Archive for October, 2014

City Song : A Forgotten Gem from the CBC Vancouver Archives

The UN has declared October 27th World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, intended to function “as a mechanism to raise general awareness of the need for urgent measures to be taken and to acknowledge the importance of audiovisual documents as an integral part of national identity.”  In that spirit I’m posting a short essay (see below) that […]

Posted on October 27, 2014 at 9:03 am by rjordan · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Archives, Film Reviews, Film Sound, Music, Uncategorized, Vancouver on Film, Vancouver Soundscape

Interview with Laurence Dickie of Vivid Audio

  Laurence Dickie of Vivid Audio was in Montreal for the first time last month to hold a couple of demonstration workshops at local hi-fi shop Coup de Foudre. The man behind B&W ‘s famed Nautilus design in the early 90s, Dickie went on to found Vivid after a stint in pro audio designing studio […]

Posted on October 14, 2014 at 1:54 pm by rjordan · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Audiophilia, Hi-Fi Audio, Interviews, loudspeakers, Music, Sound Technology