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  1. DavidW

    Sonus Faber Tower Speaker Comparison: Do they live up to the marketing?

    Yes they do. A modern form of this was the SCIgen computer program that I refereneced in the article. It was written by researchers at MIT to generate fake computer science papers, complete with citations, figures, and graphs, to submit to conferences and journals where they suspected low...
  2. DavidW

    Sonus Faber Tower Speaker Comparison: Do they live up to the marketing?

    As Gene said, the article never says that they do not make good speakers. What stood out for me, compared to other similar products, was not just that they had some techno-babble in their marketing, it was how over the top it was and the sheer quantity of it. It was relentless. David
  3. DavidW

    Sonus Faber Tower Speaker Comparison: Do they live up to the marketing?

    I do not know when they discontinued the Toy line, but I do not think it was 2012. The Toy speakers were in the brochure I pulled down a few months ago along with the colors and they were still listed on the product page earlier this year...
  4. DavidW

    Bryston Model T Floorstanding Speakers

    Actually, most buildings have very little damping, usually about 1%-2% of critical damping at service load levels, depending on the material used, and only goes up to 2%-5% under extreme conditions such as earthquake loading where the structure is actually taking damage that creates the extra...
  5. DavidW

    Dirac Releases "Dirac Live" Room Correction Suite

    For the more adventurous and cost conscious ... For those of you who are a bit more adventurous and cost conscious, there are open source programs that can perform digital room correction using a PC that are available on SourceForge: DRC: Digital Room Correction Convolver — a convolution...
  6. DavidW

    A Detailed Look at the Importance of Proper Loudspeaker Cabinet Bracing

    There is an intermediate step required, which would be to do a coupled field analysis of the fluid-structure interaction to calculate the response of the air to the cabinet movement. From this analysis, the acoustic output across the frequency band of concern could be calculated. In general...
  7. DavidW

    A Detailed Look at the Importance of Proper Loudspeaker Cabinet Bracing

    The use of a stiffer material could help, but would not necessarily make the vibration problem go away. It all depends on the cabinet geometry. The natural material stiffness, known as the modulus of elasticity, of aluminum is significantly greater than for MDF. Aluminum has an E = 10,000...
  8. DavidW

    A Detailed Look at the Importance of Proper Loudspeaker Cabinet Bracing

    Doubling the mesh to 0.25 inches changes the fundamental frequency of the unbraced 3/4 inch panel from 114.05 Hz to 114.13 Hz, but at a substantial penalty to the run time. The difference in the results are less than 0.1%.
  9. DavidW

    A Detailed Look at the Importance of Proper Loudspeaker Cabinet Bracing

    Actually, I did address audibility of sound from the cabinet in the article, amongst the eye-glazing math, as referenced from Sound and Structural Vibration: I just didn't solve the equation for results from my particular cabinet panel, because as Gene mentioned, this was not the main point...
  10. DavidW

    2010: The Year AACS and HDMI Kill Off Component Video

    Clint, Hollywood will fight the future to the bitter end, just as the recording industry has. It bears mentioning that this move is effectively plan B by Hollywood after last years attempt to once again get the FCC to allow SOC. Because the FCC has denied them this feature as they like to...
  11. DavidW

    RBH Sound Signature Reference 8300-SE/R Loudspeaker Review

    Gene, It sounds like some, those who are unduly concerned about what the internal wiring looks like, may also be interested in some $10,000+ speaker cables. You know the kind that impart magical purity to the music that can only come from mystical dielectrics hitherto unknown to man, and...
  12. DavidW

    Alternatives for AV Home Networking

    I think this is nit-picking semantics. The statement I made does not assign any proportion to various components of a signal, it simply attempts to list them. The error correction coding is a fixed ratio of any transmission or retransmission. Signal attenuation, in and of itself, leads to...
  13. DavidW

    UK Family has HT Kit Confiscated over Noise Complaints

    The number of complaints aside, which varies between 6 and 8 from different accounts, the Daily Mail notes an interesting point: Mrs Cregan, who, along with one of her children is partially deaf, was unrepentant. She denies Miss Kausser's account. When the set is returned, she said...
  14. DavidW

    Blu-ray Prognosis: Samsung gives Five Years to Live, BDA says Life Eternal

    The issue I am getting at is that neither Griffiths nor Samsung have spoken out against Pocket-Lint's presentation of his statements. If he was that flagrantly misquoted by Pocket-Lint or had words put into his mouth to stir up controversy, one would think either he or Samsung would quickly...
  15. DavidW

    Blu-ray Prognosis: Samsung gives Five Years to Live, BDA says Life Eternal

    Touche. I just threw in the spelling comment because I was entertained by the confluence of statements about the Pocket-Lint article not being understandable to second graders, that the commenter also found the article incomprehensible, and then an obvious spelling error in a direct criticism...
  16. DavidW

    Blu-ray Prognosis: Samsung gives Five Years to Live, BDA says Life Eternal

    That would be Pursuing, but truth is subjective and Googling other misinterpretations does not prove anything, so believe what you want, but the article clearly shows Mr. Griffiths speaking about Blu-ray despite a subsequent logical discontinuity that suggested to some that he thinks OLED will...
  17. DavidW

    Blu-ray Prognosis: Samsung gives Five Years to Live, BDA says Life Eternal

    Unless you were personally at the interview, I do not think you have a basis to say what Mr. Griffiths definitely did or did not say. Nor do the other articles prove what he did say or did not say, my point was that this interpretation of the article is quite common. You are entitled to...
  18. DavidW

    Blu-ray Prognosis: Samsung gives Five Years to Live, BDA says Life Eternal

    I am not sure why exactly you believe that Pocket Lint cocked-up the article, as you say, seeing that the article was based on an interview that they conducted with Mr. Griffiths. While the article has certain logical discontinuities as it moves through conversation topics that generate some...
  19. DavidW

    New Research Shows Sound Helps Primates See

    The ovelying premise may seem obvious, but what was more important to realize is that the research shows evidence crossconnection of sensory processing in parts of the brain that were previously believed to be isolated. Direct connection between the audio and visual cortex that was not...
  20. DavidW

    Toshiba’s New BD Attack Vector: Modify DVD for HD Content

    Based on the various forum response, it seems that many are mistaking Toshiba's ploy as introducing another format. I think a more likely reading of the strategy is that they are just going to make the DVD standard more capabable of storing HD content without causing any effect to existing...
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