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Inside Audio: Dave Moulton
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Dave Moulton is hard at work on loudspeakers and composing. You can complain to him about anything at his Web site, moultonlabs.com.
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What is HD Home Theater Like for Consumers?
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by Dave Moulton, 4.06.2005
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While I expected HD to be better, I didn't expect it to be quite so freakin' much better, if you know what I mean.
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A/V 107: The Basics of Audio Interconnections
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by Dave Moulton, 3.09.2005
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This is for those among us who don't know a lot about audio and are not quite sure we should ask.
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Where Exactly Is Audio in 2005?
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by Dave Moulton, 2.02.2005
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Back at the turn of the millennium (remember that?), I did one of those smarmy Fugawi columns where we took stock of where we were and made some brave, brash and perhaps foolish predictions about where we were gonna be. Well, five years have gone by, and it's time for a fresh look.
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A/V 106: Surround Sound For Broadcast TV
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by Dave Moulton, 1.05.2005
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This column will be devoted to the basics of surround sound for video, as part of my series for non-audio folks.
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The Truth About Stereo for TV
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by Dave Moulton, 12.08.2004
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This column will be devoted to the basics of stereo for video, as part of my series on "the basics."
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A/V 104: Time-Domain FX and Reverb
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by Dave Moulton, 11.10.2004
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This column will be devoted to the basics of time-domain signalprocessing effects, most notably reverb.
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A/V 103: The Basics of Audio Compression
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by Dave Moulton, 10.06.2004
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This column is devoted to the basics of audio compression, a powerful signal-processing technique that is poorly understood by almost all of us.
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Audio 102 for Video Folks: A Primer on EQ
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by Dave Moulton, 9.08.2004
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As I promised in my last column, this article will be devoted to the basics of equalization, or "EQ," for those of us who aren't really all that familiar or comfortable with audio (which is most of us in the biz, I've found).
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Audio 101 for Video Folks: Levels
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by Dave Moulton, 8.04.2004
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I'm going to devote a couple of columns to audio basics for video folks.
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Revenge of the Couch Potato
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by Dave Moulton, 7.07.2004
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Our Story To Date. Alert readers may recall my recent concern with the variance in audio levels as experienced by us home viewers.
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A Trip Down Memory Lane: Some Good Audio
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by Dave Moulton, 4.07.2004
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About a month ago, I got a package in the mail containing a bunch of CDs, a long letter and some magazine articles from a guy named Ron Estes. Naturally, if you don't know, you're gonna ask. Who Is Ron Estes?
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Metadata in the Home: A Case History
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by Dave Moulton, 3.10.2004
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Alert readers will recall that I've been struggling to understand the use of metadata, particularly dailnorm, in TV broadcasting. This month I thought I'd share with you my adventures with it to date.
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The Mystery of the Set-top Box
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by Dave Moulton, 2.04.2004
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The various audio outputs have a variety of applications and each of them have different capabilities as well. These behaviors are based on differing assumptions about the intended performance and capability of the system, based on which output is selected. This is a serious potential booby trap.
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DialNorm 101
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by Dave Moulton, 12.10.2003
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Dialnorm makes it possible for us to fairly easily achieve consistent dialogue levels at the outputs of decoders. All we've got to do, collectively speaking, is understand the process, make the correct moves, and it's done. Voila!
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Film vs. Music
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by Dave Moulton, 10.10.2003
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Music and film are quite different from a production standpoint, and a one-system-plays-all modality has to serve multiple sets of needs, often simultaneously.
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Surround Sound Field of Dreams
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by Dave Moulton, 9.03.2003
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I recently attended the Audio Engineering Society's Technical Conference on Multichannel Audio, held in late June in Banff, Canada.
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Finally! A Loudspeaker That Raises the Bar
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by Dave Moulton, 8.06.2003
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Alert readers will recall that I've been hinting about some new loudspeakers that I've been involved with, for quite some time now. Well, they're out and they are definitely worth talking about!
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Loudspeakers as Musical Instruments
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by Dave Moulton, 7.09.2003
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Recently, I attended the Acoustical Society of America's annual convention in Nashville and presented a paper on "The Loudspeaker As A Musical Instrument." Writing the paper was a lot of fun, and it gave me an excuse to formalize a lot of the thoughts I've been having about loudspeakers.
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The 'Aesthetics' of Audio Compression
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by Dave Moulton, 5.14.2003
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I recently received a letter from Tom Lento, a broadcast technology marketing consultant, commenting on my March 5 column about the variance of audio levels in TV programming
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The Growing Gulf Between High- and Low-Res Audio
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by Dave Moulton, 4.07.2003
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From where I work, there seems to be a growing divergence within audio media, and it's making me crazy. There's a growing split between high- and low- resolution formats, with high-res getting higher and low-res getting, well, lower.
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