Why Too Much Limiting is a Bad Thing
It is all too common for material these days to be mastered at high average levels of anywhere between -13dB to -9dB relative to full s...
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Removing Inter-Sample Overs from the Har-Bal Limiter
Inter-sample overs is something of a mis-understood issue that need not be an issue but it depends upon how format conversion interface...
A Late Christmas
Leading up to Christmas last year my eldest daughter was putting together her wish list and asking me if I could get her a bluetooth sp...
Loudspeaker Design Criticism
I have received some detailed criticism on my loudspeaker design because of my choice of a vented enclosure. The basis of the criticism...
Loudspeaker System Design: The Final Details
As promised much too long ago, here are the detailed plans and bill of materials to construct my new loudspeaker system.
The PCB (prin...
When Loudness Wars visit why mp3’s Sound Better than CD’s
It must have been sometime last year during my epic loudspeaker design project (in testing phase) that I noticed, to my shock, that whe...
Loudspeaker System Design – More Performance Measurements
In my previous frequency response measurements posted for the unfinished prototypes I inadvertently had the woofer wired in the wrong p...
Loudspeaker System Design – Completion and Listening Evaluation
Construction to Completion
Making the loudspeaker cabinets "unfinished" was easy, perhaps two days work. Actually giving them a stylish...
Loudspeaker System Design : The Moment of Truth
The elaborate processes I've used in designing this loudspeaker system counts for nothing if not realised in a concrete form. Out of ex...
Loudspeaker System Design : Box Tuning
As I alluded to if you happened to read (or at least skim) through the paper I wrote discussing loudspeaker theory, the tuning of a ven...