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Some time ago a visitor of SE site by the name of Uhl, who accidentally turned out a human factor engineer, pointed out some shortcomings of our rating bar graphs – extending left beyond the first score and disproportional lengths of bars relative to their values. He suggested a few variants which eliminate those drawbacks. We found the arguments are reasonable and corrected our bar graphs...
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Another micropayment system - Flattr appeared on February 2010. It was founded by ex-PirateBay Peter Sunde and entrepreneur Linus Olson. The main idea is to give people the possibility to say “Thank You!” for any thing they like on the internet with 1-2 or even a fraction of a cent by simply pressing a button. The “thing” can be a single blog post, a song, a photo, a...
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First hardware audio codec - ATRAC1 SP (Type-R) has been just added to SE. Some of the reasons why: For relatively long period of time MiniDisc and ATRAC SP were a standard of hi-fi digital recordings at home and in semi-professional area.  The format still has substantial user base consisting mostly of demanding listeners. Its perceived audio quality is well known, discussed and...
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1. Collection of submitted recordings All submitted recordings were processed with time warping algorithm and listed in the table below. Author of submitted recording Difference levels (dB) of time warped SE samples (Left and Right channels) Download ...
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From now on SoundExpert is ready to accept wider class of devices/technologies for testing and rating. Hardware audio equipment for example. This became possible owing to development of precise time warping procedure which eliminates various time distortions of audio signals usually caused by AD/DA conversion, filtering, inaccuracy of clock rate, etc. Being inaudible and practically immeasurable...
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