April Fool! Note that it may only run for 4 weeks. http://www.bbc.co.uk/taster/projects/radio-3-concert-sound/inside-story https://radio-3-concert-sound.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/ The DASH manifest is at: https://vs-dash-ww-rd-live.bbcfmt.hs.llnwd.net/al/lossless/client_manifest.mpd

I been having a session on ripping CDs and reorganising my music. I have a file MyMusic which is also known as a Library for Win7. Just recently I bought a Western Digital 'MyCloud' single disk nas/backup box and enabled the file sync facility. It soon became obvious that all my hard work using Mp3tag to get the metadata correct was being 'undone' by some mysterious process. This is driving me...

I have a mixer here which is din based but a sound box for the computer which is line based and at full up there is not enough level. What I was looking for is a little amplifier which I could put in between one and the other to leave and forget that has no hum hiss or other nasty habits. Anyone seen anything like this around? Brian -- ----- - This newsgroup posting comes to you...

** Hi, this week a old customer donated his long out of use Luxman SQ65 integrated, valve amp to me saying maybe I could fix it, sell it and make some money. What an optimist, the amp is over 50 years old and still has most of the original valves fitted - plus 3 missing. Some of the valves are oddball, like 6DT8s phase splitters and 7868 noval outputs - neither type available in...

Hi, when came across news of this product late last year, it looked very much like a scam. Now I'm not so sure. This link was published by the makers on May 30 this year. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/245727224/mag-lev-audio-the-first-levitating-turntable/posts/1898322

I took up the tenor saxophone six years ago, and enrolled as a mature student at the local Conservatory of Music. Keith G was then one of the most active contributors to this NG. His lady is a very talented clarinet and saxophone player. He was was tickled pink at my venture, and sent me an mp3 (from vinyl of course:-) of Count Basie Orchestra "Frankie and Johnny"

Any parliamentary mathematicians out there? There are 650 MPs in the UK parliament at this moment. Ordinarily that would mean for, say, the Conservatives to get a majority they will need 326 votes. However Sinn Fein do not take their seven seats, so does this mean a) that the Conservatives will now need only 322 for a majority

Selling these fine tubes on eBay. http://www.ebay.com/itm/TELEFUNKEN-EL3010-EL-3010-ULM-GERMANY-1980-AUDIO-POWER-PENTODE-SINGLE-TUBE-/362008291790 Single tube, matched pairs or quads are also available.

In recent weeks my interest have gone via a sort of 'almost random walk'. This started with MQA and the obsession that has with 'timing' via wondering about the time domain behaviour of microphones and old tape recorders to the behaviour of LP replay cartridges and styli. This made me wonder about analysing the stylus mechanical system in terms of a mismatched transmission line. So I've had a go...

I'd like to digitise a couple of LPs, and have the facility to do a few more as and when. I'm looking to get a standalone unit as lashing up the computer is inconvenient, plus I like the idea of having the tracks on the device or portable media like an SD card. Any recommendations please? I was thinking of maybe up to £200 new or secondhand. This looks to be OK, but does more than I...

In article , Andy Furniss spam@spam wrote: Jim Lesurf wrote: With the caveat that I have no ides what distros do, assuming here that there is nothing like ntpd running or ntpd -q via cron changing the time. If your time is roughly right before starting a recording you could just as root/sudo do something like

This autotune system appears to be being used on recordings made by perfectly good in tune singers as a kind of substitute fro double tracking, but unlike its more obvious relative, it is far too precise, and if over used sounds like the person is yodelling and completely ruins any attempt at drama in a delivery. Our latest Eurovision entry shows this, and unfortunatly even Michael Bubbles ...

I'm wondering if anyone makes such a device. Many blind people used to have dual tape decks so when info was on tape, they could easily lift off bits to keep, now, however, most info comes on ram sticks and most players just have the one hole and do not record in any case. I would have thought in this day and age a very simple two stick copier for part of an audio file would be very handy...

On Thursday, June 18, 1998 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Jon Clare wrote: Is the company who made (or still make?) Dual Turntables still going. Has anybody got a Web or postal address?? -- Jon Clare Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng University of Nottingham, UK whats their e mail addy do you haveit

Starting at 00:30 Sunday 7th the BBC are transmitting the dawn chorus from all over Europe on R4 for about 6 hours. Sort of slow radio I guess. handy for those who cannot sleep or are working as security guards at night.

As per subject. While browsing the HMV Worthing store I came across some classical music (German) on Super AUdio CD. There are still a couple of players that support this format but am I right in thinking that everyone has moved on to 'Higher resolution' downloads (or back to vinyl :-) ) ?. Or has the penny dropped and people gone back to standard