{"id":5202,"date":"2015-09-18T17:57:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T00:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/?p=5202"},"modified":"2015-09-18T17:57:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T00:57:09","slug":"appropriating-the-audiophile-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/?p=5202","title":{"rendered":"Appropriating The Audiophile Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before I get too deep into the subject of the day, I want to let you know that I&#8217;m finally done with the Kickstarter Campaign video and all supporting materials. It&#8217;s taken way too long, but I must say the whole thing is much tighter and clearer than it was. Take a look at the preview page on Kickstarter and let me know if you agree. It&#8217;s too late to change any of the raw material in the video but I might be able to tweak something here or there. My friend Robert Margouleff suggested I zoom in on a couple of shots in the studio, which I thought was an effective change. I reordered the sequence of the video to place the information about the book and disc closer to the front. I edited out another 30 seconds and added a couple more graphics. You can view the whole Kickstarter preview at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1856656547\/2045252375?token=cf2c8fa9\" target=\"_blank\">Music and Audio Guide KS page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the latest version of the video, which now comes in at 2:17:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"313\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VFOv8FNXVYo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video No. 1 &#8211; The Music and Audio Guide Kickstarter Video&#8230;latest revision.<\/p>\n<p>The last thing I&#8217;ll share with you is the mock up image of the finished book. I just thought it came out pretty well&#8230;people seem to like the graphic design. I do too. I&#8217;ll be on Scott Wilkinson&#8217;s Home Theater Geek Show on the 24th of September and on Leo Laporte&#8217;s Triangulation Show later this month. I&#8217;m going to be talking about the latest developments in high-resolution audio\/music and discussing the new book. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MAAG_MockUp-Book.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MAAG_MockUp-Book.png\" alt=\"MAAG_MockUp-Book\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5203\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Figure 1 &#8211; The Music and Audio: A User Guide To Better Audio book design<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons I got into the whole crowd-sourcing thing is because I&#8217;m working with a friend on his campaign. He and his son have developed something called &#8220;Sonic Blocks&#8221;, which are basically modular WiFi speakers that can be completely customized. I&#8217;ll be sharing more information his efforts, as they get closer to their launch in October. Trust me&#8230;it&#8217;s pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>As part of his advisory group, I&#8217;ve been involved in meetings at the Hollywood headquarter of Agency 2.0. They&#8217;re one of the top crowd-souring campaign management teams. These people seem to know what they&#8217;re doing. At a recent meeting, they placed a Bluetooth portable speaker being promoted by a Wisconsin company called Princeton Audio. Their product is the Site:1, a handmade, customizable, Bluetooth speaker. It held one of the early prototypes in my hand. It seems to be just another portable speaker&#8230;but made out of &#8220;tonewoods&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the copy on the page says. &#8220;What Stradivarius did for string instruments, Princeton Audio does for speaker system and sound amplification&#8221;. It&#8217;s the use of wood rather than plastic that makes their design similar to a Stradivarius violin or cello. I&#8217;m afraid I&#8217;m not convinced that using a chunk of maple or black walnut is enough to make this little unit sing like a fine Stradivarius instrument. Don&#8217;t you think the electronics and the single 3&#8243; driver will have more impact? I do.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s what they have to say in the tech specs section of the page:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022  Audiophile &#8211; 24 \/ 96 ksps Digital to Analog Converter<br \/>\n\u2022  3&#8243; Full Range Transducer<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more but the fact that they never mention the response characteristics of the driver or the fact that Bluetooth won&#8217;t reach 96 kHz\/24-bit PCM audio specs. There are too many portable speakers in the market if you ask me. But if you&#8217;re going to try and raise a bunch of money by bragging about using &#8220;tonewoods&#8221; and mentioning the word &#8220;audiophile&#8221; instead of laying out some great audio specs, I remain skeptical.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t let that happen with Sonic Blocks, I&#8217;ve already spec&#8217;d out the drivers and this little system will kick the Site:1 out of the water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I get too deep into the subject of the day, I want to let you know that I&#8217;m finally<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5205,"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-5202","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\/5202","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5206,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202\/revisions\/5206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}