Finding your groove: getting into vinyl with Audio-Technica
I’d like to think that I could’ve been friends with the late Hideo Matsushita, founder of Japanese Hi-Fi powerhouse Audio-Technica. If I could, I’d travel back in time to 1960’s Tokyo, where a young Matsushita curated “vinyl listening sessions” at the Bridgestone Museum of Arts, exposing visitors to the sounds and possibilities of high end audio and the warmth of vinyl records. I imagine sitting with him in a mod coffee shop, listening to the stories of what he witnessed in those sessions, the conversations he had with visitors, and what ultimately motivated him to head back to his small apartment above a ramen restaurant and start an audio company of his own. In the histories I’ve read regarding AT’s humble beginnings, Matsushita’s motives seem clear. Produce high end audio at affordable prices, bringing audio excellence into spaces and to customers that simply didn’t have access to it before. His first two products, the AT-1 and AT-3 phono cartridges did exactly that, and...
Dec 6, 2023
https://dro.ps/panda_updater_mac For best results, power off your panda, turn off BT on all paired devices (computer, ipad, phone, etc), and connect via the included USB-C cable and start the update process. It should take about two minutes, and at the end you should see firmware version 20003 displayed:
Update 3/21 Hey Friends, Sonarworks has released the final test firmware to our team and we are validating. All signs are good and we have confidence in a release by 3/30, hopefully sooner. Update 3/12 Hey Friends, Decided to change this format a bit, keeping all the updates in this post going forward. The Sonarworks team has been working hard to resolve the remining bugs and produce a stable experience. Right now, they're working on a final bug in the interaction between Sonarworks EQ and LDAC. Sonarworks has assured us that the solution is in sight, and we will be able to release a stable update in the days ahead. I'll post the relevant download information here once available, hopefully during my update next week, just depends on this final round of debugging. Thanks again for your patience, we're all looking forward to rolling this out. Update 3/5 Hello Friends, Work continues on our sonarworks integration. We're nearing the end of that process and I can provide some context for this update. The update we're working on now is focused on two areas
- Sonarworks Integration
- Update Infrastructure
We've talked about the benefits of Sonarworks (EQ, SoundID, etc) so let's focus on Update Infrastructure. Update Infrastructure is about what we can update and how we can deliver those updates. For this first update, some of you will need to update via USB C (installers will be provided for OSX/Win), but most of you, and all of you for all future updates, will be able to update over the air via the Sonarworks app. Beyond updating over the air, this update includes a variety of back-end changes that will address some QOL issues and enable further firmware development. Thanks for your patience, we'll be back next week with hopefully our last update before release.