If you boycott Atari, you are in effect boycotting the small guys. Very few video game developers have the resources to pay employees for a 2+ year game cycle and then self publish their game using an online distribution model. Valve has enough clout to pursue such methods but they are in the minority. Atari pays small independant developers to develop games. Otherwise those small independant developers would have to turn to another publisher or stop making games altogether. If Atari goes down you're just making the other publishers even LARGER monopolies. And you'll have a whole truckload of movies to games like Harry Potter and the horrendous Lord of the Rings games by EA.
This guys is 100% correct.. I can't for the life of me remember what the thing was called though.. but it was a huge machine that they carted around using the railroads.. I had to watch a boring documentary about this device when I was in college..
a far more interesting pioneer of electronic music was pierre schaeffer.. he invented all the techniques that electronic musicians use today.. sampling, loops, reverse, time shifting, etc.. all using records.. called if musique concrete.. recording sounds and making music out of them.. sampling.. he was a genius.. the barrons were cool and all..
http://csunix1.lvc.edu/~snyder/em/schaef.html
If you are serious about sound you won't listen to this guy.
If you want a wired solution, you'd want to send line level signal. If you send speaker level you're gonna lose power like no tomorrow. The thicker the guage, the less power is lost. Wired is going to beat out wireless any day of the week. And don't think that those $80 monster cables are going to sound any better than the $4 cable. Monster cable is the biggest rip off known to man. Blind audio tests have proven it time and time again. The same goes for component video cables. Don't drop money for the new color scheme. You can use your good ol fashioned RCAs just fine - even for digital coax. You'd be surprised how many people fall for the best buy marketing scheme .
If you are fixed on wireless then you obviously don't care about quality so go with an easy solution like apple's airtunes. It streams across your wireless lan so it's not half bad if you have decent signal strength - especially when all you're playing is compressed MP3s more than likely. Sure iTunes doesn't play every format on earth... any time you compress audio you're losing quality - no matter what format you choose.. you're fooling yourself if you think you can tell the difference from one format to another.. trust me..
If you're thinking about your home theater - forget about wireless speakers all together and wire it up. Use the shortest length cables you can. For speakers that are paired up use the exact same length of speaker wire. Get the thickest speaker wire you can. This ensures each speaker is being driven equal to its match, resulting in as balanced as you can get. The shape of your living room has tons to do with how good it will actually sound though. Don't expect it to sound as good in the demo room at the audio store.
Here's another handy bit of advice. Think it's best to get the receiver with the most wattage? You can spend $200 more to upgrade from 85 watts to 115 watts. Wow! That's 30 more watts! Sorry, that's such an insignificant increase that you won't even notice it. You have to double the wattage to increase the level by 3dB. 3dB is on average the smallest increase noticeable by the human ear - not much output change at all. Your amp is generally only using a few watts of power at any given time. Higher frequencies require more power to achieve the same level as lower frequencies - but none of us can hear that high anyways.
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If you boycott Atari, you are in effect boycotting the small guys. Very few video game developers have the resources to pay employees for a 2+ year game cycle and then self publish their game using an online distribution model. Valve has enough clout to pursue such methods but they are in the minority. Atari pays small independant developers to develop games. Otherwise those small independant developers would have to turn to another publisher or stop making games altogether. If Atari goes down you're just making the other publishers even LARGER monopolies. And you'll have a whole truckload of movies to games like Harry Potter and the horrendous Lord of the Rings games by EA.
This guys is 100% correct.. I can't for the life of me remember what the thing was called though.. but it was a huge machine that they carted around using the railroads.. I had to watch a boring documentary about this device when I was in college.. a far more interesting pioneer of electronic music was pierre schaeffer.. he invented all the techniques that electronic musicians use today.. sampling, loops, reverse, time shifting, etc.. all using records.. called if musique concrete.. recording sounds and making music out of them.. sampling.. he was a genius.. the barrons were cool and all.. http://csunix1.lvc.edu/~snyder/em/schaef.html
If you are serious about sound you won't listen to this guy. If you want a wired solution, you'd want to send line level signal. If you send speaker level you're gonna lose power like no tomorrow. The thicker the guage, the less power is lost. Wired is going to beat out wireless any day of the week. And don't think that those $80 monster cables are going to sound any better than the $4 cable. Monster cable is the biggest rip off known to man. Blind audio tests have proven it time and time again. The same goes for component video cables. Don't drop money for the new color scheme. You can use your good ol fashioned RCAs just fine - even for digital coax. You'd be surprised how many people fall for the best buy marketing scheme . If you are fixed on wireless then you obviously don't care about quality so go with an easy solution like apple's airtunes. It streams across your wireless lan so it's not half bad if you have decent signal strength - especially when all you're playing is compressed MP3s more than likely. Sure iTunes doesn't play every format on earth... any time you compress audio you're losing quality - no matter what format you choose.. you're fooling yourself if you think you can tell the difference from one format to another.. trust me.. If you're thinking about your home theater - forget about wireless speakers all together and wire it up. Use the shortest length cables you can. For speakers that are paired up use the exact same length of speaker wire. Get the thickest speaker wire you can. This ensures each speaker is being driven equal to its match, resulting in as balanced as you can get. The shape of your living room has tons to do with how good it will actually sound though. Don't expect it to sound as good in the demo room at the audio store. Here's another handy bit of advice. Think it's best to get the receiver with the most wattage? You can spend $200 more to upgrade from 85 watts to 115 watts. Wow! That's 30 more watts! Sorry, that's such an insignificant increase that you won't even notice it. You have to double the wattage to increase the level by 3dB. 3dB is on average the smallest increase noticeable by the human ear - not much output change at all. Your amp is generally only using a few watts of power at any given time. Higher frequencies require more power to achieve the same level as lower frequencies - but none of us can hear that high anyways.