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Hi-Fi History: Magnetic Tape or The Story of Fifteen Führers. (As if one Hitler wasn't enough...
There is a law set in stone about communication on the internet that I have come to realize is an undeniable truth. This is Godwin’s Rule...

Arved Deecke
28. aug. 20155 min læsning
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Hifi History: The Mahatma Gandhi of Sonic Weapons
The other day I wrote about sonic weapons. After some deliberation I came to the conclusion that sound, while technically feasible is a...

Arved Deecke
24. aug. 20153 min læsning
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Audiophile Myths: What's the Deal with Sonic Weapons?
For all those who have not seen the 1996 Movie “Mars Attacks”, let me inform you that it is well-established science fiction fact,...

Arved Deecke
22. aug. 20155 min læsning
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HiFi History: The Touchless Instrument
Lev Sergeyevich Termen was a Russian inventor born in 1896 who later renamed himself Léon Theremin to become all the rage in 1920 Europe...

Arved Deecke
14. aug. 20154 min læsning
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HiFi History: 50HP 200 ton Synthesizer.
The first contraption that ever produced synthetic music weighed a mere 7 tons. The second one already weighed 200 tons and it was so...

Arved Deecke
12. aug. 20154 min læsning
40 visninger
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HiFi History: The First Amplifier Ever Ran on Compressed Air...
Charles Algernon Parson, a turn of the previous century Anglo-Irish inventor, was certainly one to think outside the box. An expert in...

Arved Deecke
10. aug. 20153 min læsning
143 visninger
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The Arguably most Extravagant Way to Reproduce Sound: Plasma Speakers.
Plasma is the most elusive of the four states of matter in physics; there are solids, liquids, gases, and well, plasma. Heating a gas in...

Arved Deecke
23. jul. 20154 min læsning
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Please Crank up the Volume, the Silence is Driving the Neighbors Crazy.
A well-known fact about our human existence is that too much noise can drive us crazy. A less known fact might be that too much silence...

Arved Deecke
21. jul. 20154 min læsning
55 visninger
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A Wall of Sound: How The Grateful Dead Built the First Modern Concert PA System and the Second Large
Here is my theory: In the sixties music sounded like sixties music, not entirely by choice but by technology. In the the time of Jimi...

Arved Deecke
8. jul. 20155 min læsning
4.074 visninger
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Fateful Attraction: About Neodymium Magnets in High-End Loudspeakers (Contains Graphic Material)
Not too long ago, something happened that was really quite remarkable and it sort of crept into our lives without most of us taking...

Arved Deecke
1. jul. 20154 min læsning
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Acoustic Levitation: Come Lift us up Where We Belong.
We humans are a rather fantastic species. If we decide to be that is; otherwise we can also be quite the pest. One of the things that...

Arved Deecke
25. jun. 20154 min læsning
178 visninger
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Wave Field Synthesis: Living Inside the Sound
German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz was a brilliant man but his work on sound and fluid dynamics is most well known for the...

Arved Deecke
21. jun. 20153 min læsning
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If we don´t build the loudest loudspeakers in the world, who does? The miraculous world of loudness.
When researching cool concrete loudspeaker designs the other day, I ran across one that stood out enough from the other by the simple...

Arved Deecke
28. maj 20153 min læsning
151 visninger
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Cool Concrete. Loudspeakers that weigh a lot and one that will kill you.
Let me start with this: No we will not be making speakers out of concrete any time soon. First, because we have our hands full with our...

Arved Deecke
8. maj 20155 min læsning
1.693 visninger
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Salad to Sound, the Best of IKEA Bowl Loudspeaker Building.
Friday´s blog on my speakers made from IKEA bowls went viral. Thousands of people read the article and hundreds commented 50 shared....

Arved Deecke
5. maj 20153 min læsning
1.578 visninger
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A Thousand Ways to Skin a Cat. Choose Yours. An Introduction to Different Types of Loudspeakers
When I entered the venture of building loudspeakers not too long ago I must admit that I did so a little haphazardly. Almost entirely...

Arved Deecke
23. apr. 20158 min læsning
448 visninger
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How Much Bass is Enough Bass?
So after yesterday’s blog on full range, single driver loudspeakers a heated debate broke loose on several forums around the web. The...

Arved Deecke
18. apr. 20155 min læsning
315 visninger
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Everything owns its existence to sound: About the incredible work of Nigel Stanford.
I had to look it up: CYMATICS: The study of sound made visible. Now granted we have all seen the odd little science experiment at...

Arved Deecke
15. apr. 20151 min læsning
10 visninger
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