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Mar142014
Mar 14 Podcast #626: Interview with Jack Sharkey of Kef Speakers
Category: Podcast Tags: Speakers, Surround Sound
Podcast Tags: Speakers, Surround Sound 
This week we sit down and talk with Jack Sharkey of Kef Speakers. Jack shares his experience in making a room that is acoustically unfriendly into a place where Kef can showcase their products. Its a six part series.
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Interview with Jack Sharkey of Kef Speakers
This week we sit down and talk with Jack Sharkey of Kef Speakers. Jack shares his experience in making a room that is acoustically unfriendly into a place where Kef can showcase their products. Its a six part series:
- THE SOUNDROOM PROJECT PART 1. GETTING STARTED.
- THE SOUNDROOM PROJECT PART 2. THE MIRROR TEST & BASS TRAPS.
- THE SOUNDROOM PROJECT PART 3. BADA BOOM ON DA BASS.
- THE SOUNDROOM PROJECT PART 4. SUBWOOFERS, REAR CHANNELS, AND OTHER THINGS.
- THE SOUNDROOM PROJECT PART 5. ABSORPTION VS. DIFFUSION.
- THE SOUNDROOM PROJECT PART 6. THE FLOOR AND CEILING
Reader Comments (3)
As far as I know, you can put lossless audio files on an iPod or iPhone (at least Apple lossless files). So, I'm guessing the difference is not that the Neil Young device can use lossless files but maybe that it processes the audio differently?
I can think of one reason for the channel # being wrong for the dvr. Maybe the assign channel id # is not being received and the true physical channel is being displayed. For example here in Ind. channel 59-1 physical channel is 45. When I go out on service call, once in awhile I see this and have to rescan channel for customer. Sony is know for this issue.
There's one thing that I am tired of, and it is people throwing around marketing names for stuff that should hold its meaning. So what does Mr. Young call High Resolution or ("Studio Master Quality") in the year 2014? One would expect at least CD quality or higher right? So let's see: He says that his device can hold a minimum of 1000 albums (he says 1000 to 2000) in Hi-Rez and that it has 128GB of internal storage. So that would allocate 128MB to one album, right? OK. A CD takes up 650MB and with the best loss-less compression known to man it can be shrunk with perfect bit accuracy to 325MB... Maybe 230MB? And I'm really pushing it now!
So how is he going to bring high resolution ("Studio Master Quality") audio at 128MB per album? I really would like to see/hear that...
Is he going with a new lossy compression format? We already have several, and some are pretty decent. But they don't call themselves Hi-Rez... I would have to think that this announcement refers to something new that we should all know about and has eluded science... OK. I'm all ears.