{"id":5189,"date":"2015-09-15T14:54:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T21:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/?p=5189"},"modified":"2015-09-15T14:54:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T21:54:42","slug":"ready-for-launch-i-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/?p=5189","title":{"rendered":"Ready for Launch&#8230;I Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I believe that I&#8217;ve completed all of the Kickstarter requirements and am just about ready to submit it to them. There are ten different reward opportunities for supporters. You&#8217;ll be able to get the book and demo files in electronic form or even come to the AIX Studio for a curated listening session or sit in on a new recording session. I took many of your suggestions and revised the pitch video. It now starts with a short segment from the landing page and is slightly tighter than the previous version. Here&#8217;s the link to the &#8220;final&#8221; version:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wgGnGDPMZG4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Those of you with production experience will realize how much time it takes to produce a couple of minutes of video with a bunch of motion graphics. I&#8217;ve easily spent 30 hours on this. But I&#8217;m happy with the results. It tells the story of my little company, a little about myself, and what I&#8217;m trying to do. If you want to preview the Kickstarter page, I&#8217;m happy to provide a link if you send me a private email (mwaldrep@aixmediagroup.com). I don&#8217;t want to publish the link to the preview, but I would like to get some feedback.<\/p>\n<p>I shoveled a whole bunch of stuff in the written portion and I&#8217;m thinking it might be too long. Just how much personal background do potential supporters want? The driving message of the whole campaign and the book needs to be that most of the stuff you read about high-end audio&#8230;and especially high-resolution audio\/music&#8230;is of questionable worth. I want to explain to people that getting better sound is not about an expensive cable or audiophile tweak. It starts and ends with the basics&#8230;get great content and play it back through a system that won&#8217;t destroy its fidelity. So if you find yourself drifting from that message, I&#8217;ve written too much. <\/p>\n<p>The campaign will run for 30 days starting next week (the exact date is determined by the people at Kickstarter&#8230;if you want to receive an email the moment it launches, please add you name to the email list. There are a number of limited EARLY BIRD SPECIALS that might be of interest.). My goal is to raise $25,000 to defray the costs of the printing of the books and the replication of the discs.<\/p>\n<p>The key strategy is to engage with supporters early. With that in mind, please consider helping me by becoming an early supporter AND spread the word among your audio enthusiast friends. The book will be a great resource for those looking to learn about better sound and hear the realities of high-resolution audio\/music.<\/p>\n<p>The starting line is rapidly approaching&#8230;and then there&#8217;s running the race for 30 days. Thanks again for all of the help.<\/p>\n<p>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<\/p>\n<p>I have a request to make of my friends in Europe. I&#8217;m going to be in Switzerland during the last part of October and would love to hear from individuals associated with educational institutions or professional organizations that might want to host a Dr. AIX seminar or master class. I&#8217;ve got some open slots in my calendar. If anyone has some connections, please feel free to contact me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe that I&#8217;ve completed all of the Kickstarter requirements and am just about ready to submit it to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[97,657,50,1041,40,172,57,17,1032,70,640,26,639,1043,980,42,298,251,645,638,637,227,643,169,1026,1027,954,150,41,347,27,1022,116,659,660,661],"class_list":["post-5189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dr_aixs_posts","tag-5-1-surround","tag-advanced-resolution","tag-aix-records","tag-analog-copies","tag-analog-vs-digital","tag-audio-resolution","tag-audio-specifications","tag-dsd","tag-dvd_audio","tag-hd-downloads","tag-hd-music","tag-hd-audio","tag-hi-res-audio","tag-hi-res","tag-hi-res-music","tag-high-resolution-audio","tag-high-res-music","tag-high-resolution","tag-high-resolution-audio-experience","tag-hires-audio","tag-hires-music","tag-hra","tag-hra-listening-experience","tag-mark-waldrep","tag-music-and-audio","tag-music-and-audio-a-user-guide-to-better-sound","tag-music-server","tag-pcm","tag-provenance","tag-spectragram","tag-spectragraphs","tag-studio-acoustics","tag-surround-music","tag-uhd-audio","tag-ultra-high-definition-audio","tag-ultra-high-resolution-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5190,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189\/revisions\/5190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}