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		<title>Portable CD players selling great again in the UK. Why not?</title>
		<link>http://electronrun.com/wp_er/2008/12/09/portable-cd-players-selling-great-again-in-the-uk-why-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dimitrios Matsoulis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[CD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CD player]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FLAC]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It might be surprising to learn that portable CD player sales are taking off again in the UK. I cannot think of low pricing being the only reason (about 15 GBP), because nowadays you can have similarly cheap MP3 players or you can even have MP3 files on your mobile telephone. The official explanation is that many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blu-spec CD: Another time waster by Sony</title>
		<link>http://electronrun.com/wp_er/2008/11/07/blu-spec-cd-another-time-waster-by-sony/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dimitrios Matsoulis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Sony is Internet enabling some of its Bravia TV sets, it is at the same trying to bring us back to the 80s. I am talking about Sony&#8217;s great new idea called Blu-spec CD.
It is all about making CDs with blue lasers, because factories need to get rid of their now old red lasers to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tech picture of the day &#8211; 14th of October 2008</title>
		<link>http://electronrun.com/wp_er/2008/10/14/tech-picture-of-the-day-14th-of-october-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dimitrios Matsoulis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[tech picture-daily]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CD]]></category>

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The audiophile community has a portion (significant percentage I might say) that are never happy with their system&#8217;s sound and are willing to pay for meaningless improvements that bring no changes whatsoever. The CD trimmer however is going to the limit, by trying to make your CDs more round and better balanced to avoid jitter! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tech picture of the day &#8211; 18th of July 2008</title>
		<link>http://electronrun.com/wp_er/2008/07/18/tech-picture-of-the-day-18th-of-july-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dimitrios Matsoulis</dc:creator>
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I didn&#8217;t mean to make any subwoofer owners sad for the weekend, but yes this is a crazy big subwoofer around which this guy builds his entertainment room&#8230; [Source: Royal Device via Gizmodo]
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		<title>Denon RCD-CX1 amplifier/SACD combo</title>
		<link>http://electronrun.com/wp_er/2008/06/23/denon-rcd-cx1-amplifiersacd-combo/</link>
		<comments>http://electronrun.com/wp_er/2008/06/23/denon-rcd-cx1-amplifiersacd-combo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dimitrios Matsoulis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Denon]]></category>
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Denon is soon releasing in Japan the RCD-CX1 combo. It is the merging of the separate DRA-CX3 amp and DCD-CX3 SACD player, and will cost about $1,700. Power will be 75W/4ohms or 35W/8ohms.
Of course SACD is long ago a dead format, but since no changes were required from the DCD-CX3 player it is not an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neil Young to release material on Blu-ray</title>
		<link>http://electronrun.com/wp_er/2008/05/27/neil-young-to-release-material-on-blu-ray/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 11:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dimitrios Matsoulis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neil Young is to release his previous material on Blu-ray discs. Is that big news for rock music fans? Neil Young is almost always big news, but not this time I am afraid&#8230; His fans already own his brilliant albums in vinyl and CD form. The transition from analog to  digital took years and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HDtracks finally offers CD and high definition quality music</title>
		<link>http://electronrun.com/wp_er/2008/05/08/hdtracks-finally-offers-cd-and-high-definition-quality-music/</link>
		<comments>http://electronrun.com/wp_er/2008/05/08/hdtracks-finally-offers-cd-and-high-definition-quality-music/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 01:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dimitrios Matsoulis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIFF]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://electronrun.com/wp_er/?p=776</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have written before and will definitely not shut up repeating that MP3 music files have offered portability and quick download times but have been a huge step backwards in terms of sound quality. In audiophile terms, I find the iTunes phenomenon completely inexplicable. Paying so much for so poor quality files is a complete [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Nine Inch Nails album free online in various formats</title>
		<link>http://electronrun.com/wp_er/2008/05/06/new-nine-inch-nails-album-free-online-in-various-formats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 09:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dimitrios Matsoulis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[free album download]]></category>
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The Slip is Nine Inch Nails&#8216; new album. Nothing special so far. But hey, it is officially offered as a free download! And not in just one file format, so choose what suits you best:

MP3: nice and space saving for your portable player.
FLAC lossless: with the right codec, you can play this directly, but do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SACD and DVD-Audio vs CD &#8211; Which sounds better?</title>
		<link>http://electronrun.com/wp_er/2008/04/23/sacd-and-dvd-audio-vs-cd-which-sounds-better/</link>
		<comments>http://electronrun.com/wp_er/2008/04/23/sacd-and-dvd-audio-vs-cd-which-sounds-better/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dimitrios Matsoulis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ABX comparison]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both SACD and DVD-Audio formats are effectively dead, but the question whether high resolution audio is distinguishably better that CD sound still lingers in the air.
The Journal of the Audio Engineering Society conducted a very interesting comparison in the form of year-long double blind ABX comparisons. The results? 50% of listeners found no difference between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Copulare iCoral is expensive iPod Dock</title>
		<link>http://electronrun.com/wp_er/2008/04/09/copulare-icoral-is-expensive-ipod-dock/</link>
		<comments>http://electronrun.com/wp_er/2008/04/09/copulare-icoral-is-expensive-ipod-dock/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dimitrios Matsoulis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[iPod Dock]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://electronrun.wordpress.com/?p=375</guid>
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There is iPod and iPhone accessories everywhere we care to look. Do we need more? This post is evidence that we have reached that all critical point where going much further is overkill. Copulare is an audio rack manufacturer that has probably seen an opportunity to ride the wave of Apple&#8217;s mobile product success.
The price [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SpeaQualiser graphic equalizers to remember good old times</title>
		<link>http://electronrun.com/wp_er/2008/04/08/speaqualiser-graphic-equalizers-to-remember-good-old-times/</link>
		<comments>http://electronrun.com/wp_er/2008/04/08/speaqualiser-graphic-equalizers-to-remember-good-old-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dimitrios Matsoulis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[audio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electronics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FlashWear]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://electronrun.wordpress.com/?p=394</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are old enough you will remember the time of hardware graphic equalisers as discreet components with loads of vertical slider settings and enough lights to impress virtually any friend.
FlashWear now is offering the SpeaQualiser. You cannot control frequencies in any way, it is just a passive but cool looking representation of the music [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is DAB effectively dead?</title>
		<link>http://electronrun.com/wp_er/2008/04/07/is-dab-effectively-dead/</link>
		<comments>http://electronrun.com/wp_er/2008/04/07/is-dab-effectively-dead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dimitrios Matsoulis</dc:creator>
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Is DAB effectively dead? If we judge from what is happening in the UK, it is probably a matter of time. Although there are currently 6.5 million DAB receivers, defections towards other types of access to audio content have started to become intolerable.
Things of course needed not be like that. DAB was supposed to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon MP3 service will be available internationally in 2008</title>
		<link>http://electronrun.com/wp_er/2008/01/28/amazon-mp3-service-will-be-available-internationally-in-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://electronrun.com/wp_er/2008/01/28/amazon-mp3-service-will-be-available-internationally-in-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dimitrios Matsoulis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amazom]]></category>
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We have already discussed here how well Amazon MP3 develops into a veritable iTunes threat and it was pointed out how nice it would be to have the service available universally. Apparently Amazon has been listening and is planning an international rollout for its well received MP3 service. Launched only in September 2007, Amazon MP3 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon challenges iTunes</title>
		<link>http://electronrun.com/wp_er/2008/01/14/amazon-challenges-itunes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dimitrios Matsoulis</dc:creator>
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Amazon prefers to keep things quite but has quite canily prepared the ground for a major offensive against the big enemy, who else&#8230; Apple&#8217;s iTunes. Sony BMG is the latest of the large music labels to join the Amazon camp with sweet DRM-free downloads. This means that now Amazon has access to the vast catalogues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fraunhofer HD-AAC codec touted as better than CD, sounds promising</title>
		<link>http://electronrun.com/wp_er/2008/01/09/fraunhofer-hd-aac-codec-touted-as-better-than-cd-sounds-promising/</link>
		<comments>http://electronrun.com/wp_er/2008/01/09/fraunhofer-hd-aac-codec-touted-as-better-than-cd-sounds-promising/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dimitrios Matsoulis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Fraunhofer Institute brought the world the MP3 revolution so no reason not to listen up carefully to what they propose! Now they come up with a new audio format, the HD-AAC. The deal is lossless compression and 24-bit music content. Given that CDs are 16-bit, Fraunhofer&#8217;s promise that it is better than CD is logical. With [...]]]></description>
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