Month: August 2014

The Television vs. The Projector?

Every now and then you still come across CRT televisions: bulky and often small in size, they've quickly dropped by the way side. For some it may even make it to a second or third repair service, for almost all the others they end up as junk on the street corner, serving out the last of their existence. Their modern TV successors have been on a long race for first prize in functionality, design and screen size. Fueling this trend of home cinema ambitions is the horde of customers, who are watching sporting events, games, and evening blockbusters, whilst wanting to get the perfect viewing experience across the genres. While this promise so far was apparently solved with a projector screen now in the equation, one may still now weigh up the options: Big Screen TV or Projector?

Digital Music: How It Works

As part of our series on The Source of Good Music we've already touched several fields of "Digital Music". We've compared different storage formats for music information presented and compared, it fell to assess the quality of these data mainly two concepts again and again: sample rate and word length. But what exactly do they actually mean? And what happens in the translation of analog signals in the digital world? Even at the risk of literally go here in a bottomless pit, we will try to provide some basic answers, focusing on the widespread PCM method (Pulse Code Modulation).

Room Acoustics

Describe the room you are sitting in. Even music lovers and the sound obsessed will probably begin with the visible. Spaces always have their own sound, but we are rarely conscious of it. Unless you're being swept away by the symphony in the concert hall, or by the blaring bass of the stereo as you moved through space. Maybe you've enjoyed participating in a lively discussion in a public place as well as in confined meeting room? To inform yourself on the strain on your nerves to hear sound in certain spaces and by what laws spaces otherwise react to sound, please refer to our article on some key terms on the interesting theme of room acoustics.