Monthly Archives: August 2003

Blush!

I shan’t make a habit of this, but this is the inaugural bit of hifi-writer.com correspondence. Ben Kwong writes: Hi Stephen,I recently just got back from the Sony Product Launch and did a search on the new KVHR36M31 Tv and … Continue reading

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Eat Drink Clean Dirty

The interlacing plot thickens. While I have identified specific problems with frame misalignment in some PAL DVDs, some other DVDs have interlacing problems which are more difficult to diagnose. For example, Twentieth Century Fox has just sent me a number of … Continue reading

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Janice Joplin’s Bass noise

The audio producers of CDs and other music really do need the best possible monitoring equipment. Unfortunately, far too many (particulary those preparing stereo material) seem to rely on relatively small direct field monitors that, unfortunately, are somewhat bass deficient. … Continue reading

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… but how much infrasonic do you want anyway?

Just pondering my last post (‘Rumbling a Subwoofer with a Cartoon‘) and thinking about those high levels of infrasonic sound. If we posit that there were such a thing as a subwoofer that would deliver down to ten hertz or … Continue reading

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