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Adele… another victim of the loudness wars. The top track is “Rolling in the Deep” from the commercial CD/iTunes master of 21, the bottom track is from an audiophile reissue.
As you’ll see, when you turn the massively over-compressed master down to match the same volume as the reissue, the audio on the commercial release is hard-limited and has all the dynamics/life choked out of the waveform:
I become a giant squid of anger when I hear/see this.
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There’s a gif set of this going around, but I like the actual video. An old favourite. Enjoy Stephen Fry being amazing with Craig Ferguson.
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Paint primary colors on fan wings
BRILLIANT
Did we just discover how to paint with all the colors of the wind?
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digg:
Chris Hadfield wrings out a washcloth in space, proving once again that every single thing you do is 100x cooler in space.
