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Haven't seen yet to know how accurate, but fun collection of tweets on last night... http://feedly.com/k/17iDLe6

Never heard them, but there are Califone Kids headphones for small heads on Amazon for $12-15.

Went to a farm and daughter heard her first non-mechanical 'BAAAAAAAAAHH.' Face-off

Interesting read... John Siau: Benchmark Audio Guru on DSD http://www.realhd-audio.com/?p=74

Wait, is wincing a negative during sexy-time?

That shot would be so different if she had them on her head.

Flowers made of animal parts: http://www.stuxgallery.com/www/artist_gallery/73/1823

In case you have a need for an originally overpriced Airplay speaker (mostly positive reviews even then) reduced 80%. Debating myself. Klipsch G-17 AirPlay Speaker for iPod, iPhone, iPad for $100 + free shipping http://feedly.com/k/19wg5C8

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Now And next will definitely be...

So you have a problem with portrait stills too? Actually, I know we're not there yet and I'm sure most agree with you generally and especially with most subjects captured, and I know most vertical video was likely done without thinking through display (like my daughters first steps video ), but it wouldn't be technically hard to make the same adjustments as stills for one-offs or width locked online players (though I think I've seen probably only five in the last decade), no matter monitor ratios and our eyes horizontal placement. Again if there's a value in stills composition which wins over strick template layout, why not video... at least occasionally? Can you tell I just had this argument with a co-worker? It's actually the opposite solution. As the videos were captured at 1080x1920 (iPhone 5 vertical), one of the 4K widescreen standards of 4096x2048 allowed a minimum of upsampling (1920 v. 2048) with obviously a ton of left/right letterboxing during editing. And yes, that's when we had the argument. His exact repeated phrase "Video is video!"

On the other side of things... should online video players and placement keep up with emerging trends and not remain bias by video ratio traditions? Any real reason once video playback and capture are removed from playback hardware and editing software limitations it shouldn't be open to the same compositional possibilities as still photography? That said I hated converting a bunch of co-workers vertical iPhone videos to 4K horizontal for editing yesterday. Grrrrr.

You know Quadriple DSD files don't really jive with craft beards. ---------- Also is DSD gonna kill HRx?

... but if you have the files there are commercial DXD DACs to play them. DXD is usually 352.8/24 DSD is usually 2822.4/1

In breaking news Antelope comes out swinging with a 256xDSD DAC (err... is that triple or quadruple DSD?).

Russian dash cams are getting more interesting.

If you Google image search 'Pono' you may not have to wait.

Just a probably obvious note: there's a difference between streaming and progressive streaming (sometimes called progressive download). One maintains a constant stream across network bandwidth changes (through bitrate adjustments) and one maintains a constant bitrate across stream changes (often through buffering). Hulu, Netflix, YouTube, etc. often uses a combination, but the relationship between the two can be used to get to a target even faster than you technically could with just bandwidth. If general quality expectations rise quicker than buffering irritations for instance. Not that any of this has to do with pure music file downloads now. That said increasingly files with wrappers and codecs with metadata at the start of the file can be decoded on the fly. So would people care if an album took hours to download if they could listen to it during? May be some synergistic progress along with bandwidth increases coming.

So Pono is "Soul Quality" then. Cool.

Didn't we have some of these debates recently between the 24/96 and 24/192 PCM points? From hearing tests to Dan Larvy data corruption comments didn't stop files or most DACs sitting at 24/96. And do we know what Pono actually is yet? Is it simply 24/192 PCM with a new wrapper?