Computer Audiophile is proud to announce the inaugural Computer Audiophile Symposium to take place at world-renowned Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California. Never before has an event demonstrated this complete musical chain. Experience everything from a live acoustic performance to a high resolution digital recording to the state of the art in computer-based playback. Witness legendary Recording Engineer and product innovator Prof. Keith O. Johnson capture this live performance. Industry leaders including Mastering Engineer Paul Stubblebine, Reference Recording's Marcia Martin, Sonic Studio's Jonathan Reichbach, Berkeley Audio Design's Michael "Pflash" Pflaumer, and representatives from Meridian-Sooloos will illustrate every step in the chain from performance to playback. In addition to these well recognized panelists, Matan Arazi will debut a groundbreaking music server and his approach to developing this all-out assault on computer based-playback.
If 8 Terabytes is not enough for your music collection you'll be happy to know Data Robotics has just introduced the DroboPro. It has a 16 TB capacity, USB 2.0, FireWire 800, and iSCSI interfaces. The DroboPro uses BeyondRAID technology and can use a multitude of different disk sizes in a single enclosure. New to the Drobo lineup is the iSCSI capability. This enables connecting to the DroboPro over a standard computer network. iSCSI is similar to Network Attached Storage (NAS) in that it allows disk access via a network connection, but that's were the similarities end. Connecting via iSCSI is a little trickier and has more limitations than a standard NAS unit, but the benefits are plenty. I like iSCSI because the external/network drive mounts automatically upon boot-up and appears like a directly connected disk. This allows the user to format the disk and view the disk in Disk Utility or Disk Administrator, etc... It's not clear if the standard DroboShare is compatible with the DroboPro at this time. Read more for some close-up photos.
It's finally here! Songbird version 1.0.0 was released to the public yesterday. Songbird is the first real contender to challenge iTunes in the music playback department on a Mac. Sure there are other applications like Play and VLC but neither one is a contender in my opinion. Right now Songbird is available for Windows, OS X, and Linux. Songbird without a doubt has the most potential of any available music application today. The single reason is that Songbird is open source and has the world developing add-ons and improvements for the application. Currently in it's "new born" state Songbird does have some drawbacks. On the positive side Songbird is bit perfect!
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One year ago today, November 20, 2007, I started Computer Audiophile. On that first day the site had zero visitors. The total number of visitors during the first week was zero. Nine days after the site launched the visitors started to arrive. All three of them! One year later Computer Audiophile is viewed in 165 countries around the world and the number of readers continues to grow dramatically every week. Some great components have been reviewed over the last year and some not so great components have been sent packing back to the manufacturer. But reviews are only a small percentage of the site's information. Thanks to all the readers the Computer Audiophile forums are a very enjoyable place full of great information, very intelligent people, and an atmosphere like no other.
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You can now follow Computer Audiophile using Twitter! As a supplement to the normal articles there will be frequent Tweets / updates posted in the blue box on the left side of the site. Make sure to use the little arrows in the box to scroll through previous Tweets if you happen to miss them. For those not familiar with Twitter I have posted a short video that describes the very popular and useful communication tool. Briefly, Twitter is for short communications to let people know what you are doing. These short messages are called Tweets. In addition to standard Tweets, I will be posting live updates from Rocky Mountain Audiofest as I visit with manufacturers and listen to the newest components. I will post photos instantly from the RMAF suites via my iPhone 3G! Much more to come as RMAF approaches in early October. For now, follow the Tweets.
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Bryston is now shipping its highly anticipated BDA-1 DAC. This DAC has a plethora of inputs including USB and just about every other input you may need. The BDA-1 will please many "purists" who don't care for upsamping. This DAC includes the ability to disengage the upsampling feature. The BDA-1 could be the best of both worlds for those looking to upsample on some material and let other material pass through untouched. Read more for all the information straight from James Tanner of Bryston.
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