This post covers a topics touched upon also in other posts, but was inspired by the fact that the term “electronic music” has taken on new meanings over the years and now can cause confusion. In order to set an appropriate context, however, I need to start by describing a bit about the history of…
Analog vs Digital Recordings
Lately I have been reading articles and posts by people who say they love vinyl records better than CDs or downloads. Usually they say that is because they prefer analog to digital. In this post I will first talk about the differences in the ways analog and digital sound information is stored, then I will…
STREAM ON
This post is the result of a statistic I read recently on the internet. It noted that last year the number of sales of vinyl records equaled the number of CDs sold that year. The context was the supposed “comeback” of the vinyl record. Vinyl records do have appeal to some people, such as those…
PBS, NPR, BBC: WHICH MODEL IS BEST?
Usually my posts on TheAudioPenguin.com are related to technical issues about sound equipment and production techniques, but in this post I want to deviate and talk about the differences in the structure of public radio and public television in the United States with some references also to the British services offered by the BBC. I…
DISTORTION
The word “distortion” is defined in the Merriam Webster dictionary as “the act of twisting or altering something out of its true, natural, or original state.” In this post I want to discuss distortion in the context of audio. It is sometimes a bad thing and sometimes can be used creatively. Passing an audio signal…