The music business has changed dramatically and no one will admit it. I was stretching last night, one of the world’s most boring activities, so while I was doing so I was reading the Apple News on my phone and came across this article: “Why hit songs suddenly matter more than the stars that sing […]

File trading is history. 10% of the public will never pay for music, ignore them. Files are history. Music, like television and so much more, is on demand. As time goes by we will own less and less. As for those worried about a blackout, a breakdown of the internet, if you’ve got no power […]

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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 […]