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But Will They Show Up?

Last night Felice journeyed to her sister’s house for an “In the Heights” viewing party (I did not go, I still do not have enough B-cells to retake the vaccine). After eating Mexican food and Marie Callender’s pies, six fully vaccinated people sat in front of the 75″ OLED screen and watched the movie on […]

What you are missing is directionality. What you call “punch” requires a fixed sound source, not some frequency-selective phase shifting — One of the reasons Quad failed was because it had no “punch.” In fact, mono was (is) better than stereo. Dolby surround in movie theaters is an aural illusion, just like this crap. as […]

Spatial Audio

I got the following e-mail from a producer/engineer: “I just want to try and alert you to the potential seismic scam happening with this Atmos roll out.  Atmos catalog remixing is being done by the truckload in a handful of Nashville, LA, and NYC rooms right now and has been for a couple of years, […]

Bo Burnham: Inside

This is the album of the year. But it was released as a Netflix comedy special. “Hey man you may have seen it but for something truly beautiful check out Bo Burnham’s Inside – it’s truly art” I got that iMessage at 10:48 last Wednesday night, a time when most people are afraid of sending […]