Tag: acoustics

  • Combining Bass Loudness & Decay Times To Improve Stereo Quality

    Combining Bass Loudness & Decay Times To Improve Stereo Quality

    Research from acoustics scientist Dr. Floyd Toole indicates that bass quality accounts for about 30% of your system’s sound quality.  So, I’ve experimented with target curves that raise the bass loudness relative to other frequencies and added bass traps to reduce its decay times to improve my system performance and satisfaction.  My experiments are on…

  • Audiophile Pure DSD Release Showcases Classical Guitarist Ana Vidovic

    Audiophile Pure DSD Release Showcases Classical Guitarist Ana Vidovic

    Guitarist Ana Vidović Performs a Spellbinding Selection of Classical Works On Live at Hampden Hall — Renowned classical guitarist Vidović offers a program of J.S. Bach, Barrios, Scarlatti, Sor and more in an intimate Pure DSD 256 live recording– Boulder, Colorado, September, 2023 – Octave Records is honored to present internationally-acclaimed classical guitarist Ana Vidović on its latest release, Ana Vidović Live…

  • Definitive Guide to Speaker Setup Now Available

    Definitive Guide to Speaker Setup Now Available

    Octave Records Debuts The Audiophile’s Guide: The Loudspeaker, the Definitive Guide to Speaker Setup –  New book and companion SACD disc/download dive into exacting, step-by-step detail on how to get the most out of any loudspeaker – Boulder, Colorado, October, 2022 – PS Audio’s Octave Records label announces its latest release, The Audiophile’s Guide: The Loudspeaker, a book and companion SACD/download that tells listeners…

  • Electronic Opera Uses Physical Spaces To Connect Narrative With Sound

    Electronic Opera Uses Physical Spaces To Connect Narrative With Sound

    Back in 2005, composer Lewis Spratlan and I began work on an opera inspired by Louis Kahn. Kahn, who excelled in music and once considered becoming a composer, was especially cognizant of how sound works in a physical space. “Space has tonality,” he often said. Kallick, a professor of music at Amherst College, made recordings…

  • Hidden Treasure SATA Data Cable Upgrades Music Server & Computer Audio Performance

    Hidden Treasure SATA Data Cable Upgrades Music Server & Computer Audio Performance

    Audiophiles are using music servers more often as preferred listening sources of music and SATA cable choice is now more important than ever.

  • Why We Have A Romantic Conception Of Reverberation

    Why We Have A Romantic Conception Of Reverberation

    Reverberation. Why are its effects so pleasing to our ears and how is reverberation designed and controlled?

  • Thirty Five Million Dollar Star Trek Themed Mansion

    Thirty Five Million Dollar Star Trek Themed Mansion

    BOCA RATON, Fla.– May 2014 — The “Star Trek Mansion” in Boca Raton, Florida, is now on the market for a cool $35 million, featuring a much-buzzed-about home theater designed by Acoustic Innovations. Created to model the bridge of the Star Ship Enterprise, the theater is the focal point of the 27,000-square-foot home owned by…