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Today’s test session soundtrack: “Summer Breeze” by Seals & Crofts. Yes, it’s July in Florida. No, there is no actual summer breeze here — there is only summer soup. The closest thing to a…
Marketing departments hate posts like this one. Good thing our marketing department is also our engineering department, and the engineer insists. As the invitational beta gets closer, it’s time to be crystal clear about…
We’ve spent a lot of posts explaining how the Kraken removes clicks and pops. Today, the prequel: where does all that noise come from in the first place? Because “the record is old” isn’t…
There’s an old rule in audio, and in computing, and honestly in cooking: garbage in, garbage out. Kraken Vinyl Elixir can repair clicks, tame crackle, and pull down noise — but it can only…
1. Every DAC Is a Special Snowflake (Unfortunately) Here’s something the spec sheets will never tell you: every DAC and ADC has its own personality. Two devices with identical numbers on the box behave…
The feedback has been consistent: some of you want to grab every knob yourself. Some of you want to drop the needle and let the software do the thinking. And some of you looked…
Under the hood, Kraken Vinyl Elixir is a real-time DSP engine that pulls 24-bit/96kHz audio off your USB interface and runs it through the processing chain in milliseconds: a custom detection stage that models…
Remember the delivery-truck ritual from [The Most Justified Shopping Spree in Audio History]? Today it paid off. The unmistakable pneumatic sigh, the heavy footsteps, the gentle thump — and just like that, two new…
We’ve written a lot on this blog about how Kraken Vinyl Elixir works — the algorithms, the testing, the two-clock problem, the bench full of gear. Today, none of that. Today you just get…
They say the two happiest days in a boat owner’s life are the day he buys the boat and the day he sells it. For those of us in the audio world, it’s simpler:…