Michael, Author at Audio Federation

May 27, 2017 by Michael

The problem with Noobs on the Internet

The problem with Noobs on the Internet and why we have so many unhappy audiophiles [Ha! Thought I was going to talk about Noobs and politics didn’t you 🙂 Or reviewers. Or colleagues at work. Or your kids. Or… yep, this is pretty universal human behavior].

I guess there should be a follow up with how mass populations believe everything they hear in a new technological medium when it is new, but slowly get ‘inoculated’ against all the same-old dirty tricks and misinformation and become immune there, just like they are in the old mediums. I mean, who believes TV commercials anymore, or You Have Won $1000000! letters in the mail [where is Ed McMahon when you need him 🙂 Maybe that is him at the door right now!!! Got to go!].

[Nope. Wasn’t him].

Maybe, just maybe, those new amps didn’t blow ANYONE away – maybe someone just wants to get your attention because they are lonely. Or they just want to think ‘made you look’.

What a world 🙂

Found the chart above in a course on Machine Learning. Neli and I are at the part of the graph where we think we know about 50% of what there is to know. 🙂 [Hey, it is a VERY new science. Not much to it ;-)]

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May 20, 2017 by Michael

Audio Note M10 Signature Preamplifier Review

Audio Note M10 Signature Preamplifier Review by Fred Crowder has just been posted over on Dagogo.

Meticulous clean design with many custom parts.

Detailed view of the circuit board. No wavesoldered traces here, no sir 🙂

Fred Crowder’s system. Somebody is envious [that would be me :-)].

Neli has heard this system recently, with the new M10 Signature, and she might have more to say. [hint hint :-)]

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May 15, 2017 by Michael

Audio Federation at the LA Audio Show 2017

We will be at the LA Audio Show 2017 this year previously called T.H.E. Show Newport which was in Irvine. 😉

Setup is June 1 and the show opens June 2 and ends on June 4th at 4:00pm.

Acapella Audio Arts’ La Musika integrated amplifier

This is a new hotel for this show. Which I guess makes sense since this is kind of a new show, though it takes place in the same Greater L.A. area on the same dates as the old one. We all loved the old hotel – great service, decently solid walls and high-ceilings [which made the technique of bouncing the camera’s flash off the ceiling not work quite as well as it does in most hotel rooms]. And the energy of this hotel, being near the LA Airport vs. the previous being near Newport and the beach… well, the LA Audio Society has a lot of energy – they will just have to step in and lively up the place 🙂

We will be in room 534.

Speakers: Acapella Audio Arts Cellini High.

Amplifier: Acapella Audio Arts La Musika integrated

Digital: Audio Note CDT-5 transport and DAC 5 Signature

Rack: HRS SXR 3-shelf

Cables: A mix of Acapella, Audio Note and TBD

The Audio Note CDT-Five transport on a wonderful Spring day in Palo Alto

It has been a year since our last show, missing RMAF [ho-hum. Sorry, but after 10 years of showing every year that show is just… ], and CES too.

Shows I miss? The old CES / THE Show Alexis Park Las Vegas. More fun. Higher quality. More exuberance. More weird. More exhibits. But fewer newbies (I think) so the newer shows have at least made it possible for more startups to exhibit].

Hoping this new old stock show is spectacular! See ya there, or, if you can’t make it, we hope to try a livestream photos approach to the show report this year – more about this in a few weeks.

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