The Metronome is the first dac I have ever seen that looks like it is converting 48k to 44.1 badly, it was usually the reverse in the bad old days of Creative Labs PC dacs
We (somewhat) regularly have visiting professors from schools in the southeast give talks at my university and, while many of said profs come from all over the world, I always find it refreshingly amusing when we get one with a really thick southern accent. The juxtaposition between the collegial tone (and its ostensible redneck stereotype) and the technical depth of the presentation/presenter just makes me smile.
A while ago the BBC did excerpts and narratives from well known Shakespearean plays using the best guesses by academics as to the regional accents of the author's day.
Difficult to react in any way but extreme mirth.
Brits might try "Shall I compare thee to a summers day?" in a broad Birmingham* accent!
*not Alabama!
Difficult to react in any way but extreme mirth.
Brits might try "Shall I compare thee to a summers day?" in a broad Birmingham* accent!
*not Alabama!
Shakespeare?s jokes undone by comedy of errors | The Times not sure if this works globally, but does appear that a lot of the jokes don't work anymore exactly due to pronunciations. Although they weren't that funny to begin with!
We get a similar thing in the Southeast. Certain regional accents sound "stupid" to us, so hearing those on an educated speaker is always a bit of a twist.
We had a guy lecturing general relativity at the graduate level in his 20's who dressed and talked like The Fonz.
Looks like subscription only article. Too bad. I know a lot of these already, but would enjoy reading about it. 🙁
I may have snipped out the token that allowed reading. Try this Shakespeare?s jokes undone by comedy of errors | The Times . If it doesn't I'll just cut and paste to you.
The Synergistic Research Tranquility Base UEF | AudioStream
Oooh it uses Graphene. Of course that will give it the required magic flooby.
Oooh it uses Graphene. Of course that will give it the required magic flooby.
Yup, learn from the best.
When the reviewer talks about 3 years of "research" on improvements what does he think they actually do?
EDIT - from the CEO of Graphene Frontiers
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I thought they milked a product for as long as possible whilst working out the marketing BS for the new and more expensive version?
Worked! Thanks Bill.
Seems that a lot of Jacobian pronunciation was much like the French versions of the words.
FWIW, looking at what used to rhyme is one good way to figure out how things were pronounced at the time written.
I find the link you provided very entertaining- I'm more than a few decades removed from highschool English classes, but in their new Tranquility base description, doesn't placing quotation marks around the words Electromagnetic Cells remove them from the sentence, as they cannot stand alone? So their graphene is used for- nothing?
They won 6 Brutus awards.
So they were shut out of the Popeyes?
I've always found the idea of connecting a battery to an insulating sheath and calling it active shielding funny, too.
Their site claims to address all aspects of a system, but I think there's plenty of wheels they haven't greased as yet.
How about an emitter to fix signal carrying electrons into either a particle or a wave? User selectable, of course.
Or actively shielded voice coils?
Or doing away with voice coil completely, driving the transducers with gravity waves?
Or doing away with aural canal and eardrum distortions, beaming the music straight to the brain's aural processing centre.
They could call the quantum airhead : )
Worked! Thanks Bill.
Seems that a lot of Jacobian pronunciation was much like the French versions of the words.
FWIW, looking at what used to rhyme is one good way to figure out how things were pronounced at the time written.
It's an area I would love to spend more time studying. One day will have time...
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