Recent Posts by Dan Daley, Audio Editor
By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Thursday, May 8, 2014 - 11:00 am
Digital-audio networking is audio’s newest frontier, and, although the concept of packetizing digital audio over a data network has been around for some time, it has been making its presence […]
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - 9:56 am
When NEP’s new ND1 truck rolls out to the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Heinz Field this summer, it will be as the flagship for a newly renovated fleet for which embedded digital […]
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Friday, May 2, 2014 - 10:07 am
Thundering hoofs meet chattering commentators at this weekend’s Kentucky Derby. The NBC and NBC Sports Network shows will have lots of both. The NEP ND3 truck is managing the former, […]
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 10:07 am
Fraunhofer Institute, the German software company that helped develop the ubiquitous MP3 format, set up shop in Aspen in January, about the same time as a major winter sports event. In a rented remote […]
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 10:55 am
With the Formula One Grand Prix season now officially under way, the verdicts are coming in on the newly revised engine rules for F1 racing, and they are decidedly mixed.
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 10:05 am
The FCC on Friday circulated a draft of proposed rules for the upcoming RF-spectrum auction, part of a decade-long reconfiguration of the airwaves to accommodate new wireless technologies. Included in […]
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - 1:43 pm
Speaking at the DTV Audio Group’s conference during NAB 2014, Jeffrey Strössner, director, global events at Lawo, offered a technical preview of audio plans for this summer’s World Cup in […]
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 9:48 am
Sports and music have always been a pair, but, as sports itself become more diverse, so has its underscore. According to Aaron Davis, VP of music licensing for Hollywood-based music supplier Musicbox, which has amassed 42 CDs’ worth of sports-music tracks in its vast catalog, the rise in popularity of electronic dance music (EDM) in […]
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 8:00 am
If Malcolm Gladwell had visited NAB 2014, he might have noticed a tipping point in the making. The migration to Ethernet-based audio-over-IP (AoIP) was visibly in full swing at the show, with dozens of products and announcements indicating what some observers see is a full-on migration to the next stage of audio-signal transport. Calrec, among […]
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - 10:40 am
Sennheiser has joined the 5.1 surround club. At NAB 2014, the company is demonstrating its new Esfera (“sphere” or “area” in Spanish) 5.1-processing system. It consists of two cardioid microphone capsules configured at 45-degree angles to each other and tethered to a DSP processor that converts the incoming analog signals to AES3 digital audio, then […]
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