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<h1>August 2022</h1>
<div class="article-desc"><img class="article-list-image" src="img/snakeoil.png"/><a href="balancedheadphones.html">Snake oil: balanced headphones</a><p>Do balanced headphones provide an improvement in sound quality over conventional, single-ended designs? Unlikely. In fact, the increased complexity of these designs may actually reduce the accuracy of sound reproduction.</p><p style="font-size: smaller">Categories: <a href="hifi-groupindex.html">hifi</a>, <a href="snake_oil-groupindex.html">snake oil</a></p>
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<div class="article-desc"><img class="article-list-image" src="img/snakeoil.png"/><a href="cdtransport.html">Do different CD transports sound different?</a><p>Bits are bits, right? If a CD transport just sends digital data to a DAC, is it even possible that different transports sound different?</p><p style="font-size: smaller">Categories: <a href="hifi-groupindex.html">hifi</a>, <a href="snake_oil-groupindex.html">snake oil</a></p>
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<div class="article-desc"><img class="article-list-image" src="img/terminal.png"/><a href="clh_foldericon.html">Command-line hacking: Assigning folder icons to directories</a><p>How to use basic Bash constructs, along with the Gnome gio utility, to assign folder icons to a set of directories.</p><p style="font-size: smaller">Categories: <a href="Linux-groupindex.html">Linux</a>, <a href="command-line_hacking-groupindex.html">command-line hacking</a></p>
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<div class="article-desc"><img class="article-list-image" src="img/terminal.png"/><a href="clh_newsman.html">Command-line hacking: displaying news headlines in the manual viewer</a><p>How to use tools like curl and xsltproc to retrieve news headlines from the BBC, and display them using the manual viewer</p><p style="font-size: smaller">Categories: <a href="Linux-groupindex.html">Linux</a>, <a href="command-line_hacking-groupindex.html">command-line hacking</a></p>
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<div class="article-desc"><img class="article-list-image" src="img/terminal.png"/><a href="clh_paced_breathing.html">Command-line hacking: paced breathing</a><p>Using a Linux Bash script to generate audio/visual cues for timing paced breathing exercises.</p><p style="font-size: smaller">Categories: <a href="Linux-groupindex.html">Linux</a>, <a href="command-line_hacking-groupindex.html">command-line hacking</a></p>
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<div class="article-desc"><img class="article-list-image" src="img/terminal.png"/><a href="clh_radio.html">Command-line hacking: querying an Internet radio database</a><p>Using Linux command-line utilities to query an on-line database of Internet radio stations.</p><p style="font-size: smaller">Categories: <a href="Linux-groupindex.html">Linux</a>, <a href="command-line_hacking-groupindex.html">command-line hacking</a></p>
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<div class="article-desc"><img class="article-list-image" src="img/terminal.png"/><a href="clh_tags.html">Command-line hacking: extracting audio metadata (tags)</a><p>How to use Bash shell techniques to extract metadata (tags) from various audio file formats.</p><p style="font-size: smaller">Categories: <a href="Linux-groupindex.html">Linux</a>, <a href="command-line_hacking-groupindex.html">command-line hacking</a></p>
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<div class="article-desc"><img class="article-list-image" src="img/terminal.png"/><a href="clh_tide.html">Command-line hacking: creating a tide table</a><p>How to use Bash shell arithmetic to create a simple tide table</p><p style="font-size: smaller">Categories: <a href="Linux-groupindex.html">Linux</a>, <a href="command-line_hacking-groupindex.html">command-line hacking</a></p>
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<div class="article-desc"><img class="article-list-image" src="img/terminal.png"/><a href="clh_weather.html">Command-line hacking: displaying a weather summary</a><p>How to use tools like curl, sed, and groff to retrieve a weather forecast from the BBC, and format it for the terminal.</p><p style="font-size: smaller">Categories: <a href="Linux-groupindex.html">Linux</a>, <a href="command-line_hacking-groupindex.html">command-line hacking</a></p>
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<div class="article-desc"><img class="article-list-image" src="img/terminal.png"/><a href="clh_worldtime.html">Command-line hacking: timezone conversions</a><p>Using 'date' and 'timedatectl' to build a utility to help with scheduling meetings in different timezones.</p><p style="font-size: smaller">Categories: <a href="Linux-groupindex.html">Linux</a>, <a href="command-line_hacking-groupindex.html">command-line hacking</a></p>
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<div class="article-desc"><img class="article-list-image" src="img/container-logo.png"/><a href="flatpak.html">Are Flatpak, et al., saving or drowning the Linux desktop?</a><p>Desktop Linux will take off next year -- or so people have been saying for years. Do desktop containerization technologies like Flatpak make this more, or less, likely?</p><p style="font-size: smaller">Categories: <a href="Linux-groupindex.html">Linux</a>, <a href="containers-groupindex.html">containers</a></p>
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<div class="article-desc"><img class="article-list-image" src="img/headphones.jpg"/><a href="headphones.html">A skeptic's guide to headphones</a><p>Understanding the advantages and disadvantages of the various types of headphone that are currently available, without all the audiophile silliness.</p><p style="font-size: smaller">Categories: <a href="hifi-groupindex.html">hifi</a></p>
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<div class="article-desc"><img class="article-list-image" src="img/snakeoil.png"/><a href="hifimainscables.html">Why you can't improve your hi-fi system by upgrading the mains cable</a><p>You really can't improve your hi-fi system with a fancy mains cable. But why? And why do people think you can?</p><p style="font-size: smaller">Categories: <a href="hifi-groupindex.html">hifi</a>, <a href="snake_oil-groupindex.html">snake oil</a></p>
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<div class="article-desc"><img class="article-list-image" src="img/snakeoil.png"/><a href="hiresaudio.html">Is high resolution audio really worth the effort?</a><p>The availability of better than CD audio recordings is driving, and being driven by, more expensive and elaborate audio hardware, even in the consumer market. Is this a good thing?</p><p style="font-size: smaller">Categories: <a href="hifi-groupindex.html">hifi</a>, <a href="snake_oil-groupindex.html">snake oil</a></p>
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<div class="article-desc"><img class="article-list-image" src="img/notes.gif"/><a href="leak.html">A review of the Leak Stereo 130 and CDT</a><p>A number of reviews of the Leak Stereo 130 and CDT can be found online, but they are short on practical details. I've been using mine eight hours a day for several months; this is what I think of them.</p><p style="font-size: smaller">Categories: <a href="hifi-groupindex.html">hifi</a></p>
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<div class="article-desc"><img class="article-list-image" src="img/snakeoil.png"/><a href="ripcd.html">Does it matter how we rip audio CDs?</a><p>Copying an audio CD -- perhaps to a portable music player -- is a common enough operation. There are strong opinions on how to do this, and what software to use. But does it really make any difference? Or is one bit the same as any other?</p><p style="font-size: smaller">Categories: <a href="hifi-groupindex.html">hifi</a>, <a href="snake_oil-groupindex.html">snake oil</a></p>
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<div class="article-desc"><img class="article-list-image" src="img/plug.png"/><a href="tt-safety.html">Why your vintage turntable could kill you</a><p>Vintage vinyl records ought, perhaps, to be played on a vintage turntable. Although such appliances are still widely available, and can work well, they fall short of contemporary electrical safety standards.</p><p style="font-size: smaller">Categories: <a href="electronics-groupindex.html">electronics</a>, <a href="hifi-groupindex.html">hifi</a></p>
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<div class="article-desc"><img class="article-list-image" src="img/record.png"/><a href="vinylrevival.html">Why is there a vinyl revival?</a><p>Why are sales of vinyl records increasing, when digital streaming services provide access to almost any recording ever made, in superior technical quality?</p><p style="font-size: smaller">Categories: <a href="hifi-groupindex.html">hifi</a>, <a href="TDMTLTAM-groupindex.html">TDMTLTAM</a></p>
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