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February 12, 2021

Roon 1.8 Update: Go Your Own Way

Described by some as the second coming of machine learning for computer audio, music playback platform Roon has released its 1.8 update. Hot-rodded with coding updates under the hood, Roon 1.8 also received an eye-pleasing GUI makeover reminiscent of Saul Bass at his best.

May 12, 2021

Soundtrack: Arrival – Denis Villeneuve

Understanding how time limits and binds the human capacity for awareness is the key to breaking an interstellar code for a linguist and physicist in Canadian director Denis Villeneuve’s stark, contemporaneous and cerebral 2016 sci-fi thriller Arrival.

June 18, 2021

Radio al Hara: Sonic Solidarity One Year In

Launching a Sonic Liberation Front as a means to highlight the ongoing conflict in Palestine is just one form of cultural resistance that Radio al Hara manifests in its listener-driven programming schedule.

August 5, 2021

What is High Fidelity to You?

Ask as many people what high fidelity means to them, you’ll probably get as many different answers. While the term culture war has seeped into the socially-themed lexicon of late, over the past 30 years there’s been one raging for the soul of the hobby, along with hand wringing over how the surviving faction will carry the word forward.