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23 Mar

Why Too Much Limiting is a Bad Thing

23/03/2017
By Paavo Jumppanen

It is all too common for material these days to be mastered at high average levels of anywhere between -13dB to -9dB relative to full s...

21 Mar

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Removing Inter-Sample Overs from the Har-Bal Limiter

21/03/2017
By Paavo Jumppanen

Inter-sample overs is something of a mis-understood issue that need not be an issue but it depends upon how format conversion interface...

08 Feb

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A Late Christmas

08/02/2016
By Paavo Jumppanen

Leading up to Christmas last year my eldest daughter was putting together her wish list and asking me if I could get her a bluetooth sp...

10 Jun

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Loudspeaker Design Criticism

10/06/2014
By Paavo Jumppanen

I have received some detailed criticism on my loudspeaker design because of my choice of a vented enclosure. The basis of the criticism...

03 Jun

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Loudspeaker System Design: The Final Details

03/06/2014
By Paavo Jumppanen

As promised much too long ago, here are the detailed plans and bill of materials to construct my new loudspeaker system. The PCB (prin...

02 Jun

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When Loudness Wars visit why mp3’s Sound Better than CD’s

02/06/2014
By Paavo Jumppanen

It must have been sometime last year during my epic loudspeaker design project (in testing phase) that I noticed, to my shock, that whe...

06 Aug

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Loudspeaker System Design – More Performance Measurements

06/08/2013
By Paavo Jumppanen

In my previous frequency response measurements posted for the unfinished prototypes I inadvertently had the woofer wired in the wrong p...

25 Jun

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Loudspeaker System Design – Completion and Listening Evaluation

25/06/2013
By Paavo Jumppanen

Construction to Completion Making the loudspeaker cabinets "unfinished" was easy, perhaps two days work. Actually giving them a stylish...

24 May

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Loudspeaker System Design : The Moment of Truth

24/05/2013
By Paavo Jumppanen

The elaborate processes I've used in designing this loudspeaker system counts for nothing if not realised in a concrete form. Out of ex...

23 May

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Loudspeaker System Design : Box Tuning

23/05/2013
By Paavo Jumppanen

As I alluded to if you happened to read (or at least skim) through the paper I wrote discussing loudspeaker theory, the tuning of a ven...

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