You Need This Product In Your Workplace!

One of the products I worked on at Cambridge Sound Management is a truly excellent workplace privacy problem solver called the Qt Conference Room Edition. Read on…

(co-published on the CSM blog)

Your business is serious business. You emphasize imagination and innovation and creativity, and your ideas have enormous value. Continue reading

How to Play Hi-Res Audio Files on Sonos

It is possible to play high resolution 192 kbps 24 bit (or 96 kbps 24 bit) files on your Sonos system, sort of. This depends on downsampling the files, but more importantly hinges on the unpublished capability of Sonos to support 48 kHz / 16 bit / 1536 kbps, higher than the officially stated 1411 kbps. So why does this matter? It matters because 1.088435374 is an ugly number. Continue reading

Product Sound Design: The Art of Perception

Car manufacturers are Jedi Masters of product design based on their mastery of customers’ perception of their cars more than any innate design quality. Part of the magic of any expensive mechanical product is the sound, and car companies have perfected a variety of devices that deliberately add interior sound to boost the sensation Continue reading