August 2010 | carsten knoch: essays + ideas

The best desktop speakers, ever

July 13, 2017August 20, 2010Life Technology

Everyone’s lamenting the decline of proper stereo equipment. Teens are losing their hearing to their tinny iPod earbuds and nobody knows what non-compressed music sounds like anymore. People don’t buy stereos these days — listening to music in one’s living … [read more]

Buying (classical) music online, digitally

August 8, 2011August 16, 2010Music Technology

For the past 6 months, I’ve been listening to classical music almost exclusively. (There’s a much longer post – or maybe a series – about that in the works.) Toronto, like most major cities, is definitely under-supplied with bricks & … [read more]