On The Circuit
On The Circuit
This month’s issue is heavily focused on houses of worship, so it’s a good time to bring up a project I’m working on with my colleagues at Mix. We’re...
Cynthia Wisehart on Made in China
As we go to press, the mayor of Los Angeles, where I live, hosted a big event to celebrate the selling-out of Hollywood to China. Specifically to the Dalian...
Digital Audio Transmission For Analog People (Part 1)
I will be the first to admit how badly I needed to enroll in a DSL class (i.e. digital as a second language). I grew up on analog, and...
Cynthia Wisehart on HOW Nashville
I’m excited to tell you that I’m working on an event for November. We’re going to be doing a daylong Houses of Worship educational event at Belmont University in...
Wire@SVConline
Many of you are already familiar with the Wire at svconline.com. In honor of its 10th anniversary, I wanted to draw special attention to it. I also wanted to...
Cynthia Wisehart on InfoComm
InfoComm was a bit of a blur, and we had to go to press before I could fully process what was one of the most practical and infrastructure-oriented shows...
Cynthia Wisehart on Growth In the AV World
As we go to press today, I had to take a meeting I didn’t think I had time to take. But it was an important colleague and I’d already...
Cynthia Wisehart on Ethernet Switches
One of the most interesting things I saw at NAB was an Ethernet switch. Yamaha built the SWP1 series for use in Dante networks as an additional alternative to...
Cynthia Wisehart on AES70
Earlier this year, Bruce Olson, chair of the Audio Engineering Society Standards Committee (AESSC) and Jeff Berryman, chair of the OCA Technical Workgroup, announced the ratification and publication of...
Cynthia Wisehart on Current Events in the A/V World
Things that happened this month while you were on a ladder: Diversified bought Technical Innovation for an undisclosed sum. According to their self- reported (projected) revenues from 2015 that’s...
Technics’ Reference Class R1: This $60,000 speaker system sounds so good we’re having trouble doing our jobs (video review)
By Caleb Denison, Digital Trends
Microsoft just made millions off a 14-year-old product they just shut down a year ago
By Eugene Kim, Michael B. Kelley, and Natasha Bertrand, Business Insider
NestCam review: High-resolution spying on your house—or puppy
By Joanna Stern, The Wall Street Journal
On the Circuit: Why You Matter
Do you ever think about whether your work is important to others?
New display technology lets LCDs produce Princess Leia style holograms
By Mike Orcutt, MIT Technology Review
Researchers use X-ray and CAT scans to reveal the secrets of golden age violins
By Chris Wood, Gizmag
To the audiophile, this $10,000 Ethernet cable apparently makes sense
By Lee Hutchinson, ArsTechnica
MIT scientists close to creating holograms by using sound to manipulate light
By Janey Tracey, Outer Places
On the Circuit: Sony Pictures
As we go to press, the strange saga of the Sony hack is still unfolding in a surreal blending of the real and digital worlds. On the most basic...
Eye Candy: A curved wall of glass that flickers as the wind blows
By Kyle Vanhemert, Wired
The FCC’s net neutrality proposal is awesome but it has a loophole
By Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOm