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Product Evaluations
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Contributing engineers and writers try out new products for review. These are paid evaluations, and writers provide thumbs up/thumbs down commentary.
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Watchband to Capture Hearts of Engineers
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Burk’s Remote AM/FM/RDS Receiver Displays Projected, Actual Signal Strengths, FCC Station Info
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by Stephen M. Poole, 12.19.2007
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Imagine a PC radio coupled with a streaming Web server that can be programmed to keep an eye on every station in your market, and you’ll get a rough idea of what the Burk Watchband is capable of. But that’s just a start.
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Aphex HeadPod 454 Spanks Bottom End
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Small, Hefty Headphone Box Is Equally Comfortable With Lows and Highs; Monitors at Modest Levels
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by Doug McLeod, 12.19.2007
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The radio industry isn’t generally seen as a market for audiophile headphones.
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Sound Forge 9.0 Addresses Two-Track Limit
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Digital Production Suite Promises ‘Everything You Need to Quickly Get From Raw Audio to Finished Master’
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by Read G. Burgan, 11.21.2007
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In the 1990s, Sound Forge was one of the first PC-based digital audio editors. Like the once-ubiquitous tape recorder, it became a familiar and welcome part of our broadcast world.
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TLF300: Audio Over IP in Small Package
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Rarey Likes This Small But Powerful Codec for Its Ease of Use and Multiple Simultaneous Connections
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by Rich Rarey , 11.21.2007
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Almost immediately, the connection framed at 128 kilobits MP2 stereo. “Naw,” I thought, “It can’t be this easy.”
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CD Player Has Network Connectivity to Boot
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Denon DN-C640 Offers Web Interface, RS-232, SPDIF/AES Outs, GPI Closure. Oh Yeah, It Plays CDs Too
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by Stephen M. Poole, 10.24.2007
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When I was asked to review the DN-C640, I read the features sheet and saw that it included an embedded Web server. I thought to myself, “This is going too far.”
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ADAM A7: No Subwoofer Required
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Closefield Monitors ‘Nail’ Bass, Kick Drum; A.R.T. Ribbons Deliver Crisp, Non-Fatiguing Transients
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by Strother Bullins, 9.26.2007
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I had my first experience with ADAM studio monitors several years ago during a mix session at producer/engineer Michael Wagener’s Nashville-area studio, Wireworld.
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Radiosophy HD100 Is Economical
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HD100 Provides Tabletop Digital Radio Reception at the $100 Price Point
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by Kevin Larke, 9.01.2007
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Although the Radiosophy HD100 table radio originally listed for $119.99, it was sold at a special introductory price of $99.95 and will remain at that price, according to the company.
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A Review by Two: Testing the ASI6544
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Clear Channel Engineers — One IT, One Studio — Laud Sound Card’s Driver Support, Software
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by Andy Mika and Colin Campbell, 9.01.2007
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The ASI6544 multistream PCI sound card from AudioScience fills a void in the market between large multi-track recording interfaces and two-channel stereo cards found in many production rooms.
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ZFR800: A Recorder That Thinks It’s a Mic
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Zaxcom’s Wire-Free Handheld Records Time-Stamped Audio to Removable Cards for Voice Recording on the Go
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by Gary Eskow, 9.01.2007
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Bit by bit, literally and figuratively, the audio community is bidding adieu to analog recording — or at least placing it in an enclosed area, to be visited only when a saturated sound is desired.
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Visteon HD Jump Goes on the Road
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Tom Ray Tries Out the Unit Marketed as the 'Premier Transportable HD Radio Receiver'
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by Thomas R. Ray III, 8.01.2007
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I have in my possession a Visteon HD Jump radio. My review in the car is based on comparison with my benchmark, a Kenwood KTC-HR100TR. My table benchmark is a Directed Electronics Table Top HD Radio.
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Silver Touts Remote Control, LED Display
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Audio Processor Is By Audemat-Aztec
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by Rich Rarey, 8.01.2007
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"Ooooh … it's blue," said a colleague when I mounted the Audemat-Aztec 6B audio processor in the rack.
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DMHD-1000 Is an ‘Add-On’ Tuner
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Directed Electronics Drives Into the Car HD Radio Market
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by Aaron Read, 6.06.2007
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The recent “broadcaster’s buy” from Ibiquity Digital included a new offering to the HD Radio tuner market: the Directed Electronics DMHD-1000 “car connect” radio.
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StationPlaylist Marries Studio, Creator
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by Bill DeFelice, 6.06.2007
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With operating budgets limited and leaving little margin for error, the common goal for us is to get the biggest bang for the buck when purchasing equipment.
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IDC System Deploys at Westwood One
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Radio Network Makes Choice of a New-Generation Satellite Receiver
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by Conrad Trautmann, 5.09.2007
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The advertisers in our sports products — NFL, NCAA, NHL, golf — wanted the ability to regionalize their commercials by geographical area.
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Latest HD-R Tabletop Is From Directed
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$250 Unit Boasts Two Detachable Speakers, Alarm Clock Among Its Features
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by Aaron Read, 4.11.2007
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One big missing component of the HD Radio tuner rollout has been the HD equivalent of ubiquitous alarm clock radios.
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Powerful Processing in One Rack Space
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Vorsis HD P3 Provides Clean Sound From Any Networked PC
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by Rich Rarey, 4.11.2007
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Once in a while a piece of broadcast equipment is so complex, so powerful, that to expose its entire control surface, one would have to have a whole rack of knobs, buttons and indicators.
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Accurian Tabletop Gets High Marks
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Entry-Level Digital Tuner From RadioShack Provides Multicast and PAD Signals
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by Ed Hollis, 3.14.2007
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I bought the RadioShack Accurian Tabletop HD Radio for $99 at its introduction sale in November 2006 using a $25 off coupon.
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PAW-120: More Than Record/Playback
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AEQ'S PAW-120 Handheld Digital Recorder
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by Gary Eskow, 3.14.2007
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Just a decade or so ago, field recordists were faced with a difficult decision: either shell out for an expensive tape- or digital-based unit, or settle for the chintzy sound and limited feature set that cassette recorders offered.
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Goldeneagle HD: Monitoring, Control Grow Up
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Audemat-Aztec's Unit Monitors Parameters Necessary to HD Radio, E-mails Problems to CE
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by Tom Norman, 3.14.2007
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The Audemat-Aztec Goldeneagle HD is a single-box solution to transmitter monitoring and control, an eclectic combination of HD and analog monitoring and remote control gadgetry.
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A Peek at the Sangean HDT-1
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Company Shows Its First-Generation AM/FM/HD Component Tuner
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by Jim Somich, 2.14.2007
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In case you haven't noticed, HD Radio is here in all its glory, warts and all.
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