Focal Audio tour: How some of the world’s fanciest speakers are made

Feb17
by on February 17, 2020 at 6:15 pm
Posted In: Insider, Plugged


High-end audio is about precision. Recreating live music in your home is one of the wonders of technology, requiring speakers accurate enough to create a convincing fascimile of the recorded soundfield. Take a look through any of my recent speaker reviews in the past year, and you’ll find them full of measurements trying to puzzle out the intricacies of a speaker‘s sound. So when French audio giant Focal invited to see how its speakers were made last year, I knew to expect the fancy machinery, anechoic chambers, and assembly lines. What I didn’t expect was how much of a human…

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New research suggests stars don’t collapse — they explode!!!

Feb16
by on February 16, 2020 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Space, syndication


By conducting experimental research with matter 10 million times denser and 25 times denser than that found at the centre of the sun, researchers have determined the nature of the nuclear processes that occur within intermediate-mass stars. Our understanding of the deaths of both low and high mass stars are fairly sound, but the team’s findings could change how we think about the fate of stars that lie in between. They suggest that such stars may not collapse, as previously believed, but instead end their lives in a spectacular explosion. How a star evolves is very much dictated by its…

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How to build a survival base in Minecraft

Feb15
by on February 15, 2020 at 5:30 pm
Posted In: Podium


I spend a lot of time trawling the ever-growing world of Minecraft looking for cool things to build and today I found this very cool survival base in Minecraft tutorial and it is a big one! This build tutorial has been created with teamplay in mind. Each section is color-coded. This helps players to claim a corner as their own or use the colors to represent a specific function, eg; the red corner could be for food storage and the purple corner is for magic and enchanting. Enough chat let’s get building. Try and follow along with the video, it…

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