UHF Magazine No. 76 was published in May, 2006. All contents are copyright 2006 by Broadcast Canada. They may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher.

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EDITORIAL

The all-digital issue

Until this issue, Albert was taking the widely-admired product photos appearing in UHF with a Nikon camera on Kodak Portra 160 film. As of this issue all his photos are digital. UHF has acquired a Sony R1 digital camera.

Yes, I know, that means we have in a sense dumped analog (film) for digital, but in fact that ship sailed a long time ago. The magazine has been printed digitally for something like a decade, which means that our nice “analog” film negatives got digitized anyway before placement in our all-digital pages. The difference: digitization is now taking place right in the camera instead of a desktop digitizer.

Albert is delighted with the results. I think you will be too.

All color, except…

Issue No. 75 was UHF’s very first all-color issue, and both our readers and our advertisers took note. Oh, except for the eight-page insert in the centre of the magazine, the one for our Audiophile Store. That remained black and white, and on cheaper paper besides. It has been that way for many years, with the economy paper intended to hold costs down.

But was it holding costs down, or is labor even more expensive than pre- mium paper grades? After the last issue went to press we asked our printer rep: if we dumped the insert and just added eight more color pages, would it be more expensive? Or cheaper? We got the answer the next day: it would be cheaper!

That’s why the insert is gone. We scrambled to find color pictures of all the accessories found in our store, and the store catalog is now on full color pages. So now we really are all-color, except…

Except that audio manufacturers haven’t got the word about color. Check out the stack of three headphone amplifiers on page 38. Can you believe that’s a color picture? There isn’t a hint of a tint in any of them. Of course when you plug one in you’ll probably see a tiny, barely visible blue diode glowing its little non monochromatic note. Whoopee!

Even Apple, that champion of high style in consumer electronics, knows only two colors, one of which is white and the other of which is not. Good thing the iPod (on page 45) has a color screen. As for the tragically misnamed iPod Hi-Fi on page 78…well, I rest my case.

And speaking of the iPod…

 

 

 

We’ve already mentioned that a 60 Gb iPod, the largest one available, is

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Koss 76 manual Editorial

76 specifications

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