I am sure many of you have noticed we mostly talk about audio here. It has not been too often lately that we talk about new musician and people tools for the artist and music listener. While updating to the new iTunes 10 I realized there was so much more in this particular update. There was Apple Ping! A social network for people and artists to share what they are listening to. I highly suggest checking it out if you are already using iTunes. I have found iTunes to be rather mediocre since I began using it with my 2nd Generation iPod. Ping makes iTunes more of an experience instead of a place where MP3′s go to die. I hope the rest of iTunes users jump on this. If nothing else it will serve as a great place to follow musicians we love. Much like the way a lot of us use Twitter to follow celebrities. I like Ping much better to sort out the musicians from that mess. Here is my profile as an example-
http://c.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZConnections.woa/wa/viewProfile?userId=182526387
It will ask you to choose iTunes as an application to check out my profile so make sure you have it installed along with your DPS Plug-in!
Cheers!
-Joseph Beaty
DPS Insider
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A lot of talk is generating about Apple quite possibly turning iTunes into a cloud subscription service. A recent study by the NPD group concludes that millions would pay for a cloud-based iTunes that would let the user listen to anything in the iTunes catalog. It is not clear on whether or not this will happen but many seem to think 10 dollars would be the monthly fee. Not bad considering the platform would be servicing Computer, Phone and Mobile device users. I for one think it could be a great service. Especially if they get some kind of cloud transfer device in the works that would allow the consumer to stream and broadcast content to our devices at home such as, TV and Radio. Much like the way Blu-Ray Players have Netflix and Pandora built in. Apple already has a huge music and Movie catalog. I do think Millions would jump on board if they were able to stream everything whenever and where ever they want for 10 dollars. I think Apple may have me on this one if it actually goes down. What about you?
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I wanted to take a minute to talk about what makes the Digital Power Station truly unique among audio technologies… The DPS Plug-In has no fancy knobs or meters. It doesn’t have a Minority Report style user interface. It’s just a few buttons. So what gives? Why is it special?
It’s the people.
The buttons on the user interface switch between the different “profiles” you pick in the “preferences” window. So what is a “profile”? A DPS profile is definitely not your everyday “rock” or “jazz” or “hall” eq effect preset! Those presets-of-old tried to tailor the device to suit what you might want the music to sound like. Once you found the preset you liked on your old boombox it pretty much stayed that way, right? That ubiquitous smiley face eq curve. Or maybe you did it Twisted Sister style and slammed all those little eq sliders all the way up! \^^/,
Well, the DPS Profile is a whole new animal. The DPS technology is a powerful and adaptive tool that Bongiovi Acoustics audio engineers can use to optimize the audio for any device. And it is all done by hand.
Hence the people.
So a real live person (like Tony B, Phil or myself) sits down with the proper tools and “tunes” that audio device with the DPS technology to perform as close to an ideal as possible. The ideal we hold is the sound of music being played back in our studio control room. The control room is an acoustically accurate environment in which we have chosen speakers and amplifiers that match that space so we have the tools to create music that sounds great everywhere. The sound in our control room just reaches out and grabs you. And it also tells us what is right and wrong about the sound! So, short story long, the DPS technology optimizes an audio signal to be most efficient for a specific device. And that only happens after a Bongiovi Acoustics engineer has laid their hands on the thing.
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