It’s just like Napster. Music was the canary in the coal mine for digital disruption and now it’s the canary in the coal mine for vaccination requirements. In both examples it’s about demand, people want their music and their shows. So Napster was facilitated by two things, high speed connections and the small size of […]

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 […]

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, […]

I’m more excited about software. Today Apple introduced new iPad Pros, a new small iMac with the M1 processor, a new Apple TV…but the highlight was the footage from the new season of “Ted Lasso”… “I never met someone who don’t eat sugar, only heard about ’em, they all live in this godless place called […]