New NX ASUS Laptops work wonders with sound
Alexandra | 7:03 pm | May 17, 2010 | Laptop Music
What do the letters NX in the corresponding series of laptops from ASUS mean? They mean ‘New generation, eXtraordinary’. It’s the high-grade line of home entertaining centers.
The laptops are equipped with the new Intel Core processors – i3, i5 and i7. There are also high-speed USB 3.0 slots – of course, tenfold increase in speed as in screaming advertisements won’t happen in reality but the increase will be considerable. It’s also an inevitable standard and, in my opinion, the sooner, the better. Everyone is talking about new Intel processors and USB 3.0, but I’d like to draw your attention to the next innovation in the series.
As you know, the sound in most laptops is no good at all. This problem became so acute that it even generated new classes of devices and other gimmicks. Unfortunately, many producers don’t think this matter should be paid any attention to. They optimistically consider that everybody will listen to music in headphones and that is why when you put the volume level to the maximum the bass becomes noise.
The engineers from ASUS realized that one should combat the cause of the problem but not its consequence. That’s why the ‘sound question’ was solved together with the company Bang & Olufsen which is an expert in Hi-end audio production. That was how the ASUS SonicMaster technology was introduced, at the CeBIT exhibition this year.
The solution is based on the combination of robust conducting materials and excellent geometry of the case. Big volumetric resonators and dynamics optimally situated inside the case let minimize extraneous vibrations and noise. The new audio processor is likely to work wonders with sound. In contrast with other improvements that artificially amplify only certain frequencies, SonicMaster transmits originally recorded sound with fine accuracy without any audio filters. Almost the whole of the audible range of frequencies can be reproduced. All the laptops of the NX series will be equipped with SonicMaster Premium.
But hearing once is better than seeing a hundred times. Of course, the innovation loses in the quality of sound to good audio systems but the very fact that proper sound is now available to average user is great.
DJing for Dummies
maksim | 9:07 pm | January 16, 2008 | Laptop Music
Consider the life of a sculptor. What an unusual, unexpected choice of a namebadge, not only for a man, but for an artist too. The mountain does not crumble and fall to Muhammad, Muhammad orders the mountain to be blown up, cut, and delivered to him, by UPS, on a Monday morning. And then he is locked away with the rock in a studio, possibly for years, turning it into a huge stone thing looking like a spermatozoid on one side and a teardrop on the other, symbolizing the victims of a 1937 Great Wisconsin Tornado, or anything to that effect involving angry tornado-looking forces and dead spermatozoids.
Life of a DJ is in no way that exotic. It is mostly just sex, drugs, drums till dawn- usual, everyday, mundane routine. Yet they are somewhat similar- to become one, you need a lot of investment and space.
Source: Firebox.com
Cubicle Cucumbers, Drum!
maksim | 1:18 am | December 20, 2007 | Laptop Music
Imagine a stranger looking at you from the side as you are reading this. Looking at you, a hunched, silent, unmoving figure in front of a panel of plastic. Take the monitor, the furniture, your clothes away, and you start to look like an overgrown vegetable hidden away from sunrays in a cellar.
How do you fight this vegetable state? You need something involving physical activity, reasonably addictive to keep you going, yet short enough not to distract you too much. Obviously, nicotine is a perfect choice. But what about us, non-smokers?
How about a drum machine? Small, portable, easy to hide, easy to unhide. Compatible via USB with any laptop. Silent, if you use headphones. It may not be suitable for an office cubicle, as you will look daft, jumping silently up and down while hitting your desk with two sticks. But for a home office, why not? Surely not much worse than shower singing.
Source: Gadgets Club