Jun 26
Pioneer’s new SB-PS23W is a soundbar the way most people want it: A simple, relatively inexpensive way to make a television sound louder. In that way, it’s cut from the same cloth as the fantastic AirPlay speakers
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Jun 24
There’s plenty of precedent for echolocation in the natural world: bats can navigate based on the echo of their chirrups; and blind humans, at least anecdotally, sometimes develop remarkable sound-based spatial skills. But using sound to accurately map a space in three dimensions? That’s new.
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Jun 20
Chances are you’ve used an equalizer before, and chances are there was a lot of blindly turning dials and hoping something good happened. The Timbre Speaker embraces exactly that kind of blind experimentation by using nothing but two glasses for its sound control.
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May 03
ASRock Purity Sound motherboards come with better audio shielding, headphone amps
Posted in: Today's Chili
Not that we were necessarily asking for it, but we now have another spec to weigh up when choosing a new Haswell motherboard. ASRock’s A-Style Z87 mobos will come with a bunch of audio-related features collectively called “A-Style: Purity Sound”, which the company claims will result in a better signal-to-noise ratio (115dB) compared to regular onboard 7.1-channel circuitry. The boards will also come with a dedicated headphone amp that should be able to high-impedance drive cans up to 600 Ohms, plus DTS Connect for converting PC audio to the DTS codec for optical out. There’s some extra shielding around the components, which lends plausibility to the better SNR and the promise of better sound quality — so Purity Sound probably can’t be dismissed as Purity Marketing. In any case, just make sure you also pay this much attention to your next power supply.
Filed under: Desktops, Gaming, Home Entertainment
Via: FarEastGizmos
Source: ASRock
Apr 25
It’s not often you get to hear with the 19th century sounded like, but thanks to 3D scanning and old wax cylinders, it’s possible. And now, for the very first time, we know what Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the all-important telephone, might have sounded like when he made that historic call. More »
Apr 23
This wonderful 53-minute movie, released for free on Vimeo and produced with no budget, tells the story of of a high schooler obsessed with experiencing the world through technologically created sound bites. More »
Apr 19
The new sci-fi thriller Oblivion opens today, and the SoundWorks Collection has a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at how the filmmakers used sound and music to paint the chilling landscapes of post-apocalyptic Earth. More »
Apr 15
The Zoom H4N has clinched the spot of go-to audio recorder for DSLR videographers everywhere. With the announcement of the H6, Zoom may have made the best in class even better. More »
Apr 12
You usually don’t expect a lamp to do much more than provide a little illumination and snazz up a room. But maybe it’s time you should. Monica Armani’s Silenzio lamps are made with sound-absorbing foam and fabrics so they chase away the dark and the decibels. More »
Apr 08
If you zoom in on the surface of a vinyl record using a microscope, to the untrained eye it kind of looks like a series of mountains and valleys. It’s actually the waveform representation of a song or other sounds, but what would happen if you took a map of the Earth’s mountains and valleys and turned that into a record? The results, of course, sound terrible. More »
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