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Hearing the exact same sword swoosh four thousand times is a fast track to the asylum. To spare your sanity, audio engines apply microscopic variations in…
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German engineers at the Fraunhofer Institute invented the MP3 audio format in 1989, using the Suzanne Vega song "Tom's Diner" as the reference track to…
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Audiophiles love to boast about using pure gold tips on their incredibly expensive optical audio cords. The hilarious part is that optical cables transmit…
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Sony executive Norio Ohga explicitly demanded in 1980 that the new Compact Disc audio format be expanded from its original sixty-minute capacity to exactly…
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Your visual reflexes are garbage, so the developers threw you an auditory life vest. Before a devastating swing connects, a specific metallic shing or grunt…
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Cutting totally perfect heavy audio into a physical groove would literally shatter the rigid record. Deep bass frequencies require massive grooves that take…
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