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    Shielded speakers cables

    I had shielded 18 ga speaker wire when I lived near a large radio transmitting tower. It was some kind of Belden with foil and an 18 or 20 drain wire. It worked fine without grounding the drain. Unshielded cable picked up the radio station. Magnetic shielding for the speakers - MuMetal is to...
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    What does it take to succesfully transition to a green energy economy?

    I think what you describe is like what in the US is called "retail choice." In the US it is allowed or not allowed state by state. Originally the US had "vertically integrated" electric utilities. They were encouraged to divide the business into 1. generator owners, 2. transmission owners with...
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    15 year old designs the Alexander Piano without wire-wound bass strings

    Modern pianos use wire-wound bass strings. Without that, the strings have to be much longer. A curious 15 year old, Adrian Mann in New Zealand explored the idea by stretching single piano wire in his back yard and testing the sound. By age 20 he completed his first Alexander Piano named after...
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    What does it take to succesfully transition to a green energy economy?

    Yes, thanks for that. At one time NL had an experimental trial of small scale neighborhood peer-to-peer energy buying and selling using blockchain. The problem with microtransactions is the transaction overhead cost, so you want the parties to have sufficient cash reserves in their accounts...
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    What does it take to succesfully transition to a green energy economy?

    One of my professional areas is the electricity grid. In the US and many countries there are wholesale electricity markets for energy - KWh or MWh. The price varies every 5, 15, or 60 minutes in a bidding system. The generators bid in the lowest cost they will sell for, and the market operator...
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    Remastering Mahler's Symphony No. 6 von Karajan tape to vinyl for DG Original Source Series

    Emil Berliner Studios https://emil-berliner-studios.com/en/ has many services and has their own YouTube. They are a B&W house. They continue to remaster A_A to vinyl. For this original recording from 1977, they combined tracks from 3 tapes to the lathe. (Illustrates cutting from 3 original...
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    Unique immersive mix room in a commercial audio school

    Blackbird Academy / Blackbird Studio is a commercial music school in Nashville, TN. I really don't know much about them. I would not recommend the field as a job unless you have exclusive access to a rising musician. Their Studio C came across my feeds. I'm not sure what to make of the room. I...
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    Bob Clearmountain home and studio destroyed by Palisades fire | he and family are safe

    First, they caught the drone flyer which crashed into the firefighting plane sent from Canada. Second this probably belongs here, in the spirit of many benefit concerts over the years. 10:45 Green Day (with Billie Eilish at 12:10)22:23 Billy Crystal28:43 Alanis Morissette39:54 Anderson...
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    Jazz ♫ Music only | In the now, or recently, or that you love...

    Jazz has been called America's classical music. George Gershwin, 1898-1937. Rhapsody in Blue, 1924 is found in many arrangements, including as a piano concerto. Here the Boston Pops plays Rhapsody in Blue. The piano soloist is Michelle Wu, the mayor of Boston! "At the Boston Symphony...
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    Classical ♫ Music only | Some you listen now or recently, some you love...

    I recently discovered violinist Laura St John. She is FB friends with one of my FB friends, neither of whom I have met. She was a child prodigy and maintains an active solo career with major symphonies. She also plays works beyond the pre-1900 core classical repertory...
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    ASR recommendations for lottery winners.

    I would build a Hidley room home theater with massaging chairs and a home chef. I would like to try some ATC monitors. A beach house and apartments in several cities would be nice. Add many concert subscriptions.
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    Random Technical Picture Upload Thread

    Northwest Germany Museum for Industrial Culture https://nordwollemuseen.jimdofree.com/
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    Why do movie makers get the HiFi so wrong?

    Is there a topic for movies that get HiFi or audiophile right? Search returns too many pages.
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    Small, cute, but good sounding desktop speakers

    I'm a design geek and have an KEF HTS3001 system, second owner, as one of my systems. There are spinoramas out there for them, they can be EQed from those or a calibrated microphone in your listening position using the free Room EQ Wizard software. I also like the powered KEF HTB2 subwoofer and...
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    Listening Bars Around the World

    Of course the algorithm has served me a Facebook group on the topic. "Audio museums, Audio cafes & Audio attractions" https://www.facebook.com/groups/audeum
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    Most beautiful speakers in the world ?

    Cafe of the Oita Prefecture Museum, Oita, Kyushu, Japan This own would be an interesting spinorama.
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    Prices of Very Large Flat TVs are Falling Fast

    It has to do with manufacturing. The battle now is between Korean and Chinese manufacturing. Each new fab is a large capital cost that is spread over years of production, with oversupply dynamics. Fabs have to be built next to glass substrate factories. The glass substrates are classified by...
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    Prices of Very Large Flat TVs are Falling Fast

    Of course. One way to improve projection is with a screen tuned to reflect the RGB laser wavelengths and not reflect the other wavelengths in ambient light. Rec. 2020 primaries are 630 nm for red, 532 nm for green, and 467 nm for blue. If you build a screen with thin film filters to only reflect...
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