One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Thursday, 20 October 2005

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The Resolution Project
In the past few years, one of the most hotly debated topics on pro audio Internet forums has been high-resolution audio and its effect (or lack of) on everything from audio sales to listeners' physical and mental health. Conspicuously absent has been a verifiable resolution comparison method accessible by end-users. And while those who have access to expensive, higher-resolution audio equipment generally agree that “high-rez” audio is important for archiving, many say that “the masses” or “the iPod generation” either cannot hear the difference in quality between 192kHz/24-bit audio and low bit-rate MP3 files, or they simply do not care. Meanwhile, those who do not have access to expensive, higher-resolution audio equipment argue that the capture medium is irrelevant if the artistic merit is lacking.

Enter Generator LLC, a consulting firm dedicated to product creation and development. Founder and producer John Calder has a background in major-label audio engineering, combined with experience as a product specialist, advertising writer, marketing director and product creator. He also witnessed format war debates first-hand when he was the marketing director at Minnetonka Audio Software Inc., creating the discWelder DVD-authoring product line. Minnetonka is well-known for its software encoding products for DTS, AC-3 and MLP, so Calder was in an excellent position to observe the need for a tool that would let end-users compare audio captures at various resolutions with different distribution formats. The tool for the job was a DVD-A disc called The Resolution Project.
[Via MixCurrentIssue]

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Eight Talking Heads Albums Released on DualDisc
October 4th saw the highly anticipated high-resolution release of eight Talking Heads studio albums, packaged together with rare, unreleased audio and video tracks and stunning surround mixes created by band member Jerry Harrison and E.T Thorngren in a box set known as the Talking Heads ‘Brick’.
Each DualDisc has a standard resolution CD side, and over on the DVD side there’s are multi-channel Dolby Digital surround and Dolby Digital stereo mixes for DVD-Video players together with a dedicated 96kHz 24-bit stereo track and 96kHz 24-bit 5.1 multi-channel mix, both for DVD-Audio machines.
[Via DVD-Audio and SACD News]

Really!? Now we're talking!

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Fascinating. DAB under Eureaka 147 has been thought to be dead (due to lack of consumer interest) for some time in Canada. With the success of Eureka 147 in the UK and now this announcement is there a possibility of a renewal?

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In an interview Monday on CBC Radio's The Current, Rabinovitch said the union for the 5,500 locked-out workers should share the blame for the labour disruption. He said managers had to lock out the employees on Aug. 15 or face strike action by the Canadian Media Guild at a more critical time.

Listen to the interview[19 min; RealAudio]

[Via I Love Radio .org]

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